A workshop for you

Choose one of three specific areas of focus – new this year!

If you adore the written word and prefer
a great novel to television; or if you simply
want to communicate more clearly,
effectively and creatively – welcome to
the wonderful world of GirlSummer’s
Writers’ Workshops. Our students work in
intensive writing workshops of limited
size. Ideas are exchanged and
discussions abound.

The writing program is often our most
popular, a testament to our creation of a
stimulating literary environment. Because
so many girls with a variety of interests
enroll in this course each year, we are
offering specific areas of focus, new for
the 2008 season.

Upon enrollment, each writing student selects a specific focus. Each focus described below is offered
all three sessions. If you have any questions about which track is best for your daughter - call us!

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Creative Writing Workshop

This is our most popular creative writing workshop from previous summers. Students work on the mechanics
of writing and hone their skills in form, function, and style. Through a variety of projects, students apply
different critical tools to their writing, such as journaling, first-person expression, reporting, and writing in
response. Students truly come away from this program with a greater tool kit for inspiring and developing
their own work.

Storytelling & Fiction

In this workshop, students practice the art of telling stories both on paper and in voice. The ability to tell a
story – to communicate both subtly and powerfully – is an incredible skill, and it is a skill that is fun to learn too!
Students employ the important tools of journalling, fiction writing and public speaking to tell their stories.

Writing for Stage and Screen

There is writing that is meant to be read and writing that is meant to be performed. Here, students examine
what differentiates the two. They look at contemporary scripts as resources and then try their own hands at
play and screen writing. This workshop often collaborates with the Performing Arts group to see what
happens when words come off the page and onto the stage.

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