Butler Bridge Program

08/03/2023

Former mentor Bailey's first book, A Lot of People Live in this House, has hit the shelves!

https://www.baileymerlin.com/

05/11/2023

It’s National Teacher Appreciation week! To celebrate, Poets & Writers Magazine is offering subscriptions to young writers—at absolutely no cost! However, only teachers and organizations can apply, so share this link with your teachers if you're in 11th and 12th grade!

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04/26/2023

Our last writing club of this school year is this coming Saturday, April 28, from 1-3pm!

Register here:

We are pleased to offer the Butler Bridge Program to students in grades 3–12. The program draws on Butler's remarkable resources to build a bridge between Butler and its community, as well as between students who aspire to higher education and college mentors who are eager to share what they know.

04/13/2023

📖 Need some fresh reads for spring? Check out this list of indie bookstores in Indy!

03/24/2023

Unfortunately, we will no longer be hosting a writing club tomorrow, Saturday, March 25.

We hope to see everyone in April!

03/20/2023

Our friends at Butler University Creative Writing Camp still have spots open for camp this summer! If you love Bridge, you'll LOVE camp! Check it out!

Creative Writing Camp and Butler Bridge combine learning, laughter, and compassion to inspire young writers and readers. The programs connect bright, young people with talented mentors and like-minded peers to nurture intellectual and artistic discovery.

03/19/2023

The blueprints 2022 anthology is live!
https://online.fliphtml5.com/kieib/fhma/

To purchase a physical copy, please visit: https://butler.formstack.com/forms/blueprints_anthology_order_form

blueprints 2022 ebook

03/05/2023

Many thanks to Steve for leading a great creative nonfiction workshop yesterday!

03/01/2023

This Saturday we're hosting a specialty workshop on nonfiction with mentor Steve Berta!

Workshop Description
Creative nonfiction, one of today’s fastest-growing literary forms, borrows the techniques of fiction to create compelling narratives about real life experience. This workshop will review the various forms of nonfiction and provide students with practical experience using fictional techniques such as conflict, scene, dialog and description to bring their essays to life. We'll also explore ways to construct strong arguments. Using writing prompts based on the students' own suggestions, we hope to guide them beyond the who, what, when, where and why of the typical “what I did on summer vacation” school essay, to tell vivid stories with greater emotional depth.

About the Workshop Instructor
Steve Berta is the former investigations editor of the Indianapolis Star. Berta led IndyStar’s award-winning coverage of the USA Gymnastics scandal which led to the conviction of Larry Nassar, which has been called the biggest abuse scandal in U.S. sports history. The coverage resulted in federal legislation and the resignations of the USA Gymnastics president and board, as well as the president of Michigan State University, its gymnastics coach and the dean of its medical school. At IndyStar, Berta has led investigations into government corruption, day care regulation, pet medicines, abandoned housing, violent crime and the spread of disease through the captive deer industry. The graduate of Ohio University’s E.W. Scripps School of Journalism was previously news director at the Star, and business editor of the Akron Beacon Journal, where he led award-winning investigations into Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. and the coal industry’s influence on Ohio’s utility and air quality regulators. He is now an MFA student at Butler University, where he is working on a memoir.

02/27/2023

We're finalizing edits on the 2022 blueprints anthology, featuring the Booth Tarkington Prize for Young Writers winners and the work of other talented student writers.

02/18/2023

This group really vibed today at writing club! We had such a great time!

02/17/2023

We love indie bookstores! Zionsville's Curious Squirrel Bookshop has an upcoming book club for middle grade readers (and more!) Check out their page for more info!

This month our Middle Grade Book Club is Tumble, written by Celia C. Pérez.

The group will meet March 3, 2023 at 5:30 pm. Everyone is welcome to join at any time or participate virtually in the Bookclubs App
at our link in bio or at https://bookclubs.com/middle-grade-curious-squirrel-books/join.

Current book club titles are available for 20% 𝘰𝘧𝘧 in-store and online at curioussquirrelbooks.com.