The Penticton Writers and Publishers, organizers of the annual British Columbia Youth Writers Camp held at Okanagan College, Penticton campus, are accepting registrations and anthology submissions from young area writers, readers and illustrators ages eight to 18.
The 2016 camp will run from July 3 to 8.
Presenters at the camp are set to include Adam Lewis Schroeder, who lives in Penticton with his eight and 10-year-old boys, and teaches novel writing at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan campus. He is author of the historical-fiction novels Empress of Asia (2006), finalist for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, as well as the Amazon.ca Books in Canada First Novel Award, and In the Fabled East (2010), a finalist for the Commonwealth Regional Writers Prize. His literary zombie novel All-Day Breakfast was selected by Amazon.ca editors as one of the 25 Best Books of 2015. Adam is a former tree planter, youth hostel desk staff and CBC Radio One columnist.
The camp is also going to feature a workshop entitled Plot Plus What Else? For younger levels this will consist of fun exercises in describing people and places, while older levels will receive more emphasis on how details define character which in turn defines plot, with further exploration of narration defining characters, and even how we can make characteristics deliberately misleading.
For information, registration forms and submission guidelines visit the website at www.penwriters.com.