There is no ceiling to our professional growth, but we need each other to accomplish difficult work on our students’ behalf. We need to raise our voices, lift our pens, and reflect deeply on the problems and systems we confront daily in classrooms and schools. We need to revise our practices to meet learners’ needs.
That is where the Western Pennsylvania Writing Project comes in. Many of the strongest, most innovative practitioners in the region trace their growth and development to WPWP.
Offered Monday through Friday, 8:30 am-3:30 pm, July 8-19, 2019, at Fanny Edel Falk Laboratory School, the Summer Institute for Teachers will focus on writing in and across disciplines and launching into inquiries based on the burning questions participants bring. Three graduate credits are available. Here are links to our brochure and application form:
22-26 July 2019 Fanny Edel Falk Laboratory School
co-taught by Melissa Butler and Michelle King
This week-long course, inspired by Paulo Freire’s “reading and writing the word and the world,” is for educators who want to co-create learning about what, how, and why we teach. We will explore concepts of trust-play-annotate-imagine-curate through reading, writing, moving, improvising, creating, noticing, reflecting, and being.
Throughout the week, educators will have an opportunity to grapple with a core question of practice, be in dialogue with others to find new questions, and enrich our overall collective inquiries.
The course is for any educator who has been part of the Summer Institute for Teachers (including those registered for SIT 2019) and for other educators whose practice or aspirations align with the central tenants of the National Writing Project (www.nwp.org).
1 graduate credit and Act 48 available
29-31 July 2019 Fanny Edel Falk Laboratory School
facilitated by Dr. Richard Koch
This three-day summer institute is designed to provide WPWP teacher-consultants access to two related experiences. In the morning sessions the group will experience key components of an effective writing workshop—including ideas for helping students get topics, craft mini-lessons that can help students improve writing quality, and also a review of writing circles as a method for assisting peers to help peers reflect on their writing for revision. In the afternoon session the group will experience both engaging texts and reading response discussion techniques designed to help teacher consultants prepare to effectively facilitate a book study for educators—quite possibly in their home school or district.
WPWP will provide books on site at the institute to help teachers “shop” for a book they might wish to utilize for a Book Club they would lead. The choice of books to use is open, however, and WPWP will provide books for the book study teachers will lead back in their communities or districts, as long as cost is mutually agreed upon.
We hope this institute will be inviting to new or recent teacher-consultants aiming to develop their practice and leadership.
Act 48 available
We want to thank the many young writers in the Pittsburgh region who submitted work to the 2019 Pittsburgh Regional Scholastic Writing Competition. We truly appreciate your work, as well as that of the many inspiring teachers who support youth writing. The over 400 submissions received this year reflect the vibrant breadth of youth writing in Allegheny County.
Grade 8
Ella Engberg, Gold Medal for Poetry “Little Miracles, Sky Falling, Night on a Rocky Beach”
Morgan Snyder, Silver Medal for Poetry “Nature’s Majesty”
Amelia Staresinic, Gold Medal for Poetry “Broken Boat, Broken Body, Broken Soul”
Grade 10
Ilan Magnani, Gold Medal for Personal Essay “Far from the Tree”
Allison Stein, Gold Medal for Poetry “A Subway Sign: Please Hold On Tight”
