Parents, this opportunity can help your children become acclimated to college life (perhaps at Penn State?) and really concentrate on improving their writing, an asset in both their high school and collegiate careers.
Note from the Directors
Dear Writers and Parents:
We began where you are: excited by language, driven to write down the details of our lives and the worlds—real and imagined—around us. As published writers and teachers of writing, we
are thrilled to offer the Penn State Young Writers’ Workshop, an opportunity we dreamed of as teenagers. Here you can write, workshop, meet published authors, and chat late into the
night about stories and authors and how to work your way back from “the butler did it.”
We want to encourage our young writers to ask questions, to engage their imaginations, to read and write more, to be part of a worldwide writing community that starts here at Penn
State. So, if you have questions, please feel free to drop us a line. We will be happy to help in any way we can.
All the Best,
Camille-Yvette and Sheila
Mission
The Young Writers’ Workshop strives to enrich young writers by:
- introducing them to published authors and compelling literature
- fostering a supportive writing community
- developing students’ writing and critical faculties
Overview
The Penn State Young Writers’ Workshop offers exceptionally motivated young writers the opportunity to live and write in Happy Valley. The students will work with published authors
and engage in workshops with like-minded students. For this two-week program the students will earn 4 college credits, which can be transferred to nearly any accredited college or
university in the country. More important, we grant the time, the space, and the guidance for the students to seriously explore their own writing.
The students will participate in two workshops a day:
- a two-week-long course in a primary genre (fiction or poetry)
- a second, week-long course in an elective genre (such as songwriting or the graphic novel). The students will select another elective genre for their second week.
In keeping with the rigor of the courses, the workshops will be capped at ten students, affording each student the attention and support he/she deserves.
The young writers will also meet with their instructors (Penn State English Department faculty) outside of class for a one-on-one evaluation of their portfolios.
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