YouthWrite Summer Camp 2012 Wrap-up

By Tom Wharton

At the Bennett Centre in the summery green heart of Edmonton, the week of July 1st to the 7th was given over to creativity, learning, and fun. Fifty-five enthusiastic and talented young people came together with inspiring instructors and superlative supervisors to imagine, write, draw, perform, compose, and have lots of laughs and good times along the way.

 

This summer’s courses covered a wide creative territory:

The Wild Side of Fiction, with Timothy Anderson

The Extremely Big Story Hunt, with Jocelyn Brown

Transformative! with Moe Clark

Sting Theory: Writing the Thriller, with Anita Daher

Why We Go to the Moon and What It’s Like There, with Candas Jane Dorsey

Write to Sing, with Bob Jahrig

Unleash Your Creativity, with Mark Kozub

Story House, with Tolowa Mollel

Eye Say (Guided Improvisation), with Jeff Page

I Wanna Hear Your Voice, with Mary Pinkoski

Strange and Stranger: The Unlikely Marriage of History and Fiction, with Joe Simons

Writing Boot Camp, with Bronwyn Storm

Something from Nothing, with Don Trembath

Fantastic Fiction, with Thomas Wharton

Writing as a Performing Art, with David Wilson

Freaky Pinky Creepy Fluffy Comics, with Spyder Yardley-Jones

Barbara North ran the popular Blue Pencil Café, where campers could bring their writing for one-on-one consultation. The campers had the opportunity to recite and perform their works-in-progress at the daily Inklings event, and for a packed and cheering house at the Saturday afternoon presentation for parents and friends.

We had a number of special Youthwrite guests come for a visit, including award-winning author Marina Endicott, director and playwright Stephen Heatley, and comic book wizard Jay Bardyla. Lou Hetke gave a historic tour of the nearby river valley; Thomas Trofimuk came for Bedtime Story and Geoff McMaster serenaded us with Bedtime Songs; alumni Miranda Martini of Alberta Views and first-time novelist Amy Bright shared their words and wisdom as did the Spoken Word Youth Choir.

And of course the other grand YouthWrite tradition is the Beeg Show, written and performed each evening by Gail Sidonie Sobat and the supervisors. This year’s shows included Fave Fairy Tales, From Page to Screen, Shake Your Shakespeare, Dead Beat Poets, and Clueless, A Murder Mystery. The campers also had the opportunity to dress up to match each show’s theme, and win prizes for their costumes.

Speaking for myself it was truly an amazing, unforgettable week.  I was inspired to be among such dedicated staff and instructors, and to see talented young writers stretching their creative muscles and finding their voices. Many bows and thank yous to Gail and the indefatigable supervisors for making it all happen!

Here's the YouthWrite Summer 2012 Fantabulous Line-up:

 

Timothy J. Anderson earned a place in George Melnyk's A Literary History of Alberta Vol. 2 when his 1996 book of poetry triggered Alberta Report magazine to call for restriction of provincial and federal funding to the arts. Timothy has had an active international performing career which has included operas, musicals and non-lyric theatre. His writing, which includes works for the stage as well as poetry, novels, and non-fiction, has received many awards. From 1994 to 2005 he was a member of The Books Collective literary publishing company, bringing underrepresented literary voices to the fore. He is also a community advocate; he was awarded a Province of Alberta Centennial silver medallion for his services to the arts and advocacy, and the Todd Janes Award for community service. He currently teaches writing at Grant MacEwan University and the University of Alberta and serves on the board of the Boyle Street Community League.   

The Wild Side of Fiction
Truth-telling means risk.  But what is art, what is writing, without creative risk-taking? Join Timothy and plot your narratives, whether of revenge, fantasy, adventure or realism.  Learn how to stretch your style without losing the ring of truth.  Raise the stakes and raise the state of your prose.  Let your fictional hair down and take a walk on the wild side!

 

 

 

Jocelyn Brown is Writer in Residence for 2012 at the Edmonton Public Library and the author of two books and several short stories and articles.  The Mitochondrial Curiosities of Marcels 1-19, a young adult novel about grief, crafts and semi-criminal adventure, received rave reviews across the country and in the US.  Jocelyn has a strong comic sensibility and loves strangeness.  Writers, she believes, must continually pitch themselves into the unknown.

 

The Extremely Big Story Hunt
What do Odysseus and Alice in Wonderland have in common?  They took the hero’s journey: off they went into the unknown, overcoming major problems before returning home.  Do likewise and go on your own quest.  Receive clues everyday and off you’ll go. Be your own hero – write your story clue by clue, one discovery after another.

