Tin House Summer Workshop

The Tin House Summer Workshop will be held from July 13 to July 20 at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. The program features workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction (8 to 10 participants per class), as well as one-on-one meetings with faculty, agents, and editors; craft lectures; author conversations; generative exercises; readings; and karaoke. The faculty includes poet, fiction writer, and nonfiction writer Billy-Ray Belcourt; fiction writer Danielle Evans; fiction and nonfiction writer Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah; and nonfiction writer T Kira Māhealani Madden. Participating publishing professionals include editors Elizabeth DeMeo and Alyssa Ogi (Tin House) and agents Danya Kukafka (Trellis Literary Management), Rayhané Sanders (Massie & McQuilkin), and Kent D. Wolf (Neon Literary). Tuition is $1,650; the fee for room and board in the Reed College dormitories is $900. Scholarships, payment plans, and application fee waivers are available. To apply, submit a writing sample of up to four poems totaling no more than 10 pages or up to 4,000 words of prose with a $25 application fee by January 26. Visit the website for an application form and complete guidelines.

Accessibility accommodations include elevator access to multilevel event and dorm spaces; accessible doorways and pathways; accessible bathrooms and dorm rooms; an accessible dining hall; golf cart rides to and from all dorms and events; reserved accessible seating for all lectures, workshops, and public readings; and ASL interpretation at all readings. Contact the executive workshop director via phone or e-mail for additional accessibility details.