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{Agnes Scott College} High School Creative Writing Intensive
The High School Creative Writing Intensive challenges talented and dedicated high school student writers to investigate deeply the many facets of storytelling, and then focus their energy, enthusiasm, and learning toward crafting original fiction or creative nonfiction works. The course begins survey-style, with the young writers studying various genres of fiction and nonfiction storytelling before constructing individual projects reflective of their writing interests. Writers may complete the workshop with the opening chapter(s) of a novel, a one-act stage or screenplay, a short story, or a collection of poems. Each project is undertaken with the support of two course instructors, and writers receive peer feedback as they work, as well as regular one-on-one conferencing with instructors. Students emerge from the Intensive with concrete creative writing skills; enhanced understanding of themselves as writers and storytellers; and a deeper appreciation for the art and skill of storytelling. The course concludes with a Final Evening Ceremony on the last Friday of the course, during which students will share their work with family and friends.
💰 Scholarships Available
{Alfred University} Creative Writing Camp
Alfred University welcomes high school students to our beautiful campus each year to take part in this popular co-ed, overnight summer camp. The emphasis is on having fun and enjoying our beautiful natural surroundings while learning. With our dynamic, engaging, talented and caring faculty and staff, terrific facilities, and lovely surroundings, the Alfred University Creative Writing Camp could make this your best summer ever!
{Androit Journal} Summer Mentorship Program
The Adroit Journal’s Summer Mentorship Program is an online program that pairs established writers with high school students (including graduating seniors) and gap year students (Classes of ’22 or ’23) interested in learning more about the creative writing processes of drafting, redrafting and editing.
The 2023 program will cater to poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction/memoir. The aim of the mentorship program is not formalized instruction, but rather an individualized, flexible, and often informal correspondence. Poetry students will share weekly work with mentors and peers, while fiction and creative nonfiction/memoir students will share biweekly work with mentors and peers.
{Bard College at Simon's Rock} Young Writers Workshop
In the summer of 1983 Simon’s Rock began offering a three-week writing workshop for high school students modeled after the innovative three-week Workshop in Language and Thinking required of all entering students at Bard College. Since then the workshop has evolved and is part of the National Writing and Thinking Network with an affiliated site at Lake Forest College. Unlike more traditional workshops in creative writing, the Young Writers Workshop focuses on using informal, playful, and expressive writing as a way to strengthen skills of language and thinking. Out of these informal writing activities, using techniques of peer response, students develop more polished pieces, ranging from personal narratives to short stories, poems, brief dramatic works, and experiments in creative nonfiction.
💰 Scholarships Available
{Boston College} Creative Writing Seminar
Through the study of creative nonfiction, fiction, and poetry, students will explore their own unique voices and the diverse voices of published writers. Students will identify and analyze different styles of writing and collect a "toolbox" of craft techniques that they will put into practice by writing their own original creative pieces. Classes will consist of reading, discussion, writing exercises, and writing workshops in which students will have the opportunity to give and receive constructive feedback on their work. As a seminar capstone, students will serve as editors and designers of a class literary journal and will have the opportunity to participate in a public reading to present their work.
{Boston University} Academic Immersion: Creative Writing
For rising juniors and seniors, Academic Immersion: Creative Writing is a three-week, intensive writing program offered in partnership with Boston University’s MFA program in Creative Writing, one of the oldest and most prestigious programs in the nation. Designed to help young writers hone their craft, AIM’s Creative Writing track will focus on a single genre each week, immersing you in the practice of writing fiction, poetry, and screenplays. You will develop formal technique in each genre during morning seminars led by BU instructors who are also seasoned writers. In the afternoons, you will engage in experiential learning activities including writing workshops, free-write sessions on campus and around Boston, visits from guest speakers, and pilgrimages to important cultural institutions throughout the city to see where other Boston writers found their muses. The program concludes with a “writers showcase,” in which students share one of their own pieces with their peers and other members of the BU community.