 

 

 

Moe Clark, Métis artist and spoken word poet, creates a poetic style rich with rhythmic narrative and dynamic vocals. She thrives off the energy that surrounds and abounds in the body, voice, and soul. Picking up sounds from the everyday, Moe explores the intricate glue that connects meaning to words. With a background in voice, visual arts, and performance, she brings a unique vibe to the stage of spoken word.  Moe has performed in numerous festivals, including the Calgary International Spoken Word Festival and the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word. National highlights include performances in Halifax, Charlottetown, and Quebec City. She has a spoken word and music CD, in collaboration with Calgary musician Chris Dadge, Circle of She: Story + Song.

Transformative!
The power to transform is within us all. By weaving a pathway of voice and following the migration of the oral tradition, find your unique voice and words to tell your stories and poems with authentic purpose.  Use the voice, the body, and technology (looping) for a special blend of spoken word magic. 

 

 

 

Anita Daher lives and breathes adventure novels for young and teen readers, and in the name of research has had many adventures of her own, though thankfully not to the extremes she writes (knock on wood). She’s published ten novels including the creepy and emotional Spider’s Song (Penguin), which was a finalist for an Arthur Ellis best crime novel award as well as other honours. She also edits teen novels for Winnipeg’s Great Plains Publications. When she's not word-wrangling she enjoys riding her horse.

 

Sting Theory: Writing the Thriller

What nudges an adventure novel into the bite-your-nails-to-the-nub category of thriller? We’ll explore this, and ways to build believable and memorable plots, worlds and characters. Your heart will race and your palms will sweat as you write a story or novel that may keep you up all night. Not for the faint of heart!

 

 

 

Candas Jane Dorsey has written two SF novels, three short-story collections, four poetry collections and many stories, poems, reviews, critical essays, and rants in anthologies and magazines. Eclectic in output and style, she has just completed a mystery novel, a young adult novel, and two children’s picture book scripts. For many years editor/publisher of Canadian SF publisher Tesseract Books and literary press River Books, she teaches writing, speaks internationally on SF and other topics, has won many awards, and is an active arts and community advocate.

 

Why We Go to the Moon, and What It's Like There
What is your Moon, where is it, and what is it like to live there? In 1902 Georges Méliès made the very first SF film, A Trip to the Moon. He freely imagined the Moon as inhabited by capering, hostile Selenites and the journey as being full of wonders like singing stars, giant mushrooms, exploding enemies and marvellous landscapes. (His film is part of the story in the recent film Hugo.) Like other SF writers, envision the worlds of the future and of far-flung planets and galaxies--perhaps with a little more scientific veracity than Méliès!  Your real landscape to explore in speculative fiction is, as always, the landscape of human experience and emotion. So do a little world-building of your own; focus on building character and milieu and setting the story in motion on the stage of your imagination!

 

 

 

 

 

Mark Kozub has been a professional writer for nearly two decades and is a much-loved YouthWrite instructor.  He has worked in the radio industry, in social media circles, and has written everything from website copy to books like his latest novel, The Dough Bros., which features a cover by YouthWrite's Spyder Yardley-Jones.  Mark is also a founding father of Edmonton's Raving Poets and records meditation music.

 

Unleash Your Creativity

Have fun being more creative than ever before!  Have a blast writing short fiction, poems, journals, fake radio ads and free writing (whatever comes into your head).  Draw, brainstorm, and DAYDREAM.  You'll feel like a five-year-old at playtime!  And you'll be amazed at what you create.

 

 

Tololwa Mollel is a storyteller, actor, dramatist and an award-winning author of over sixteen internationally published books for the young, plays and stories for performance. He has also worked in theatre as an actor and dramatist in Canada and in Tanzania, where he was born. He now combines his storytelling, writing and dramatic and performance skills in his creative process, and is currently working on a project that integrates story performance with music. 

Story House
Construct what Tolo calls a ‘story house’!  Sharing an engaging tale or two, he’ll guide you to develop one of them in a grand ‘story circle’.  Then in groups, using performance elements, build a ‘story house’. The magic is in the performance.  Learn how to tell a tale well from the master, Tololwa Mollel.

 

 

Jeff Page is a professional actor, director, writer and teacher who writes for stage, radio and film. His stage plays include Love Letters from the Unabomber and The Granite Man and the Butterfly. He also co-wrote The Specialists, a CBC radio serial, and the screenplay for When the Pig Looks at the Matchbox, an acclaimed short film. In 2009, Jeff received a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Alberta. He currently teaches drama at Red Deer College.

