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April 5, 2019
The Scientific Principle of Lint Brush
Today’s poem:
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Pet owners, you know it’s true!
April 2, 2019
Space
Today’s poem is several years old, written about my husband waaaaaay before he was my husband.
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What I enjoyed most about this poem was putting a fresh illustration with it. It really brought it to life. The background is a blend of a space image from Canva and a photograph of Leah Leor performing on aerial straps (credit to Matthew Ragan from Keene, USA [CC BY-SA 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)%5D). I had already played around with the concept of visual space through indentation, but this gave me the opportunity to play with the placement of individual stanzas around the image. So far this is one of my favorite marriages of art and my poetry.
March 29, 2019
Why I’m a Morning Person
Today’s poem:
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Being a morning person is like being a Hufflepuff. No one want to raise their hand and claim to be one. Yup, I know morning people make you night-owls out there want to vomit, but I am unabashedly one.
For one thing, I have trouble sleeping in the morning. But I really got in the habit of rising early so I could do whatever I wanted without competition. No big brother to fight with over what Saturday morning cartoon we would watch. No roommate to peek curiously at my awkward morning exercise routine. I love the idea that I get a piece of day no one else is using, and I can shape it however I want. Maybe that’s why my best writing is often done in the mornings. What about you?
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March 28, 2019
Speed Bump
Today’s poem was inspired by the theme “writer’s block.”
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What does it feel like when you get writer’s block? How do you overcome it?
March 26, 2019
Cat Haiku
Today’s poem:
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March 25, 2019
Naked Greens
I’ve been on a poetry kick lately. My goal for 2019 is to enter 100 poems for publication or to contests. So far I have submitted 59. In delving into my poetry trove, I am finding some oldies I’d thought I’d share. Here’s one.
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Image courtesy of khumthong at freedigitalphotos.net.
What’s your dieting poem?
September 12, 2018
Author Interview: W.B. Cornwell and A.N. Williams
One of the joys of getting back into writing circles in the past four years has been getting to know so many other talented writers. In 2015, right after Waking Beauty was published, I ran an interview with W.B. Cornwell and A.N. Williams, who were also releasing their first book. Although Ben and Millie are still in their twenties, they have racked up the publication credits in the past three years. Already their publications include A Chill in the Air and The Shadows are Alive (under pen name Storm Sandlin), and A Day at Aunt Carrie’s. They compiled and edited Heart of Hoosierland: A Collection of Elwood Poetry. They were also contributors to Poets of Madison County and Paw Prints in Verse.
Their newest release, Awaiting Dawn: The Story of Avalene, came out earlier this summer. I sat down with the pair at Logan Street Sanctuary in Noblesville to ask them about their latest endeavor. Ben is an outgoing and consistently upbeat young man. He’s full of energy and grateful to swap ideas with other writers. Millie is quieter at first, but focused, observant, and unafraid to interject insightful comments. Together the pair are ambitious, optimistic, and incredibly productive. Seeing the pair interact smoothly at the interview gave me an inkling of how they function as cowriters. At times they were so in sync they finished each other’s sentences.
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Sarah E.: I love talking to local authors. What is your connection to Central Indiana?
Ben: Our great-great-great-grandmother was born here a month before Indiana became a state in December 1816. Our family were pioneers of the state, county, and Elwood, the city where we now reside.
Sarah E.: So you two share not only a literary relationship, but another type of relationship.
Millie: Yes, we’re first cousins and best friends.
Sarah E.: And that’s after surviving several books, a real test of friendship! What kind of literary works do you write?
Millie: All kinds. Under the pen name Storm Sandlin we write horror. Awaiting Dawn: The Story of Avalene is our first YA novel. We also write historical fiction and fantasy, poetry and prose.
Ben: We have separate projects as well. But yeah, we’re pretty eclectic. Imagine two collections of Edgar-Allen-Poe-inspired stories beside our children’s book.
Sarah E.: Tell me about the plot of Awaiting Dawn.
Ben: The story is set in a medieval time frame. A young princess’s family is murdered and she’s taken captive by the new king. He takes up residency in her home and gives her to his son. The whole book is about her trying to survive at her former house. It’s her palace, but it’s no longer her family. She’s no longer safe there. She’s in an abusive marriage and has a horrible father-in-law. It’s very much a story of survival.
