Thanks for a great week of camp!  We'll see you soon at the Publication Celebration!  

Be watching for 2011 camp information, and remember to tell your friends!

2010 Camp Flyer/Registration Form

The Lake Michigan Writing Project is proud to announce our annual Laker Writers' Camp! For one week, your future novelist, poet, or journalist will have the chance to explore the wonders of writing with some of West Michigan’s finest teachers!

The Laker Writers Camp offers students an opportunity to explore many styles of writing. Within a camp environment, students participate in activities that create a community of writers and provide nurturing support for developing authors.

To prompt writing, campers will travel from their camp site to various age-appropriate places of interest and learning. Supervised visits may include museums, river walks, and the Frederik Meijer Gardens.

Teachers plan writing activities that build confidence while providing the writing tools that inspire creative thinking and author’s craft. Campers write a variety of pieces such as poems, autobiographical sketches, short stories, and nature observations while engaging in the writing process of drafting, revising, responding and editing. Finally, each camper will choose a piece of his or her writing for publication in the camp anthology.

The Laker Writers Camp is an outreach effort of the LMWP to encourageand nurture young writers. Our staff consists of Lake Michigan Writing Project Teacher-Consultants who have been identified as outstanding teachers of writing and nurturing role models for our campers.

Jill Annable

Mrs. Annable earned a bachelor's degree in English and Mathematics Education at Western Michigan University. She is in the process of completing her master's degree in Secondary Education at Grand Valley State University. Mrs. Annable teaches at Spring Lake Middle School in the English department, where she enjoys reading young adult literature and working on her own writing pieces alongside the young writers in her class. She is also a Teacher-Consultant with the Lake Michigan Writing Project. When time (and weather) permits, she enjoys taking walks with her husband and rowdy dog.

Kris Forward

Mr. Forward received a BA from California State University at Northridge and will soon have a Master's from Grand Valley State University.  He teaches English to sophomores and seniors at Rockford High School. Although he loves to write personal narratives and poems, non-fiction usually crowds his reading time.  He has a wife and two lovely daughters, and spends free time drinking tea and petting his cat.