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Camp Counselor
A Camp Counselor is a published author who offers advice, encouragement, and mentorship to Camp NaNoWriMo participants.
The first Camp Counselors appeared on the NaNoWriMo blog in July 2013 as Head Counselors. Wrimos submitted questions through Tumblr's Ask feature, and the counselors wrote Camp Counselors continued to answer questions on the NaNo blog in 2014.
The Camp Counselor's role changed in 2015, but the premise of encouraging Wrimos remained the same. NaNoWriMo partnered with We Need Diverse Books authors during Camp NaNo 2015 to encourage writers writing all types of projects. Each Camp Counselor sent virtual Camp Care Packages to motivate campers during Camp NaNoWriMo. The Camp 2015 Counselors also participated in #WNDBNaNo Twitter chat on April 8, 2015 and June 24, 2015. The partnership with We Need Diverse Books continued in 2016, including a #WNDBNaNo tweetchat on April 5, 2016.
Most Recent Camp Counselors
- Jen Breach (April 2021)
- Kristina Forset (April 2021)
- Nicole Glover (April 2021)
- Michelle Ruiz Keil (April 2021)
Past Camp Counselors
- Suzanne Lazear (July 2013)
- Jennifer Bosworth (July 2013)
- Julia Crouch (July 2013)
- Sarah Duncan (July 2013)
- Ari Marmell (July 2013)
- James R. Strickland (July 2013)
- Susan Dennard (July 2013)
- Patricia C. Wrede (April 2014)
- Andrea Hannah (April 2014)
- Marivi Soliven (April 2014)
- Michael David Lukas (April 2014)
- Christa Desir (July 2014)
- Liz Coley (July 2014)
- Heather Mackey (July 2014)
- Kat Zhang (July 2014)
- I. W. Gregorio (April 2015)
- Sona Charaipotra (April 2015)
- Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich (April 2015)
- Marieke Nijkamp (April 2015)
- Steven dos Santos (July 2015)
- Karen Sandler (July 2015)
- B A Binns (July 2015)
- Dhonielle Clayton (July 2015)
- Marieke Nijkamp (April 2016)
- Nic Stone (April 2016)
- Karuna Riazi (April 2016, April 2017)
- Lisa Amowitz (April 2016)
- Ibi Zoboi (July 2016)
- Courtney Alameda (July 2016)
- Natalie C. Parker (July 2016)
- Zoraida Cordova (July 2016)
- Alex Gino (July 2016)
- Sofia Quintero (July 2016)
- Heidi Heilig (April 2017)
- Kami Garcia (April 2017)
- Preeti Chhibber (April 2017)
- Danielle Paige (April 2017)
- Sona Charaipotra (July 2017)
- Maurene Goo (July 2017)
- Alexandra Duncan (July 2017)
- Amanda Lovelace (July 2017)
- Patrice Caldwell (July 2017)
- Taran Matharu (April 2018)
- Helen Hoang (April 2018)
- Sarah Raughley (April 2018)
- Amy Spalding (April 2018)
- Claire Kann (July 2018)
- Gloria Chao (July 2018)
- Kirstin Chen (July 2018)
- Jessica Strawser (July 2018)
- Alexia Gordon (April 2019)
- Adib Khorram (April 2019)
- Lilliam Rivera (April 2019)
- Cass Morris (April 2019)
- Kat Yeh (July 2019)
- Kat Zhang (July 2019)
- Katya de Becerra (July 2019)
- Yangsze Choo (July 2019)
- Devi S. Laskar (April 2020)
- An Na (April 2020)
- Jennifer Ziegler (April 2020)
- Dallas Woodburn (April 2020)
- Abigail Greenwood (July 2020)
- Leah Johnson (July 2020)
- Christina Li (July 2020)
- Morgan Smith (July 2020)
- Maggie Tokuda-Hall (July 2020)
- Ran Walker (July 2020)
- Ashley Woodfolk (July 2020)
See Also
- Pep Talk, a long-form encouragement in the form of NaNoMail
- NaNo Coach, a published author who encourages Wrimos over Twitter during November NaNoWriMo
