Scribes Advanced Youth Writing Camp [Hugo House Session VI] - Seattle, WA

Scribes summer writing camps provide an opportunity for Seattle-area youth to engage intensely with creative writing. Programming includes instruction from accomplished writers, field trips, writing activities, craft exercises, and exposure to a diverse range of genres, forms, and writers. This two-week session is open to students entering grades 10-12 who identify as having advanced skills. This session is appropriate for students who’ve participated in Hugo House's Young Writers Cohort, in previous Scribes sessions, or those who have a strong foundation in creative writing and are looking for a challenge. Together with instructors Quenton Baker and Emma Törzs, Scribes will engage seriously with creative writing and participate in quality programming that includes arts-driven field trips, writing activities, craft exercises, and exposure to a diverse range of genres, forms, and writers. The session will culminate in a community reading where Scribes will have the opportunity to share their work! ABOUT THE INSTRUCTORS Quenton Baker is a poet and teacher. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in anthologies such as Measure for Measure: An Anthology of Poetic Meters and It Was Written: Poetry Inspired by Hip-Hop. He has a chapbook, Diglossic in the Second America from Punch Press, and is the author of This Glittering Republic (Willow Books). He has an MFA in Poetry from the University of Southern Maine, and he writes poetry reviews for Poet by Poet. Emma Törzs is based in Minneapolis. She is the recipient of a 2015 O. Henry award, and her stories have appeared in journals such as Ploughshares, Threepenny Review, Narrative, the Cincinnati Review, and Salt Hill, among others.