Badgerdog Creative Writing Summer Camp – Austin Library
Badgerdog Summer Writing Camps offer creative writing workshops for rising 3rd–12th graders in Austin, TX.Average Reviews
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Every summer, Badgerdog hosts writing camps for students from 3rd to 12th grade. These fun yet challenging camps provide a space for young writers to immerse themselves in an imaginative writing experience and explore the arts of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, playwriting, and screenwriting. Camps are intimately-sized and led by Austin’s professional writers.
All our creative writing camps follow a simple teaching model: READ, WRITE, SHARE.
- We READ the work of published writers to discover the strategies, and tools that make writing vivid and compelling.
- We WRITE, practising the art of storytelling while using the skills we’ve learned.
- We SHARE, reading our own work aloud in the classroom, performing in public, or having work published.
All Badgerdog Creative Writing summer camps are capped at 15 students per workshop. Our traditional three-week and two-week camps include fun exercises in poetry, fiction, and other forms of creative writing.
We also offer two-week and one-week camps which cover a specific genre such as screenwriting and novel writing.
At the end of the summer, all camp students will have their work published in one of two professionally produced anthologies: ‘Rise’ for elementary-aged writers, and ‘Emerge’ for middle- and high-school writers.
In the fall, Badgerdog hosts a Young Authors Reading & Anthology Launch where selected campers perform their work and celebrate the launch of the anthologies.
Summer Camps are organized according to the grade the students will be entering in the fall.
8 – 18
Two Week Camps: $400
Three Week Camps: $550
2026 Registration dates to be announced.
