Stevenson Summer Writers' Workshop
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For rising 5-12th graders. Explore poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and more at Stevenson Univer There is one tuition scholarship available for summer 2015.
Participate in small group writing workshops with top poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction faculty. Learn about contemporary literature, craft, genre, and publishing. Students will attend literary readings and performances, enjoy creative thinking and problem-solving activities, and present their work publicly at a reading for family and friends at the conclusion of the Summer Writers Workshop
07/20/2024
We finished off this year's workshop with a showcase of their works. Students read poems, stories, reflections, (more photos coming soon) and even did an improv skit! We honored all their hard work with certificates for writing in our workshop. We're so glad they came to create with us!
07/19/2024
A new special skill that our students learned today is printmaking! Renee Angle guided our students through writing poems in her Collaboration & Experimentation class and learning a simple printmaking technique to display their poems.
07/19/2024
In addition to learning new techniques and creating fun stories, our students are also editing and publishing their work in our program’s online literary magazine! This year’s issue will be live by the end of the day!
Go to https://stevensonenglish.org/summerwritersworkshop/ to see your students’ work!
07/18/2024
Our students have been gearing up for our showcase all week! Thanks to Jordan Hansen, they’re having so much fun getting rid of stage fright!
Parents, make sure to save the date! Our showcase is tomorrow at 4:30pm! Come see the wonderful work your students made this week!
07/18/2024
Our tween students are reshaping classics! Elise Gallagher has been leading them through a special course called Reimagining Myth & Fairytale.
What changes do you think they’re making?
07/18/2024
A huge thank you to our wonderful SSWW faculty!
Yesterday, our students ate lunch with some of our faculty, and talked about all things creative writing!
07/18/2024
Not all writing happens at a desk!
After some excessive heat, our tweens were finally able to go out on Stevenson University’s nature trails during their Creative Walk class yesterday!
07/16/2024
World-building, character arcs, and mystical beings, oh my! Our students are letting their creativity flow in their Fantasy and Fan Fiction classes!
07/16/2024
Our students are working hard in their Foundations classes!
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07/16/2024
Lots of laughs on day 1 of this year's program! David Lefkowitz started his Humor class yesterday with some funny videos for inspiration.
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07/15/2024
07/11/2024
We're getting geared up to welcome everyone next week! Creative Writing fun starts in just 4 days. Can't wait to see what we create together.
In this publishing workshop, editorial students will go over the submitted pieces from students in the SSWW program. They will learn how to take differing content and put it together into a cohesive collection by discussing theme and finding connections between the written works. This workshop will give students a behind-the-scenes look at the editorial process: how and why works are selected, what decisions need to be made, and what are the best editing practices. They will also get to make editing suggestions to the writers and ultimately decide which pieces get published in their issue of the magazine.
In our Performance class, students will be guided on how to become comfortable talking in front of an audience and reading their work. There will be drama games and group activities to ensure students have a fun time.
Using poems generated in the collaborative writing class, we will create a broadside (small poster with a poem on one side). We'll use simple printmaking techniques to create visual/decorative elements for the posters that you get to keep and take home to hang and enjoy.
This is a playful experimentation lab where you can get messy with language. We’ll write collaboratively and on our own, play language games that result in poems and stories, and explore creative journaling practices that use both text and images. You’ll develop a tool kit of strategies to use when you are looking to add zest and surprise to your work. At the end of the workshop, we’ll create our own broadsides you can take home with a tabletop printing press.
In Tween Reading Like a Writer, we will explore ways in which writers give their stories and poems meaning through the choices they make. From creating characters to establishing conflicts, setting the tone, and emphasizing the action, we will look at how language and form affect readers’ understanding to discover fresh ways to make your writing more lively and complex, and more you! In each class, we will read a text, discuss the writer’s techniques, and apply one or more techniques to our own creative pieces.
This course looks at comedy as something that goes beyond punchlines – but can also include punchlines. We'll look at humor used in plays, films, TV series, and stand-up, as well as mining our own lives and beliefs for stories that can be told in a humorous way. Homework and in-class exercises will include brief writing assignments, and students will be encouraged (though not required) to present some of their work in class.
In core foundations, students will learn about different genres, writing practices, styles, and literature, as well as how to develop their creative writing regardless of their preferences.
In this class, we will work together on developing creative tools that will help young writers grow their craft in any genre! Topics covered will include creating complex characters, building a plot, finding a creative voice, and more.
Create poems with language from the world around you. We’ll be using newspapers, old books, the library, the internet, and our collective and collaborative brains to mine for language we will use to create poems that are surprising, risky, and richly textured. Found poetry is a great way to infuse new life, language, and ideas into your writing practice.
