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Due to Covid-19 public health regulations, the in-person Creative Writing Camps are temporarily suspended. Customized online summer creative writing camps or workshops can be arranged, for one or more days, or as a weekly event.
In-person camps or workshops may become possible as Covid-19 health restrictions ease.
Please inquire if you are interested in arranging a customized writing camp or workshop for your child or teen and a group of their friends.
Individual Tutoring and Mentoring
Deborah also offers individual tutoring and mentoring for students in grades 2 through 12 on academic writing or creative writing projects. Please inquire if interested.
5-Day Creative Writing Camps and Workshops
For 7th to 12th Grades
For 2021: Currently available by arrangement only
In the Creative Writing Camps, participants are encouraged to write what interests them (stories, poems, etc), get to know other writers, share their writing in a supportive atmosphere, and compile a booklet of the group's pieces. We'll use fun, inspiring, easy writing prompts to generate ideas and create voices, plots, characters, and settings. Participants develop writing skills and confidence. Many participants report feeling greater ease and confidence the following year with school writing assignments.
Past participants say:
- "Helpful in improving confidence, writing style, and creativity."
- "It was great to be with other kids who love to write."
- "The atmosphere is so nurturing."
- "A nice personalized approach to writing."
- "Allowed me to take a wonderful leap into the realm of creative writing."
- "Would gladly return next year."
Workshop Cancellation Policy
100% minus $50 registration fee up to five weeks prior to start of workshop. 75% minus registration fee up to four weeks prior. 50% minus registration fee up to three weeks prior. 25% minus registration fee up to two weeks prior. No refunds given within 14 days of start of workshop.
About the Author
Deborah Davis, MFA has 30 years’ experience teaching writing classes, workshops, and camps for children, teens, and adults. She is skilled at helping both enthusiastic and hesitant writers to gain skills and confidence with writing. As an independent editor and writing coach, Deborah advises adult writers with their full-length children’s and adult manuscripts, coaches high school seniors and grad school applicants with application essays, and edits academic dissertations. Deborah also teaches the popular “Reading and Writing Young Adult Literature” course at Saint Mary’s College of California. The author of three award-winning novels for young people (The Secret of the Seal, My Brother Has AIDS, and Not Like You) and editor of the nonfiction anthology, You Look Too Young to be a Mom, Deborah lives and writes in Berkeley, CA.
For more information contact Deborah by email or call her at (510) 541-2199.
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