Young Adult Writing Camp At Library

The Creative Writing Summer Camp for young adults, at the C.H. Booth Library, will welcome author Kathleen Kudlinski for her third summer of leading this popular summer offering at the library.

Ms Kudlinski has spent a lifetime telling stories and science to kids of all ages.

She has written 40 books for young people, ranging from picture books to young adult novels, and including natural history, biographies, and historical novels. She has also written and illustrated an award-winning newspaper column on natural history for the Sunday New Haven Register. Her newest book, Horse, Indian, Wolf comes out in September.

Ms Kudlinski, who studied art and biology at the University of Main to become a science teacher, felt she needed a new way to communicate with young adults. She now lives and writes from her home in Guilford.

Camp will meet from 3:30 to 5:30 pm for rising grades 6 and 7, and 6 to 8 pm for Rising Grades 8 and 9, Thursdays, July 1 through 29. A makeup date of Thursday, August 5, will be available if needed.

Participants are expected to attend all five sessions. Each group is limited to ten students who live or attend school in Newtown.

Sessions will allow time for writing and sharing stories as well as creative activities and one on one communication between adults and young people.

In addition to Ms Kudlinski, the groups will be assisted by volunteer writer Jacob “Jake” Burg of Newtown. Jake is a sophomore at Boston College, having graduated in 2008 from Newtown High School. He is an English major with a concentration in creative writing.

Jake completed his first novel, unpublished and untitled, when he was 13 years old.

He completed his second novel, entitled The Wanderer, when he was 17. He then went on to edit the novel with a local Newtown author, as well as professors at Duke University, and then self-published it. Currently he is working on his third novel.

Information and signup is available online at chboothlibrary.org.

 Additional information is also available from Young Adult Librarian Margaret Brown, at 203-426-4533. The library is at 25 Main Street.