The Workshop for Young Writers takes place online via Zoom from July 31 - August 4, 2023.

You will spend most of your day in an intensive writing atmosphere, building a community with other inspired young writers - all from the comfort of your own home. Check out the schedule below and remember that the times listed are in US Central Daylight Time (UTC -5:00):

9:30-10:30 AM
Workshop A: Half of the class will meet to share their writing and receive individualized feedback.

10:30 AM-Noon
Writing Right: Learn fundamentals of creative writing as they apply to various forms.

Noon-1:00 PM
Break

1:00-2:30 PM
Exploration of Writing Forms: Explore writing in different genres, familiar and untried.

2:30-3:30 PM
Workshop B: Half of the class will meet to share their writing and receive individualized feedback.

Nina Morrison is a playwright, director and teaching artist. She is the Provost's Postgraduate Visiting Writer in Playwriting 2019-2020 at the University of Iowa. Select recent credits: Nina’s play Féminaal was presented in Minneapolis by The Grumble Theater; her play Ibsanity was presented in the mainstage season at Fordham University, NYC; she directed Young Jean Lee’s Straight White Men at Riverside Theatre. She was a finalist for New Dramatists in 2018 and 2019, and a 2019 finalist for the Jerome. Nina is currently based in Iowa City. Before Iowa, she was based in New York City for 17 years where her work as a playwright and director was presented at Dixon Place, HERE Arts Center, The HOT! Festival, the Little Theatre series, the NYC International Fringe Festival, Upright Citizens Brigade, The Peoples’ Improv Theater, and the Yardmeter series among others. Nina was a Dixon Place Artist-in-Residence, and she was an LMCC WORKSPACE Writer-in-Residence, a residency program of the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. She holds an MFA in Directing and an MFA in Playwriting both from the University of Iowa.