Butler University Creative Writing Camp 2012 - Our 15th
season
Registration for both sessions
of the 2012 Creative Writing Camp is closed.
- Session I - June 18-22
- Session II - June 25-29
Classes will take place from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The camp is
available to students in grades 3-12, grouped by age.
Footage from last year's Writing
Camp.
Registration Form
(print and mail in)
Workshops Offered
- Fiction
- Poetry
- Screenwriting
- Playwriting
- Children's Books
- Journalism
- Advertising
Camp Teachers & Guests
Butler University's Creative Writing Camp offers an intensive
and entertaining week of workshops to help young writers develop
their talent and passion for writing. Campers will converse and
work with accomplished novelists, poets, editors and teachers of
writing, including:
- Dana Roeser, M.F.A., poet, and Adjunct Professor at Butler
University
- Donald Platt, Ph.D., poet and Associate Professor at Purdue
University
- Hilene Flanzbaum, Ph.D., Professor and Head of English at
Butler University
- Dan Barden, MFA., novelist and essayist, Associate Professor at
Butler University
- Susan Neville, MFA., author of fiction and non-fiction,
Director of Creative Writing, Professor at Butler
University
- Chris Forhan, MFA, poet and author of Modern and Contemporary
Poetry, Assistant Professor at Butler University
- Alessandra Lynch, MFA, poet and Adjunct Professor at Butler
University
- Lou Harry, Indianapolis Business Journal's Arts &
Entertainment Editor, playwright, novelist, whatever-ist.
- Brian Dunn, poet and teacher
- Mindy Dunn, MFA, poet and Adjunct Professor at Butler
University
- Laura Gellin, Park Tudor English teacher
Highlights of Butler University Creative Writing Camp 2012
- College student mentors
- Daily visits from guest writers
- Field trip to the Indianapolis Museum of Art
This week presents entertaining, lively workshops designed to
inspire young writers. Students write and read stories, plays,
screenplays, poetry, personal narratives, song lyrics, and
experimental pieces, experiencing the power of the literary
imagination while developing language skills.
The week includes forums on the birth of ideas, the creative art
of advertising, free writing, nonsense verse, haiku, abstract and
concrete poetry: a daily lunch meeting with a small group of peers
to design and publish a creative web page and E-zine, daily
workshops in the computer labs, and writing related computer
instruction that will include direction in Adobe PageMaker and
Microsoft Word.
The camp will be capped with the presentation of certificates,
an open microphone reading in Holcomb Gardens, and a pizza party.
Throughout the camp, students will be working with professors and
college student mentors to create a website where work from the
camp will be displayed and enjoyed by participants and
families.
We will once again offer our enhanced program for High School
with a mid-week "Evening Coffee House & Poetry Slam".
Cost:
- $225 for one week
- $400 for both weeks
Butler University Creative Writing Camp
4600 Sunset Avenue
Jordan Hall 308
Indianapolis, IN 46208-3485
Contact Barbara Dadkhah, Camp Coordinator - 940-8770, bucwc@butler.edu
Contact Geoffery Sharpless, Director - gsharpless@comcast.net