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Orlando 2008 Back for its fifth year in Central Florida, 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 Orlando Museum of Art and will close with a coffeehouse reading, with students performing from their portfolios of new work. $175 (includes $15 for T-shirt and museum admission) Location: All Saints Church in Winter Park June 23 - 27, Grades 7 - 12 Local Contact: Lisa Everett 407.644.0889, lisaseverett@gmail.com ****Note: Session 1, (June 16-20, grades 3 - 6), has been cancelled due to lack of interest. We may be adding an afternoon session for grades 3 - 6 the week of June 23-27, with a minimum of 5 students needed.**** Class size is limited to 13 students. Pre-registration is required, and classes will be filled in the order that registration forms are received. The camp leader, Jonathan Sanchez, is an award-winning writer of short stories and poems. He has been writer-in-residence at the Jack Kerouac House in College Park and has led workshops at dozens of schools. Jonathan is a Florida native and a Yale graduate. He now lives in Charleston, South Carolina with his wife, Lauren (Oller), a Winter Park girl, and his daughter Evelyn, a baby. 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
"One of the most enjoyable parts of my summer was your camp."
-- Nadine Currie |