FARMINGTON — The University of Maine at Farmington Longfellow Young Writer’s Workshop will hold its sixth annual summer writing camp for talented high school writers from Sunday, July 12 through Saturday, July 18, on the UMF campus.
As an incentive for young writers to continue their education after high school, the University is proudly announcing that it is now awarding two humanities credits to Longfellow participants who later choose to enroll in any UMF degree program.
The only week-long young writers summer workshop in New England, Longfellow provides high school writers with the opportunity to work with expert UMF faculty and published authors as students immerse themselves in the writing world. The writing camp holds small supportive workshops in poetry, nonfiction, screenwriting and fiction. Faculty will be joined this year by: Wesley McNair, Maine State Poet Laureate; William Giraldi, senior fiction editor for AGNI and novelist and Sarah Braunstein, novelist and Maine author.
Participants will publish a chapbook of student work, recreate in the beautiful Maine wild and reside in a campus residence hall under the guidance of UMF staff and senior creative writing students. Cost of the week-long program is $800, including tuition, room/board and fees.
For applicants with demonstrated talent and need, the workshop offers one male and one female Maine resident the Michael Macklin fellowship, in honor of Portland poet and poetry educator Michael Macklin. This fellowship is sponsored by the Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance and covers the $800 cost of the workshop.
In addition, several partial scholarships granted by UMF are available to both in-state and out-of-state applicants. To be considered for a scholarship, a five-page creative writing sample and 500-word statement of need must be submitted electronically by May 1.
Applications for Longfellow can be made through the UMF website at http://creativewriting.umf.maine.edu/longfellow/.
