Events | Ann Garvin

Summer Camp for Adults: Cabins, Campfire, Crafts & S'more!

Join Ann Garvin, author of Bummer Camp (publishing September 1), in Stevens Point, Wisconsin, for an exclusive Bummer Camp launch experience. Pack your best comfy camp attire and join Ann from Friday, August 23, through Sunday, August 25, in the beautiful deep woods of Wisconsin. Cabin camping, no tents!

Registration for the launch experience will open on May 23, and tickets will be offered first come, first served to those who express interest using this form. Spots are limited.

Submit this form to be among the first to be offered a chance to secure your spot!

Cost: $349 USD (includes all meals & lodging)

Dates: 4:30 PM CT on Friday, August 23 - 10:00 AM CT on Sunday, August 25

Includes: A unique and exclusive Bummer Camp launch experience with Ann Garvin. Immersed in the Wisconsin woods, attendees will participate in book club style discussion, and activities from the Bummer Camp novel. Two nights in a camping lodge and all meals from Friday dinner through Sunday breakfast (meals will be camp favorites inspired by Bummer Camp!) are included.

All attendees will receive early digital access to the book before the event, and a signed advanced copy upon arrival to Stevens Point, WI.

What to Expect: Laughs, relaxation, time to read, author discussions, arts + crafts, bonfires, old-fashioned camp fun.

View the tentative schedule and event details here.

Getting There: Stevens Point, WI is a 1:45 minute drive north of the Madison, WI (Dane County Regional) Airport. Driving? The camp is located 3.5 hours from Minneapolis, MN or 4 hours from Chicago, IL.

About Bummer Camp:
Two sisters scramble to save their family’s legacy in a funny, huge-hearted novel about grandiose plans and summers to remember by the author of I Thought You Said This Would Work.

Cat McCarthy has spent years extricating herself from the family business—an increasingly run-down theater camp—and all the drama contained within it. At thirty-seven, she’s putting the final touches on a new life as she renovates her dream cottage and awaits her first child. Does it worry her that the McCarthy legacy is in the hands of her disastrously irresponsible sister, Ginger? Sure. But the camp’s not Cat’s problem anymore.

Then a series of frantic text messages pulls Cat back to center stage. Ginger has handed the reins to a crackpot motivational speaker, Bob Durand, and his scheming wife, Elaine. The couple’s plan to rebrand the camp as a “rehab” for anxious adults has nearly bankrupted the McCarthys. And now the Durands have skipped town days before investors arrive for a fundraising gala that could determine the camp’s future.

As Cat and Ginger wrangle a cast of lovable misfits and underdogs to save the camp, the sisters rediscover the importance of family, belonging, and holding fast to sweet summer memories.