Makayla Wach, Gold Medal for Short Story “It Is What It Is”
Makayla Wach, New York Life Scholarship for Short Story “It Is What It Is”
Grade 12
Yumika Amemiya, Silver Medal for Critical Essay “The Fall of Romanticism”
Erica Davis, Gold Medal for Critical Essay “Hamlet’s Dichotomic Madness: An Exploration of Interior and Exterior Disunion”
Brianna Kline Costa, Gold Medal for Poetry “Golgatha in Texas”
Brianna Kline Costa, American Voices Medal for Poetry “Golgatha in Texas”
Brianna Kline Costa, Gold Medal for Flash Fiction “Heretics in the Promised Lands”
Brianna Kline Costa, Gold Medal for Personal Essay “Happy Girls”
Brianna Kline Costa, Gold Medal and American Voices Medal for Writing Portfolio “Unidentified Female Corpses”
Rin Swann, Gold Medal for Flash Fiction “The Second Rule”
Rin Swann, Silver Medal for Personal Essay “Stitches”
Rin Swann, Silver Medal for Short Story “Sophia”
Giordana Verrengia, Silver Medal for Flash Fiction “If You Want to Talk About Life (After Jamaica Kincaid)”
American Voices Nominees
Erica Davis, Grade 12, Ellis School, Critical Essay for “Hamlet’s Dichotomic Madness––An Exploration of Interior and Exterior Disunion”
Faith Nguyen, Grade 10, North Allegheny Senior High School, Poetry for “A Walk to The Edge of Saigon”
Roshie Xing, Grade 12, North Allegheny Senior High School, Poetry for “Names”
Brianna Kline Costa, Grade 12, Pittsburgh Capa School, Poetry for “Golgatha in Texas”
Brianna Kline Costa, Grade 12, Pittsburgh Capa School, Poetry for “Tenement Building in Delaware”
Senior Writing Portfolios
Madeline Bain, Pittsburgh Capa School, Honorable Mention for “Pleasantries”
Tess Buchanan, Pittsburgh Capa School, Honorable Mention for “Oceansongs”
Jora Hritz, Pittsburgh Capa School, Honorable Mention for “Lexicon of Life”
Hazel Shanks, Pittsburgh Capa School, Honorable Mention for “Dream Worlds”
Giordanna Verrengia, Pittsburgh Capa School, Honorable Mention for “On the Same Tangent”
Rin Swann, North Allegheny Senior High School, Silver Key for “Perceptions”
Jimmy Coblin, Pittsburgh Capa School, Silver Key for “Disconnect”
Katrina Mondor, Pittsburgh Capa School, Silver Key for “Never Enough”
Destiny Perkins, Pittsburgh Capa School, Silver Key for “8 Trials of Saying Goodbye”
Roshie Xing, North Allegheny Senior High School, Gold Key for “Restless Thoughts”
Madison Kararski, Pittsburgh Capa School, Gold Key for “An Instructional Guide on Molding a Human”
Brianna Kline Costa, Pittsburgh Capa School, Gold Key for “Unidentified Female Corpses”
Grade Seven
Poetry
Lucy Potts, Pittsburgh Capa School, Gold Key for “Fantasy”
Short Story
Caileigh Duffy, St Sebastian School, Honorable Mention for “Saving Color”
Lucy Larsen, Ellis School, Honorable Mention for “An Orphan’s Adventure”
Ella Thomas, Winchester Thurston School, Honorable Mention for “Catching Peace”
Grade Eight
Personal Essay
Sabrina Lateef, Ellis School, Honorable Mention for “Cancer Across Seas
Vishnu Venugopal, Andrew W Mellon Middle School, Honorable Mention for “A Day on the Battlefield”
Poetry
Teddi Pavalack, Elizabeth Forward Middle School, Honorable Mention for “The Abandoned Child of Fire”
Gábriel Götz, Marshall Middle School, Honorable Mention for “Forever the Same”
Delaney DeVault, Pittsburgh Capa School, Honorable Mention for “The Simpler Times, Roses”
Jack Pitard, Pittsburgh Capa School, Honorable Mention for “Optimism, Bug Bight Blues”
Madison Sabo, Elizabeth Forward Middle School, Silver Key for “Gender Confusion”
Georgia Siemon, Elizabeth Forward Middle School, Silver Key for “Bouquet of Truth”
Christina Campbell, Pittsburgh Capa School, Silver Key for “Belief, Delusions”
Lena Carson, Pittsburgh Capa School, Silver Key for “The Sunken Face, Self-Portrait, Bookstore”
