Teen Summer Writing Intensive

For Grades 10-12

‣ Note from Camp Director

We closed the chapter on our first ever Teen Summer Writing Intensive! We welcomed new teachers, published authors, theater buffs, poets, comedians, and more to introduce our teen writers to new genres, ways to think about writing, grow their skills, and meet new people who also love to write. There were moments of complete silence while their brains and hands went to work creating stories, poems, and dialogues and other moments of complete loudness with laughter, collaboration, or applause. It was a magical two weeks and I still am in awe of their work and smile at the jokes, memes, UNO madness, and certain art exhibit inside joke/camp lore that lives rent free in my head (iykyk). I am honored that this group chose us to kick off our inaugural Teen Summer Writing Intensive and I hope to see them all again if not this fall, then certainly next summer! (I promised them I wouldn’t make them touch grass.) In the meantime, enjoy some of the photos from our two weeks!

(Summer 2025 Teen Intensive Camp photos here).

Chapter two starts now! I hope they’ll join us this fall and winter for Young Writers’ Studio and Flip the Page!

Have a great school year!

Miss Meg

Teen Intensive Director

Thurber House Director of Children’s Education

A very limited number of scholarships are available through a lottery; please fill out the online registration and click on “applying for a scholarship.” You will pay the $25 registration fee and nothing else at that time. We will announce scholarships by July 4.
Camp will be held at Carriage House (65 Jefferson Avenue, Columbus, OH 43215). We will also walk over and use Thurber House (77 Jefferson Avenue, Columbus, OH 43215).
Free parking in our parking lot.
We encourage the involvement of all writers and will do our best to make accommodations.
Contact Meg Brown at megbrown@thurberhouse.org to discuss any accessibility needs.
The registration cost includes a non-refundable administration fee of $25. If the intensive is full or is canceled by Thurber House, a full refund minus the administration fee will be given. Tuition is 70% refundable for cancelations received no later than June 30, 2025.
Views, thoughts, and opinions expressed by event and program speakers in all mediums are their own and do not necessarily reflect the views of Thurber House, its affiliates, or its staff/board.