Teen Writers Institute

​This summer writing program for teens offers a curriculum designed to develop and support students’ imaginative and academic writing across literary genres. Courses every year range from humor to horror, writing plays and playing with writing, making arguments and making memories, all taught by teachers versed in instruction and publication.

Courses Offered:

Author in Residence Novel Writing

This course is taught by our author in residence, Hannah Jayne, and will cover everything you ever wanted to know about writing a book—and culminate with you writing one! We’ll tackle concepts, first lines, chapter structure, those sagging middles, and punch-powerful endings. While writing, we’ll work on ways to keep up motivation, tackle writer’s block, and avoid creating another unfinished work. Students should have a working knowledge of genre and basic story structure prior to taking this class and will be expected to write. Laptops equipped with Word preferred.

Flip the script

Want to write for film, theatre or television? In this genre-bending class you will learn to turn your poetry, short stories, and novel chapters into scripts. You’ll learn basic formatting and how plot, character, dialogue, imagery and sound effects fit into a script to tell compelling stories that can be brought to life as plays, animation, tv, film and web content. Star in your own story or learn how to work with partners, build a writer’s room, or bring a script to a production team. Come learn a new storytelling form and take your writing journey to the next level!