Amelia Staresinic, Pittsburgh Capa School, Silver Key for “A Shadow Hanging By, A Storm of Gold Rain, Blue Plastic Swing”
Gina Palladino, Providence Heights Alpha School. Silver Key for “That Lovely Old House”
Isabella Cosgrove, Elizabeth Forward Middle School, Gold Key for “Terribly Funny”
Ella Engberg, Pittsburgh Capa School, Gold Key for “Little Miracles, Sky Falling, Night on a Rocky Beach”
Morgan Snyder, Pittsburgh Capa School, Gold Key for “Nature’s Majesty”
Amelia Staresinic, Pittsburgh Capa School, Gold Key for “Broken Boat, Broken Body, Broken Soul”
Short Story
Markella Jahn, Ft Couch Middle School, Honorable Mention for “The Quiet Café”
Science Fiction/Fantasy
Daniel Kochupura, Winchester Thurston School, Honorable Mention for “Only an Animal”
Grade Nine
Flash Fiction
Jamie Palone, North Allegheny Intermediate School, Honorable Mention for “Before the Sun Sets”
Journalism
Roan Hollander, Pittsburgh Capa School, Honorable Mention for “An Average But Discredited 2018 Season”
Personal Essay
Anker Zhao, Shady Side Academy Senior High School, Honorable Mention for “The Man Behind the American Dream: Walt Disney”
Aysu Türkay, Sewickley Academy, Silver Key for “Playdate”
Poetry
Kris Kaminski, Ellis School, Honorable Mention for “Of Silence and Mind”
Emerson Davis Martin, Pittsburgh Capa School, Honorable Mention for “Dry Drowning, Dirty Hands and Skinned Knees”
Madison Lott, Pittsburgh Capa School, Honorable Mention for “Licking Flames”
Lilly Werling, Pittsburgh Capa School, Honorable Mention for “Statue”
Julia Roeschenthaler, Upper St. Clair High School, Honorable Mention for “Lies”
Molly Figas, Pittsburgh Capa School, Silver Key for “Downtown is a little safer than it used to be”
Roan Hollander, Pittsburgh Capa School, Silver Key for “Wilderness”
Natalie Kocherzat, Pittsburgh Capa School, Silver Key for “Self Portrait as a Rubik’s Cube”
Neila McElfresh, Pittsburgh Capa School, Silver Key for “Fairy Dust, Dragon”
Oliver Moore, Pittsburgh Capa School, Silver Key for “Ursula, My Neighbor”
Josephine Reiter, Pittsburgh Capa School, Silver Key for “The Band Plays On, The Erasing”
Julia Roeschenthaler, Upper St. Clair High School, Silver Key for “The Bricks That Bondage Built”
Science Fiction/Fantasy
Odette Sherk, North Hills Senior High School, Gold Key for “I’m Here to Save the World”
Grade Ten
Critical Essay
Grace Coffelt, Ellis School, Honorable Mention for “A Difference in Perspective”
Rachel Bina, North Allegheny Intermediate School, Honorable Mention for “The Individualist’s Struggle”
Rachel Bina, North Allegheny Intermediate School, Honorable Mention for “The Age Old Problem”
Lowrie Woodside, Ellis School, Silver Key for “Marriage: The Goal for Young, Childlike Women in 19th Century Literature”
Flash Fiction
Makayla Wach, North Allegheny Intermediate School, Honorable Mention for “Over the River, Through the Woods”
Azriah Crawley, Pittsburgh Capa School, Honorable Mention for “Going and Coming”
Joseph Johns, Pittsburgh Capa School, Honorable Mention for “What You Should’ve Said”
Humor
Skyla McCormack, Pittsburgh Capa School, Honorable Mention for “Be Careful What You Wish For”
Faith Nguyen, North Allegheny Intermediate School, Honorable Mention for “Caffeine-Induced Truth From a Derailed Buddhist”
Personal Essay
Claire Shao, North Allegheny Intermediate School, Honorable Mention for “Tennis Team: The Oxymoron”
Makayla Wach, North Allegheny Intermediate School, Honorable Mention for “Worst Night”
Makayla Wach, North Allegheny Intermediate School, Honorable Mention for “Colors”
Makayla Wach, North Allegheny Intermediate School, Honorable Mention for “This I Believe”
Poetry
Samantha Silk, Ellis School, Honorable Mention for “Souls Like a Vase, In the Darkness of My Mind, Leaping Through the Night Sky, My Life is Poetry, Neutron Star”