Eye Say - YouthWrite's VERY popular class is back! Create a unique world of vibrant characters and dramatic, suspense-filled situations through guided improvisation.  Activate your imagination in collaboration with others.  Embark on a written exploration of this extraordinary world and the characters you invent.  Writing and drama in wordplayful combination!

 

 

 

 

Mary Pinkoski, a spoken word poet from Edmonton, was captain of 2011 Edmonton Poetry SlamTeam which won the National Championship at the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word. Mary was also voted Most Valuable Poet of the 2011 Canadian Festival of Spoken Word. She was a finalist in the 2011 Edmonton Poetry Laureate competition, as well as a finalist at the 2011 Canadian Individual Slam Championship. Mary was the winner of the 2008 National CBC Poetry Faceoff.  A storyteller at heart, her writing has been called dynamic and visceral. Her work has been played on CBC Radio One’s RadioActive and the Key of A, CKUA’s The Road Home, as well as Philadelphia’s Spotlight on Jazz and Poetry. Mary has also led numerous workshops on spoken word poetry, and her most current chapbook is love is a tree you planted.

I Wanna Hear Your Voice

Come learn the basics of spoken word in this workshop, as we move from writing for the page to writing for the stage. Over the week, explore how to find your own voice in writing and performing spoken word through a number of dynamic, interactive writing exercises.  Talk about and learn a bit of spoken word and slam history and what is happening in the scene today. Come prepared to write, play, perform and explode your words aloud in this class.

 

 

 

Joseph Simons loves to read history. He's interested in the way life is lived under various conditions. Joseph's novel, Under a Living Sky, a story about two sisters in the Great Depression, won the Family Friendly Book Award. Joseph has just finished the sequel to this book and is looking for a publisher who will provide the book with a good home, which hopefully includes room and board, and special privileges. It's just a small book.

 

Strange and Stranger: The Unlikely (And Sometimes Happy) Marriage of History and Fiction

Is there something in the past that attracts you? It attracts me too. Let's find out why together. And on the journey, learn how to avoid history taking over so that story turns into a dry report or history becoming a jump-off point so that you lose the interesting historical facts and situations.  Sort out how to tap into the important events of years gone by, and how to make them live again for yourself and your reader.

 

 

 

Bronwyn Storm is a writer of romance, mystery, and YA fiction.  She wanted to be a superhero when she grew up. Sadly, this goal was made moot when she realized that being a klutz was not, in fact, a super power, and her super-weakness for anything bright and shiny meant that a magpie with self-control could easily defeat her in a battle of wills.  Today, she doesn’t live on a secret space station orbiting the earth, but she still gets to wear leotards, a cape and say things like, “STAND ASIDE! THIS IS A JOB FOR WRITING-GIRL!  Bronwyn began writing as a career back in 2005 and has published I Love You a Latte, The Genie's Curse, Shoe-In for Love,  Love and the Leprechaun, the mystery novel, Ethan's Chase, and most recently, Sneakers, Sandals & Stilettoes.

Writing Boot Camp

Struggling with a saggy middle? The first line of your novel not pulling its weight? Want to write a novel that makes heads turn? Then join Bronwyn Storm as you power lift theory, bench press story framework, crunch reality, and make your novel buff, tough, and tight!

Don Trembath is an award-winning author of twelve young adult novels, including The Tuesday Cafe, Rooster and The Bachelors. His work as a journalist has appeared in Canadian Living, Today's Parent and The Edmonton Journal. He is delighted to be returning for another year at YouthWrite.

Something from Nothing
Ideas for fiction writers come from everywhere and anywhere.  Explore where some of the greatest writers of our time find their inspiration. Search for wellsprings of creativity of your own. Write like mad!  Discover if your ideas work.  Troubleshoot about what to do if they don't.  Delight in creating something from nothing!

 

 

David Wilson (B.Mus, M.Mus) is a Singer, Conductor, Voice Teacher, Yoga Instructor, and Breath Therapist. In Edmonton David has conducted the Richard Eaton Singers, Kokopelli, Vocal Alchemy, the Edmonton Recorder Orchestra, My Fair Lady, Dream King, Mikado, and most recently, RENT.  He has taught at Opera Nuova, Concordia High School, and Edmonton Musical Theatre. As a singer he has been singing in the Edmonton Opera Chorus since 2006, and in 2011 performed Cinderella’s Prince and The Wolf in Elope’s production of Stephen Sondheim’s Into the Woods. He is currently working on his first book and DVD, Yoga for Singers.  

