“Don’t look at the water for I fear you may see a stark white swimmer who might just be me. . .”
That’s how 16-year-old Carter Yont’s poem begins about a topic she didn’t necessarily want to write about, but was assigned during a Teen Writing Experience session this past week. The topic: skinny-dipping.
“Unfortunately, I was the only one that finished writing that (assignment),” Yont told the Times-Herald, adding that is why she read her piece at Moose Jaw Public Library during the Saskatchewan Festival of Words (which is sponsored by the Times-Herald) on Friday.
She was one of eight youth from across the province who participated in the one-week writing camp in Moose Jaw, which finished with a Teen Read-Out session of the materials they wrote this week.
Teaching the class was Moose Jaw fiction writer Angie Abdou. She said it takes a particularly interesting sort of teenager to actually want to give up a week of summer holidays to practice writing. However, she said those participating in the Sage Hill Writing Experience-sponsored summer course are an interesting bunch.
For more on this story, read an upcoming edition of the Times-Herald.
