Join us IN-PERSON* or online from June 26 to June 30, 2023, for a week-long Writing Workshop complete with guest appearances by authors and intense workshops taught by our Teacher Consultants!
We welcome students entering 4th through 7th and 8th through 12th grades in the Fall to register here for this exciting event that will be held from 9 am until 2 pm each day.*
*Please note that we are making plans for both IN-PERSON AND virtual options for the summer of 2023.
Registration includes admission to sessions with our guest authors, our writing TCs, and opportunities to write and revise work throughout the week. All participants may submit to the workshop anthology, which writers will receive as a printed copy and as a pdf file for participants to print or share with family and friends. Participants will also receive a Project Write t-shirt and a copy of guest authors’ books.
Each day includes a session with a professional author, genre sessions, writing workshops, and lots of opportunity for creative writing growth. In addition, our young writers will have the opportunity to conference one-on-one with our Teacher Consultants for personal feedback and revision.
SAMPLE SCHEDULE
8:30-9:00 AM Check-in and Personal Writing Time
9:00-10:30 AM Small Group Workshop
10:30-11:55 AM Craft Talk with Published Author
12:00-12:30 PM Lunch with Peers
12:30-1:20 PM Critique and Revision Workshop
1:30-2 PM Open Mic
Project Write beats Disney!
“Emmylou goes on about your camp as if I sent her to Disney World for a week.”
Registration –
EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT: $300 if registered and paid by December 31, 2022.
$400 Registration preferred by May 31; we will try to accommodate registrations through start of the workshop.
Please contact us at projectwriteinc@gmail.com for sibling or family discounts.
Scholarships are available! Students with financial need can apply by selecting this option on the registration form. Scholarship deadline February 28, 2023.
BY-THE-DAY SYWW
Unable to make the full week? You can sign up for only the days that you are available to attend! Just select your specific days at registration!
The cost of the By-the-Day Summer Young Writers’ Workshop will be $100 per day. This includes any presentations on the purchased days and the opportunity to submit to the anthology. T-shirts will be included for three or more days. By-the-Day registration is now open.
Completing Registration
Please complete this Google Form to register. You may send payment via Paypal to projectwriteinc@gmail.com or contact us for offline payment options.
Scholarships
Please see the Scholarship page for more information and to apply or select the scholarship option from the registration page.
Deadline
Registration is requested by May 31, 2023, but we accept registration through the event. Due to our planning of events relying on accurate numbers of participants, refunds are NOT available after June 10. We will try to accommodate late registrations, but the availability of books and t-shirts are limited after May 31.
Any questions can be directed to our main office at projectwriteinc@gmail.com
We look forward to working with you!
Write On!
Please note that the authors’ availability may change at any time and the names are not guaranteed. We may add or remove authors at any point in time.
VISITING AUTHORS for 2023:
Steve Kirk is a poet, essayist, editor, and musician currently living outside Capon Springs, WV. Steve’s work interrogates semiotics, technology, materialism, and anthropology – as well as the structure which animates our understanding of those fields. Formerly an editor at Black and Green Review, regular contributor to Fifth Estate, and current editor at Oak, Steve’s work has gone far from his early days as a competitive slam poet. Currently guitarist with the band Ice Mountain, Steve also raps as VOF and works with Questionable Records to encourage and promote traditional and experimental music from the Potomac Highlands. He will kick off the worksop on Monday with an interactive lesson in spoken word performance.
Caldecott medalist Jason Chin is the author and illustrator of many acclaimed books, including Grand Canyon, Redwoods and Your Place in the Universe. Jason grew up in a small town in New Hampshire that happened to be home to Caldecott medalist, Trina Schart Hyman. Hyman presented regularly at his elementary school and they met when he was a teenager. She became his mentor and guided him as he pursued a career in the arts. Read more about Jason Chin here. He will be visiting on Wednesday.
Torrey Maldonado was born and raised in Brooklyn, growing up in the Red Hook housing projects. He has been a teacher for New York City public schools for nearly 25 years and his fast-paced, compelling stories are inspired by his and his students’ experiences. His popular novels for young readers include What Lane?, which garnered many starred reviews and was cited by Oprah and the New York Times for being an essential book to discuss racism and allyship. Visit his website to learn more about him. He will be visiting on Friday.
Laurel Snyder is the author of eight novels for children, numerous children’s books, two books of poetry, and edited a nonfiction book. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and a former Michener-Engle Fellow, Laurel has published work in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, the Utne Reader, the Chicago Sun-Times, the Revealer, Salon, The Iowa Review, American Letters and Commentary, and elsewhere. She was an occasional commentator for NPR’s All Things Considered, and she currently teaches in the MFAC program at Hamline University, and also in the creative writing department at Emory University. Read more about her here! Young writers may choose her Friday sesson.
Erin Entrada Kelly has received numerous awards and recognition for her work, including the 2018 Newbery Medal for Hello, Universe, a 2021 Newbery Honor for We Dream of Space, the 2017 APALA Award for The Land of Forgotten Girls, and the 2016 Golden Kite Honor Award for Blackbird Fly, among many other honors. She is also the author and illustrator of the Marisol Rainey collection. Before becoming a children’s author, Erin worked as a journalist and magazine editor. She received numerous awards for community service journalism, feature writing, and editing from the Louisiana Press Association and the Associated Press. Erin is Filipina-American. Read more about her here or take a peek at her notebook! Young writers may choose her Friday sesson.
Past Authors 2022
A huge thank you to the Claude Moore Charitable Foundation for providing funding for scholarships to students with financial need and to Shenandoah University’s Children’s Literature Conference for once again sharing their award-winning authors with us.
Other Workshops:
Second Saturdays Series (virtual)
Weekend Workshops: Fauquier & Loudoun
Advanced Young Writers’ Workshop (virtual)
Young Screenwriters’ Conference, Shenandoah University, Winchester, TBA, 2022 (hybrid: virtual or online)
Summer 2023, June 26-30, Shenandoah University Winchester, Va. (hybrid: virtual or online)