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Iowa Young Writers’ Studio

Creative writing programming for high school students

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  • A group of students discuss their writing during the Summer Residential Program

    Summer Residential Program

    Every summer, during two 2-week sessions, 144 high school aged writers from across the country and the world come together to share their work, practice craft, and improve their writing in Iowa City, Iowa, home of the University of Iowa.

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    Online Courses

    We offer 6 week online courses for high school students twice every year, January-February and June-August.

  • IYWS Instructor Carl Napolitano

    Study with graduates of the Iowa Writers' Workshop

    Students have the opportunity to study with graduates of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and other renowned Iowa MFA programs.

The Summer Residential Program: An immersive creative writing experience

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Summer Residential Program

At the Summer Residential Program, you will choose a single core course—Poetry, Fiction, Creative Writing, Playwriting, or TV writing—as your focus for the two weeks of the program. 

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Life at the Summer Residential Program

If you’re a writer, you’ve experienced the heated frenzy of creation, the joyful and/or grueling experience of distilling your ideas and visions into language. Now, how do you turn what you’ve written into art?

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Teachers and Counselors

Teachers and counselors at the Iowa Young Writers’ Studio are chosen, with rare exceptions, from among the students and graduates of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop at the University of Iowa.

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Iowa Young Writers’ Studio Experience

Watch this short video for an inside look at the Iowa Young Writers’ Studio experience.




Iowa Young Writers' Studio
Stephen Lovely, Director


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Iowa City, Iowa 52242


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