SLWG Summer Writers Camp
4th - 8th Grade Camp | June 16 - June 20, 2025
9th - 12th Grade Camp | June 23 - June 27, 2025
Registration Information for SLWG SWC 2025
Registration open
Week 1 - Monday, June 16th - Friday, June 20th - 12pm to 2pm CT
For young writers in 4th-8th grades
Week 2 - Monday, June 23rd - Friday, June 27th - 12pm to 2pm CT
For young writers in 9th-12th grades
Price: $20 per camper for the single week.
Attendees get one-year Associate Members with St. Louis Writers Guild
All the workshops and events are online using Zoom.
A link will be sent to everyone who has registered for the SLWG Summer Writers Camp
Registrations open
Camp Schedule for Both Weeks
Monday: Writing Workshop, 12 - 2pm CT - Online using Zoom
Tuesday: A Writing Day! - no workshop - work on a story you’ve been working on or start a new one with the Young Writers Awards Prompt. (announced at camp)
Wednesday: Writing Workshop, 12 - 2pm CT - Online using Zoom
Wednesday Night, 7 - 8pm - SLWG Young Writers Open Mic
Thursday: An Editing Day! - no workshop - use the time to improve your story… or write another.
Friday: Meet the Authors, 12 - 2pm CT - Ask questions and hear from a panel of Authors. Plus, read your story if you want. Online using Zoom.
Special guests will join throughout the week
Special Guests
Announced Soon
Workshops at SLWG Summer Writers Camp
Titles will be announced soon!
Special Guest Speakers
Speakers to be announced soon
Summer Camp Director - Cherie Postill, author and VP of SLWG Contests
Summer Camp Operations - Brad R. Cook, author and SLWG Historian
See what SLWG did in the past
2024
Special Guests
Zach Chopchinski
Autumn Green
Shannon A. Thompson
Laura Stewart Schmidt
2023
Camp Schedule for Both Weeks
Monday: Writing Workshop, 12 - 2pm CT - Online using Zoom
Tuesday: Writing Day - no workshop - A Writing Day!
Wednesday: Writing Workshop, 12 - 2pm CT - Online using Zoom
Wednesday Night, 7 - 8pm - SLWG Young Writers Open Mic
Thursday: Editing Day - no workshop - use the time to improve your story… or write another.
Friday: Meet the Authors, 12 - 2pm CT - Ask questions and hear from a panel of Authors. Plus, read your story if you want. Online using Zoom.
Special guests will join throughout the week
Week 1
Monday - Esme Symes-Smith
Wednesday - Elizabeth C. Bunce
Week 2
Monday - B.B. Swann
Wednesday - Shana Youngdahl
2022
Camp Schedule for Both Weeks
Monday: Writing Workshop, 12 - 2pm - Online using Zoom
Tuesday: Writing Day - no workshop - A Writing Day!
Wednesday: Writing Workshop, 12 - 2pm - Online using Zoom
Wednesday Night, 7 - 8pm - SLWG Young Writers Open Mic
Thursday: Editing Day - no workshop - use the time to improve your story… or write another.
Friday: Meet the Authors, 12 - 2pm - Ask questions and hear from a panel of Authors. Plus, read your story if you want. Online using Zoom.
Special guests will join throughout the week
Gail Carson Levine will appear on June 20th of Week 1
Catherine Bakewell will appear on June 22nd of Week 1
AG Howard will appear on June 27th of Week 2
Michelle I. Mason will appear on June 29th of Week 2
2021
Summer Writers Camp 2021
Schedule for Summer Writers Camp
Week 1 | 4th-5th Grade
Monday, June 14 - Writing Craft Workshop
Tuesday - Writing Day
Wednesday, June 16 - Q & A with New York Times Bestselling Author, Ridley Pearson
Thursday - Writing Day
Friday - Workshop and Readings
Week 2 | 9th-12 Grades
Monday, June 21 - Q & A with author, Meredith Tate plus a Writing Workshop
Tuesday - Writing Day
Wednesday, June 23 - Writing Craft Workshop
Thursday - Writing Day
Friday, June 25 - Meet the Authors:
Alechia-Dow-Hirt, Michelle Mason, and Jody Feldman
2020
Gateway Con Summer Writers Camp 2020
Registration Fee: $20
One-year SLWG Associate Membership is included with registration.
