The Summer Residential Program
Every summer, 144 high school aged writers from across the country come together to share their work, practice craft, and improve their writing in Iowa City, Iowa, home of the University of Iowa.
Time to Write
We want you to have uninterrupted hours to lose yourself in your work, to dream forward into your story or poem, to “get words down” or revise and polish something you’ve already written.
Online Courses
If you’re a high school student, you can study creative writing with us from anywhere in the world.
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At the Iowa Young Writers’ Studio’s summer residential program, you will choose a single Core Course of study—Poetry, Fiction, or Creative Writing (a survey that includes poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction)—as your focus for the two weeks of the 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?
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.
Watch this short video for an inside look at the Iowa Young Writers’ Studio experience.