 

Writing as a Performing Art

Explore what effect the performing arts have on your writing.  Included will be acting, singing, movement, yoga (yes, well it's a performing art as well, now) and other fun stuff.  No experience necessary. First play, then let the writing flow. Do different activities have an impact on our writing?  Only one way to find out... mwaaa-ha-ha-haaaa....

 

 

Thomas Wharton is an associate professor in the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta, where he teaches creative writing.  His first novel, Icefields, won the Commonwealth Writer’s Prize for Best First Book, Canada/Caribbean division. His second novel, Salamander, was short-listed for the Governor-General’s Literary Award and the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. A collection of short fiction, The Logogryph, won the Howard O’Hagan Prize at the Alberta Book Awards and was shortlisted for the IMPAC-Dublin Prize. His most recent book is The Fathomless Fire, second of The Perilous Realm YA fantasy trilogy. His work has been published in the US, UK, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and other countries.

 

Fantastic Fiction

Make the unbelievable believable.  Mine the riches of your imagination.  Generate new ideas.  Tap your innate creativity. Play with language.  Build new worlds.  Go boldly where you have never dared before!

Spyder Yardley-Jones has been creating art since before birth, but since birth has been teaching cartooning and illustration in Edmonton schools.  When not teaching, Spyder has been exhibiting his art in Canada and the US.  When he puts down his brushes, he picks up the pen to illustrate books such as the picture book, In the Graveyard.  In between all of that, Spyder works as a preparator, installing shows at the Art Gallery of Alberta.

 

Freaky.Pinky.Creepy.Fluffy Comics

Come children of the night...day...afternoon.  Dwell in the world of comics.  Create in a week what would take mere mortals centuries to do.  Summon forth a comic book of dark delights and fluffy surprises!

With Special YouthWrite Guests:

Marina Endicott is the 2012-2013 Writer-in-Residence at the University of Alberta.  Her first book, Open Arms, was short-listed for the Amazon First Novel award and serialized on CBC Radio’s Between the Covers. Her second, Good to a Fault, was a finalist for the 2008 Scotiabank Giller Prize, and won the 2009 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book, Canada/Caribbean region. Her new novel, The Little Shadows, about a sister-trio-harmony vaudeville act touring the prairies in 1912, was short-listed for this year’s Governor General’s award. She has taught creative writing at the Banff Centre and the University of Alberta. 

 

 

 

 

Stephen Heatley is a nationally acclaimed director, actor, dramaturge, playwright, and educator. He was Artistic Director of Theatre Network in Edmonton from 1981 to 1992, Director of the Theatre School and Associate Artistic Director of the Citadel Theatre from 1994 to 1999. He is currently a faculty member in the Theatre Program at the University of British Columbia.  He co-wrote the Christmas musical The Other Side of the Pole with Marney Heatley and Edward Connell.  A sought-after instructor, Stephen is excited to return to YouthWrite, which he taught at in its inaugural year and to which he returns nearly every summer!

The Hot Seat! - A 'reality bites' character exploration  Master director Stephen Heatley will direct you through a series of character-building activities to help you breathe life into characters you are currently writing about or those you may incorporate in your week's work at YouthWrite.  Come sit on the hot seat...if you dare!

 

 

 

This year's Blue Pencil Café Writer in Residence:

 

Barbara North is an award-winning stand-up comic, writer, and TV and radio presence  who has created, written, and starred in several television shows, including Army Brats, a national CBC TV comedy special, and A Total Write-Off!, a 13-episode comedy-variety series about writers. Barbara was also a writer-intern on the last season of CBC TV’s Royal Canadian Air Farce.  She performs stand-up on stages across Canada, was a winner in Yuk Yuks’ Best New Comic Contest, and appeared on Just for Laughs and She’s So Funny.  Her one-woman stage shows include My Incredibly Screwed-up Sisters, My Bollywood Best Friend’s Wedding, and Everything I DIDN’T Need to Know I Learned in Grade 9.  This year she'll launch Lady Baba – My Polka Face and Forefathers – My A**! a comedic tribute to the unsung females of history.  Barbara was the female character announcer for Teletoon for seven years, and in the strange-but-true category, holds a Guinness World Record for appearing in the world’s longest stand-up comedy show. 

