The Missoula Writing Collaborative
    
June 10, 2014

Dear Friends,

Here we are again.  Again, we're asking.  Why?  Because -- again --  it's true.
You could make a big difference in somebody's summer.

Words With Wings is in its ninth year.  We have grown from a morning summer camp for about 20 kids to an all-day camp for over 100 young writers, ages 8-14.    Kids have a chance to work one-on-one with accomplished, adult poets and novelists, and they engage with each other through writing and sharing their own, original work.   Field trips take them all over town and into the countryside.  They write about their homes and the wilderness all around.   They write about rivers and fish and memories and the people they love.  This writing is gathered into a first-rate anthology, and each week of camp concludes with a public reading.   

It is an exceptional experience.  Older kids who have attended the camp for eight years are now returning as high school mentors, and University of Montana camp interns are learning how to be great teachers of writing.

This year we want to award TEN scholarships to young writers who hope to attend but can't afford the fee.  Last year we were able to do that because of your generosity.   Can you help these kids again? 
 
Tuition for one week, mornings only, from 9 a.m. to noon, is $150.  Tuition for one week, all day, is $250.   Tuition for two weeks, five days, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., is $450.

  Our Words With Wings Scholarship fundraising goal is
$2500.
    
Camp begins July 14.  Please make a donation of any amount now on our website.
 
Just hit the DONATE  button in the top right corner of the home page.
We will send you a copy of the Words With Wings Anthology 2014 in thanks.

 You also can mail your check for summer camp scholarship support to:

Words With Wings 
P.O. Box 9237 
     Missoula, MT  59807 

Thank you.  (Again)

P.S.  We will be sure to send you an invitation to the camp readings,
 Friday, June 18 and Friday, June 25, on the UM campus. 
 

  

 

 


Words With Wings
Summer Writing Camp 2014
 July 14-25