PAST NEWS ARCHIVE
June 6, 2001
Contact: Patricia Fraga, Austin Public Library, (512) 974-7528
Fax: (512) 974-7442
Summer Creative Writing Camp for Youth
Austin Public Library and Writers' League of Texas offer workshops
in ten branch libraries
The Writers' League of Texas, in collaboration with the Austin Public Library, is offering a Summer Creative Writing Camp for Youth from June 5 through July 5. This free program for youth between the ages of seven and fourteen years of age will be available in ten library branches across the city. Writers will teach the craft of writing aimed at a youth audience, and various subject areas will be explored. Each workshop will meet three separate days for ninety minutes.
Interested students can sign up for these workshops at the Milwood Branch, 12500 Amherst Drive; Oak Springs Branch, 3101 Oak Springs Drive; Windsor Park Branch, 5833 Westminster Drive; and Twin Oaks Branch, 2301 South Congress Avenue, Suite 7. Other branches that will have classes are Southeast Austin Community Branch, 5803 Nuckols Crossing Road; Old Quarry Branch, 7051 Village Center Drive; and Manchaca Road Branch, 5500 Manchaca Road. In addition, young people can learn about writing at the John Henry Faulk Central Library, 800 Guadalupe Street; Little Walnut Creek Branch, 835 West Rundberg Lane; and Carver Branch, 1161 Angelina Street.
The following are the dates and locations of the workshops:
Joan Neubauer, a memoir and journal writing expert, will teach young people to write family stories at Twin Oaks Branch on Mondays, June 11, 18 and 25.
Helen Ginger will talk about writing e-zines and writing on the Web at Little Walnut Creek Branch on Mondays, June 18, 25, and July 2.
Jane S. Bauld, children's author, will teach 8 to 12 year-olds about writing stories at Milwood Branch on Tuesdays, June 12, 19, and 26.
Linda Davis Kyle will teach short stories at Windsor Park Branch on Tuesdays, June 12, 19 and 26.
Lisa Farwell, the author of Haunted Texas Vacations: The Complete Ghostly Guide, will offer instruction in writing about ghosts and ghost hunting at Oak Springs Branch on Wednesdays, June 6, 13, and 27.
Kyung Kim, a new author with a book on parenting, will teach 11 to 14 year-olds about poetry at Southeast Austin Community Branch on Wednesdays, June 13, 20, and 27.
Shia Shabazz Barnett, poet, will offer a workshop at Carver Branch on Thursdays, June 21, 28, and July 5.
Graham Shelby, journalist and freelance writer, will teach the workshop at Old Quarry Branch on Thursdays, June 7, 14, 21, and 28.
Susie Kelly Flatau, author of Counter Culture Texas and From My Mother's Hands, will teach at Manchaca Road Branch on Fridays, June 15, 22, and 29.
Lila Guzman, young-adult fiction writer, will teach kids how to write scary stories at the Faulk Central Library on Saturdays, June 16, 23, and 30.
For additional information, call the Library at 974-7599 or visit the Austin Public Library Web site at http://www.ci.austin.tx.us/library/.
Writers' League of Texas
The Writers' League of Texas is a nonprofit all-inclusive professionally
staffed organization of writers, published and unpublished, full-time and
part-time, serving the entire state of Texas, with headquarters in Austin.
Membership is open to anyone with an interest in writing -- the hobbyist
and the professional. Over the League's 20-year history, the philosophy
has been that all writers share common hopes, goals, doubts and
hesitations. Providing opportunities for writers to network and share
ideas enables members to be better writers, whether they are published or not.
