<p>As everyone is waiting for admissions decisions from various programs they applied to, I would just like to comment on my experience the past summer at Kenyon’s Young Writers Workshop. To this day, I maintain that the two weeks I spent at Kenyon’s program were the best of my life. I know a lot of people say that about writing programs, but I think that it’s especially true about Kenyon’s program.
Never before have I been with such a unique, eclectic group of people, all of whom understood and shared my passion for writing and were very accepting of individual quirks. All of the teachers were wonderfully helpful, and created great activities to help spur the creative writing process. I never thought I could have fun writing in a grave yard, but through the activities in my class I did! The program is such that we were able to produce and refine large amounts of work, but it was never a stressful atmosphere. As writers, we often critiqued each other’s work, but never in a mean way. As a whole, the program manages to intertwine intensely productive writing, with lots of fun.
Kenyon is a beautiful place to spend two weeks writing, and I cannot tell you how inspiring and wonderful the time I spent there was. If you get the chance to go, I would highly recommend it, and if you have any questions at all about the program, please feel free to contact me personally.</p>