Contact:
Directors
John Rybicki and
Julie Moulds
info@gulllakewriters.com
269-623-3099
Gull Lake Conference
for Young Writers
7546 S. Crooked Lake Dr.
Delton, MI 49046
USA
This intensive, five-day camp for young writers offers students a chance to devote themselves singularly to their writing. The conference includes: daily workshops; student, faculty and guest readings; access to the beach, tennis courts, bird sanctuary, and other amazing scenery at Michigan's Kellogg Biological Center.
Who Attends
Young writers 16 to 22 years old, interested in focusing on fiction and/or poetry. (Day Campers welcome)
A class for students in 4th through 8th grade. (Day campers only.)
Check-in
Sunday night for lodgers.
Checkout
Saturday morning for lodgers.
Where
W.K. Kellogg Biological Station Conference Center
3700 East Gull Lake Drive
Hickory Corners, MI 49060
(near Kalamazoo, Michigan.)
Directions
Pricing and How to Apply
Please ask pricing details and an application by contacting:
Directors, John Rybicki and Julie Moulds
Email: info@gulllakewriters.com
Phone: 269-623-3099
Write: Gull Lake Conference for Young Writers, 7546 S. Crooked Lake Drive, Delton, MI 49046.
Instructors
Our instructors have many years' experience teaching writing in elementary, middle, and high schools as well as undergraduate and graduate writing programs.
Our student writers meet and share their work with guest poets and fiction writers during their stay at Gull Lake
HIGH SCHOOL FACULTY
John Rybicki, M.F.A.-Poetry
John taught Creative Writing for six years at Interlochen Fine Arts Camp, and currently serves as a Writer-in-Residence in the InsideOut Program in inner-city Detroit. Time Magazine for Kids profiled him as an excellent teacher of writing. He has taught Creative Writing at Kalamazoo College, Hope College, and Western Michigan University. He is the author of three books of poems: Traveling at High Speeds, Yellow-Haired Girl with Spider, and Fire Psalm.
MIDDLE SCHOOL FACULTY
Julie Moulds, M.F.A.-Poetry
Julie Moulds instructed Writing for the Elementary Teacher at Western Michigan University, and has appeared as a guest lecturer at Hope College and Muskegon Community College. Her essays on teaching Creative Writing to children have been widely published, and she has taught Creative Writing in schools all over the state. Julie Moulds has also taught Creative Writing at the Boys and Girls Club, the YMCA, and at other Kalamazoo community centers. She has received grants from the Michigan Council for the Arts and Cultural Affairs, PEN/American, and the Kalamazoo Council for the Arts. Her poetry book, The Woman with a Cubed Head, was published in 1998 on New Issues Press.
