Bard College-Young Writers Workshop 

The Young Writers Workshop is a three-week creative writing program for students currently completing grades 9, 10, and 11. This 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. 

Questions? info@simons-rock.edu or call (413)-644-4400

Website: Bard- Young Writer’s Workshop

Application fee: No application fee

Pricing: The tuition is $3,500.Tuition covers room and board, shuttle transportation to and from Bradley International Airport (or the Great Barrington bus stop), daily use of the College’s facilities (student union, library, gym, pools, tennis courts, fitness center, soccer fields), student study materials, all on-campus activities, as well as off-campus field trips, cultural events, and related transportation. 

• Students of color with demonstrated financial need may apply for the Dorothy West Scholarship. A number of runners-up may also be chosen and will be eligible for lesser financial assistance awards. 

Eligibility: Students interested in creative writing that are completing their 9th, 10th, and 11th grade.

Students do not need to be residents or citizens of the U.S. in order to apply. They do not collect information about the legal status of applicants residing in the U.S.

Courses available: The Young Writers Workshop is a three-week creative writing program.

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Location: Bard College at Simon’s Rock