Tin House

"I've attended several writing conferences. This one was superior in every way."

-- 2006 participant

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Tin House accepts applications beginning January 1. Students are encouraged to apply early, as many workshops fill rapidly.

You will be notified of acceptance or rejection within four weeks after receipt of your application.

General admission is granted on a first-come, first-serve basis. Acceptance to the Workshop is based on the strength and promise of the submitted writing sample and the Tin House editorial board's evaluation of how an individual might benefit from the conference.

Past participants need to apply again. If you attended the workshop in 2008, all application fees are waived.

Scholarship Deadline:
The final postmark deadline for scholarships is March 15, 2009. No exceptions will be made.

Fiction workshop

“So awesome. I felt constantly encouraged and motivated to come up with new ideas and approaches for my writing. I filled a notebook with ideas for the novel I'm working on and for other projects, and I think that the conference will really serve to motivate me as a writer for a while.”

– 2008 participant

full program TUITION:

$40 application fee
$1000 for registrations postmarked on or before May 15, 2009
$1100 for registrations postmarked on or before July 8, 2009

FOOD & LODGING: $575.00

MENTORSHIP:
$750.00 for manuscripts under 250 pages
$1000.00 for manuscripts over 250 pages

for auditors (no applications necessary)
All seminars and readings: $250.00
Evening readings only: $45.00
Individual seminars: $15 - $20
Individual readings: $5 - $10

The schedule for seminars and readings will be available in May.

Pay by phone (503-219-0622) with a Visa and Mastercard or send a check to the Tin House Summer Workshop, PO Box 10500, Portland, OR 97210.


Afternoon panel	Jim Shepard's seminar

“I am impressed by the quality of teachers and the quality of craft lectures you attract.”

– 2008 participant

SUBMITTING MANUSCRIPTS

Please submit up to twenty pages of fiction or nonfiction, ten pages of poetry. Submitted manuscripts should be unpublished works in progress and must be double-spaced with one-inch margins. Your name should be on each page.

If the piece you’re submitting is excerpted from a longer work, please make sure the excerpt is self-contained. Please do not send newspaper articles, genre fiction, or children's or young adult literature.

The application fee is $40 and must accompany your application form. Please make checks out to Tin House Summer Writers Workshop.

Faculty reading

For the 2009 Tin House Summer Writers Workshop we will be awarding full and partial scholarships. Scholarships are highly competitive and awarded based on the merit of a writing sample only. To apply, please fill out the scholarship application in addition to the general application. The final postmark deadline for scholarships is March 15, 2009.

"I was very impressed with my fellow participants—not only was the quality of manuscripts high, but the feedback was careful, articulate,and extremely helpful."

--2006 Workshop Participant

To contact us, call 503-219-0622 or email cheston@tinhouse.com