Ashnaa Bhide, North Allegheny Intermediate School, Honorable Mention for “movie theater”
Makayla Wach, North Allegheny Intermediate School, Honorable Mention for “Identity”
Alison Harvill, Pittsburgh Capa School, Silver Key for “Self Portrait as a Kitchen Knife”
Amanda Mitchell, Pittsburgh Capa School, Silver Key for “Peach”
Allison Stein, Mt Lebanon High School, Gold Key for “A Subway Sign: Please Hold On Tight”
Faith Nguyen, North Allegheny Intermediate School, Gold Key for “A Walk To The Edge of Saigon”
Science Fiction
Jakob Schreiber, Mt Lebanon High School, Silver Key for “Recovery Under Duress”
Short Story
Natalie Cohen, Commonwealth Charter Academy, Honorable Mention for “Ashes”
Elizabeth Stenson, Winchester Thurston School, Honorable Mention for “Hues”
Robin Clement, Pittsburgh Capa School, Silver Key for “Break Free”
Lily Weatherford-Brown, Pittsburgh Capa School, Silver Key for “Devil’s Fork”
Makayla Wach, North Allegheny Intermediate School, Gold Key for “It Is What It Is”
Grade Eleven
Critical Essay
Julia Lombardi, Baldwin Senior High School, Honorable Mention for “It’s All About the Money”
Gwendolyn Davison, Fox Chapel Area High School, Honorable Mention for “Change in ‘Reuben Bright’”
Max Minard, Shady Side Academy Senior High School, Honorable Mention for “Freedom and Society”
Akshay Amesur, Shady Side Academy, Silver Key for “The Pain of the Pill”
Akshay Amesur, Shady Side Academy, Silver Key for “The Holocaust: A Unique Product of Early-Twentieth Century Germany as a Culmination of Early-Twentieth Century, German Anti-Semitism and Individual, Socio-Psychological Factors”
Max Minard, Shady Side Academy, Silver Key for “Shining Light on the Darkness of Classism”
Zofia Luther, Sewickley Academy, Gold Key for “By The Numbers”
Dramatic Script
Zoe Soteres, Winchester Thurston School, Honorable Mention for “Welcome Home”
Aaliyah Thomas, Pittsburgh Capa School, Honorable Mention for “Brown Like Milk and Tea”
Qingqing Zhao, Shady Side Academy, Silver Key for “The Children And The Frog”
Flash Fiction
Zehra Mehdi, North Allegheny Senor High School, Honorable Mention for “Not My Life”
Humor
Esmeralda Bessor-Foreman, Winchester Thurston School, Silver Key for “King Engages in Intellectual Fisticuffs with Birmingham Foe”
Journalism
Mishon Levine, Sewickley Academy, Honorable Mention for “E Pluribus Unum”
Grace Lee, North Allegheny Senior High School, Silver Key for “Lessons from History: An Analysis of the Rwandan and Rohingya Genocides”
Novel Writing
Bethany Edwards, Pennsylvania Virtual Charter School, Honorable Mention for “Wind Walker”
Personal Essay
Zehra Mehdi, North Allegheny Senior High School, Honorable Mention for “Even After 200 Years”
Tara Stenger, Pittsburgh Capa School, Honorable Mention for “The Butterfly Effect”
Caroline Cox, Sewickley Academy, Honorable Mention for “The 19th”
Bing Han, Sewickley Academy, Honorable Mention for “Essence of Food”
Erin Mahoney, Sewickley Academy, Honorable Mention for “The World Will Never Be the Same”
Akshay Amesur, Shady Side Academy Senior High School, Honorable Mention for “The Parchment Stallion”
Margaret Balich, Winchester Thurston School, Honorable Mention for “AQUARIUS”
Margaret Balich, Winchester Thurston School, Honorable Mention for “A Meditation on Divorce”
Zoe Soteres, Winchester Thurston School, Honorable Mention for “Orange Popsicle”
Zoe Soteres, Winchester Thurston School, Honorable Mention for “Living Life A Block from the Tree of Life”
Aria Eppinger, Winchester Thurston School, Honorable Mention for “Hair’s Why I’m Satisfied”
Thalia King, Pittsburgh Capa School, Silver Key for “How to be a Woman: a Checklist”
Mishon Levine., Sewickley Academy, Silver Key for “Well, What’s It Worth to You?”
