REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN FOR WRITESHARE’S 2025 SUMMER CAMP!
This camp is for indoorsy grown-ups only. No bunk beds, no mess hall, and definitely no hiking.
Pack up your pencil and spend the weekend with local authors, beginning writers, and publishing industry professionals.
We’ll take care of the programming, the trail mix, the camp t-shirt, and the [inflatable] campfire. All the good stuff—without the mosquitoes.
(P.S. Don’t know anyone else going? We know the feeling. Email us before camp and we’ll be sure to introduce you to lots of new friends.)
JULY 11, 5-7pm (social) + JULY 12, 9am-6pm (see schedule)
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Laura Leigh Morris
Laura Leigh Morris is the author of The Stone Catchers: A Novel (UP Kentucky, August 2024) and Jaws of Life: Stories (West Virginia UP, 2018). She lives in Greenville, South Carolina, where she teaches creative writing and literature at Furman University. Before that, she spent three years as the National Endowment for the Arts/Bureau of Prisons Artist-in-Residence at Bryan Federal Prison Camp in Bryan, Texas. She’s previously published short fiction in STORY Magazine, North American Review: Open Space, JMWW, Laurel Review, Redivider, and other journals and anthologies.
Originally from north central West Virginia, most of her fiction is set there. From the landscape to the rich variety of people to the long history of resource extraction, the region serves as a rich backdrop to both her life and her stories.
Read more about our speaker here.
