Catch the Wave!

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 encourage and 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.

Our Camp Flyer provides all the details of our three 2008 camps.