New England Young Writers' Conference

10/25/2022

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The 8th annual Storytellers of Tomorrow contest for high school writers is now open—Oct 15, 2022 through Jan 15, 2023. The top prize in each category (genre stories, literary stories, and nonfiction) is $1,000 and the winners get a 1:1 consultation on their writing with a top NY editor, plus the students’ high school English teacher gets an iPad for the classroom, too.
Best of all, it’s free to enter!
Full details and submission information is found here:
https://www.ringling.edu/writingcontest/
To learn more about Ringling College of Art and Design’s undergraduate program in Creative Writing:
https://www.ringling.edu/Creative-Writing

Join a group of passionate writers interested in building compelling narratives. At Ringling College, our Creative Writing degree is designed to support, empower, and honor young writers.

11/01/2021

We want to let you know that due to continued COVID-19 concerns and circumstances we need to hold off another year. We miss you, miss your delighted delirious faces!
We hope to see you in the spring of 2023.

04/09/2020

We are greatly saddened to not hold our conference this year. I know it’s a disappointment to our students, writers and teachers, too. Posting this submission call for writing high school students, another way to be a part of the literary community.

The WEIGHT Journal is a “literary blog for high school students who may similarly find themselves in need of a creative outlet. Everyone has something heavy to get off their chest.” The…

11/07/2019

New England Young Writers’ Conference May 14-17, 2020 Accepting applications between October 1 and November 21, 2019 For over thirty years, high s...

05/25/2019

Four days of nearly perfect weather, new friendships, and wild creativity! NEYWC 2019 was a wonderful experience. Thanks to everyone who was there for making it such a success!

03/04/2019

This is a wonderful intensive summer writing program to consider applying to.

Camp sessions offered for grades 6-12. Scholarships are available.

02/20/2019

Here's an opportunity for high school aged writers from the literary magazine Hunger Mountain.

Deadline: March 1. Hunger Mountain is pleased to announce its new International Young Writers Prize! This contest is open to only high school student writers (ages 14-18) from around the world, and all genres of creative writing: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and writing for young adults and children...

02/16/2019

An amazing poem from a recent NEYWC workshop leader, Paige Ackerson-Kiely!

Inside a cage the dog snarls and snaps, even the air is torn. Inside the house the man’s voice is a bed turned over by cops. They find nothing but their own anger, some old tissues. They leave the …

10/31/2018

We can't wait to read this new book by NEYWC workshop leader Devon Moore!

"All Throats Sound Animal" by Devon Moore, winner of the 2017 Cider Press Review Editors' Prize Book Award, has just come back from the printer, and it is a joy. All entrants to the 2017 Editors' Prize will receive a copy. For all y'all others, it is available in the CPR bookstore.

Advance praise for All Throats Sound Animal:
“In All Throats Sound Animal, Devon Moore has assembled poems from the empathetic imagination—alert, simultaneously delicate and strong, like raw silk. This is a collection to be read carefully and slowly for this is a poetics of compassion.”

—Stephen Kuusisto, author of Only Bread, Only Light and Letters to Borges.
http://ciderpressreview.com/cider-press-review/all-throats-sound-animal-is-in-and-its-amazing/

07/27/2018

Check this out!

High-level, small group masterclass with one-on-one instruction for creative nonfiction writers, October 12-14. Info packet and application available now.

10/09/2017

It's that time again.

New England Young Writers’ Conference Accepting applications between October 10th and November 16th, 2017 For over thirty years, high school studen...