Friday, April 22, 2011

T is for TEEN AUTHOR BOOT CAMP

After all the WORK ... it's finally here. Saturday, April 23rd. The day that my writing group (Writers Cubed) and I are putting on a writing conference for teens at the local university.
We have around 125 teens registered! And an amazing line up of authors coming to mingle with and teach the kids how to be awesome writers!

KierstenWhite, author of best seller PARANORMALCY is our keynote speaker-- and other great break-out sessions taught by:
Elana Johnson, Kristen ChandlerFrank Cole , Matthew Kirby,
 Sydney Salter  ,J. Scott Savage  and Emily Wing Smith 

We will be teaching a class and running games as a group too-- it should be great! I'm going to have so much fun with the kids-- (seeing myself in them years ago) and hanging out with our wonderful authors.
Stay tuned for pictures and a fun report.
It's going to be a long day tomorrow-- I better get some sleep! (=

4 comments:

Wendy@FabNouveau said...

This is an awesome initiative Jo, well done and good luck. I'm sure its going splendidly as I type.

TS Hendrik said...

That is really neat. Must be a real encouragement to them.

Alex J. Cavanaugh said...

That's cool! I saw another author post about one for kids as well.

TerryLynnJohnson said...

Way to go! This sounds wonderful! And so great you got Kiersten for your keynote speaker! Wow! Hope you give an update of this event!