Sarah E.: It’s like a crossover piece, fantasy and thriller.
Ben: It’s hard for people to understand how someone could be a princess and a slave at the same time.
Sarah E.: So politics are what bind her?
Ben: Yeah, if she left it would mean her life.
Sarah E.: That’s intriguing. Millie, who is your favorite character?
Millie: Starla. She is a servant in the place and becomes the only friend and companion that Avalene has. She’s a light in her life.
Sarah E.: Was her development your idea?
Millie: We created Starla together, but—
Ben: She was yours.
Millie: (Laughs.) She was my character. We planned out all the relationships between characters and plot points. And then we each took ones that were important to us and wrote the scenes.
Ben: We divide it as homework basically. You have five chapters this week. You have Avalene and her best friend. I have her and the love interest. And then we write and compare and edit together.
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Sarah E.: Do you think an outside reader is able to tell who wrote what?
Ben: I don’t think so because sometimes it’s hard for us.
Millie: Yeah. I don’t remember which part we wrote.
Ben: It’s pretty fluid.
Sarah E.: That’s remarkable. But then your imaginative brains have been functioning side by side for a while.
Millie: Since we were little, we created games to play together and worlds and stories.
Ben: One thing that is bizarre is for first cousins—you really only hear about it with twins—we share nightmares.
Sarah E.: WOAH! That’s kind of cool. Not that I really wish nightmares on you.
Ben: Well, that’s the Storm Sandlin stuff.
Sarah E.: Right right. I can see the influence of the Storm Sandlin genre on this fantasy novel now that you’ve described it. It’s not as far away from your original genre as I thought.
Ben: Yeah, it’s not slasher. There’s nothing supernatural. But there is mental abuse, like you might see in a realistic horror story. It’s scary in a different way. Avalene is battered.
Sarah E.: Why do you choose to write those two genres?
Ben: (Laughs.) I guess we’re sick people!
Sarah E.: I don’t believe that.
Mille: I would say with Awaiting Dawn it’s a lot easier to answer that question. It’s because of the continued hope in the darkness, trying to fight back to the light.
Sarah E.: See, that was a good answer! When you are a reader, what genre are you pulled most to?
Ben: Historical fiction. My favorite author is Gene Stratton Porter. The first book I ever read of hers was A Girl of the Limberlost, published in 1909. That’s the birth year of three of my great-grandparents.
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Sarah E.: That was my grandmother’s favorite author. She had collections of moths and butterflies pinned in boxes. And Millie, what about you?
Millie: I am typically drawn to very whimsical fantasy, anything that has that magical element. It started with Narnia.
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Sarah E.: Fascinating that you, Ben, write historical fiction, and you, Millie, like whimsical fantasy, but that’s not what you write.
Ben: Well, I am a genealogist. I love anything that puts you into that time frame.
Sarah E.: It is true that the study of history ties in well to the world-building you do in fantasy. You have to invent a kingdom and which rules you’re following and which rules you’re changing. That’s sort of like being a historian. I say that because I’m a Conner Prairie girl.
Ben: Right. I think that’s cool you that.
Sarah E.: It’s pretty fun! So when I interviewed you two in 2015, you mentioned your inspiration was Alfred Hitchcock, Tim Burton, classical music, and nursery rhymes. Has that changed?
Ben: Actually L.M. Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables influenced Avalene.
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Sarah E.: What’s the connection?
Ben: Anne’s not abused, but she’s alone in the world until the Cuthberts take her in. Her time with the family before is not good. It’s a story of survival. It’s incredible to see how Lucy Montgomery develops her characters. It helped me become a better writer. It’s really funny to think the process of how Anne of Green Gables came to be is similar to how Avalene came to be, which I didn’t find out til after it was published.
Sarah E.: Tell me more about that.
Ben: Anne of Green Gables started as a short story. Lucy was going to send it in to get published in a magazine and something told her, no, save it. Years later she took it out and turned it into a huge series. Well, Avalene started off as a three-part short story. When we first wrote it, it was vastly different.
Millie: That was five years ago.
Ben: We posted it on Facebook.
Millie: And on our blog.
