Celebrating its tenth year in the Lowcountry, Write of Summer is a camp where young people find their writing voices and have a blast doing it.
Children are natural poets, with limited inhibitions and unlimited powers of observation and imagination. With guidance from professional writers, they’ll create works that are serious, sweet, funny, and weird.
Returning writers will be challenged with many new exercises and prompts, plus favorites from past years. Each session will visit the Gibbes Museum of Art and will close with a coffeehouse reading, with students performing from their portfolios of new work.
Monday through Friday, 9 am to noon.
$165 ($175 after June 1)
Locations:
Christ Our King Church, Mount Pleasant
Blue Bicycle Books, 420 King St., Charleston
Circular Congregational Church, 150 Meeting St., Charleston
*We are seeking additional space for our July 16-20 session. If you know of a church or other venue near Coleman Blvd. in Mt. Pleasant with two small classrooms, please let us know. (jonathan@bluebicyclebooks.com, 843.722.2666).
This site will automatically update when sessions are full.
session 1 june 11 – 15, grades 3 – 6, blue bicycle books SESSION IS FULL
session 2 june 18 – 22, grades 7 – 9, blue bicycle books SESSION IS FULL
session 3 july 9 – 13, grades 7 – 12, christ our king church SESSION IS FULL
session 4 july 16 – 20, grades 3 – 6, christ our king church SPOTS AVAILABLE — seeking larger venue*
session 5 aug. 13 - 17, grades 3 – 6, circular church SESSION IS FULL
Sessions are limited. Pre-registration is required, and camps will be filled in the order that registration forms are received.
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The camp leader, Jonathan Sanchez, is a two-time winner in the South Carolina Fiction Project. He has been writer-in-residence at the Jack Kerouac House in Orlando and has led workshops at dozens of schools. Jonathan grew up in Charlotte, where he went to West Charlotte High School, and is a Yale graduate. He lives in the Wagener Terrace of Charleston with his wife, Lauren, an architectural designer, his daughter, Evelyn, a shark-and-princess enthusiast and his son, Alexander, a gourmand. You can find him most days at his store, Blue Bicycle Books.
