by Livvy Jean It was February when I was home sick from work, exhausted and feeling gross, that I got a call from the poet Deborah Landau informing me that I had been accepted into NYU’s creative writing Master’s program for fiction. She told me…
by Rebecca Kilroy, former Summer Intensive Program Coordinator, moving on to brand new things It’s the summer of Eras! I’ve lost count of the number of Eras tour t-shirts our students wore to the Intensive. Not a single Wednesday special event passed without at least…
by Jared Harél, TWC Poetry Instructor “The craft of poetry is not easy. It is better than easy. It is joyously difficult.” – John Ciardi As a kid, I was lazy. Really lazy. It wasn’t a decision so much as a fundamental disposition—something innate and…
By Rebecca Kilroy, Summer Intensive Coordinator We’ve said it countless times, so much so that it’s become a refrain during the Summer Intensive: we would be lost without our interns. From directing car loops on the very first morning to stacking chairs on the last,…
Reminiscing with TWC Directors Judith Lindbergh and Michelle Cameron After nearly a decade of running the Summer Creative Writing Intensives, The Writers Circle’s completely out-of-the-box, super-fun, creative writing program for teens, TWC directors Judith Lindbergh and Michelle Cameron got together to recall about how it…
by TWC Founder/Director Judith Lindbergh What a pleasure to welcome Christina Baker Kline back to The Writers Circle! Our conversation on Wrangling Research*, held Sunday, February 21 via Zoom, proved yet again Christina’s wisdom, candor, and generosity. In a whopping two-hour conversation, we covered the gamut from inspiration…
by Lillie Hannon Please trust me when I say that I thought long and hard about how to answer “what writing means to me”. I came up with draft after draft about nonexistent schedules and favorite notebooks and my feral-like obsession with the perfect pen.…
by Abbie Davidson Ironically, it feels almost impossible to put into words how meaningful writing is to me. Perhaps it’s because I’ve been a college student for 3+ years, and, because of that, my writing has woefully sat, mostly untouched, in months old Google drive…
by Judith Lindbergh, The Writers Circle’s Founder/Director When I started The Writers Circle, I had no expectations that it would become what it is today. Honestly, I had no expectations at all. I just needed a way to make a little money, to contribute to…
By Steph Auteri This blog post was originally published on TWC Instructor Steph Auteri‘s blog. We are publishing this extract from it with permission. View the full post here. I was at my very first HippoCamp last year when I told Lisa Romeo my hopes and…
DRUM ROLL, PLEASE…. Here they are: The Writers Circle’s 2016 finalists in the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards! We have a lot of key winners this year in practically every writing category! And the FOUR Gold Key winners will go on to compete on the national level. Since TWC started sponsoring…
by Jake Rosati, TWC Summer Intern The second week of the Summer Intensives has begun with a great group of young writers who wasted no time diving in. The expanse of their interests and talents is incredible — from poetry to screenwriting to fiction to…