Zofia Luther, Sewickley Academy, Silver Key for “Wigs”
Jacob Voelker, Pittsburgh Capa School, Gold Key for “Masculine”
Mishon Levine, Sewickley Academy, Gold Key for “The Fruits of China”
Ilan Magnani, Pittsburgh Capa School, Gold Key for “Far from the Tree”
Poetry
Gwendolyn Davison, Fox Chapel Area High School, Honorable Mention for “Conquistador”
CG Marchl, Pittsburgh Capa School, Honorable Menton for “Father Figure, down days, Panic Attack, An Old-Fashioned Ham Dinner”
Emma Steckline, Pittsburgh Capa School, Honorable Mention for “In Sickness and In Health”
Misho Levine, Sewickley Academy, Honorable Mention for “Lost, Found, Always Searching”
Max Minard, Shady Side Academy Senior High School, Honorable Mention for “Drooling”
Qingqing Zhao, Shady Side Academy Senior High School, Honorable Mention for “Walk Into The Light”
Margaret Balich, Winchester Thurston School, Honorable Mention for “Odds and Ends”
Zoe Soteres, Winchester Thurston School, Honorable Mention for “sometime wen”
Brando Sell, Franklin Regional Senior High School, Silver Key for “A Muzhik Pulling a Cart Through the Snow”
Allie Miller, Hempfield Area Senior High School, Silver Key for “Dictionary of a 16 Year Old Girl”
Maddie Figas, Pittsburgh Capa School, Silver Key for “Corey I’m Writing Because Nothing Good Has Happened Since You Died, Amelia Badelia and I Walk Through the Aisles of Tsunami Surf Shop, To My Mother Who Tells Me To Cover Up, We’re Lonely in the Spring, Kelly Shows Me Summer”
Margaret Balich, Winchester Thurston School, Silver Key for “Love Poems for the Past & Present”
Margaret Balich, Winchester Thurston School, Silver Key for “Pay Attention”
Javin Lee-Lobel, Pittsburgh Capa School, Gold Key for “Mindset”
Mishon Levine, Sewickley Academy, Gold Key for “Coffee Breath”
Eden Auslander, Upper St Clair High School, Gold Key for “Analyzation of Procrastination”
Science Fiction/Fantasy
Gwendolyn Davison, Fox Chapel Area High School, Honorable Mention for “The Last Ladybug”
Marie Kaminski, Pittsburgh Capa School, Honorable Mention for “We’d Never Been There”
Gwendolyn Davison, Fox Chapel Area High School, Gold Key for “The Blinds”
Short Story
Gwendolyn Davison, Fox Chapel Area High School, Honorable Mention for “Ash Island”
River Sell, Franklin Regional Senior High School, Honorable Mention for “4932 Mulwood Street”
Nicole Shigiltchoff, Winchester Thurston School, Honorable Mention for “Milo and the Graveyard”
Qingqing Zhao, Shady Side Academy Senior High School, Silver Key for “Breakfast with Strangers”
Grade Twelve
Critical Essay
Erica Davis, Ellis School, Honorable Mention for “Frankenstein and the Disjunction of Passion and Nature”
Emmy Hsiung, Ellis School, Honorable Mention for “Shelley’s Rejection of Rejection in Frankenstein”
Lauren Jasper, Ellis School, Honorable Mention for “Frankenstein as a Criticism of Romantic Ideals and Promethean Figures”
Meredith Warden, Winchester Thurston School, Honorable Mention for “The Detriments of Duty: A Psychological Study of Remains of the Day”
Meredith Warden, Winchester Thurston School, Honorable Mention for “Politics Made Personal: A Response to a Divided Congress”
Emma Schell, Ellis School, Silver Key for “Frankenstein as a Reflection of Romantic Ideology”
Yumika Amemiya, Ellis School, Gold Key for “The Fall of Romanticism”
Erica Davis, Ellis School, Gold Key for “Hamlet’s Dichotomic Madness––An Exploration of Interior and Exterior Disunion”
Flash Fiction