{California State Summer School for the Arts} Creative Writing
The CSSSA Creative Writing Program offers personalized and interactive workshops for approximately seventy talented and motivated young writers. A faculty of four professional writers guide and instruct students in the techniques of fiction, poetry, memoir, and dramatic writing. We’re looking for students who have the courage to be themselves on the page. We’re looking for students who love language. We’re looking for students who want to tell their own stories: stories from their imagination, from their neighborhood, from their family.
💰 Scholarships Available
{Carnegie Mellon University} Writing & Culture
Over the course of 6 weeks, students will be exposed to writing and culture through the lens of CMU’s English Department. Guided by the mentorship and instruction of our highly distinguished faculty members, students will improve their ability to analyze complex, ever-changing problems through astute investigations of culture and society.
💰 Scholarships Available
{Denison University} Reynolds Young Writers Workshop
The Reynolds Young Writers Workshop at Denison is an energizing 8-day program for motivated high school students who love to write. For over 20 years, the Reynolds Workshop has brought together young writers who are passionate about writing and eager to connect to a close-knit community of writing friends.
💰 Scholarships Available
{Duke University} Creative Writers' Workshop
The Duke Creative Writers' Workshop (CWW) is an intensive writing experience. In many ways it resembles a college-level creative writing course. Each participant designs and pursues a project under the mentorship of a primary instructor, and with the support of a peer group, for the duration of the Workshop – for example, a collection of poems, a short story or screenplay, or a one-act play. CWW instructors are practicing writers with advanced degrees in fiction, poetry and play writing, and the participants bring to the program an already deep and defined commitment to writing. This is a close, supportive environment. Constructive feedback and criticism are the bedrock of the CWW experience.
💰 Scholarships Available
{Education Unlimited} Emerging Writers Institute
Emerging Writers Institute creative writing camp is a two-week summer writing program for teens. Rising 10th-12th graders experience a unique curriculum designed to develop and support students’ imaginative writing across literary genres. This creative writing summer program encourages students to challenge themselves technically and artistically through guided daily writing workshops, one-on-one instructor evaluations, group editing sessions, and creative presentations of their work. Moreover, the participants in the program will be uniquely positioned to profit from the literary culture of the San Francisco Bay Area. By the program’s conclusion, students will produce and perfect quality pieces suitable for publication in their own literary magazine and professional teen publications.
{Emerson College} Creative Writers Workshop
Creative Writers Workshop is an opportunity for you to develop writing skills in an intensive program. You will attend classes designed to help young writers concentrate on fiction or prose, screenwriting, graphic novel writing, and magazine writing. During the five-week program, you will write, workshop, revise and develop a portfolio of your work. At the completion of the program, you will have an opportunity to participate in a final reading to demonstrate the writing skills you have learned.
{Georgetown University} Creative Writing Institute
Transform your dreams, ideas, and stories into organized, compelling, creative written works through Georgetown's Creative Writing Institute. Led by Georgetown instructors and renowned literary figures from the D.C. area, our one-week program features a blend of workshops, lectures, and tutorials coupled with insightful, productive peer review sessions. You'll have opportunities to experiment with innovative forms of creative writing while also generating and polishing a wealth of new poems, stories, and personal essays. Throughout the week, you'll also visit iconic sites around Washington, D.C., participate in an exercise in ekphrastic writing at the National Gallery of Art, and have the chance to read your work aloud at Busboys and Poets, a famous D.C. literary hub. In addition to covering the writing process, our program also focuses on the publishing and professionalization aspects of the industry. You'll explore what markets are available for your writing, the types of jobs available to creative writers, funding opportunities for your work, undergraduate and graduate programs in writing, and strategies for getting published.
