Connecticut author Sarah Darer Littman is returning this summer for C.H. Booth Library’s Creative Writing Summer Camp for young adults, as part of the year-round peer group for passionate young writers at the library.

This summer, camp will meet on Thursdays, June 25, July 9, 16, 23, and 30. 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.

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. Sharing is an important part of all writing groups. Information and signup are online at the library’s website, chboothlibrary.org. 

Sarah Darer Littman — writer, mother, and unpaid chauffeur — is a living example of the cliché “Life Begins at 40.” After spending much of her adult life as a financial analyst and farmer’s wife, she 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, named one of Bank Street College of Education’s 2010 Best Books of the Year, and Want to Go Private? (2011), based on the 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. Her most recent novel, Backlash (2015), tackles the important topic of cyberbullying.

When she is not writing novels, Ms Littman is an award-winning columnist for the online news site CTNewsJunkie. She teaches creative writing as an adjunct professor in the MFA program at Western Connecticut State University, and with Writopia Lab, in addition to sharing her talents with the young writers of Newtown.

Visit Ms Littman online at sarahdarerlittman.com, and on Twitter at @sarahdarerlitt.

For questions, contact Young Adult Librarian Kim Weber at 203-426-4533.