Hosting campuses include Meridian School, Griffin School, Parkside Community School, Austin International School, and Trinity Episcopal School.
Badgerdog’s Creative Writing Summer Camp has given Austin youth a space to fall in love with writing for more than 10 years, with its opportunities for self-expression, learning from a professional writer, and publishing original work.
Badgerdog hosts summer writing camps for rising third graders through twelfth graders, where students can explore the arts of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and playwriting. All campers have opportunities to read, write, and share their original work.
Each summer, Badgerdog publishes two professionally produced anthologies, one for elementary-aged writers and one for middle and high-school writers.
Summer camps are available all over town, with several sessions in June and July. The three-week and two-week camps include fun exercises in poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and other forms of creative writing. Additionally, high school students can sign up for a novel-writing camp.
Badgerdog Creative Writing is a project of the Austin Library Foundation, which also sponsors the Austin Youth Poet Laureate Program and the Mayor’s Book Club. More information is available at austinlibrary.org.