{Gettysburg College} Young Writers Workshop
Young Writers Workshop provides an in-depth introduction to all four genres of creative writing: fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and writing for stage and screen. Modeled on Gettysburg College's highly successful gateway course, Introduction to Creative Writing, and taught by the college's own senior faculty in creative writing, Young Writers Workshop offers a constantly engaging, hands-on experience in how to write and how to talk about writing. We believe talent can be taught! Developing writers need technique and inspiration. This is why we, at Gettysburg College Summer Young Writers Workshop, have created an intellectual and physical space for high school students to gather around texts, to study with publishing writers, to learn the art of inspiration, and to write and perform their own work with new friends and peers.
{Interlochen Center for the Arts} Comics & Graphic Narratives Intensive
This one-week, intensive will build upon students’ existing interests in the fundamentals of a host of subgenres at the intersection of visual art and storytelling, including graphic novels, graphic memoirs, comic books, limited panel comics, and web comics. Working with practitioners versed in both the narrative and visual aspects of these genres, students will increase their practical and theoretical knowledge of the grammatical concerns that make these art forms so unique, in particular the phenomena of sequencing, closure, and iconography, as well as complex treatments of temporality. Open to students with a range of experience who are interested in specializing in manual and/or digital storytelling, the intensive will culminate in a workshop/critique of student work by peers and instructors as well as a presentation of their projects to the larger campus community and a chance to have their work professionally printed in a take-home anthology.
💰 Scholarships Available
{Interlochen Center for the Arts} Creative Writing Summer Program
Interlochen's summer creative writing program gives you time and space to immerse yourself in the craft of writing. Guided by an outstanding faculty of published fiction writers, essayists, playwrights, and poets, you will expand your skills, deepen your conceptual understanding of writing as an art form, and increase your confidence to share your work with others in print and aloud.
💰 Scholarships Available
{Interlochen Center for the Arts} Novel Writing Intensive
The Novel Writing Intensive is a highly-selective, one-week program for serious young writers who have completed at least 50 pages of a novel manuscript. Students will work one-on-one with a published novelist who will introduce them to the foundational skills and strategies unique to novel-writing, including dramatic structure, characterization, and plot.
💰 Scholarships Available
{Interlochen Center for the Arts} Performance Writing & Spoken Word Intensive
The Performance Writing and Spoken Word Intensive explores the power of both the written and performed word. Students get friendly with the time-honored poetic devices of the ancients, as well as the rip-the-roof-off rhetoric of rap. Students create original poems and spoken word pieces in several different styles, learning effective communication through voice and body language. This is an excellent class for slam teams about to enter competition or for any student who wants to learn to write and rock the mic. Come with an open mind, a willing spirit, the ability to laugh, and a pair of good drum sticks (not joking… bring drumsticks).
💰 Scholarships Available
{Interlochen Center for the Arts} Screenwriting Summer Intensive
Tell stories that matter to you. The one-week Screenwriting Intensive is your opportunity to work one-on-one with seasoned screenwriters to develop short scripts and screenplays. Working with a faculty of professional screenwriters, filmmakers, and visiting guest artists, you will have daily instruction and lab time to work individually on scripts and screenplay format. By the end of the program, you will have developed and completed a short script to include in your portfolio.
💰 Scholarships Available
{John Carroll University} Young Writers Workshop
Students participate in a rigorous and inspiring program that provides an introduction to the art and craft of poetry, short fiction, and creative nonfiction. In morning and afternoon sessions, students study with acclaimed writers, engaging in writing-intensive exercises designed to address the elements of craft: form, voice, character, image, scene, and setting.
💰 Scholarships Available
{Kenyon College} Young Writers Workshop
Young Writers is an intensive two-week workshop for intellectually curious, motivated high-school students who value writing. Our goal is to help students develop their creative and critical abilities with language—to become better, more productive writers and more insightful thinkers. For more than nineteen years, Young Writers has provided a lively, supportive environment where students can stretch their talents, discover new strengths, and challenge themselves in the company of peers who share their interests.
