Meet your Camp Counselor

Warning: I have no idea what I'm doing

I’m Madeleine. Like many of you, I am in love with the fantasy genre—books, movies, shows, podcasts, everything.

One particular story has been spawning in my mind palace for years, yearning to be written. And so at the beginning of 2024, I quit my job as a Creative Director to write a fantasy novel. I can’t say too much, but it’s about a girl with very unusual powers.

Quick intermission to show you these pictures taken ~25 years apart. Yes, I invented the french tuck. Can a herpetologist tell me if this is the same snake please.

Here’s the bio I share when I submit my writing: Madeleine writes about feral children, periodical cicadas, teleportation, and sometimes love. Her work appears in the Columbia Journal, Lighthouse Weekly, TIMBER: A Journal of New Writing, Morbid Podcast: Listener Tales, and is forthcoming in the Black Bird Poetry and Prose Anthology. In 2021 she was awarded Forbes 30 Under 30, and in 2024 she was a fiction participant at the Napa Valley Writer’s Conference where she workshopped her debut fantasy novel.

Why Fantasy Camp™?

First of all, *sigh*, it’s not actually trademarked. I just like the look of that little ™. It’s meant to seem official in a sort of ironic way, is that coming through…?

Second of all, I don’t want to write alone. At Fantasy Camp™, I invite you into my biweekly freewriting practice, to share work, connect on speculative fiction, and delight in fantasy moments in pop culture.

If you don’t want to write, that’s okay too. This is also a space for you to read strange stories, to question your own attachments to reality, and to teleport into new worlds.

Madeleine,
writer, camp counselor, squid keeper
(P.S. find me on Instagram and Tiktok if you like.)

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