<p>suggestions for creative writing programs that inspire? 2-3 weeks, poetry and short story writing, somewhere beautiful, for someone who will be entering 10th grade in the fall. Already applied to Interlochen; other ideas and experiences? Thanks!</p>
<p>Lewis & Clark has one, located in Portland, OR</p>
<p>Look into the Iowa Young Writers’ Studio. The related Iowa Writers’ Workshop is highly regarded.</p>
<p>My daughter is going to the Marist Summer Program and, of their 11 summer programs, one of their programs is for Creative Writing. Don’t know anything about it but the campus is beautiful. </p>
<p>[Summer</a> Creative Writing Institute: Marist College](<a href=“http://www.marist.edu/summerinstitutes/creativewriting/]Summer”>SPC Creative Writing)</p>
<p>My S went to U. of Virginia’s Young Writer’s Workshop for two summers (2 weeks and then 3 weeks the following summer). They offer poetry, fiction, song writing, play writing and the faculty and experience was amazing. HIGHLY rec applying --application is found through their Curry School of Education and is due Mar. 1 I believe.</p>
<p>Another good option, to apply as another option (UVA is hard to get into, but so is this one, so apply to both I’d say), is Kenyon College’s Young Writers Workshop. Kenyon is known for creative writing and English is their strongest major.</p>
<p>Thanks everyone, for your ideas so far. Unfortunately, UVA is not holding its writing program this summer (space issues because of renovations), and my daughter is too young for Iowa, Kenyon and Maris. We will look more carefully at the Lewis & Clark program, but at first glance looked as if it was not just creative writing like poetry and fiction, but also more academic (she is not looking for that, this summer). Does anyone know? Any other ideas/experiences? Anybody know about Walnut Hill or Putney?</p>
<p>Iowa occasionally makes exceptions for “exceptional” 9th graders - but since the deadline is 3 days away, that may be a little bit of a stretch.
I attented the Columbia Creative Writing program, which wasn’t bad but not worth the price.
Bard is rumoured to be excellent - and the campus is quite nice. It’s not hard to get into, and usually doesn’t fill up until may (rolling admissions)
Have you considered Duke? I don’t know much about it…
Hope this helps!</p>
<p>Sesquipedalians, would you mind specifying which Columbia creative writing class you took? Did you attend an introductory workshop, an advanced workshop, or a “master class”?</p>
<p>I was in an introductory class - too young for the master class. I met some really great people there and it was a fantastic experience, but I think it was more new york than columbia. I was disapointed with my evaluation; two quick sentences I had waited three months for, and which roughly summed up my three weeks there.
I had three instructors, one for the morning seminar and then two workshops. I really liked two of them, but one was antipathic. The only way I progressed was by practising. There’s two ways to approach it: you can stay shut up in your dorm and work, or you can party every night and skip class.
Otherwise, I had a friend in the master class. She seemed averagely pleased; she complained of too many sci-fi fans.
I’m not trying to dissuade you here, because you can definitely get some things out of it. I just personally thought that it was more of a money-making system than a real experience…</p>
<p>someone any experience with this program???</p>