The Alliance for Young Artists & Writers is offering a new opportunity for educators with a student who received recognition in the 2021 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards—the chance to participate in a full-week online workshop with the Kenyon Review.

Four educators will be invited to participate in the Kenyon Review’s annual Writers Workshop for Teachers. The selected educator-writers will join other participants for an online, seven-day workshop series from July 11–17, 2021 to hone their writing and teaching practices.

This opportunity is generously made possible through the Dr. Ernest B. Fleishman Educators’ Fund.

How to Apply

Visit bit.ly/2021WR on February 1 to access an application. The deadline for submission is March 4.  

Eligibility

Applicant must be the educator of at least one student who has received regional (Honorable Mention, Silver Key, Gold Key) recognition in the 2021 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. The recognition can be for art or writing.

About the Kenyon Review’s Writers Workshop for Teachers

This synchronous online creative writing workshop is designed for high school and middle school teachers who love to write. The week-long intensive is part writers’ retreat and part professional development, inviting teachers to a range of prompts and strategies meant to inspire their own work as well as the work of their future students. Come to reconnect with your own inner writer—the one often lost beneath piles of grading!—and leave with new work and new techniques for your classroom teaching. More details available at kenyonreview.org/writers/teachers.

Included in the Retreat

Tuition coverage to the virtual, full-week workshop will be granted to each educator-writer, in addition to a $200 stipend to support their writing.

The Selection Process

Four educator-writers will be selected through a competitive juried process. The committee’s criteria will focus on the quality of the submitted work and personal statement.

About the Dr. Ernest B. Fleishman Educators’ Fund

The Dr. Ernest B. Fleishman Educators’ Fund allows the Alliance to provide recognition, professional-development opportunities, and classroom materials to educators whose students excel in the Awards, especially those from under-resourced communities. The fund was formed in recognition of Dr. Ernest B. Fleishman, a champion of educators, long-time member of the Alliance Board of Directors, and former senior executive at Scholastic Inc.

Image credit: ANNA GONG, Head in the Clouds, Digital Art. Grade 12, Harvard-Westlake Upper School, North Hollywood, CA.