💰 Scholarships Available
{Lewis & Clark College} Fir Acres Writing Workshop
At the Fir Acres Writing Workshop, sixty high school students from across the country come together for two weeks to write and join a community of writers on the beautiful, wooded campus of Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon. In daily Workshops, participants study great writing and produce their own under the guidance of dynamic, thoughtful, published faculty. At night, participants gather to socialize, meet and hear from distinguished visiting writers, and work on their own poetry, fiction, and creative prose. Our mission is to provide a high-caliber, pre-collegiate, creative educational experience to bright, inventive, and passionate high school students. Our program appeals to young writers and artistic students who are drawn to the beauty of the Pacific Northwest and the fun, hip mystique of Portland.
{Loyola Marymount University} Beginning Screenwriting
Recognized as one of the top 10 film schools in the U.S. by The Hollywood Reporter and located in the heart of the entertainment capital of the world, there’s no better place than the LMU School of Film and Television to cultivate your creative identity this summer. Under the guidance of full-time faculty, who are also professional screenwriters, students will broaden their writing skills, develop their unique voices, and learn the basic elements of screenwriting. Structure, character development, dialogue, descriptive action, formatting, and genre will be explored and put into practice in a supportive workshop environment. Coupled with analytical viewings of popular movies - both classic and contemporary - students will have the chance to discuss the art, craft, and business of being a writer in the motion picture industry. Ideal for the highly motivated, students should enter this program open to honest and meaningful collaboration with peers, a willingness to offer and receive constructive criticism, and the desire to learn while having fun.
{New York Film Academy} Screenwriting Camps
If the purpose of film is to tell stories, then the screenwriter is the one who breathes first life into the characters, worlds, and drama unfolding on screen. In NYFA’s 4-Week Screenwriting Camp for teens, students learn how to write their own screenplays with our faculty of award-winning professionals, whose credits include work with HBO, The Disney Channel, 20th Century Fox, Marvel, Syfy, CBS, A&E, Universal Pictures, Dreamworks, BET, IFC, Showtime, ESPN, The History Channel, Discovery Channel, and more!
{New York University} Online High School Screenwriters Workshop
Learn to write for film and television with an online course in screenwriting. Collaborate with high school students from around the world and transform your ideas into a short screenplay. Complete pre-recorded course modules and assignments and schedule live, one-on-one video meetings with the Tisch instructor. The online screenwriting workshop for high school students is for college credit and is offered every summer and fall.
💰 Scholarships Available
{Rhodes College} Summer Writing Institute
The Summer Writing Institute at Rhodes College takes place annually for two weeks during June and is a residential academic program committed to developing the critical thinking and writing skills of ambitious high school students. Within the college′s liberal arts environment, students sharpen their reading and analytical skills and learn strategies for writing creatively and critically. At the end of the session, students receive a grade for their work and class participation, earn two college credits (transferable to most colleges and universities), and will complete a portfolio of college-level writing.
💰 Scholarships Available
{Sarah Lawrence College} Writer's Village: A Creative Writing Intensive
Students will participate in a fiction workshop and a poetry workshop led by members and guests of Sarah Lawrence’s celebrated writing faculty. Readings, craft talks, and free writing periods are also part of the program and are designed to supplement learning in the classroom. Students work together alongside their instructors to improve each other’s writing and explore their passions. Together, students produce an anthology of all pieces finalized while in the program and create a focused community that will last into the future.
💰 Scholarships Available
{Sarah Lawrence College} Writer's Week: A Creative Writing Workshop
Directed by distinguished faculty members, this program allows high school students to explore writing in a non-competitive and non-judgmental environment that values the risks and adventure of the creative process. Each day, participants attend writing and theatre workshops led by prose writers, poets, and performance artists. Included in the week are mini-workshops taught by program faculty and guest artists. Rooted in the Sarah Lawrence College tradition of one-on-one interaction, the program offers students the opportunity to meet individually with workshop leaders. Classes are limited to 18 students, with three faculty members per workshop. The program also includes faculty and student readings and a celebration of student work on the final day of the program.
