WRITING DRAGONS SLAYING STORIES:

Art & Creative Writing Through Games

GRADES 8TH - 10TH

July 14th - 18th 9am - 4pm

Tuition: $400/$325/$250
Tiered on a pay what you can scale.

A hands-on camp for future authors, artists, game designers, performers, teachers, leaders, and any young person with a big imagination and a love for stories. Campers will write creatively, inventing their own original characters and worlds. They’ll use art to make their new worlds come to life, and then learn how to tell stories collaboratively by running tabletop-style role playing games with their peers.

Sample Daily Schedule

8:45 - 9:00am Drop Off/Arrival at Snowy Owl
9:00 - 10:00am Creating Your Character
10:00 - 11:15am Backstories and Creativity
11:15 - 12:00pm Outdoor Activity
12:00 - 12:45pm Lunch
12:45 - 2:00pm Game Session
2:00 - 3:15pm World Creation & Writing Your Own
3:15 - 4:00pm Group Activity

  • Holly Thorpe

    CAMP DIRECTOR & INSTRUCTOR

    Holly Thorpe (she/her) is a writer, educator and community organizer based out of North Central Washington. She is English faculty at Wenatchee Valley College. She is currently earning her Ph.D. in Education at Seattle Pacific University. Learn more about Holly at hollyithorpe.com.

  • Josh Wood

    INSTRUCTOR

    Josh brings 40 years of experience in the field of Nerd. He graduated from the school of Dragonlance and Baldur’s Gate in the late 90s and continued his study with Tolkien snobbery for most of the early 2000s. He’s been daydreaming as a world-builder and DM-ing as often as possible since and is currently raising four more small nerds. In his spare time, he role plays as a level 15 human hospital administrator.

 FAQs

  • You pick a price point that works best for you and your budget.

  • Pick the tier price that works best for you and your budget. Picking the highest tier when possible ensures that we can continue offering high quality programming to all students and campers.

  • Camp directors will reach out prior to the start of camp with a list of items that should or should not be brought to camp.

  • Camp may differ with rules concerning cell phones and electronics but generally, our camps are screen free spaces. Camp directors will include more information concerning devices as camp dates approach.

  • There are lots of places to stay in Leavenworth. The Sleeping Lady Resort is right next door to Icicle Creek Center for the Arts or you can visit leavenworth.org to explore more options.

  • We are located at 7409 Icicle Road Leavenworth, WA 98826

  • If you cancel:

    By April 1, receive refund of all payments except $25 fee

    Between April 2 and 14 days before start of camp receive 50% refund of all payments except $25 fee

    Less than 14 days before start of camp, no refunds will be made