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Charleston 2008 Back for its sixth 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 a professional writer, 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. $140 ($160 after July 1) Locations: July 14 - 18, Grades 3 - 6, Blue Bicycle Books July 21 - 25, Grades 3 - 6, Christ Our King July 28 - Aug. 1, Grades 7 - 9, Christ Our King Aug. 4 - 8, Grades 10 - 12, Christ Our King Aug. 11 - 15, Grades 3 - 6, Blue Bicycle Books Sessions are limited to 13. Pre-registration is required, and camps will be filled in the order that registration forms are received. 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, and his daughter, Evelyn, a baby. You can find him most days at his store, Blue Bicycle Books. If you have any questions, want more information or just want to get a better feel for this terrific camp, please don't hesitate to call or write -- (843) 722-2666 or jonathansanchez@aya.yale.edu.
"Through your classes, you have shown a great knack for connecting with kids and getting them to dig into the fertile dirt of their imaginations. In our daughter's case, I believe you started something that will go on for a very long time."
-- John Thompson and Julia Forster, parents of Liza Thompson
"Thanks so much for the wonderful creative writing camp. Kendall thoroughly enjoyed herself and I can tell it actually did help her writing and, generally, the way she views things."
-- Deborah Edwards
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