Creative Writing Summer Camp

For Young Adults

Creative Writing Summer Camp signups are open for young people in Newtown entering grades 6 to 9. Author Kathleen Kudlinski is returning to lead the summer sessions for young people and will have many new activities this season. She is the author of more than three dozen books for young people.

Ms Kudlinski’s thirty-eight books range from science picture books to middle-grade biography and historical fiction, to young adult historical novels. She holds a bachelor’s degree in biology from the University of Maine and has six years of teaching experience in the classroom. As a writer, she was named a Master Teaching Artist for the State of Connecticut and visited nearly 200 schools, and designed and implemented a dozen paired school residencies, as well as presenting at regional and national conferences.

Ms Kudlinski writes and illustrates an award-winning newspaper column for the New Haven Register, leads several Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators critique groups, and teaches writing for children. 

She lives in Guilford with her husband on the edge of a deep, wild pond and often writes at their log cabin in Springfield, Vt. Her household includes an artist son, two dogs, an ancient cat, and five snakes.

Camp will meet from 3:30 to 5:30 pm for students entering grades 6 and 7, and from 6 to 8 pm for students entering grades 8 and 9, on the following Mondays: July 7, 14, 21, 28 and August 11. There is no class August 4. A makeup class will be scheduled for August 18 if needed. Participants are expected to attend all five sessions. 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.

The Creative Writing program at the library is funded by the Pitney Bowes Employee Involvement Fund and the Friends of the C.H. Booth Library.

Space is limited to ten in each class, with preference given to Newtown residents. Sign up at the C.H. Booth Library main floor circulation desk, or call 426-4533. Speak to Margaret Brown, young adult librarian, for more information.