NYS Writers Institute announces publication of the seventh edition of its literary journal
“In the summer before eleventh grade, I make the fateful decision to get a job as a camper-waiter in Connecticut…”
- Mark Berger
“We were a cabin of oddballs, both at camp and in the eleven months a year we wished we were at camp..."
- Elizabeth Bayou-Grace
"I was drawn in by an Irish drifter, who was chasing enlightenment through veganism...."
- Annika Nerf
“But camp for me is about something else, memories that would not come from a camp for able kids: the sound of a wheelchair rolling across pavement…”
- Gabriel Donovan
"Around Easter, three years ago, a Facebook message crossed time and space straight from my 1950’s childhood..."
- Susan Megna
“By the third morning, my crush on the boy with the squinty blue eyes was in full bloom…”
- Pernille AEgidius Dake
As August draws to a close, another season of summer camps has forged fresh memories — new friendships kindled, woodland adventures embarked upon, the cool embrace of a lake in the Adirondacks, perhaps even a first kiss beneath a starry sky.
We can only hope today's campers are preserving these moments, penning them into their journals to revisit in the years to come.
Back in the spring we invited readers to share their summer camp stories. From those submissions a group of 16 writers were selected to read their stories in front of a sold-out audience at The Linda - WAMC’s Performing Arts Studio in Albany - on June 30. It was a first for us: a collaboration with the NYC-based Writers Read non-profit literary forum that produces curated events and podcasts celebrating the spoken word.
We present 15 of those essays with video from the June 30 event along with 15 additional summer camp stories in our new edition of the Trolley journal.
About Trolley:
Trolley began in 2017 with an idea from our founder, William Kennedy, who envisioned a new literary journal published online, free of charge, written primarily by non-academics in which each issue related to a single theme.
The name "Trolley" was selected as an homage to Kennedy's 1984 collection of his journalism, Riding the Yellow Trolley Car.
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