Young Writers' Institute

Here's a fun contest! Prime 53 asks you to use a unique form to write a poem. Deadline is July 31. Free contest, all ages.

https://www.press53.com/prime-53-poem-summer-challenge

Calling all teens!
Ready to bring your writing out into the world? Join us for a camp designed to help teens prepare their stories, poems, and essays for submission to prestigious writing contests, anthologies, and literary publications. Learn how to craft compelling entries, polish your work, and navigate contest guidelines with confidence. With the guidance and support of your instructor and peers, you'll transform your ideas into quality, submittable pieces. We’ll also develop a contest calendar to keep you on top of your submissions throughout the year, and each student will begin their own online portfolio. This camp will help you gain confidence and direction as you grow your audience!

Ages 13 and up
June 22-26
1-4pm

For more info or to register, please visit: https://www.hisawyer.com/young-writers-institute/schedules/activity-set/1749334

A note for our homeschoolers: We are now offering Levels A1, A2, B1, and B2 in the daytime! IEW is a perfect program for homeschooled students. Through structured lessons and clear guidance, students learn and practice foundational concepts for academic writing, growing both their skill and confidence.

Our teachers are accredited by IEW, and we we teach the full program - not boot camps or mini-classes. We use IEW Student Structure and Style alongside Fix-It Grammar to round out our program.

We also offer all levels including Levels B3 and C1 after school as well.

Classes begin mid-September! For more info or to register, please visit: https://trianglekidswrite.net/iew-courses

Many camps are full, but we still have space in several! Superheroes camp begins next week, and we'd love a few more campers to join us on our adventure.

Rising grades 3-4
June 15-19, 9am-12pm
One of our most popular camps is back again! Students will create an original superhero and a formidable nemesis, designing their powers, weaknesses, motivations, and backstories. Will your hero have invisibility, x-ray vision, super speed - or perhaps a power no one has ever imagined before? Writers will then craft an action-packed story in which hero and villain clash, strategies unfold, and only one achieves their ultimate goal. This camp is perfect for kids who love to write fast-paced stories full of action and excitement!

For more info or to register, click here: https://www.hisawyer.com/young-writers-institute/schedules/activity-set/1749330

Everyone is welcome at YWI. Always!

Homeschoolers, YWI now accepts ESA funds. We have IEW and creative writing for homeschoolers throughout the school year, as well as half-day camps throughout the summer. Writing is difficult to teach at home - we are here to help!
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Two Young Writers Institute students have been honored by the NC Poetry Society - congrats to Aksh*ta and Hazel!

Let's hear it for the 2026 Pinesong Student Contest Award Winners from the North Carolina Poetry Society!  @north.carolina.poetry.society @mackozak

Summer camps are 70% full with five completely full camps. Now is the time to sn**ch one of the remaining spots!
https://trianglekidswrite.net/summer-camps

Inspiration from a very successful 22-year-old novelist - your debut book may be closer than you think, dear students!

Read about Nelio Biedermann:
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/12/books/review/nelio-biedermann-interview-lazar.html

ALMOST FULL:
Comics and Graphic Novels for grades 3-4
July 6-10, 1pm-4pm

Comic books and graphic novels are a relatively new and explosively popular literary form. That means that it is totally open for experimentation! First we'll create characters - maybe classic superheroes, or maybe someone totally new. We'll explore how story techniques evolve in this format, and how professional graphic novelists incorporate dialogue, exposition, emotion, and action with pictures and words. Then we'll plan a fantastic story using varied composing and drawing techniques. Each student will work to create at least the first three pages and the cover of the comic book, and they can take their work home to finish on their own. Don't worry about drawing skills - no artistic experience is needed to create an amazing comic book!

For more info or to register: https://www.hisawyer.com/young-writers-institute/schedules/activity-set/1749370