Young writers are invited to hone their creative voices at Stony Brook Southampton this summer during two Young American Writers Project Summer Workshops, which will pair professional writers with high school students for four-day retreats in creative writing and playwriting.
The creative writing workshop will run from Tuesday, July 7, through Friday, July 10, and the playwriting workshop will run from Tuesday, July 14, through Friday, July 17. Both workshops will be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. each day. Students age 14 to 17 may apply to one or both workshops. Younger students may apply only to the playwriting workshop.
Created by Stony Brook Southampton’s masters in fine arts in writing and literature program, the Young American Writers Project is dedicated to mentoring young people in the development of creative expression and critical thinking through writing.
The creative writing workshop is an offspring of the Southampton Writers Conference, bringing teenagers into the creative world of working writers. It will allow young poets, essayists and storytellers to discover and explore new talents and develop existing ones. By week’s end, students will have a body of work to submit or publish, and will participate in a final reading that will be open to the public.
The playwriting workshop will be led by professional teaching artists who will guide students through four days of concentrated instruction in the process of writing a short, two-character play. The final day will be devoted to presentation, in rehearsed reading format, of the participating students’ work. The reading will be open to the public.
For more information, call (631) 632-5070 or visit www.stonybrook.edu/sb/southampton/mfa/yawp.shtml.
on Jun 23, 2009