Ithaca Young Writers Institute

03/22/2022

Our in-person, residential program is BACK for summer 2022! Application deadline is June 15th, but early applications are recommended: we fill on a rolling basis. Find more here:

COVID-19 Vaccination and Policies Before applying to the program and paying any fees or deposits, please review our COVID-19 policy carefully. Participants must provide proof of full COVID-19 vaccination, including a booster dose as defined by the CDC, and may not participate unless fully immunized....

05/24/2021

Is your summer filling up? No worries: the flexible format of the online Ithaca Young Writers Institute creates the ability to study with writers and professors, build community, and generate work without being stuck online all day! Find out more at

The 2021 schedule reflects synchronous and asynchronous work. Students will find community, intensive instruction, and feedback without being tethered to their computers all day. Summer 2021 IYWI Schedule Format Core genre classes meet synchronously about one hour each week. Asynchronous work for al...

04/26/2021

And finally, our cross-genre TA, Rebecca Rivera, who will be working with Professor Katie Marks on Poetry, Image-Text, and Personal Essay. Check out all classes and faculty at https://www.ithaca.edu/ithaca-young-writers-institute/courses-faculty

"Hello all! My name is Rebecca Rivera, and I'm from Poughkeepsie, New York. I’m a sophomore Professional Writing major with a minor in Writing for Film, TV, and Emerging Media. What does professional writing entail? Well, it leans more towards technical writing, science writing, workplace writing, etc. Outside of professional writing, I enjoy writing nonfiction and playing around with poetry. Some fun facts? I love theatre, baking, anything and everything macabre, the deep inexplicable mystery of forests, ducks, and thinking about the inevitable heat death of the universe."

04/20/2021

Next, please meet our Fiction TA, Julia Dath! You can work with Julia and Professor Eleanor Henderson by applying to be in our Fiction track: https://www.ithaca.edu/ithaca-young-writers-institute/how-apply-cost

Hello! My name is Julia Dath and I’m from the Philly suburbs. I’m a junior Writing major and Writing for Film, Television, and Emerging Media minor at Ithaca College. I write lots of contemporary fiction and especially love writing stories about sisters. Some fun facts about me: I love Star Wars, Taylor Swift, and any movies or books where characters wear fancy dresses. I also run a blog where I review YA books, and I’ve been slowly (but surely!) reading Anna Karenina since January.

04/11/2021

Meet our TAs for summer 2021! First up is Adia, who will be working with Science Fiction/Fantasy class as well as our Literary Magazine class.

"Hi, I’m Adia Robinson Butler (that’s uh-dee-uh)! I’m from the suburbs of Chicagoland, Illinois and I’m currently a junior Writing major at Ithaca College—I mainly write poetry and contemporary and fantasy fiction. Here’s the extra stuff: I’m an only child and a massive introvert, I like movies, music, photography, and making digital art (I’m also a Graphic Design minor); I drink way too much coffee, and I have an existential crisis every other day that manifests in me revamping my Pinterest."

04/01/2021

Applications are open for this year's online institute! Deadline June 15. Check out our courses and faculty here:

07/29/2020

We're somehow already nearly at the end of our five-week remote program. It was hard to not get to be together in person, but the fantastic writers still made something special! That's culminated in their "time capsule" literary magazine, Not Laundry. Check it out here:

Laundry is the only thing that should be separated by color

06/01/2020

Applications are open through the fifteenth! Our online summer institute will combine synchronous meetings, asynchronous work and masterclasses, online feedback sessions and live readings, and a social community. No long hours spent in front of Zoom: this program will be accessible, flexible, and still generative it and creatively rigorous, with plenty of feedback. We're excited to get to know each other!

Meeting Schedules and Asynchronous Course Drop Dates Core Class Synchronous Workshop Meeting Schedules Cross-Genre Workshop (Creative NonFiction/Personal Essay/Poetry) Mondays 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM EST (synchronous) Fiction Workshop Mondays 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EST (synchronous) Sci Fi/Fantasy Workshop M...

05/18/2020

We have officially moved online for summer 2020! We will be offering a remote experience aligned with the five-week summer session, June 29 - July 31.

Students will experience a mixture of asynchronous and synchronous work led by IC Writing faculty and student TAs/Interns. Core workshops, literary magazine, and craft classes will all be offered as noted. Specific schedule to come; there will be no heavy Zoom requirements (Zoom session to last no longer than one hour each and take place no more than two or three times per week, in static schedule).

The cost for pre-college students will be $300 total; applications will still be processed via CampMinder.

Eligibility Students just completing their freshmen, sophomore, and junior year are eligible to apply to the Ithaca Young Writers Institute. How to Apply Applications are open. Submit the online application. (Applicants must create a Campminder account.) You may apply in two genres, but you will onl...

04/23/2020

We have some exciting announcements to make about this summer's programming, and we'll share them as soon as we can! In the meantime, tell us: what, for you, are some of the best parts about a community of writers?