UVa Young Writers Workshop Seeking Applicants

Our friends at the University of Virginia Young Writers Workshop are currently accepting applications for their summer program. The 27-year-old workshop is for high school students who want to hone their writing skills among similarly talented peers in the residential program. Teachers and guest writers have included many VQR contributors, including Sydney Blair, Rita Dove, Merrill Feitell, John McNally, Greg Orr, Lisa Russ Spaar, Christopher Tilghman, Natasha Trethewey, and Charles Wright. Intensive workshops include fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, playwriting and songwriting.

Two of us here at VQR are alumni of the Young Writers Workshop, and we’re all big fans of the program. Applications are due Monday, although begging has been known to allow an extension. (That’s how I got accepted in 1995.) Spread the word.