Our Mission

YouthWrite, a camp for kids who love to write...just about anything!©

We envision a creative immersion experience that addresses and promotes twenty-first century multiple literacies. YouthWrite’s most important theme is WordPlay, an integration of playing with writing; many of our multidiscipline workshops are conceived as meaningful play!

We believe that creative arts and creative writing are the foundation to critical and creative thinking.

YouthWrite Society Canada believes in and practices inclusion. We reach out to participants who are on the margins, whether because of race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, or for economic reasons. Inclusion and gender balance are also considered when hiring the instructional and supervisory teams.

About Youthwrite Society Canada

YouthWrite mandate & objectives:

To provide safe immersion experiences (day-long/weekend/week-long camps); to invite young writers (ages 11-19) from large & small communities to link their lives & words.

To encourage young people to be lifelong readers, writers, thinkers; to foster future generations of thoughtful, literate citizens.

To ensure that young writers of limited financial means may attend.

To allow youths a voice; to provide them opportunities to work with established /emerging authors/illustrators/performers.

To promote Albertan & Canadian writers/writing.

To explore writing styles/genres & encourage young writers to consider many writing possibilities & to think about the writing craft.

To allow young authors to explore visual media (illustration, comic illustration, filmmaking, photography, etc.), & the performing arts as springboards to creative writing.

To encourage commitment, energy, dedication, emphasizing YW as a process rather than a product camp.