💰 Scholarships Available
{Sewanee: The University of the South} Young Writers Conference
We offer our students opportunities that are otherwise hard to find, either at high schools or at other summer writing programs. Our conference offers a serious course in creative writing, not just a “get-your-feet-wet” introduction, so we ask prospective students to specify, on the application, a genre—playwriting, poetry, fiction, or literary nonfiction—in which they want to devote most of their time while in Sewanee.
{Smith College} Young Women's Writing Workshop
With so few writing programs that cater exclusively to high school girls, Smith's Creative Writing Workshop allows you to explore your writing in a creative and supportive environment that fosters your love of writing in a variety of mediums. All of your classes will be in workshop style, which means each class will begin with a short segment that focuses on a single lesson. Then the instructors will check in with you to see what you are working on. Open writing time follows. The class session ends with each writer sharing her progress with the group.
{Summer Springboard} Creative Writing Course
Practice the craft of writing daily in a supportive environment, with plenty of time to revise work after input from instructors and peers. While the course will strengthen core writing skills, the focus is on exploring new forms of expression and stretching talent. The study of writing is further developed through reading established authors and mentor texts. You will read short stories, poems, drama, articles, and essays to discuss, write about, and use as inspiration. Come prepared to write short scripts for television after in-depth discussions on the importance of dialogue. Bring characters and settings to life before writing short stories, and learn research tools before reporting on timely topics.
{Susquehanna University} Publishing & Editing Institute
Do you dream of working at a publishing house? Are you seeking a practical application for your love of reading and writing? Learn what it takes to produce and market a book in this hands-on, team-centered experience that features workshops, strategy sessions and guest speakers who are industry professionals. This is a unique experience, as Susquehanna offers the only summer program in the country for high school students interested in book publishing. You'll spend the week learning to think like a publisher and gaining valuable editorial and digital media skills. Working in our dedicated publishing lab, The Letterbox, you and your teammates will create a book launch and marketing campaign for a trade book. Your team will come up with a book title and cover, determine the book's audience, and create a digital presentation to sell the book to investors and consumers. Along the way you'll explore the book's influence on society and culture, and develop your entrepreneurship and team-building skills. You'll also hear from working professionals about career paths in publishing and how Susquehanna's Publishing & Editing Program prepared them to do what they love: bringing literature into the world.
💰 Scholarships Available
{Susquehanna University} Summer Writers Workshop
An exciting experience now in its 33rd summer, this workshop provides America’s most talented high school writers with the opportunity to work in intensive, small-group workshops led by nationally recognized authors. Featuring workshops in fiction, poetry and creative nonfiction, Susquehanna’s Summer Writers Workshop was selected as a Best Value in Summer College Programs by Early College Programs, and named one of the 500 best summer programs in the world by Princeton Review Press. Classes are limited to 15 students to ensure close supervision and individual conferencing.
💰 Scholarships Available
{Thurber House} Young Writers' Studio
Every other week, local teens gather at Thurber Center to write, create, and explore ways to get their stories on paper. Whether it's a passion, or just a hobby, we invite any student in grades 9-12 to join us for an opportunity to spend time with others who also like to write. With Columbus College of Art and Design professor Robert Loss, we challenge students to take a different spin each week through exploratory exercises designed to inspire out-of-the box thinking. A portion of each session is set aside for young writers who would like to bring in their own writing to be reviewed and discussed by their peers in a creative and nurturing environment. Students who prefer not to bring in work take part by learning how to talk about writing in a constructive way while helping fellow writers improve their pieces.
{University of Houston} Story Lines
Storytelling is inextricably linked to our DNA, and happily so. For millennia, we’ve enter- tained ourselves with all kinds of tales that, however conveyed and consumed, retold and remixed, drawn from life or fantastically imagined, manage to work their magic in every corner of the globe. This summer you’ll dive, head, eyes and heart first, into some of the most captivating stories ever to appear in print or on film, all in the air-conditioned comfort of Wonderworks’ digitally enhanced story cave just a hop, skip and a jump from the Univer- sity of Houston’s Creative Writing Program, which helps keep us supplied with well-read, well-watched literary sherpas, year in and year out.
