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Matt Mason spreading the word about our new Young Writers Camp in Gering! Registrations are starting to come in. Limited scholarships are available--register early for best chance!

Young Writers Camp | Nebraska Writing Project | Nebraska Young Writers Camp (Grades 8-12)The Young Writers Camp offers a two-week program (Monday through Friday, 10am-1pm) at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. We offer workshops in slam poetry, fiction, non-fiction, fantasy, mystery, song-writing, poetry, memoir, and screen writing! Young writers work wi...

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BIG NEWS!!

The Nebraska Writing Project wants to share information about the first Young Writers Camp: OUT WEST!!

This will be a one-day camp in Gering, NE, on Saturday, June 13th, 2026. It will be a great opportunity for young writers in the western part of the state to engage in some cool conversations about writing!

If you are interested, or know someone who might be, navigate to our website to learn more and register: newp.unl.edu (or check out the link in our bio)!

If you wanted to apply to our Summer Institute or our Advanced Institute and you missed our original deadline, now is your chance to apply and join us this summer! This is a great opportunity to join some awesome teachers and do some great things this summer!

We look forward to having you!!

In partnership with Humanities Nebraska , the Nebraska Warrior Writers program is designed to help veterans, active-duty military personnel, and their families or support partners express their thoughts and feelings in words. Participants need only be interested in writing in any form - they do not need any previous writing experience to benefit from the workshops.

This is the spring lineup of presenters + dates!!

We hope to see you there!

The Young Writers Camp offers a two-week program (Monday through Friday, 10am-1pm) at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. We offer workshops in slam poetry, fiction, non-fiction, fantasy, mystery, song-writing, poetry, memoir, and screen writing! Young writers work with professional writers, professors, teachers, and undergraduate interns! Grades 8-12!

We would love to see your students there! Navigate to our website through the link in our bio to learn more and register!

Registration is open for our "I Love to Write (1+2)" and "We Love to Write" summer workshops!

The I Love to Write/We Love to Write Workshops are a series of summer writing workshops for youth and families to write in a supportive environment. This year’s workshops will focus on a variety of writing styles, strategies, genres, and activities. Sessions will meet on the UNL Campus for a week in June. The Celebration of Writers Ceremony is held on Saturday at the end of the week. These workshops are led by Sandra Peter and Susan Dinsdale, experienced teachers of writing, and the camp is sponsored by the Nebraska Writing Project.

Follow the link in our bio to see more information and registration details!!

The question this year's Advanced Institute wants to take up?: How can we ethically, ecologically, critically, and curiously take up the issue of AI in education?

Have you been wondering how AI influences your classroom, and what you can do about it? Join us this summer, where together, we’ll explore what AI means for our work in our teaching and our own writing.

The application window is open for any teachers interested in participating in NeWP's AI on AI this summer! See our website for more information!

Nebraska Writing Project’s premiere program, the Summer Institute, is open to teachers of all disciplines and grade levels.

This graduate-level course focuses on rejuvenating participants' own love of writing, inspiring collaborative inquiry with other teachers, and developing participants' own teaching practices.

Participants who are Nebraska teachers may also qualify for tuition remission for 3 credit hours, reducing the cost of 6 graduate credit hours to only 3 in English or Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education.

The application window to apply for the summer 2026 institute is still open, and we would like you to apply!

See our website for more information (link in bio!)

The dates and topic have been set for the 2026 Advanced Institute! This year, the focus will be on AI in the writing classroom.

AI is everywhere– generating headlines, writing lesson plans, providing overviews of Google Searches, and offering to "copilot" even as I type this. So what do we, as teachers, do about it? That's the question this year's Advanced Institute wants to take up: How can we ethically, ecologically, critically, and curiously take up the issue of AI in education? Together, we’ll explore what AI means for our work in our teaching and our own writing. We’ll experiment with AI’s classroom uses, read and reflect on its impacts, and develop guiding ideas that honor equity, imagination, and the human heart of teaching. Participants will craft reflective and practice-based writing that engages questions of AI—through position statements, personal/professional writing, and inquiry projects that could lead to teaching materials, assessments, or exploratory digital projects. Come ready to play, question, experiment, and write. Together, we’ll consider what it means to teach—and learn—with intelligence, both human and artificial.

We are excited to have you join us this summer! Applications are open; visit our website for more information!

Exciting News!! The Nebraska Writing Project Summer Institute dates for 2026 have been set!

This year's summer institute will be held from June 1st to June 19th.

Nebraska Writing Project’s premiere program, the Summer Institute, is open to teachers of all disciplines and grade levels. This graduate-level course focuses on rejuvenating participants' own love of writing, inspiring collaborative inquiry with other teachers, and developing participants' own teaching practices.

For more information and application information, navigate to our webpage under the "summer institute" section.