Writing Clubs give students in grades 4-8 a weekly opportunity to build community through studying creative writing. We currently offer clubs at Margaret Brent, Mount Royal, Furman Templeton, and Lakeland schools. Are you interested in bringing a club to your school? Get in touch here.

The Summer Studio is a one-week residential retreat for creative writing and college readiness for students who have completed grades 6-12. The Summer Studio takes place at Washington College in Chestertown, MD, where young writers live on campus for the week. Interested in learning more?

Each spring, we invite BCPS high school writers to take a college class alongside JHU undergraduates. Currently, 15 students are taking Poetry & Social Engagement, led by Bruce Snider.

Training creative writing instructors sits at the core of our work. Every year, we train a new cohort of instructors through the Teaching Writing in Baltimore Schools class in The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins. WBS alumni serve as mentors to our new writing instructors as they begin their journey in the classroom.

We publish two anthologies each year. Baltimore by Hand publishes work from young writers in our Writing Clubs. The Baltimore Young Writers Studio releases an annual anthology of work from the Summer Studio.

We love hiring alumni as Writing Club instructors, Summer Studio counselors, and mentors for the JHU Writing Seminars course. In 2022, we held our first alumni retreat at MidMidtown in Natural Bridge, VA. Alumni, please stay tuned for more programs and opportunities.