Weekend Workshops
Heroes and Villains: Creating a World of Fantasy and Adventure
For Students in Grades 6 – 8
Saturday, December 5th: 9AM – 4PM
Sunday, December 6th: 10AM – 4PM
Cost: $175
Meals and Materials Provided
Do you love action and adventure, quests and conflicts, epic journeys and epic battles? Bring your own heroes and villains with you, and we will help you turn your stories into a saga. Creativity and a love for fantasy are required resources for this expedition into the world of your imagination.
Heroes and Villains: Creating a World of Fantasy and Adventure is a weekend-long creative writing workshop for students currently in grades 6-8 during the 2009-2010 academic year. Led by instructors from Duke Young Writers' Camp, Dan Wales and Don Campbell, participants in this workshop will learn how to unleash their creative juices to bring life to their super heroes and their adversaries! Open to anyone ready to write themselves into a journey.
The workshop will be held in the East Campus Union Building , also known as the “Marketplace” in the Upper East Classroom. The drop off and pick up location for students will be at the Bishops House on East Campus. For directions to the Bishops House parking area, please click here. There will be a staff member present to escort students to and from the Bishops House to the East Campus Union Building. If you have questions or need directions please contact us at (919)-684-2827.
Instructional Staff
Dan Wales (B.A., Georgetown University) I graduated on the Dean's List from Georgetown University and have been teaching writing and coaching baseball for over seven years. I have worked with students at every level (college, high school, junior high, etc.). Beyond Literature, my interests include sustainable living, traveling, any nature/outdoor activities (organic farming, hiking, biking, kayaking, fishing, camping, exploring, etc.), most sports/games (baseball, football, skiing, chess, pool, etc.), and working with animals (horses, dogs, livestock, etc.). My four favorite books are THE CATCHER IN THE RYE, by J.D. Salinger, THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING, by Milan Kundera, SHANTARAM, by Gregory David Roberts, and PARADISE LOST, by John Milton. My four favorite poets are e.e. cummings, William Shakespeare, Edgar Allen Poe, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
Don Campbell (B.A., UNC-Chapel Hill; MAT, UNC-Chapel Hill) A haiku about my approach to reading and writing: We all have fav's but If you are reading them right All books change your life. I believe that the poetic, the inspirational, and the beautiful are all around us and within us, and that writing is either the capture or release of that beauty. I have my Masters in Teaching and a Bachelor's degree in Journalism and English from Carolina and am currently teaching English at Person High School in Roxboro. Sports have always been my first love; and as much as I love reading and writing, nine times out of ten I would choose to be outside playing some game instead. I am energetic and fun-loving and don't pretend to be anything other than that when teaching a class.