WHEN: August 11-15 9:30-11:30am
WHERE: Salem Athenaeum, 337 Essex St, Salem, MA 01970
COST: $120 for the week, scholarships available

Is your creative writing energy boiling over? Or has it become stale and boring? In this one week intensive workshop, writers ages 10-16 are invited to explore writing and reading practices that can help our poetry and fiction take shape. We will read together, write together, investigate our own identities and the world around us over five mornings in mid August. Young writers of any genre are welcome and no experience is necessary. However, a willingness to experiment and connect with other writers is essential!

Both 50% and 100 % scholarships are available.
Please email staff@salemathenaeum.net for scholarship details.

This workshop is limited to 12 students, so please register soon!

Katie Naoum Rogers is a poet, educator, writer, editor, and mother. She previously taught ELA in public school in Salem and in New York City and currently is a curriculum director for a major education publisher specializing in K-12 ELA. Her poetry for adults has been published in B.E. Quarterly, The L Magazine, and MER. Her poetry for children has been published in Abe’s Peanut in collaboration with the artist Julia Norton. Her chapbook I Wouldn’t Have Thought of It This Morning was selected as the 2010 New School Chapbook Award Series winner by poet Matthew Rohrer and she was the winner of the Marblehead Festival of the Arts poetry contest in 2024. Her teaching philosophy is rooted in inclusivity and antiracist teaching practices.