06/06/2024
Meet Logan Lynch part 2!
We asked Logan what some of their favorite books in high school were, and here’s their response: “When I was in high school, I loved mystery thrillers. My absolute favorites were M.L. Rio’s If We Were Villains and, although it is less of a mystery but follows a similar plot, Donna Tartt’s The Secret History. I also enjoyed anything by Holly Black. Her Folk of the Air series is full of wonderful world-building and characters with amazing depth.”
Have you ever picked up your pencil and secretly wished it was a wand? Do you open your mailbox and cross your fingers that you’ll have an acceptance letter to Hogwarts? When the wind blows strong, do you imagine that you’re flying on the back of a dragon? In this Fantasy class, we will create and build our own fantasy world and fill it with noble heroes/heroines and magical beings. With in-class writing exercises and examples from popular Young Adult Fantasy novels, we will create a new world that is all our own.
06/03/2024
Meet Logan Lynch!
Logan Lynch is an English major at Stevenson University. They serve as the Student Assistant for the English Department and as a Writing Tutor in Stevenson’s Writing Center. Logan also serves as an Assistant Prose Editor for Stevenson’s literary and media magazine, the Greenspring Review, where they have published some of their poetry. Logan is currently working on getting some of their short fiction published as well. In the future, Logan will be teaching English at the high school or college level while writing in their free time. For now, Logan can be found reading psychological thrillers and horror novels or writing stories with friends.
Not all writing happens behind a desk! Sometimes you need to get outside and stretch your legs to find inspiration and creative energy. In this class, students will participate in generative and reflective writing exercises while taking guided walks through Stevenson University's on-campus nature trails.
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05/30/2024
Meet Meagan Nyland part 2!
We asked her what some of her favorite books in middle school were, and here’s her response: “When I was in elementary and middle school, I loved anything spooky or weird or that offered a good mystery. Way Side School Gets a Little Stranger, the entire Goosebumps series, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (and all its sequels). Kids turning into dogs, ghosts, twists and turns in the plot, strange encounters, and tattoos that came to life. Any story that focused on the animal's point of view in a fun way. These things sustained me. I always had my nose in a book or my hand scribbling in a notebook, and you can certainly see the influence of these early readings on my work then and now. In the summer and fall, I still get a craving for strange, spooky stories.”
Have you ever wondered what your favorite characters do after their story ends? Do they plan smaller heists or do they live in a quiet cottage? Have you wanted to see how they relax between secret missions and big adventures? Do you imagine how they take their coffee or what they cook for dinner? Do you imagine what might happen if characters from different worlds met? In the Fan Fiction special topics course, students will learn about the different types of fan fiction and craft one of their own through fun discussions and workshops.
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05/27/2024
Meet Meagan Nyland!
Megan Nyland is a chaser of words, teaching creative writing, publishing, and video games at Stevenson University. She is the Faculty Advisor for The Greenspring Review and Director of the Stevenson Summer Writers’ Workshop. She holds degrees in English and Television & Radio, and earned her MFA in Creative Writing & Publishing Arts from the University of Baltimore. Her most recent work can be found in Fudoki, Daily Science Fiction, and Twist in Time Magazine, but she also has three story collections and was the managing editor for the anthology Writing Alone and Other Group Activities. She publishes under Meagan Noel Hart.
05/24/2024
We asked Matt what some of his favorite books from middle school were and here’s his response!
I have loved to read since an early age. The first chapter book I can remember reading just as I started school, was “The Alligator and his Uncle Tooth,” by Geoffrey Hayes. In Middle School, my favorite was the series “The Chronicles of Prydain” by Lloyd Alexander, better known as the Black Cauldron books. I would go on to read every series I could get my hands on and by high school, I was reading the classic, “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy by JRR Tolkien and, my favorite to this day, “Dune” by Frank Herbert and its sequels.
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About the Workshop
Participate in small group writing workshops with top poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction faculty. Learn about contemporary literature, craft, genre, and publishing. Students will attend literary readings and performances, enjoy creative thinking and problem-solving activities, and present their work publicly at a reading for family and friends at the conclusion of the Summer Writers Workshop.
The $375 tuition covers workshops, a journal, all supplies for daily activities, and snacks. There are two need based tuition scholarships available.
Spaces will be filled on a first-come, first-served basis. For more information about the workshop or to register online, go to stevenson.edu/writingcamp.
QUESTIONS? Please contact Meagan Nyland M.F.A., at [email protected].
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| Monday | 8:30am - 4:30pm |
| Tuesday | 8:30am - 4:30pm |
| Wednesday | 8:30am - 4:30pm |
| Thursday | 8:30am - 4:30pm |
| Friday | 8:30am - 4:30pm |
