Scribes Youth Writing Camp at The Henry - 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 9-12. Scribes will wander the labyrinth of artistic treasures the Henry Art Gallery has to offer. Together with instructors Karen Finneyfrock and Jane Wong, Scribes will engage dynamically 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! All skill levels welcome. ABOUT THE INSTRUCTORS Karen Finneyfrock is the author of the young adult novel The Sweet Revenge of Celia Door (Viking Children’s Books, 2013). Her second book of poems, Ceremony for the Choking Ghost, was released on Write Bloody press in 2010. She is a former Hugo House writer-in-residence and teaches for Seattle Arts and Lectures’ Writers-in-the-Schools program. A member of four National Poetry Slam Teams, Karen traveled to Nepal as a Cultural Envoy through the US Department of State to perform and teach poetry and in 2011, she did a reading tour in Germany sponsored by the US Embassy. Jane Wong's poems can be found in anthologies and journals such as Best American Poetry 2015, Best New Poets 2012, Pleiades, Hayden's Ferry Review, Third Coast, and others. Awarded The American Poetry Review's 2016 Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize, she is the recipient of scholarships and fellowships from Kundiman, the U.S. Fulbright Program, the Fine Arts Work Center, Squaw Valley, and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. Along with three chapbooks, she is the author of Overpour (Action Books). She is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Western Washington University.