Ben: I was reading it and said, “Millie, we need to bring new life to this.” So we removed it from cyberspace and edited what was maybe 4000-5000 words into a novel. It took—how many months?
Millie: We started last November.
Sarah E.: It just came out on Amazon June 5th. That’s fast!
Ben: We had a really great editor who is also an Indiana author named Samantha Boothroyd.
Sarah E.: I hear she’s nice!
(Note: At this point we all glanced at Samantha Boothroyd, who just so happened to be in the room and just so happens to be Ben’s girlfriend.)
Ben: She is! I’m fond of her.
Samantha: I can hear you, and for the record when I read it I didn’t know who wrote what.
Sarah E.: That’s amazing you were that smooth in your transitions.
Ben: A lot of people ask us, “How do you work with someone?” I couldn’t do it with everybody. Millie and I can even cowrite a poem, where every single word matters, and be happy with it. That’s a really rare thing.
Sarah E.: You two are a really fascinating case study. Speaking about Anne of Green Gables, you have seen Anne with an E?
Ben: I have not.
Sarah E.: You might be interested because it deals much more with her past and that she was essentially a neglected child. It’s a much more psychological treatment than she’s traditionally given.
Ben: I feel like I would betraying Megan Follows, who did the original version. But I do want to see it.
Sarah E.: Here’s a quote from you two a few years ago: “With a writing partner, there’s no such thing as writer’s block.” Do you still find that to be true?
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Mille: Yes.
Sarah E.: Do you ever have an artistic disagreement?
Millie: (Laughs.) That’s also a yes.
Ben: At first, if we didn’t like something—
Millie: —we’d just get really quiet. We wouldn’t provide feedback for each other. We were afraid of offending each other. But we sat down one day and had a conversation: if we’re not both completely happy with this, we shouldn’t publish it. And if there’s a different way you see this scene happen or saw this character, explain it. That’s how you know who your characters really need to be.
Ben: A lot of people will at some point work with a cowriter. It’s important when you’re doing that to have a shared mapped-out outline. You know what’s going to happen. If you write 12 chapters, and I’m writing 12 chapters that take place after that, and I discover you killed off a major character…you can’t do that.
Millie: You have to be communicating constantly to write together.
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Ben: We get together twice a week for 2-3 hours for writing sessions. At the end of the session we have homework. You work on this scene, I work on that scene, then we get together and edit.
Sarah E.: How did you learn your craft?
Ben: I didn’t start taking writing seriously until high school. Then it was private. I threw a lot of it away. I didn’t see a point in keeping it. Big mistake. Then when we started working together. I had a story I couldn’t finish, she had a story she couldn’t finish. I said, “You know what would be cool? If your character and my character were friends.” That’s what started our first collaboration. I do believe writing groups are important. We both belong to The Write Idea. I belong to the Last Stanza Poetry Association. Jenny Kalahar, who I know you know, is my literary godmother.
Sarah E.: That’s a good description of Jenny!
Ben: She’s been more of a blessing than she will ever know. I recently sent her something to proof and she wrote back, “You’re getting better and better.” The joy that came from an adopted mentor telling you that is hard to explain.
Sarah E.: So Millie, how did you learn your craft?
Millie: I don’t remember a time I didn’t write. In elementary school I would start a story and get stuck, and throw it away, and start another story. I did that through middle school. I took two writing classes in high school. One was on poetry, and it almost made me not write poetry.
Sarah E.: Oh no!
Millie: I started to think it was all rules and meter. But then I rediscovered poetry and enjoy having more freedom. I also took a creative writing course and that helped me develop my thoughts into complete stories.
Sarah E.: Upcoming projects?
Ben: We are sending out a submission call soon for an anthology called Under the Cherry Tree: Thirty Great Poets Under Thirty. It’s a nationwide search for poets between the ages of 18 and 29. It’s kind of a hard age. There’s a lot of things for kids, and that’s great, and then you’re twenty and can’t do those anymore. But in your 20s, older poets don’t take you seriously sometimes. To the teenagers we’re old, it the older poets we’re children, and so we’re trying to give a publication for that awkward age group in the literary world. We’ll feature the 30 best poets we can collect.
Millie: We’d like to publish this in April 2019 for National Poetry Month.
