Nashua Community College Teen Writers Workshop

NCC Offers 2nd Annual Summer Conference for Teen Writers

Nashua, N.H. April 26, 2016- In collaboration with the New Hampshire Writers’ Project (NHWP), the Nashua Community College (NCC) Honors Program will run a week-long summer conference for teen writers of fiction, nonfiction, drama, and poetry.

The program, slated for NCC the week of July 18-22, will offer seminars and workshops to help teen writers take their work to a new level. Short story writer Tim Horvath will offer the keynote address and a seminar for attendees. Additional seminars in fiction, poetry, drama, and nonfiction narrative will be offered by local writers and writing teachers. Participants must be entering the 11th or 12th grade by fall 2016 to enroll.

The conference will run from 8:30 a.m. until 5 p.m. each day, with an evening coffee house set for Thursday, July 21. Continental breakfast and lunch will be provided as part of the $150 registration fee. Students will have the opportunity to include their work in an anthology compiled throughout the week.

Tim Horvath is the author of Understories, from Bellevue Literary Press, and Circulation, from sunnyoutside. His stories have appeared in journals such as Conjunctions, Fiction, The Normal School, and elsewhere. His story “The Understory” was selected by Bill Henderson, founder and president of the Pushcart Press, as the winner of the Raymond Carver Short Story Award. He teaches creative writing in the BFA and low-residency MFA programs at the New Hampshire Institute of Art. His website is timhorvath.com.

Please contact NCC Faculty Rob Greene at rwwgreene@gmail.com or Steve Meidell at smeidell@ccsnh.edu for further details, or visit [ http://nhwritersproject.org/content/new-hampshire-teen-summer-writers-workshop ]http://nhwritersproject.org/content/new-hampshire-teen-summer-writers-workshop to reserve a space.