Open to students currently in grades 2-12

Week one: June 21-June 25th Monday-Thursday 9-3:00; Friday 9-noon.

Week two: June 28-July 2nd Monday-Thursday 9-3:00; Friday 9-noon.

Writers may choose the session that fits best with their summer plan or come for both!

Early bird registration through May 7th $225/week

After May 7th, $250/week

The SYWP is held at Resurrection Lutheran Academy, 6840 Nimtz Parkway, South Bend, Indiana.

Covid safety precautions:

As always, we prioritize the health and safety of our families and yours. All teachers have been vaccinated and we will meet or exceed CDC guidelines to ensure the safest possible conditions. Please contact Kathy with any questions or concerns. 

Register online & pay online or mail in check: Click here for registration form

About the Guest Authors

 Candace Fleming

      Candace is the versatile and

acclaimed author of more than forty

books for children and young adults,

including the Los Angeles Times Book

Prize honored The Family Romanov:

Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of the

Russian Empire; Boston Globe/Horn

 Book Award-winning biography, The

Lincolns; the bestselling picture book, 

Muncha! Muncha! Muncha!; the Sibert-Award-winning Giant Squid; and the    beloved Boxes for Katje. She contributed the chapter on Katharine of Aragon to Fatal Throne.  

 Chris Crutcher

     Crutcher has written thirteen novels and two collections of short stories including what he calls an ill-advised autobiography 

  titled King of the Mild Frontier, which was designated by “Publisher’s Weekly” as “the YA book most adults would have read if they knew it existed.” Five of Crutcher’s books also appeared on an American Library Association list of the 100 Best Books for Teens of the Twentieth Century (1999 to 2000).

Patrick Flores-Scott

As a young man, Flores-Scott

struggled as a reader himself and

wanted to write a novel that his

students who also shared his difficulty

would enjoy. Adopting a style of short

paragraphs and chapters, his novels

not only become easier to read but

prove that there is more than one type

of successful author in the world.

Flores-Scott resides in Ann Arbor,

Michigan and had his first novel,

Jumped In, named in the 2014 YALSA

Best Fiction for Young Adults list. His

second novel, American Road Trip is

a 2019 Best Fiction for Young Adults

pick.  

Barbara Shoup

Shoup is the author of eight novels for adults and young adults, most recently An American Tune; Looking for Jack Kerouac; and a memoir, A Commotion in Your Heart. She is the the co-author of Novel Ideas: Contemporary Authors Share the Creative Process and Story Matters.

Her young adult novels, Wish You Were Here and Stranded in Harmony were selected as American Library Association Best Books for Young Adults.  Vermeer’s Daughter was a School Library Journal Best Adult Book for Young Adults.

Local writer, Kathy Higgs-Coulthard, believes that great stories start by asking WHAT IF? In her latest middle grade novel, Kathy asked ...

What if...  your dad came home with 43 chickens in the back of his truck? What would your friends think if your kitchen became a clucking, pecking, cock-a-doodle-dooing madhouse?

That's exactly what happened to middle-schooler Sami Duggan in this novel set in South Bend, Indiana.

Now available as an e-book (on Amazon for $3.99) or in print through CleanReads, Amazon, or Barnes & Noble.

We'd love to hear from you!

Contact Director, Kathy Higgs-Coulthard

via email michianawriterscenter@gmail.com

via phone (574) 220-8798

Find Kathy online at www.writewithkathy.com