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Story Publishing Camp (Grades 5-8)
August 12, 2024 @ 9:30 am – August 17, 2024 @ 12:30 pm
Story Publishing Camp: write, design, and print your own original book
For children in grades 5-8
August 12 – 16, 9:30 AM – 12:30 PM (5 days, 15 hours of class time)
Adirondack Center for Writing – 15 Broadway, Saranac Lake
Instructor: Rebecca Donnelly
Goal: Students will write and edit their own creative writing pieces and design original books for distribution.
Culminating event: Students will have the chance to “launch” their book, sign copies, and distribute them to the public at the Adirondack Family Book Festival on Saturday, August 17 at John Brown Farm in Lake Placid.
Students in Adirondack Center for Writing’s week-long Story Publishing Camp will explore the fundamentals of narrative (characters, plot, setting, and more) and draft an original multi-page creative writing piece with the help of YA author Rebecca Donnelly. Students will then learn the technical skills to produce polished works of prose as well as design, lay-out, print, copy, and bind their own original book.
Rebecca Donnelly was born in England and has lived in California, Florida, New Mexico, and just outside the Adirondack State Park in northern New York. She is the author of more than 30 books for young readers, including the Indies Introduce/Kids’ Indie Next pick How to Stage a Catastrophe. Her nonfiction book Total Garbage: A Messy Dive into Trash, Waste, and Our Worldwas a School Library Journal Best Book of 2023. She worked as a school librarian for many years before becoming a full-time author.
Adirondack Center For Writing
518-354-1261
info@adirondackcenterforwriting.org