Ben: After that we’ll do an anthology for Indiana poets. We’d like to constantly produce works that don’t feature just us. It’s an odd concept to not be working on 3-5 publications.
Sarah E.: Anything else we should know?
Ben: Elwood’s Poetry Month is coming up in October. In 2016 Mayor Todd Jones signed a proclamation we presented him. Elwood has a Poetry month now in remembrance of a poetry day Elwood use to have in 1976, which was started by my grandmother.
Sarah E.: What can folks look forward to this year?
Ben: We are still raising money from Heart of Hoosierland. Every dime raised til November 1 all the money goes to the city—to the library and the food pantry.
Sarah E.: Thank you, this was a fun time. You all fascinate me. Last thing, how can folks get copies of your books?
Ben: All our books are on Amazon. We publish through Create.Space. We also encourage folks to visit our Facebook page or read our pieces on http://goodkin.org/.
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June 22, 2018
Rapunzel the Hairbrained Book Giveaway
I’ve had a wonderful last 12 months as a recipient of an Indiana Arts Commission Grant. I’ve worked with a talented illustrator (Taylor Lucas), published my second book (Rapunzel the Hairbrained), learned about the world of self-publishing, held 10 fairy tea parties, and hosted 5 workshops building self-esteem in girls. To celebrate the end of my grant period, I’m giving away 10 free signed copies of my new children’s picture book, Rapunzel the Hairbrained. You also get a Rapunzel the Hairbrained bookmark and comb.
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About the Book
Rapunzel thinks about her hair—and only her hair. If she ever escapes her tower, will she be prepared for the real world? Is there a place in the kingdom for a girl so hairbrained? The first section of the book puts a new spin on the classic tale through bouncy rhymes and lively illustrations. The second section is designed for young readers to enjoy independently or with adult mentorship. Discuss what traits girls should really value in themselves in a world where so much emphasis is based on appearance. End by writing a fairy tale starring you and your unique talents!
All you need to do to enter to win is write a comment below answering this question:
In one sentence, what makes someone beautiful?
Enter by June 29. I’ll contact the winners to collect mailing addresses. You are welcome to post one comment each day to increase your chances of winning.
Share and enter!
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May 31, 2018
The Book You Read at 12 Can’t Be Your Favorite Anymore
So my husband shared a video with me of a stand-up comedian Aaron Woodall comparing Harry Potter to Star Wars. It’s pretty funny, and definitely worth a watch.
But the part of the act that caught my attention was this line:
“A book you read when you were 12 can’t be your favorite book today.”
Woodall introduces his Star Wars/Harry Potter analysis by insisting that it’s strange adults his age (30s) still like Harry Potter. To be fair, his exact quote is “are obsessed with,” and I respect there are levels to obsession. Personally, if someone my age buys themselves a wand or knits a Gryffindor scarf, I think it’s fun and harmless. I’d only have an issue or they were blowing all their rent money on HP merchandise or punching people in the nose over the Ron/Hermione vs Harry/Hermione shipping debate. I am not obsessed with Harry Potter, but I am 38 years old, and I do enjoy it greatly. I am on book 7 in perhaps my 3rd complete reading of the series.
But there is a book I first read when I was 12 that could be considered an obsession: The Perilous Gard by Elizabeth Marie Pope. I have reread the penultimate chapter every Halloween since the 7th grade (the climax of the book takes place on Halloween). It was the basis of my college thesis project. I’ve written a musical soundtrack to parts of it.
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Does this make me immature? Have I not grown up yet? According to Aaron Woodall, perhaps that’s the case.
“There’s 30-year-olds everywhere who are like, ‘Oooooh I’m a Ravenclaw.’ No, you’re an adult, Sarah.”
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I suspect Woodall picked the name Sarah at random, but I do feel like it makes the comment a personal challenge. I do recognize this is a comedy routine, with points that have been exaggerated for humor. But I publicly reject Woodall’s thesis that “A book you read when you were 12 can’t be your favorite book today. It can’t.”
It can. Sometimes it should.
But first, let’s give credit to Woodall for some valid arguments.
“Like if you ask me what my favorite book was and I told you The Hatchet, you’d think I was an idiot, and you’d be right. This dude hasn’t read a book since the 5th grade. No, I haven’t. I have not.”
