Grand Rapids Writing Camps

This writing camp is for elementary and middle school writers interested in telling a short story in ANY genre, including Realistic Fiction, Historical Fiction, Science Fiction, Fantasy Fiction, Poetry, Movie Script, and Personal Narrative.

This writing camp is for elementary and middle school writers interested in telling a short story in ANY genre, including Realistic Fiction, Historical Fiction, Science Fiction, Fantasy Fiction, and Personal Narrative.

This camp is for writers who love to draw and create, focusing on developing characters, illustration basics, thumbnails, lettering, and strong story structures to create a finished short graphic novel.

A camp focused on making video short stories, covering pre-production, production, and post-production, with an emphasis on telling stories with a beginning, middle, and end, including shot composition and editing.

This July afternoon camp focuses on creating graphic novels, diving deep into character creation, illustration basics, thumbnails, lettering, and developing strong story structures.

This second separate session of Video Short Story Camp focuses on pre-production, production, and post-production to teach participants how to make a video short story.

This morning camp is for creative writers interested in exploring and flexing their imagination to create new worlds and short stories in science fiction and fantasy.

This camp focuses on making video short stories, covering pre-production, production, and post-production, with an emphasis on telling stories with a beginning, middle, and end, including shot composition and editing.

A Saturday workshop focused on creating graphic novels for young writers.

This classic camp is for young writers who want to create and publish a short story, with an open focus for genre, including fantasy, science fiction, suspense, mythology, or historical fiction.

This camp focuses on making video short stories, covering pre-production, production, and post-production, with an emphasis on telling stories with a beginning, middle, and end, including learning about shot composition and editing.

This morning camp focuses on writing short stories in science fiction and fantasy genres, allowing young writers to create imaginative worlds and dynamic stories.

This afternoon camp takes a deep dive into creating characters, basic illustration, thumbnails, and lettering, focusing on developing stories with strong structures.

This camp focuses on crafting imaginative worlds and dynamic stories, covering idea generation, character creation, learning from beloved short stories, and revising to strengthen writing, culminating in a printed anthology.

This workshop introduces new students to comic writing and drawing techniques, while offering returning students more sophisticated methods for developing stronger stories.

This three-hour writing workshop focuses on giving children basic skills for writing and drawing their own comics, emphasizing storytelling using both pictures and words.

A three-hour workshop designed to support students in planning, drafting, and revising stories inspired by their favorite characters and worlds.

A three-hour workshop designed to support students in planning, drafting, and revising stories inspired by their favorite characters and worlds.