Jimmy Coblin, Pittsburgh Capa School, Honorable Mention for “Things You Don’t Know”
Madison Katarski, Pittsburgh Capa School, Honorable Mention for “Hyenas”
Madison Katarski, Pittsburgh Capa School, Honorable Mention for “Rooting”
Rin Swann, North Allegheny Senior High School, Silver Key for “Glory”
Rin Swann, North Allegheny Senior High School, Silver Key for “Laughing Now”
Rin Swann, North Allegheny Senior High School, Silver Key for “The Actor”
Isabella Johnson, Pittsburgh Capa School, Silver Key for “He Catches My Tears”
Giordana Verrengia, Pittsburgh Capa School, Silver Key for “A Chance to Explain (After Wynne Hungerford)”
Rin Swann, North Allegheny Senior High School, Gold Key for “The Second Rule”
Brianna Kline Costa, Pittsburgh Capa School, Gold Key for “Heretics in the Promised Lands”
Giordana Verrengia, Pittsburgh Capa School, Gold Key for “If You Want to Talk About Life (After Jamaica Kincaid)”
Humor
Giordana Verrengia, Pittsburgh Capa School, Honorable Mention for “My Fifteen”
Journalism
Amanda Lu, North Allegheny Senior High School, Honorable Mention for “The Case Against Harvard”
Julianna Jacques, Pittsburgh Capa School, Honorable Mention for “The Foster Care to Prison Pipeline”
Erica Davis, Ellis School, Silver Key for “Do You Have to be Rich to be Sustainable?”
Personal Essay
Lauren Jasper, Ellis School, Honorable Mention for “Oreo”
Madison Katarski, Pittsburgh Capa School, Honorable Mention for “The Color of Comfort”
Madison Katarski, Pittsburgh Capa School, Honorable Mention for “The Fear of Queer”
Sydné Ballengee, Ellis School, Silver Key for “Carving the path”
Madison Katarski, Pittsburgh Capa School, Silver Key for “Cornerstone of Chemicals: Green County”
Rin Swann, North Allegheny Senior High School, Gold Key for “Stitches”
Brianna Kline Costa, Pittsburgh Capa School, Gold Key for “Happy Girls”
Poetry
Maya Berardi, Avonworth High School, Honorable Mention for “The Female Body Is”
Maya Berardi, Avonworth High School, Honorable Mention for “To Janis Joplin”
Margaret Fletcher, Fox Chapel Area High School, Honorable Mention for “Love Painted Yellow”
Rin Swann, North Allegheny Senior High School, Honorable Mention for “Little Princess”
Roshie Xing, North Allegheny Senior High School, Honorable Mention for “Stories”
Riley Moore, Pine Richland High School, Honorable Mention for “The Beat of the Body”
Jimmy Coblin, Pittsburgh Capa School, Honorable Mention for “The Bus That Won’t Come”
Madison Katarski, Pittsburgh Capa School, Honorable Mention for “Swerving Through Route 30 Lines”
Hazel Shanks, Pittsburgh Capa School, Honorable Mention for “Bridge Locks”
Hazel Shanks, Pittsburgh Capa School, Honorable Mention for “The Pianist”
Hazel Shanks, Pittsburgh Capa School, Honorable Mention for “Mother’s Roses”
Ramir Burks, Urban Pathways 6-12 Charter High School, Honorable Mention for “The Mystic Soil”
Elizabeth Petro, Westinghouse Arts Academy Charter School, Honorable Mention for “The Killer She Became”
Margaret Fletcher, Fox Chapel Area High School, Silver Key for “A Life Beyond Ten”
Margaret Fletcher, Fox Chapel Area High School, Silver Key for “Alive”
Rin Swann, North Allegheny Senior High School, Silver Key for “Impact”
Roshie Xing, North Allegheny Senior High School, Silver Key for “Smile, Sweetheart”
Roshie Xing, North Allegheny Senior High School, Silver Key for “Crime Scene (A Tableau of Toxic Masculinity)”
Roshie Xing, North Allegheny Senior High School, Silver Key for “When We First Spoke”
