CANCELLED - Young Writers Institute: Poetry
Week 5 | July 25–29 | Literary Arts Center at Alumni Hall | Ages 14–18
Spend a week developing your voice in the Young Writers Institute writing workshop. In this course, we will learn elements of craft that will help bring your ideas to life on the page. Through writing exercises and experimentation, close-reading of established and emerging writers, and feedback from your instructor and peers, you will craft stories and poems with intentionality and heart. You will also learn revising and editing techniques to make your pieces their absolute strongest, and will conclude the five-day course with an anthology of you and your classmates’ very best work.
Daily Schedule:
9–10:30 a.m.: Class
10:45 a.m.–12 p.m.: Class, or, depending on topic, attend a lecture in the Amphitheater
12–1 p.m.: Break for lunch and/or attend brown bag lecture program
1:30-4:30 p.m.: Class or attend CLSC presentation
Class Times
Kenyatta Rogers
Kenyatta Rogers is a Cave Canem Fellow and has been twice awarded scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. He has also been nominated twice for both Pushcart and Best of the Net prizes, and his work has been previously published in or is forthcoming from Jubilat, Vinyl, Bat City Review,The Volta and PANK, among others. He is an associate editor of RHINO Poetry and currently serves on the creative writing faculty at the Chicago High School for the Arts.
