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A creative writing seminar for high school juniors and seniors 

Gonzaga University is pleased to begin accepting applications for the 2008 Gonzaga University Summer Writing Institute, to take place June 15-22, 2008, at Gonzaga University in Spokane, WA. The Institute offers creative writers who are members of the classes of 2009 and 2010 the unique opportunity to develop their talents in a college atmosphere, with assistance and direction from published faculty. You will be joined by young poets and fiction writers from around the northwest in an intensive, weeklong creative writing retreat.

The Summer Writing Institute is an intensive, weeklong creative writing retreat that equips high school students to pursue writing as both a form of artistic expression and a craft to be developed. In short, we hope students will begin to see the study of literature from a writer’s perspective, asking at every turn what options are available and what guides a writer’s pattern of decisions. Students will discuss contemporary literature, learn drafting strategies, generate new poems and stories, offer and receive feedback from peers and faculty, and give public readings alongside emerging and established writers.

Students will also engage in cultural excursions both on and beyond the Gonzaga campus.  Institute participants may visit art museums, enjoy nature walks, or attend evening readings at local coffee houses. We’re still scheduling exciting events for this year’s students. In addition, students will have access to many of the facilities that make Gonzaga University a world class liberal arts university.