Blue Pencil Café - Hone your words!  Polish your prose!  Dazzle your readers!  Get sound advice from our resident expert!  Meet one-on-one and tete-a-tete with Barbara.  Daily sign-ups on site at camp.

And this summer's Super Supers:

 

Marla Albiston is excited to return to YouthWrite for her sixth summer!  There is no other place she would rather be! Marla completed her BEd at the U of A (where she met the vivacious and talented Gail Sobat), and over the last few years has had the wonderful opportunity to apply her love for dance with education, working frequently with the Dance department at Victoria School, East Glen, and Queen Elizabeth, where she has been teaching the Dance program for the past three semesters.  Trained in all disciplines of dance, she has studied in New York, LA, Calgary, Vancouver, Toronto, and Sydney, Australia.  Marla continues to dance professionally, with Princess Cruiselines, various commercials and industrial shows. Most recently, she performed in the Orchesis Motif Show, U of A's MOD Contemporary Dance show, The Edmonton Show, and the Edmonton Feats Festival.  She currently teaches at Dance Theme and The Art of Dance, as well as works as a freelance teacher and choreographer.  Bring on a week of writing and fun!

 

 

 

Nicholas Carter is exceptionally pleased to be a part of YouthWrite (and Gail's heart) for the second year and third camp. Nicholas is a creator of moving images and swirling sounds and is currently in the midst of producing two short motion pictures. Also, Nicholas is a musician and performs frequently with fellow YouthWrite supervisor (and handsomem'n) Noel 'Thin Man' Taylor in a spoken word and accordion duo. The group hopes to expand its act into a series of bi-monthly accordion rap/rock-operas. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Anna Cooley is a filmmaker from Calgary.  She writes, directs and edits her own independent projects, while also working on major productions in the Art, Set Decoration and Props Departments.  She took her first screen writing class when she attended YouthWrite as a teenager, which helped set her on her current path.  When not working, Anna tries to travel as much as possible, writing and photographing as she goes.  She is thrilled to be back for her third year as a YouthWrite Super and, of course, to work with Gail!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kristel Harder is elated to be back at YouthWrite (with Gail) for another amazing week of creativity and vitality.  Kristel first explored her love for the arts through composing epic musical play–by-play accounts of family road trips, performed at the top of her lungs to the pleasure…(?) of her family on said road trips. Since then she has studied piano, trumpet, euphonium, guitar and voice in the U of A’s Voice Performance program.  She has performed in ProCoro Canada, is a voice and piano teacher and a frequent clinician for high school and adult choirs. In 2010, Kristel joined the Canadian Team for the World Championship of Performing Arts in L.A, where she earned ten medals for voice and acting. Inspired partially by her experiences there, (but mostly by her desire to make Gail proud in the world famous YouthWrite BEEG shows) Kristel currently attends Grant MacEwan’s Theatre Arts program.

 

 

Caleb Harder Nelson is a Wetaskiwin-born musician who moved to Edmonton to major in music and minor in physics at the U of A.  He has been singing and playing professionally in a number of capacities, including singing in ProCoro Canada (Edmonton's professional choir), and singing and playing in the T3 jazz band.  Much of his time is spent singing with, as well as composing and arranging music for, Epsilon, a popular a cappella group.  Caleb also teaches private voice lessons, and is a vocal clinician for several choirs around the province.  This is Caleb's fifth year at camp, and he is terribly excited for the chance to work with Gail, whom he adores! 

 

 

 

 Elisha Pinter is a math and drama teacher by day and a writer by night. She is intent on learning as many disciplines of the Arts as she can!  A talented improviser, after winning the illustrious Nosebowl TheatreSports Competition, Elisha performed with Rapid Fire as an improv Rookie. She also loves creating beautiful music with her guitar and ukelele, as song writing has become a passion of hers.  She is excited to be on the YouthWrite team and is looking forward to all of the creativity and inspiration that the weeks will bring.  Elisha wants all the supers to know that she adores Gail the most!

