Goucher College Young Writers’ Camp
A one-week creative writing and college essay workshop for high school students who love to write!
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Goucher College Young Writers’ Camp will be run virtually this year. We trust you’ll understand this decision as your health and safety are of the utmost concern to us. Please see details below.
Session
Monday, July 6 – Friday, July 10, 2020, 9 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Programming
Students in the Young Writers' Camp will:
- participate in an intensive personal essay writing workshop as they prepare their college essays;
- Study various genres of creative writing with published authors;
- Virtually explore Goucher campus and college life;
- receive feedback on their writing from peers and instructors; and
- create an anthology of student writing.
Our schedule will include a balance of live online instruction, peer collaboration, and writing projects to be accomplished at the student’s own speed.
Instructor
Will Schutt is the author of "Westerly", a collection of poems selected by Carl Phillips for the Yale Series of Younger Poets. He is also the translator of "My Life, I Lapped It Up: Selected Poems of Edoardo Sanguineti" (Oberlin College Press, 2018) and Fabio Genovesi's novel "The Breaking of a Wave" (Europa Editions, 2017), among other works of literature from the Italian. He is also the recipient of several awards and fellowships, including a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Translation Fellowship, the Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Scholarship and the Reginald S. Tickner Fellowship.
Location
All activities will be hosted on the Zoom video conferencing platform. Students should have access to reliable high-speed internet.
Cost
$400
To pay in installments, contact camps@goucher.edu.
Contact
For any questions, please contact camps@goucher.edu.
1021 Dulaney Valley Road
Baltimore, MD 21204