{University of Iowa} Iowa Young Writer’s Studio
The Iowa Young Writers' Studio is a creative writing program for high school students at the University of Iowa, housed in the Magid Center for Undergraduate Writing. The Iowa Young Writers’ Studio offers a summer residential program as well as online courses. The Studio gives promising high school-age creative writers the opportunity to share their writing with teachers and peers, receive constructive critique, participate in writing exercises and activities, and attend (actually or virtually) readings and literary events.
{University of Iowa} Summer Writing Residency
Students in grades 9-12 (current academic year) may apply for the Summer Writing Residency (SWR), an immersive 3–week residency at The University of Iowa’s Belin-Blank Center. Learn from world-class faculty on one of the premier arts campuses in the US. Participate in classes, workshops, evening tours, lectures, and events that will stretch you as a writer. The residency concludes with an art and reading showcase. Priority will be given to students who have participated in the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards.
{University of Southern California} Creative Writing Workshop
New to creative writing, or haven't tried it yet? Experience the collaborative environment of a writing workshop. Get constructive feedback from peers, while also working one-on-one with instructors to hone your writing skills. Learn four different literary forms and analyze the literary techniques of accomplished authors in these forms. Through your own study and input from fellow workshop participants, you will learn to “read as a writer” and “write for a reader.” Above all else, this course will encourage you to experiment in order to define and refine your own voice.
{University of Virginia} Young Writers Workshop Summer Program
The Young Writers Workshop of the University of Virginia is a nonprofit arts organization established in 1982 as the nation’s flagship program for young writers. Now in its fourth decade, it continues to bring together a community of writers from across the country and internationally with a common purpose: to create a supportive, non-competitive environment where teenage writers can live and work together as artists.
{Wake Forest University} Summer Immersion: Writing for Life Institute
What makes writing good? While some might say “clear expression of ideas” or “error-free prose,” what really makes writing good is that it works. The writing does something for us, whether it’s an essay that gains us admission to our first-choice college, a resume that lands us our dream job, a memo that helps us earn a promotion or an article that shares groundbreaking research with the public. Good writing accomplishes its purpose, whether that be to inform, entertain, move, persuade, or any number of other purposes. In this Institute, you’ll explore how to produce writing that will do things for you. Perhaps you want to learn how to craft a compelling college essay. Perhaps you want to write for a magazine someday. Perhaps you have a story to tell or an argument to make or information to share. This seminar will, to paraphrase the language philosopher J.L. Austin, teach you more about how to do things with words. We’ll talk with people who write for a living, who teach writing, and who use writing in their personal and professional lives. Like real writers, we’ll engage in the process of writing, from brainstorming to drafting and revising to final proofreading. Through participatory workshops and other hands-on practice, you’ll develop rhetorical and writing skills you’ll rely on in your academic, personal, and professional lives. By the end of the institute, you’ll have built a portfolio that showcases these newly honed writing and rhetorical skills.
💰 Scholarships Available
{Washington University in St. Louis} Creative Immersion Institute
In this institute, you will not only develop your storytelling and creative writing skills; you will also experience the impact of a university community on your writing. As you experiment in a number of creative writing genres (photo essays, poetry, memoir, scripts), you’ll share your projects with other students—and reflect on their projects. Morning workshop will be a place where we experiment with writing prompts and experience the power of workshop, as we share our projects. Afternoon workshop will be a place for us to engage with writers from across the Washington University campus. For instance: performing arts faculty might share an exercise in gesture & body language that inspires a line in your poetry. Environmental studies faculty will share perspectives that shape your fictional descriptions of place. Campus librarians will inspire your understanding of history and memoir as we learn from campus archives. Above all, you will experience creative writing at Washington University—and transform your writing as you explore these new perspectives.
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