 

 

 

 

Noel Taylor is a teacher, writer, performer and has been involved withYouthWrite for 6 years now! He counts down the days to YouthWrite every year! Noel has the fabulous job of teaching drama at McKernan Junior High right here in Edmonton! He performs with Hey Ladies at the Roxy Theatre Network every theatre season. As well as performing music in local rock and roll bands, he performs spoken word poetry with his best friend Nicholas! While doing all of these lovely things, Noel still finds the time to love Gail the most out of any other supervisor.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Joe Vanderhelm is a teacher of math, science and drama after having earned his BEd from the U of A, where he had Gail as a professor. Joe Vanderhelm is the associate artistic director of Rapid Fire Theatre. Joe Vanderhelm has improvised around the world including: Frankfurt, Vancouver, Montreal, Toronto, Atlanta and Bragg Creek. Joe Vanderhelm is a husband and owner of a teacup Yorkie named Lucy. Joe Vanderhelm is a lover of games both board and video. Joe Vanderhelm is proud to return in a supervisory role for his 6^th summer of YouthWrite. But most importantly, Joe Vanderhelm loves and worships Gail Sidonie Sobat, probably the most.  

 

 
 

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Summer CAMP 2012   APPLICATION FORM COURSE  SELECTION FORM   Sign up NOW for this AMAZING camp!  YouthWrite fills up quickly.  Applications are processed in the order they are received.  AVOID DISAPPOINTMENT!   When: July 1-7, 2012 (in the event that week one fills up, we will take applications for July 8-14, 2012) Times:  Weeklong participants arrive 3 pm, Sunday, July 1st and depart at 6 pm, Saturday, July 7th, after the WordPlayful Wrap-up Party! Day camp participants arrive Monday, July 2nd and subsequent days at 8:30 am (and may stay onsite until 9 pm to partake of evening activities), with Saturday, July 7th departure at 6 pm after the WordPlayful Wrap-up Party! Where:   The Bennett Centre                9703-94 Street                Edmonton, AB Cost:    $575 for Overnight Program              $475 for Day Program   Many famous, not to mention fabulous authors   + a great week (or two)   + friends, new and old   + supervisors many of you know and love   + evening entertainment   + theme-days and costumes   + prizes   + the BEEG Show   + The Inklings   + Spray Park Shenanigans   + guided River Valley walks   + more fun and hijinx than you can imagine     = the wordplayfully delightful camp you’ve      come to know as YouthWrite!!! Don't Forget:   By DEADLINE, YouthWrite applicants must submit an application form, respond to the following questions, provide a sample of   writing, provide a letter of recommendation   from a teacher or instructor who is familiar     with the applicant’s ability/interest in writing     and suitability for the camp, in addition to submitting fees. Please answer these questions and e-mail to [email protected]: 1. What school courses have you completed in English/Language Arts? 2. What extra-curricular creative writing courses/workshops/activities have you previously participated in? 3.  Has your writing been published?  If so, where? 4. What are your reasons for wanting to     attend YouthWrite?   Sample of writing: Applicants must submit one poem (max. 75 lines) or sample of prose (max. 2 pages), on a theme or subject of your choice.  Writing samples MUST be word-processed, 12-point font, double-spaced. DO NOT submit originals; samples will not be returned.  Please submit only ONE writing sample.   Letter of Reference: Referees are asked to indicate their knowledge of the applicant’s suitability for the YouthWrite program and comment on the applicant’s special strengths.  (Letters from relatives are NOT acceptable.)

Here are the four easy steps to apply:   Online Registration and Payment 1. Click HERE for online registration and online payment.   2.  Email to [email protected] FULL contact details in the body of your e-mail) completed course selection form letter of reference, writing sample, and answers to YouthWrite questions Ensure that your name and contact info are included in the body of the email.  For further details see the left column under the heading "Don't Forget"! 3. READ course descriptions and instructor bios (above) prior to making course selections.   4.  Get stoked and tell your friends! or   Mail-in Registration 1. Download the Application Form (left) and fill out completely. 2. Mail in your completed brochure completed course selection form cheque payable to "YouthWrite Society Canada" letter of reference, writing sample, and answers to YouthWrite questions to:                                      YouthWrite Society Canada                                                                     10629- 127 Street                                      Edmonton, AB T5N 1W4 3. READ course descriptions and instructor bios (above) prior to making course selections.  Download the course selection form (left) and mark your selections.   4. Get stoked and tell your friends! **Please note: All applications are processed in the order received as well that summer camp courses, instructors and supervisors are all subject to change.  Friendly and familiar faces will be on hand to greet you and be your fabulous hosts and supervisors:Gail Sidonie Sobat plus her team of super supers! Please note that YouthWrite fees cover only a portion of the cost of attending the YouthWrite summer camp.  We at YouthWrite Society Canada make up the difference by securing donations from businesses and individuals.  We strive to make this opportunity available to any young writer across Alberta (and beyond). If you would like to make a donation to help us achieve this aim at YouthWrite, please click here.