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Past Young Writers Camp: Young Frighters Camp

Mar 10, 2011   //   by Will Banks   //   News, Outreach, Young Writers Camp  //  Comments Off on Past Young Writers Camp: Young Frighters Camp

Looking to awaken your creativity? The Tar River Writing Project is proud to announce a brand new workshop every year for middle school writers! Come and join your friends whose taste for the frightful will come alive at the Young Frighters Camp!

Young Frighters Camp
A Workshop for Writers

July 11-15 and July 18-22, 2011
8:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
(Weekdays)
Cost: $200

In Summer 2011, the TRWP young writers camp offered young writers the chance to be the next Neil Gaiman (The Graveyard Book), R. L. Stine (Goosebumps), or Stephanie Meyer (Twilight), whose fanciful tales of the spooky, other-wordly, or undead have captured audiences around the world.

 

For more information, contact the Young Writers Camp: ywc [at] trwp [dot] org.

Spring Visioning Retreat

Feb 3, 2011   //   by Will Banks   //   News  //  Comments Off on Spring Visioning Retreat

The TRWP Leadership Team will meet Friday – Sunday, February 4 – 6, 2011, for the annual Spring Visioning Retreat.  Each year, this writing- and work-intensive weekend provides a space for the Co-Directors and Associate Directors to reflect on the past year’s projects and to use those reflections to guide plans for the new year.  Already on the agenda this year? Rethinking the teaching demonstrations and the role of inquiry in the Summer Institute and developing a new Advanced Institute for TCs.

If TCs have idea for our retreat, they should send Will or Shari an email and let them know their ideas.

Past Young Writers Camp: “Write Here! Write Now!”

Jan 24, 2011   //   by Will Banks   //   News, Outreach, Young Writers Camp  //  Comments Off on Past Young Writers Camp: “Write Here! Write Now!”

Summer 2011 brought together a great group of young writers. Are you ready to write?  If you’re in high school and you love to write, our young writers camp is opportunity you’ve been looking for!

Write Here! Write Now!
A Young Writers Camp

June 22 – July 1, 2011
8:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
(Weekdays)
Cost: $200

Writers joined Ms. Ali Datz and Ms. Melissa Denton on the campus of ECU for 8 days of exciting activities that awakened the creative writers within.

Are you a budding poet? Do you have a great story in your head that you’ve been dying to get on paper? Looking for a chance to write that cool screenplay you’ve been talking to friends about?

If so, our young writers camp is your chance to meet other young authors, work on your pieces, and grow as a writer.

And listen to some of the things that the Young Writers Camp from 2010 had to say:

“I guess you could say it made writing into something addicting, like you couldn’t stop if you tried.”

 

-Laura

“It is NOT a classroom environment. You have the freedom to wander around and say what you want and just be who you are. It’s amazing.”

-Brianna

“You really learn to get over your fear of writing and it’s so cool to hear everybody’s writing because you can see that everybody writes in his or her own unique way.”

-Kaya

“You need to have fun writing, because if you don’t, your reader won’t have much fun reading.”

 

-Logan

“Your going to love love love writing camp because its not like sitting in a class room writing all day it’s more like hanging out with your friends.”

-Baylea

“My favorite part about writing in a group setting like this one is that everyone can use the same words, but it’s how each person strings them together that make it interesting.”

-Amanda

“Remember that this place is a place where creativity is a totally awesome thing. Remember to explore and have fun.”

-Sam

 

“Captivity isn’t good for creativity. Sometimes you need to think of something completely different to discover what it is you’re looking for.”

 

-Brooke

“Have fun, don’t have food fights (thought at times it may be tempting) keep an open mind…and well…don’t hold back.”

-Lisa

For more information, contact the Young Writers Camp: ywc [at] trwp [dot] org.

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