Juniper Institute

@seminewblack @nuhawrites we adore and admire both of you! 😍

2022 was wild. I experienced and grew so much as a writer and I am so grateful for each and every one of these opportunities. As an immigrant, it is hard to unplug & be in the moment. My 2022 🧵

We are absolutely ecstatic to welcome @lenizumas to Juniper 2023! Leni Zumas will offer a fiction workshop, Fiction Laboratory, and a craft session, Writing What We Don’t Know, as well as an evening reading followed by Q&A.

We are so pleased to welcome @tiphanieyanique to Juniper 2023! Tiphanie Yanique will offer a fiction workshop and a craft session, So For Real: going beyond western, white & other constraints towards developing more fully realized character, followed by an evening reading & Q&A.

The Juniper Independent Writing Residency provides all of the benefits of the Juniper experience, but replaces the afternoon workshop time with time you can dedicate to self-directed writing.

We’re delighted to welcome back UMass Amherst’s own Jeff Parker to Juniper 2023! Jeff Parker will offer a fiction workshop and a craft session, Exercises in Style, as well as an evening reading followed by Q&A.

We’re overjoyed to welcome back Diana Khoi Nguyen to Juniper 2023! Diana Khoi Nguyen will offer a poetry workshop, Listening to Images, and a craft session, The Prose Poem, Lyrical Prose, and the Intimacy of a Sentence, as well as an evening reading followed by Q&A.

We’re over the moon to have T Kira Māhealani Madden with us for Juniper 2023! T Kira Māhealani Madden will offer a workshop, The Self, The Selves: A “Nonfiction” Workshop, and a craft session, Feeding the Lake, as well as an evening reading followed by Q&A.

We’re elated to bring Santee Frazier to Juniper 2023! Santee Frazier will offer a poetry workshop and a craft session, The Poetics of Typographic Design, as well as an evening reading followed by Q&A.

We are so pleased that the Valley Advocate is once again sponsoring a full tuition scholarship open to local writers who live in the paper's distribution area. The deadline to apply for the 2023 Valley Advocate scholarship is January 15, 2023. bit.ly/3B6wIZ3

We are incredibly excited to have CAConrad return for Juniper 2023! They will offer a poetry workshop, (Soma)tic Rituals with CAConrad, and a craft session, How AMANDA PARADISE Became the Golden Boomerang, as well as an evening reading followed by Q&A.

We are absolutely thrilled to welcome Mahogany L. Browne to Juniper 2023! She will offer a poetry workshop, YA Novels & Other Poetic Intersections, and a craft session, Political Poetry, Personal Boundaries: An American Awakening, as well as an evening reading followed by Q&A.

There’ll be 8 workshops offered at Juniper next year. Apply now to work with one of these incredible writers this summer ❤

Applications for Juniper 2023 are now open – with NO application fees! Apply now for free through the link in our bio or visit our website to learn more.

Announcing the 2023 Juniper workshop faculty and visiting poets & writers! Join us June 11th-17th. Applications open November 1, 2022.

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We're pleased to announce the '22 Juniper Summer Writing Institute Reading Series will be available to watch by livestream. Readings will be Monday 6/20, Tuesday 6/21, and Thursday 6/23 starting at 7:30pm EST. Register below! Books are available for purchase through @Amherstbooks

We are pleased to announce that the poet Arda Collins will be joining the Juniper faculty this summer! Arda will be leading a poetry workshop, participating in a roundtable discussion, and giving a reading. You can read more about her work on our website: juniperinstitute.umasscreate.net

We are pleased to announce that the poet Ari Banias will be joining the Juniper faculty this summer! You can read more about his work here: aribanias.com

Tonight is the final deadline to write with us this summer! Submit your application by midnight: juniperinstitute.umasscreate.net/apply-2/