Paper, Pen & Imagination Day Camp is a week-long odysee in Nashville, TN at Harpeth Hall School for rising 4th through 7th grade boys and girls who truly love creative writing. In it’s 3rd year, the Paper, Pen & Imagination Day Camp is attracting campers from as far away as Atlanta and Dallas. The reason? It’s very unique in that the camp instructors must be award-winning published writers in order to teach the kids (see below for their credentials):
I founded the camp three years ago to address the need to have a stimulating environment for kids who love to write. It’s a week of discovery. Many of the campers are, for the first time in their lives, surrounded by other kids who love crafting stories and poetry. There are many exercises to inspire the campers’ creativity. But it’s all about writing! To get more information visit the Paper, Pen & Imagination Day Camp website or email PPIDayCamp@gmail.com.
The instructors are exceptionally accomplished:
Kirkus Review (a stellar literary publication) hails instructor and YA author Helen Hemphill as “a strong new
voice in Children’s literature”. Ms. Hemphill has two awarding winning young adult novels, Long Gone Daddy (2006, Boyds Mills Press), which won the 2007 Teddy Award for Young Adult Fiction from the Writers’ League of Texas and was named to the New York Public Library’s Books for the Teen Age. Her 2007 novel Runaround (Boyds Mills Press) was named in the Top Ten Youth Romance by the venerable Booklist.
Her newest novel, historical fiction inspired by the African-American Nat Love who was a real cowboy who hailed from Tennessee, is titled The Adventurous Deeds of Deadwood Jones (Boyds Mills Press) will be released November 1, 2008. But students will get a sneak peak at this piece of literature that is garnering stellar reviews six months before its release.
Blas Falconer, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor at Austin Peay State University who has published to rave reviews. His writing has a basis in his Latin-American heritage. This past year he was honored to be invited to present his poetry in Chicago as part of a collaboration among the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, The Art Institute of Chicago and Poetry Foundation titled American Perspectives.
