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Friday, December 16, 2005
 
YOUNG WRITERS CAMP ON THE WEB: Young Writers Camp now has a web site. YWC is held each August for students 14-18 at the Thorne-Rider Youth Camp near the aptly named town of Story, Wyo. Writer and Sheridan College professor Micah Wyatt directs the camp and joins other faculty in teaching two workshops a day. It’s a great setting for contemplation and writing, and has produced a fine crop of writers, teachers, and feisty citizens. The camp was held at the Ucross Foundation from 1989-1993 and was directed by Jane Wohl and Dainis Hazners and featured visiting writers David Romtvedt, B.J. Buckley, Jim Rowe, John Lane, and yours truly. I remember my first visit to the camp in 1992. It was early June, storm clouds raced across the sky pushed by a brisk wind. Dainis warmed up the young crowd with rope tricks, and then moved into a writing workshop down by the creek. Later, in the Big Red Barn, Jane, with her youngest son at her side, conducted another workshop. My son Kevin, now 20, attended the camp for five years, beginning when he was 14. He still hauls around a journal and has written a couple screenplays that I hope will be picked up by Hollywood moguls and made into thoughtful yet compelling movies. Kevin (guy with big hair, third from left) poses with fellow campers in the accompanying photo. YWC traces its roots to an earlier summer camp directed by Tom Rea and held in Sunlight Basin.
- posted by Michael Shay @ 8:15 AM
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