The UA Creative Writing Club, founded by poet and English professor Robin Behn, will host a two-week creative writing camp with the aid of the club’s coordinating director, Christopher McCarter, and a few graduate students. The camp is geared toward high school students, regardless of prior experience, and is intended to be an accessible and inclusive way for students to get their creative juices flowing.
“I think creative writing is something everybody can do, and you don’t have to be an expert in poetry to make cool work,”McCarter said. “Imagination is all you need.”
Students will participate in an abundance of writing activities as well as learn about genre writing. The camp will end with a reading at the Sella-Granata Art Gallery, free and open to the public.
“I think the camp is very important because it gives students the opportunity to flex their creative muscles in all sorts of ways, receive support and guidance from more experienced writers, and be exposed to aspects of creative writing that they might have not known about otherwise,” said Nicole Rivas, a graduate student studying prose who will assist with the camp.
Behn said many of the students have gone on to pursue creative writing in college and graduate schools across the country.
“The emphasis is on enjoyment and exploration of language, working creatively with other writers, while learning how language can be used as an art form,” she said.
