Creative Writing Workshop Summer at Smith College

Program Dates

July 11-22, 2022

With so few writing programs that cater exclusively to high school girls, Smith's Young Women's Writing Workshop allows you to explore your writing in a creative and supportive environment that fosters your love of writing in a variety of mediums.

All of your classes will be in a workshop style, which means each class will begin with a short segment that focuses on a single lesson. Then the instructors will check in with you to see what you are working on. Open writing time follows. The class session ends with each writer sharing her progress with the group.

Your professors are all published writers and poets. They will pay special attention to teaching you how to read your work to an audience and how to get published. At the end of the workshop, you will have the start of an online writing portfolio and some professional contacts in the literary world.

Courses & Workshops

Students will take part in one morning and one afternoon workshop during the program.

Students who have paid their deposit will receive a link to the course selection form in late April. In this form, students will rank their preferences for courses. These forms, along with the application essay, help place students in their classes. Although not everyone will get their first choice, all students will receive at least one first-choice placement. Students will be notified of their course placement in June.

Morning Session

Select a creative fiction course

• Fearless Writing: A Fiction Writing Workshop
• Finding Your Voice: A Fiction Workshop Grounded in Women’s History
• iFiction: Write, Revise and Create a Writing Identity
• Ready, Set, Write! - A Fiction Workshop
• The Writer’s Eye
• Word Coven
• Writing the Unseen: Weaving Magic into Story
• Writing Young Adult Fiction

Afternoon Session

Select from a variety of special interest classes

• Food Writing
• Intro to Screenwriting
• Making Poems
• Memoir Workshop: Who Are You?
• Playwriting
• Poetry
• STAND UP! A Comedy Writing Workshop
• Writing for Magazines

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