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The Young Writers Summer Residential Workshop is an intensive two-week workshop for intellectually curious, motivated high-school students who are eager to develop their creative and critical abilities with language—to become better, more productive writers and more insightful thinkers.
Non-credit
Residential
Accepts International Students
Financial Aid
In generative workshops, students write to explore ideas and produce fresh work in a variety of genres, including short stories, poems, and essays. With their instructors and peers, student discuss the craft of writing (and rewriting) to stretch their talents and develop their own unique voice.
This residential program takes place at Kenyon College, home of the Kenyon Review and a leading liberal arts college renowned for its literary history and beautiful campus. During Young Writers, participants immerse themselves in college life, living in dorms, writing in college classrooms, eating in Peirce Dining Hall, and spending downtime exploring the Village of Gambier and the Lowry Athletic Center.
Workshop groups of 12-14 students meet for five hours a day. All workshops follow a similar curriculum covering all genres of writing. Workshop time is spent freewriting, responding to writing prompts and assignments, discussing assigned readings, and sharing and discussing each other’s work.
Everyone in the classroom, including instructors, writes and shares work every day. The workshop is ungraded and student work is not evaluated in any formal sense. Instead, instructors emphasize techniques for responding to work in ways that will help the writer recognize their strengths, potential, and avenues for productive revision. Instructors also meet with each student in individual conferences.
In addition to the regular workshop group, students have the opportunity to sign up for a genre session, which is a mini, three-part workshop focusing on a specific genre or craft element. These sessions give students the chance to work with a different instructor and student group, and to hone in on an element of writing that interests them. Genre session topics vary each session.
Our instructors are talented writers and teachers from around the country who have a long association with the Kenyon Review and the Young Writers program. Many of our instructors have been published in the Kenyon Review and several are Kenyon College alums. Most have advanced degrees in creative writing and teach high school and/or college during the academic year. Because many of our instructors have been teaching in the program for several years, they are a strong team with a deep understanding of the curriculum and philosophy of the Young Writers program.
You are eligible to apply if you are a high school student who will be between the ages of 16-18 years old at the time of the program. Most of our participants are rising juniors and seniors during the program, but we occasionally accept talented students who have just graduated high school before the program begins. Students who are current high school sophomores but will not turn 16 until after the program are eligible to apply.
International students are eligible to apply, as are students who have participated in online Young Writers workshops in the past. Rising sophomores are not eligible to apply.
Young Writers participants are a diverse group, representing a wide range of academic and personal interests. You should apply for the Young Writers program if you like to work with other people, are open to experimenting with new approaches, are willing to be playful and take some risks as a learner, and are interested in the process of learning more than final goals.
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A complete application consists of the following:
1 - The online application form
2 - A 300-word statement, essay, story, or poem that illustrates why and/or how writing has been meaningful in your life (you may be as straightforward or creative with this prompt as you like)
3 - A high-school transcript, to be uploaded with the application form (we accept official and unofficial transcripts)
4 - The email address of the teacher who will provide a letter of recommendation.
5 - Financial aid information (optional)
Deadline
NOTE: The application will be available in early January.
Applications must be submitted by March 1st. Teachers will have until March 7th to upload letters of recommendation. We do not accept applications beyond the March 1st deadline.
Jun 23 - Jul 06
2 weeks
Residential
Jul 14 - Jul 27
2 weeks
Residential
The total cost of the program is $2,575, which covers program tuition, accommodations, all meals, and all activities. We do not cover travel costs.
In order to enroll in the program, accepted students must pay a non-refundable $500 deposit and submit enrollment forms by April 5th. The balance of the program cost is due on or before May 20th.
Financial Aid
We offer need-based financial aid for families who cannot afford the costs of the program. Financial aid decisions are made on a case-by-case basis. We are usually able to offer the amount of financial aid requested to all admitted students. Financial aid decisions are made in conjunction with admissions decisions; however, acceptance decisions are not affected by aid requests.
In order to apply for need-based financial aid, please fill out the “Financial Aid” section of the online application form.
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