Registration is handled by Eventrbite please click the button and it will take you to the event page.
Returns are possible until 7 days before the event.
Registration is open until Monday, July 13, at 9am CST
Authors Appearing
Jody Feldman – Her middle-grade novels, The Seventh Level and The Gollywhopper Games series (all from Greenwillow/HarperCollins), have won a number of honors and have appeared on 26 state reading lists. Twitter & Instagram @jodyfeldman |jodyfeldman.com
Cole Gibsen – Because of the reprieve library books gave her as a homeless teenager, Cole vowed to become a writer so she could provide the same escape to readers who needed a break the reality of their own lives. Her titles include Risen, Seared on My Soul, Life Unaware and Written on My Heart. Twitter at www.twitter.com/colegibsen | Facebook at www.facebook.com/colegibsen
LaShaunda Hoffman – She turned her love for books into an award-winning online magazine for readers and writers of multi-cultural literature, Shades Of Romance – SORMAG. Her mission in life is to help promote writers by introducing them to readers. LaShaunda is currently working on a Christian romance and is on the hunt for a literary agent.
Meredith Tate – A New Hampshire girl at heart and a former Zurich expat, Meredith now lives in Houston and spends her days traveling the world and writing stories about characters much braver than she is. Her books include The Last Confession of Autumn Casterly, The Red Labyrinth, Freedom Trials, Missing Pieces, and a currently untitled romcom coming from Penguin Teen in summer 2021. https://meredithtate.com
Jamie Krakover –After her day job as an Aerospace Engineer, Jamie writes middle grade and young adult science fiction and fantasy. Her debut novel is Tracker220 (October 2020). Jamie’s work appears in the Brave New Girls anthologies and in Writer’s Digest’s Putting the Science in Fiction. https://twitter.com/Rockets2Writing | https://www.instagram.com/jamiekrakover/
C.L. Postill – Her debut novel, CORY SUMMERS-A New Beginning, was born out of a story she has been creating and telling her boys and their friends before bedtime, around campfires, and at sleep-over parties for over 25 years. www.clpostill.com | @postillc on Twitter.
Phyllis Wheeler set a goal at age 13 to write a children’s book, a journey with lots of detours that has taken many years. She’s written for daily newspapers and spent five years publishing and editing other people's books. You can sign up for her occasional newsletter at PhyllisWheeler.com
Gateway Con
Summer Writers Camp
July 13-17, 2020
Monday 9-11am, Wednesday 9-11am, Friday 9-11am
The Gateway to Publishing Conference & Convention is back for a special event. The Gateway Con Summer Writers Camp is a week-long online camp for young writers in 4th-12th grade. Space is limited, please register in advance.
Registration Fee: $20
Registration comes with one-year SLWG Associate Membership
The links for the event will be emailed to each attendee before the event.
JUST ANNOUNCED! Author who will be speaking
Meredith Tate, The Last Confession of Autumn Casterly
Jamie Krakover, Tracker220
This summer, join St. Louis Writers Guild for three workshops and two writing days, where young writers can learn to improve their writing skills, and learn about the publishing industry and writing career options. St. Louis Writers Guild has aided writers for a century, and the Gateway Con Summer Writers Camp is a way of continuing that tradition. Speakers and Workshop Titles to be announced soon.
Monday, July 13 - Story Structure with Cherie Postill 9-11am
Guest: author, Jody Feldman
An online workshop to improve a young writer’s storytelling.
Tuesday, July 14 - Writing Day, time to work on a story (No online workshop)
Write a 200 to 500 word story, doesn’t have to be perfect, but you can’t edit a blank page
Wednesday, July 15 - Editing& Revising Workshop with Cherie Postill 9-11am
Guest: Writers and Magazine Publisher LaShaunda Hoffman and editor Phyllis Wheeler
An online workshop to improve a writer’s skills.
Thursday, July 16 - Writing Day, time to work on a story (No online workshop)
Edit or rewrite the story we’ve been working on.
Friday, July 17 - Author Panel 9-11am
Authors, Meredith Tate, Jamie Krakover, and Cole Gibsen
An online workshop to meet a few authors and find out how they write. Maybe even read your story. More authors will be announced soon.
Space is limited, please register in advance.
The fee is $20 and comes with a one-year SLWG Associate Membership.