Hey, Summer Camp Writers! 

Are you planning on participating in our ‘Share Your Camp Story’ Contest this year but have yet to actually enter your story? WHAT ARE YOU DOING READING THIS POST, THEN?!!?!! Stop now, click here, and get your story written up and submitted. You still have all day to make it happen, so don’t despair. Just make sure to write or create a video of yourself telling your camp story! 

We love to hear from as many of our readers as possible! Today is the last day for taking submissions, however, so act fast if you want to be a part of this year’s contest! 

The ‘Share Your Camp Story’ Contest has quickly become one of our favorite times of the year! We get to hear how the camp season went straight from the source! We love reading about all the accomplishments and friendships you made as well as what fears you may have overcome or simply what your favorite part was about going to summer camp! 

Get excited! We’re just a week away from finding out who among our participants are our winners of our gift certificate prizes. To reiterate the breakdown from previous posts, there will be the first round of winners made up of six participants who won the $50 gift card to our site. Next, there will be three $100 gift card winners. And then we have our grand prize winner of a $300 gift card. 

Make sure you don’t miss out on the fun! Tune in Tuesday, September 6^th—the day after Labor Day—when we reveal our first random winner and publish their entry right here on the Blog to kick off this year’s ‘Share Your Camp Story’ Contest collection. Maybe it’ll be yours! Looking forward to it, Camp Fans! And, as always, thanks for reading! 

- John

Hey, Storytellers! 

Summers are jam-packed! Especially so as the season nears the end and we all try to fit all our fun plans in as best we can before summer is officially over. Speaking of—don’t miss out on the opportunity to share your camp story with our widespread camp community, not to mention win a cool participatory prize from Everything Summer Camp! 

Throughout the month we’ve been and will continue to be taking your submissions for our annual ‘Share Your Camp Story’ Contest here at Everything Summer Camp. Get your memories and stories written down and entered or make a YouTube video and send the video link into us! Our final call is just exactly two weeks away on the last minute of August 31. 

Remember, everyone who submits gets a $20 gift certificate to Everything Summer Camp. Or you may be one of the ten, random, and lucky winners! Once we have everyone’s submissions, we’ll randomly select our winners and publish each of their stories one day at a time leading up to our grand prize winner of a $300 Everything Summer Camp Gift Certificate! 

In between, we’ll have three winners of the second-place, $100 Gift Certificate prize and six winners of our third-place, $50 Gift Certificate. 

Storytelling is an extremely useful means for campers to cement all the fun memories and valuable skill sets they acquired at camp. It’s great to review the new experiences you’ve had to help yourself process and reflect on what you learned. Need help with some ideas of what to talk about? Check out the initial Contest announcement I wrote last month.  

Include your first name and your last name initial, the camp you visited, and how many summers you’ve spent at camp. Parents are more than welcome to send us their submissions based on camp from their perspective or their own camp experiences as well. 

We love getting these camp stories each year and are so excited to get a fresh new collection of stories for the season! Share your stories by clicking right here. And, as always, thanks for reading, Camp Folks! 

- John

Hey, Camp Folks! 

Share Your Camp Story is back! For this contest we’ll be picking ten random winners. Our randomized winner for first place will receive our top prize of a $300 gift card to use on our online store! Three more winners will receive $100 gift cards to our site. And six random winners will receive $50 gift cards. All other participants will get a $20 gift card to make everyone a winner! We can’t wait to hear what a blast you all had this summer!  

What to Write
There’s an endless list of things you can share for your submission—a list of everything you ate while at camp, for instance. But the best submissions are written about the parts of camp that meant the most to you. 

Take your time to really set the scene for us. Tell us about your most memorable moment or talk about all the great people you met. Maybe you want to write about the camp you went to and why you think it’s the best! 

Not just for Kids
Parents and Grandparents are more than welcome to send in their own submissions too. Seeing your child head off to camp may have you reminiscing about your own camp stay from way back when. Tell us all about it! 

Maybe your child isn't interested in sending us a submission. Feel free to submit for them. Give us your perspective on how your child's camp stay went!  

Write or Record
Send us your camp story as a written submission or a video if you're so inclined. You can simply tell your camp story to a camera, upload your recorded video to YouTube, and leave a link to your video in place of your written submission!

No matter what you choose to share, we’d love to hear it! Include your first and last name as well as the name of the camp you visited and how long you’ve been going to camp. Submissions must be 150 words to qualify, but go for more if want! If you're submitting a video, make sure the video is at least one minute and thirty seconds. 

Submit your entry by clicking here. There is no entry fee. If you're under the age of 18, you'll need permission from your parent or guardian to participate in this Contest. We’re taking submissions from now until the very last minute of August. 

Tell us how camp went and submit your stories to be shared right here on the Blog! Check out the entry form for further details and, as always, thanks for reading! 

- John

Hey, Camp Fans!

It was great reading all the camper submissions we received this year for our ‘Share Your Camp Story’ Contest at Everything Summer Camp. It’s been a lot of fun going through them all and publishing them right here on the Blog one-by-one to share them with our online! We had ten lucky prize winners to this annual contest that we announced back in September and we’ve been posting all our entries since.

The submission today is a little light so it wasn’t eligible for our contest. A cool poem nonetheless, I thought this submission would be a great way to close out this year’s ‘Share Your Camp Story’ Contest submission posts. This poetic post features a poem from Karen K. Check it out right here, right now:

7 weeks.
We spend weeks packing them
We fill out forms.
We buy them everything on the list. And then some.
We drive them to camp
We drop them off at the bus.
7 weeks.
We hug them goodbye.
The fun begins for all of us.
7 weeks.
We wait for the first letter.
We look for the smiling picture.
Then we are good. They are great. They are where they have waited to be all year.
We feel their joy.
Friends ask why send them to camp?
Our answer: 7 weeks.
And we who send we know why.
And so do they. 

Thanks for sharing this with us, Karen. Sounds like you know exactly what summer camp is all about! Knowing all that, who wouldn’t send? It’s been another great year for our ‘Share Your Camp Story’ Contest, but we’ve never wrapped up our submission posts with a poem! Pretty great way to close out this year’s contest! Thanks again, Karen. And, as always, thanks for reading!

- John

Hey, Camp Fans!

There are more stories to share from the Everything Summer Camp ‘Share Your Camp Story’ Contest! Your camp stories were so great and were such a fun time reading through them all and it’s been exciting to share them with all our readers online! We’re publishing  each submission individually on a post right here on the Blog one by one!

We had ten lucky prize winners and now it’s time to publish the rest of your submissions. The following post is from Caroline C. who wrote in to us about her first time at Camp Hollymont. Check out what she had to say:

This summer I went to sleep away camp for the first time, and I had so much fun! I went to Hollymont with one of my best friends. We live in different states, so it was really fun to be together at camp. My favorite part of camp was being able to try so many skills—like tennis, swimming, crafting, dance, baking and cooking. We were SO busy all day every day. I loved it!

Caroline’s submission is a little light for our contest, but I still wanted to share her submission here on the Blog. How nice that you got to spend your summer camp stay with your best friend that lives out-of-state. What a great way to get to spend some great summer time with her! They really have a lot of fun stuff to do at camp, don’t they?! I’m glad to hear that your first go at summer camp turned out to be such a success with so much fun and the opportunity to do so many new things. Thanks for writing us, Caroline. For everyone else, you can give Camp Hollymont a closer look by clicking right here and, as always, thanks for reading!

- John