Let us lay aside the merits of Gary Paulsen’s novel, which I have not read, and admit Woodall does have this point. If we have not read a book since the 5th grade, that’s an issue. When people ask us what our favorite novel is, we shouldn’t default to our childhood books simply because we haven’t read anything since. Adulthood and the simple passage of time (there are books out there that weren’t even written when we were children) open up a broad new world of literature to us. Certainly at age 12 I would not have enjoyed Dostoyevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov, but now I can, and this 800 page tome certainly stretches me as a reader.
But Woodall misses one key point in his argument.
He assumes books must be exclusively for one age group.
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And sure, some are. But I did not grow up with Harry Potter. I was a legal adult before I read my first one. As was my mother. And we both enjoyed HP as adults without any childhood sentimentality.
In discussing HP with the many youth volunteers I’ve worked with over the years, I recognize that I may get something out of the novels they don’t, or vice versa. Take, for example, the Yule Ball chapters in Goblet of Fire. Ron and Harry must find dates to the dance. Harry thinks he would rather face battle with another dragon. When I speak to young readers, they relate more to Harry’s angst. Finding a date to the dance, risking going alone or going with the wrong person, being mocked for wearing something unfashionable, seeing your crush with someone else, having to dance while others watch you, all these are immediate and potentially traumatic to the young. But to adult survivors of puberty, these chapters are hilarious. We’ve been there, we relate, but we have the perspective of distance now to recognize the humor.
The difference in interpretation is highlighted in the movie, where the angst is highlighted over the humor. Emma Watson as Hermione ends the scene in tears over Ron, while in the novel the same line is more of a sassy, even triumphant retort. This is perhaps because the movies target young adult viewers more explicitly than the novels ever did. The pain of the moment, not the humor, is forefront in the movie.
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I believe Rowling wrote HP for multiple ages to appreciate. Look at the amount of time Rowling spends on adult characters: Lupin, Snape, and others in the adult generation are at times given more development than some of the young characters who are Harry’s own classmates.
And I would argue that many young adult novels these days are written knowing that adults may pick them up. According to The Atlantic, approximately 55 percent of today’s YA readers are adults. I read Marissa Meyer’s Lunar Chronicles in my 30’s, and I know I’m not the only adult out there that loved the series. Sometimes, a good book is simply a good book.
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As I said, I never read HP as a kid, but I do reread some of my childhood favorites still. Rereading a childhood favorite can be comforting as wrapping up in a blanket with a bowl of cheesy mac. Sometimes the magic of the book is muted by time. I notice the plot points are not as original as I first thought. Or the struggles of the characters are not as raw and fresh to me as an adult. But other books remain relevant, because they have grown with me. In fact, I have insights as an adult I lacked when I was a younger reader.
Take, for example, The Perilous Gard. When I was 12, I focused more on the adventure, on the main character Kate’s awkwardness and bravery. As an adult, I notice Elizabeth Marie Pope’s depth of research. The details of the Elizabethan Era blend with layers of period ballads. I notice the symbolism, the push and pull of conflicting religious and cultural beliefs. In The Perilous Gard, The Fairy Folk are dangerous and mysterious, but they are not evil. They are a complex culture coming to terms with the passage of time and the fading of their own traditions. I also better appreciate as an adult Pope’s interpretation of The Ballad of Tam Lin. In the original ballad, the hero literally changes into different shapes and our heroine must literally hold on to him. In Pope’s retelling, it’s a psychological journey. As an adult reader, I can see it as a loose metaphor for depression, or as commentary on the nature of loving another complex person who takes on many “shapes” over time.
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My husband just walked in and added to this argument that he read Alcott’s Little Women at age 12 and it’s still one of his favorite novels. One of his long-term dreams is to stage Little Women as a play. His search for the right music to underscore the scenes also speaks to his adult understanding of the characters’ emotions and the themes of the novel.
So, Aaron Woodall, I appreciate your humor and your point that we should not pick a favorite book at age 12 and quit reading. But I challenge you take a deeper look at some of your own childhood favorites. Some may reveal to you insights you never saw as a child.
Which of your own childhood favorites do you appreciate even more as an adult?
