How refreshing that in a world of teens inundated with video games there are still programs catering to the creative literacy of tomorrow’s great writers!

The Writer’s Garret is having a 3-week Teen Creative Writing Camp (Mon - Fri., July 16 - August 3 from 9:15am - 12:15pm). This fun and engaging camp will provide students with a safe and supportive environment filled with other like-minded young people and caring, brilliant instructors. Together, students and teachers will build a special community of trust and creativity where every participant will be challenged and supported in the development of his or her story-telling and poetic gifts.

Instructors include:

• ALAN GANN is a poet and writers whose works have appeared in Above Us Only Sky, Other Testaments, North Texas Review, Red River Review, Pedestal Magazine, Borderlands, and others. As a Writers-in-the-Schools and Young Audience instructor, he’s proved skilled at working with teens to develop their creativity, style, character development, and techniques. All of this while instilling a love of reading, writing and literature.

• LESLEY TELLEZ is a Staff Writer for Quick, the Dallas Morning News‘ free newspaper aimed at young readers. Lesley covers nightlife, arts, and entertainment. Former lead reporter at Conexion, a bilingual weekly newspaper in San Antonio, Lesley has also taught in The Writer’s Garret Writers-in-the-Schools program where she’s helped elementary-aged and teen students develop their creativity and love of literature.

This camp is open to rising seventh graders up through rising twelfth graders.

Upstairs at Paperbacks Plus
6115 La Vista Dr. Dallas, TX 75214

• $365 for Members & their teens / $410 Others
• $10 Early Bird Discount for Members if registered by 6 pm, Thurs. July 5th.
• Phone registrations only! Call 214-828-1715 today!
• Deadline for registrations is Wed. July 11th.