Summer workshop for young writers at KWH
A Penn Current article describes the new Summer Workshop for Young Writers at the Kelly Writers House. It begins:
This summer, Kelly Writers House will host its first intensive writing workshop for high school juniors and seniors. Directed by Jamie-Lee Josselyn, associate director for recruitment at the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing, the 10-day residential program, which will run July 9-19, is meant to inspire, energize, and empower young writers.
“For a number of years, we’ve wanted to open the Writers House up in the summer for high school students,” Josselyn says. “[We want to] give them a sense of what the space is like, what it’s like to be part of such a close-knit writing community.”
The program will enroll 20 students. Applications, due Friday, March 17, require a 300-word essay, high school transcript, teacher recommendation letter, and writing sample. An optional need-based financial aid statement will also be accepted.
More information can be found HERE.
Al Filreis is Kelly Professor, Faculty Director of the Kelly Writers House, Director of the Center
for Programs in Contemporary Writing, Co-Director of PennSound, and Publisher of Jacket2—all at the University of Pennsylvania. Among his books are Secretaries of the Moon,
Wallace Stevens & the Actual World, Modernism from Left to Right, and Counter-Revolution of the Word: The Conservative Attack on Modern Poetry, 1945-60. His new book is 
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