Applications are now open for the 2023 Young Writers' Workshop!
Save the date for June 11-17th.
You can get more information and apply here: https://www.youngwritersworkshop.org.
This 2022 Humanities Tennesseeevent brought over 50 high-school aged students to ETSU's campus for a week to explore their passion for writing and hone their skills by interacting with their peers and published authors.
ETSU's College of Arts & Sciences hosted its first annual Tennessee Young Writers' Workshop from June 5-11, 2022, bringing more than 50 high school students from all across the state to participate in intensive writing classes taught by award-winning authors. The program marks a new partnership with Humanities Tennessee that will enliven our campus with students engaging with exhibits, including the Reece Museum and the Warden Herbarium.
Special thanks to Humanities Tennessee and other campus sponsors such as the College
of Arts and Sciences, Literature and Language Department, and Bert C. Bach Written
Word Initative.
Young Writers Workshop students engage with materials from the Herbarium.
Poet Taria Person and some students discuss art in the Reece Museum and how to transcribe
the emotion from an image onto the page.
Local musician Florencia Rusenol ends her songwriting workshop with a group selfie.
Students practice using art as a prompt for writing by studying this musician possum
and his motives.
A final staff photo of the Young Writers' Workshop mentors and ETSU's campus director
of the event (middle). From left to right: Stella Rodenberg, Tuck Ledbetter, Lacy
Snapp, Madeline Rodenberg, and AK Stites.
Some of the 2022 Young Writers' Workshop staff from left to right: Madeline Rodenberg,
Lacy Snapp, Stella Rodenberg, AK Stites, and Dr. Jesse Graves.
Florencia Rusenol and a student collaborate on a song using lyrics written during
the workshop.
Young Writers Workshop students engage with materials from the Herbarium.
Poet Taria Person and some students discuss art in the Reece Museum and how to transcribe the emotion from an image onto the page.
Local musician Florencia Rusenol ends her songwriting workshop with a group selfie.
Students practice using art as a prompt for writing by studying this musician possum and his motives.
A final staff photo of the Young Writers' Workshop mentors and ETSU's campus director of the event (middle). From left to right: Stella Rodenberg, Tuck Ledbetter, Lacy Snapp, Madeline Rodenberg, and AK Stites.
Some of the 2022 Young Writers' Workshop staff from left to right: Madeline Rodenberg, Lacy Snapp, Stella Rodenberg, AK Stites, and Dr. Jesse Graves.
Florencia Rusenol and a student collaborate on a song using lyrics written during the workshop.