Maureen Bush

Writing Camp

Lia came home all jazzed up from a week at writing camp. The camp is Wordsworth, run by the Young Alberta Book Society (YABS), the successor to Youthwrite, run by the Writer’s Guild of Alberta (WGA). In spite of the organizational change, to the kids it was a continuation of 14 years of brilliant camps.

I recommend it highly for teens who love to write (and act and sing and play and joke and improvise and hang out with an incredibly supportive and creative bunch of kids, supervisors and instructors).

They put on a show for parents, entertaining us with their writing, body rhythm, acting and drumming. After the show, the kids won my heart when they gathered on the lawn and sang Leonard Cohen’s Hallalujah.

Maureen