May 21, 2018
Press Release for Page & Stage Summer Camp
Read the press release for Page & Stage Summer Camp, coming next month to Logan Street Sanctuary! My husband Spike Morin-Wilson and I are leading this fun event to improve literacy skills through drama. Our theme this year is fairy tales. We’ll be performing several of my own fairy tale poems, including Rapunzel the Hairbrained.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Sarah E. Morin or Dr. Paul “Spike” Wilson
Phone: (765) 860-7557
Email: paulspikewilson@gmail.com
PAGE & STAGE THEATRE CO. TO LAUNCH DRAMA-FOR-LITERACY SUMMER CAMP
Camp Builds Reading Skills and Confidence through Acting
NOBLESVILLE, IN, May 21, 2018. Page & Stage Theatre Co. is offering a five-week summer drama-for-literacy camp for kids ages 4-18. The camp, hosted by Logan Street Sanctuary, runs June 25-July 28 and is directed by Paul “Spike” Wilson, a public school teacher who also holds a PhD in Theatre. While the camp builds acting skills, its main focus is building reading skills and confidence.
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Dr. Wilson has been directing summer drama for nearly two decades. For nineteen years he ran the Kokomo Summer Drama Camp, one of the biggest children’s summer drama camps in the Midwest. When he married and moved to Hamilton County last year, the camp moved with him. His wife was already involved in Logan Street Sanctuary and suggested the partnership. Now the rebranded Page & Stage Summer Camp is a Logan Street Sanctuary Signature Event.
“This is the first literary arts event at Logan Street Sanctuary that will reach out solely to children,” said Sarah E. Morin, Dr. Wilson’s wife and Logan Street Sanctuary board member. “Page & Stage was natural fit for our mission of promoting the arts in Hamilton County.”
The camp uses theatre games and original techniques to teach reading and writing, as well as poetry in performance, written by local authors and the kids themselves. This year’s theme is Twisted Fairy Tales. Each camper shows off their new skills at a final performance at the end of July. “We don’t have starring roles because each child needs to have their own moment to shine,” said Dr. Wilson. “With the younger kids especially, we count lines so stage time is as equal as possible. Each child also gets a solo performance piece.”
Campers participate in active, hands-on activities such as Physical Phonics, Reading Comprehension through Pantomime, Improv, Plot Twisting, and more. Dr. Wilson described a daily activity he called the Funny Line Game. “It’s a favorite with the kids because they get to show different emotions and say very silly things. One of the teachers thinks up a ridiculous line like ‘There’s a pumpkin on my nose.’ We work with the kids to say it as loudly and clearly as possible. Then they perform it with up to five different emotions. They’re having fun, but at the same time they are also building confidence. We watch closely and learn from it to help them become better actors, speakers, and ultimately better readers. The whole point is show them it is safe to perform and make mistakes and be at their best. They perform on stage every single day of the camp.”
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Page & Stage Summer Camp offers three levels: Basic (ages 4-10, including pre-literate children and those just beginning to learn the alphabet), Intermediate (ages 10-15), and Advanced (13-18). The overlap is to allow youth to move between levels based on prior experience and growth. No reading or acting experience is necessary. Classes meet two times a week for three hours (basic and intermediate) or four times a week for 3.5 hours (advanced). Prices range from $175 for basic and intermediate classes to $225 for advanced. Every Friday campers are given bonus classes in theatre skills such as stage lighting and sound, makeup, and improvisation. Friday classes are free to campers and open to the public for $25. Traditional reading tutoring is also offered on Fridays for $15 per two-hour session.
One thing that sets the camp apart is its affordability. Page & Stage extends half-price tuition to siblings and offers scholarships based on need. But the main thing that sets the camp apart from other drama camps is its focus on literacy and confidence. Dr. Wilson said, “We assess reading level in the first week of camp and grow from there. One mother reported to me her son had gone up two grade levels in his reading skill in a single summer. In other children I see an increased love of reading, literature, and overall learning. One of my favorite memories of the camp involves a shy young boy. At first he was afraid even to open his mouth. By the end of the camp he was one of the loudest actors on the stage. I teared up every time he performed onstage and the audience cheered him on.”
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Page & Stage is dedicated to providing a safe, educational, fun summer for all involved. Learn more and register at PageAndStageCo.org or by contacting the Camp Director at paulspikewilson@gmail.com or (765) 860-7557.
