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Authors Lead Writing Intensive

Early Bird Pricing Ends Soon - Register TODAY

Authors Lead WritingIntensiveEarly Bird Pricing Ends Soon - Register TODAY
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Anne Greenwood Brown

Beloved author Anne Greenwood Brown has written The Cold Hard Truth About You and Me,

Girl Last Seen and the Lies Beneath trilogy. Anne is also a contributing writer to Author in Progress, a writing "craft" book soon to be released by Writer's Digest.

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Jacqueline West

In addition to the YA novel Dreamers Often Lie, Jacqueline West is the author of the award-winning, New York Times Best Selling, middle grade series The Books of Elsewhere. Her poetry has garnered several awards including a Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg prize and two Pushcart nominations.
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Jane Fredericksen

The Star Tribune selected Jane Fredericksen's young adult novel Redemption's Run as its summer serial novel. The tale, set on a sailboat on the shores of Bayfield, Wisconsin, was fifteen years in the making. Come be inspired by Jane's artistic journey!

Summer Intensive: Creative Writing Sampler

Week 1: July 31- August 4; Week 2: August 7 - 11: Both weeks from 9:00 am to 3:30 pm

Join experienced writing instructors and published young adult authors like Jacqueline West, Anne Greenwood Brown and Jane Fredericksen as they explore writing fiction, non-fiction, poetry and drama with students. Illustrations, graphic novels and comics will also be featured. Week I will consider fiction (novel and short-story including historical, sci-fi/fantasy and adventure) and non-fiction (biography, memoir, and topical). Week 2 will provide an overview of drama (plays, screenplays and audio scripts) and poetry (spoken word, rap/lyrics, classical forms). Students can take one week or both. For those interested in publication (although it is not a requirement), student work will be considered for submission in The Boom Site. If desired, students will also have the opportunity to read their work on Voices in the Valley, a radio show broadcast every Saturday morning on KLBB and podcast on iTunes, Stitcher and GooglePlay Music.


Intensive staff includes writing experts from local schools, professional editors and published young adult authors. Register by June 30th: $125 for one week, $220 for two weeks. After June: $150 for one week; $250 for two weeks. (Tuition includes snack, but not lunch.)


Programming will take place at St. Croix Preparatory Academy, 4620 Stagecoach Trail N, Stillwater, MN.

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Subscribe to The Boom Site!

The Boom Site is the St. Croix Valley's first youth led literary publication, and is published three times a year digitally and once a year as a printed anthology. We aim to offer a safe space for students to submit their prose, poetry and visual arts creative endeavors to be enjoyed by fellow peers and community members.
Subscribe to The Boom Site
We'll send you a digital copy three times per year :)
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St. Croix Valley Foundation

The HUSH Audio Drama Team experience received funding from the St. Croix Valley Foundation and the Wisconsin Arts Board with funds from the State of Wisconsin.
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Metropolitan Regional Arts Council

Project Boom Site is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.

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Kowalski's Markets

Thanks to Kowalski's Markets for their support of the live performance of the #HUSHpodcast's finale at the Phipps Center for the Arts on July 27.
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The Shire: A cultural project of StoryArk

As the umbrella organization for The Shire, Voices in the Valley and #HUSHpodcast, StoryArk nurtures storytelling in all of its diversity across the generations and through multiple media. By sharing our stories, we impact our selves, our community, our culture, our country and even our world.


StoryArk is a 501c(3) tax exempt organization that seeks to serve the greater good.

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