Richmond Young Writers Offers a Brand New Line-Up of Online Workshops

If you live in the Greater Richmond area, you might already be familiar with Richmond Young Writers, a creative writing incubator for ages 9–18 located on West Cary Street. Traditionally, this creative writing program offers once-a-week fall, winter, and spring after-school workshops. In the summers, you’ll find 18 different week-long creative writing camps, featuring amazing guest author appearances, an incredible community of peers, innovative teaching, and boundless opportunities for creative expression. But like the rest of us, the leadership team at Richmond Young Writers realizes that we are living in a new world at the moment – and like they rest of us, they are adapting to it.

Starting the first week of April 2020, Richmond Young Writers will be offering a brand new line-up of online workshops, which not only means that your young writers will have the chance flex their creative writing muscles from home, but they can invite friends and family from around the country, or even the world, to join them!

To learn more about this exciting new online workshop line-up, we spoke to Richmond Young Writers Executive Director, Bird Cox. She told us a little bit about the Richmond Young Writers’ mission and how the goal for their online workshops is to provide a way of for kids to process this difficult time in a healthy, creative way that connects them to others.

Cox said, “We, as writers, navigate the challenging paths of our lives by putting words on the page. The vital presence of community, the grounding forces of expression and being heard – these are the things we want to offer our students right now. Some workshops, like Creatures and Their Stories and Luminosity Lessons, lift us up out of the reality we’re facing and allow us to dwell in imagination together, while others, like Journaling: Connecting Space, Self & the Sacred and This Moment, Right Now give an opportunity to examine what’s happening and support each other.”

Below, you’ll find a complete list of Richmond Young Writers online workshops currently available.

To learn more about each workshop, click here for full descriptions, or click on the REGISTER HERE links below to sign up directly.