7:45-8:30 am: Breakfast and announcements with peers, mentors, and faculty.

9-10:15 am: Morning reading discussions will be taught as conventional college-level courses, focusing our analysis on the writer's craft. We will examine important contemporary poetry and fiction to get a stronger sense of the writing landscape in which we live, as well as to closely analyze the kinds of choices writers make and the variety of techniques available to fulfill those choices.

10:30-11:30 am: Directed writing sessions will encourage students to generate new material by trying on fresh approaches to their writing. Exercises might include responsive writings, imitations, or focused work on creative techniques such as dialogue, figurative language, tone, or voice.

11:45 am-12:30 pm: Lunch with peers, mentors, and faculty.

1-2:30 pm: Free time to read, relax, or work on a draft.

2:30-4:00 pm: Rather than assuming that writers work in creative isolation, afternoon workshops allow students to build trusting relationships with peers pursuing shared creating goals. These sessions offer students the opportunity to give and receive constructive feedback on one another's work.

4-5:45 pm: Free time to write, read, or relax. Excursions might be scheduled during these hours.

5:45-6:30 pm:Dinner with peers, mentors, and faculty

7-9:00 pm: The culmination of this work is a series of public readings in which students will share their work alongside faculty, mentors, and established writers. This year's special reading series guests may include editor of Willow Springs, writer and teacher Sam Ligon, whose collection of stories, Drift and Swerve, won the 2008 Autumn House Fiction Prize; Laurie Lamon, who won a Washington State Artist Trust award in 2005, the same year her collection of poems, The Fork Without Hunger, was published; and Tod Marshall, editor of a collection of interviews and two poetry collections, the most recent of which, The Tangled Line, was released this Spring. Parents and friends are encouraged to see students read their work in these vibrant, creative events.