Butler University Creative Writing Camp offers an intensive and entertaining week of workshops to help young writers, from grades 3-12, develop their talent and passion for the literary arts.
The Butler Bridge and Creative Writing Camps -- A Community for Young Writers
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Creative Writing Camp and Butler Bridge combine learning, laughter, and compassion to inspire young writers and readers. The programs connect bright, young people with talented mentors and like-minded peers to nurture intellectual and artistic discovery.
This learning-rich community rejects a narrow version of education, in which, too often, assessment structures learning. We reach for a goal that is harder to define: enhancing creativity, developing the imagination, finding our own voices. We help our students and campers be so engaged with the joys of the literary arts that they don’t even notice how much they are learning.
This happens in all our programs and divisions everyday; our teachers and mentors design classes, workshops, exercises, performances and discussions to allow young writers to grow towards the best versions of themselves; we encourage them to take risks, to try new things, to see the complexity and beauty of language and their own souls. We help young people see how literary thinking produces a valuable fluency in their own experience.
The success of the program testifies to the wisdom of this approach. We sincerely hope that by creating a place where work and play meet we are writing a better world, one child at a time.
