Fir Acres Writing Workshop
A Premier Residential Summer Creative Writing Program
for Talented High School Students
June 23-July 6, 2024
Fir Acres Writing Workshop is open to rising 10th, 11th, and 12th graders. Summer 2024 will be our 36th Year!
General Application Deadline: March 8, 2024.
At Fir Acres Writing Workshop, sixty high school students from across the country come together for two weeks to write and join a community of writers on the beautiful, wooded campus of Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon.
In daily Workshops, participants study great writing and produce their own under the guidance of dynamic, thoughtful, published faculty. At night, participants gather to socialize, meet and hear from distinguished visiting writers, and work on their own poetry, fiction, and creative prose.
Our mission is to provide a high-caliber, pre-collegiate, creative educational experience to bright, inventive, and passionate high school students. Our program appeals to young writers and artistic students who are drawn to the beauty of the Pacific Northwest and the fun, hip mystique of Portland.
Visiting Writers Series
Senior Fiction Contest Deadline April 3rd, 2024
The 2024 Lewis & Clark Fiction Award is open to all seniors currently enrolled full-time at Lewis & Clark College who are scheduled to graduate in either spring, summer, or fall of 2024. The winning writer is awarded a cash prize of $100.
Senior Creative Nonfiction Contest Deadline April 3rd, 2024
The 2024 Lewis & Clark Creative Nonfiction Award is open to all seniors currently enrolled full-time at Lewis & Clark College who are scheduled to graduate in either spring, summer, or fall of 2024. The winning writer is awarded a cash prize of $100.
email firacres@lclark.edu
voice 503-768-7932
Director Don Waters
Administrative Coordinator Amy Baskin
Fir Acres Writing Workshop
Lewis & Clark
615 S. Palatine Hill Road MSC 58
Portland OR 97219