Connecticut Author To Lead

Summer Writing Camp

Connecticut author Sarah Darer Littman returns this summer to lead the C.H. Booth Library’s Creative Writing Summer Camp for young adults.

Ms Littman, writer, mother, and unpaid chauffeur, is a living example of the cliché, “Life Begins at 40.” After spending much of her adult life doing things she did not really plan to, including such diverse occupations as financial analyst and farmer’s wife, she at long last found her true calling as a writer.

Her first novel, Confessions of a Closet Catholic, won the 2006 Sydney Taylor Book Award for Older Readers. Her novel Life, After was a 2011 Sydney Taylor Honor Book and won first prize for young adult fiction in the Connecticut Press Club annual awards. She is also the author of Purge, which was named one of Bank Street College of Education’s 2010 Best Books of the Year, and of Want to Go Private?, 2011, based on a true story of a girl who decides to meet her online friend, Luke, in person. Want To Go Private? has been named a YALSA Quick Pick for Reluctant Readers, and one of the Bank Street College of Education’s Best Books of the Year for 2012.

In addition to writing for teens, Ms Littman is an award-winning columnist for CTNewsJunkie.com.

Creative Writing Summer Camp will meet Thursdays, June 28, July 5, 12, 19, and 26. Makeup, if needed, is Thursday, August 2. Rising grades 6 and 7 will meet from 3:30 to 5:30 pm, and rising grades 8 and 9, from 6 to 8 pm, at the library.

Participants are expected to attend all five sessions. Each group is limited to ten students, with preference given to Newtown students and residents. All sessions will allow time for writing and sharing stories as well as creative activities and one-on-one communication between adults and young people.

Information and sign-up are at the library’s website, www.chboothlibrary.org.

For questions, contact Margaret Brown, young adult librarian, at 203-426-4533.