Madison Katarski, Pittsburgh Capa School, Silver Key for “A Body Made Brittle”
Brianna Rios, Vicentian Academy-Duquesne University, Silver Key for “We’re not the lesbians in your dreams”
Roshie Xing, North Allegheny Senior High School, Gold Key for “Status of Dreams”
Roshie Xing, North Allegheny Senior High School, Gold Key for “Names”
Brianna Kline Costa, Pittsburgh Capa School, Gold Key for “Golgatha in Texas”
Brianna Kline Costa, Pittsburgh Capa School, Gold Key for “Tenement Building in Delaware”
Hazel Shanks, Pittsburgh Capa School, Gold Key for “Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor”
Science Fiction/Fantasy
Rin Swann, North Allegheny Senior High School, Silver Key for “Shades of Green”
Rin Swann, North Allegheny Senior High School, Silver Key for “The Monster Under the Bed”
Short Story
Rin Swann, North Allegheny Senior High School, Honorable Mention for “The Dorm Hall Therapist”
Rin Swann, North Allegheny Senior High School, Honorable Mention for “The Wolf”
Rin Swann, North Allegheny Senior High School, Honorable Mention for “Wine Stain”
Evie Jin, Winchester Thurston School, Honorable Mention for “Drowning Together”
Evie Jin, Winchester Thurston School, Silver Key for “The Things We Reach For”
Evie Jin, Winchester Thurston School, Silver Key for “If We Have To Fall”
Rin Swann, North Allegheny Senior High School, Gold Key for “Sophia”
Evie Jin, Winchester Thurston School, Gold Key for “After The Show”
Oakland
Students, grades 7-12: Develop your passion and strength in writing during one intensive week on the University of Pittsburgh campus! Western Pennsylvania Writing Project teacher-consultants, college instructors, and guest practicing writers will work with young people, Monday-Friday, using the Pitt campus as our classroom. Student-teacher ratio is approximately 10:1.
July 15-19, 9:30 am-3:30 pm.
Grades 7-12 Location: Cathedral of Learning (University of Pittsburgh Campus)
Cost of program: $325 (Scholarships Available); $300 for Pitt employees
Link to register:
Young Writers Institute 2019 Registration
NOTE: A Young Writers program for Grades 4-6, Art + Creative Writing, will be held at the Carnegie Museum of Art from 9:00 am-3:00 pm during the week of July 15-19, as well. Here is the program description: ” Develop your passion and strength in creative writing while using art to inspire your imagination. This one-week camp, co-taught by Western Pennsylvania Writing Project teacher-consultants and Carnegie Museum of Art education staff, provides an opportunity to explore and experience art as a writer.
Grades 4-6 Location: Carnegie Museum of Art, 4400 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Cost of program: $325; $290 for CMOA Members
This program will be administered through the Carnegie Museum of Art, and no Pitt discount will be available.
Link to register:
https://camps.artandnaturalhistory.org/event/art-creative-writing/
Pine-Richland
Pine-Richland Young Writers Institutes will be held for grades 4-8 during the week of June 17-21, 9:00 am-3:00 pm.
Please contact pryoungwritersinstitute@gmail.com for information regarding this location’s Institute.
Westmoreland
Writers of Westmoreland will offer Young Writers 2019, grades 4-12, July 15-19, 9:00 am-3:30 pm at West Hempfield Elementary School, 469 Wendel Road, Irwin, PA 15642. The cost is $335.
Link to register: Westmoreland Registration 2019