Writing Rules at Young Authors’ Camps
Contact: Kay Hyatt at (207) 581-2761
ORONO, Maine — Young writers can sharpen skills and express their creativity during the University of Maine’s annual Young Authors’ Camps taking place at five sites this summer. Sponsored by the Maine Writing Project, the day camps will be held in Orono, Benton, Newport, Brunswick and Bar Harbor.
Camps will be offered July 10-14 at UMaine, Orono, for students in grades 3-12, and at Benton Elementary School for grades 1-12; July 17-21 at Sebasticook Valley Middle School, Newport, for grades 3-12; July 24-28 at Bowdoin College, Brunswick, for grades 3-12; and August 7-11 at the College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, for grades 3-12. Daily sessions at all camps run from 8:30 a.m. to noon.
In addition to working on skills, camp participants explore different genres of writing, compose for creativity and to inform, experiment with electronic texts, and publish and share their writing.
Young Authors’ camps are led by teacher-consultants from the Maine Writing Project, part of the UMaine College of Education and Human Development and a site of the National Writing Project. The Writing Project is a federally funded professional development program dedicated to improvement of the teaching and learning of writing across the curriculum at all grade levels.
The $100 camp fee includes workshops, materials, a t-shirt and snacks. For more information and registration, contact the UMaine College of Education and Human Development at (207) 581-2438; e-mail bonny.harris@umit.maine.edu.