Endicott
College has announced plans to host its second annual Young Writers
Workshop, June 28-29, 2018 for area high school students interested in
creative writing. Participants will develop their writing skills in
sessions on poetry, fiction, and playwriting/screenwriting led by the
College’s distinguished creative writing faculty members: Charlotte
Gordon, Dan Sklar, and Elizabeth Winthrop.
Students will
create and refine new work, learn how to give feedback to their peers,
and receive tips on how to promote and publish their work. At the end of
the Workshop, participants will present their work publicly.
“The
Workshop is designed to nurture the students’ talent, help them find
and refine their voice, and teach them technical aspects of writing that
can make their work more compelling,” said Dr. Mark Herlihy, associate
dean, arts and sciences and chair of humanities. “While students will
develop their own craft over the course of the weekend, they will also
experience what it means to belong to a community of writers.”
Participants will work closely with the College’s renowned faculty members. Gordon’s Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley won the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography, and her Mistress Bradstreet: The Untold Story of America's First Poet, won a Massachusetts Book Award.
Sklar is a two-time winner of
Endicott's Excellence in Teaching Award whose poems have been published
widely and whose plays have been staged at the Actors Studio of
Newburyport and the Boston Theatre Marathon.
Winthrop’s fourth novel, The Mercy Seat, will be published this month by Grove Atlantic. Her other novels include Fireworks and December with Knopf, and The Why of Things with Simon and Schuster.
The Workshop fee of $150 covers all activities, lunch and snacks each day (9 a.m. – 4 p.m.), and a t-shirt. There will be a
discounted rate of $125 for Beverly residents and children of Endicott
employees. Participants must be entering grades 9-12 in fall 2018.
To register, go to endicottyoungwritersworkshop2018.eventbrite.com For more information, contact Mark Herlihy at 978-232-2178 or mherlihy@endicott.edu.
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