Learn with Your Children
We want to help you support your young writer. Register at a discounted rate to attend main sessions with your student and attend special parent sessions.
Raising a Young Writer Can Be Challenging
Most parents didn’t expect to be raising a young writer.
And sometimes you can feel lost as you try to guide your child in a craft you don’t have much experience in.
Especially when your child is wrestling with hard ethical questions in their writing.
Or when they begin talking about attending writing conferences, having professional social media accounts, and starting their own email list.
(And what’s a “writing sprint”?)
We’ve worked with teen writers for years. And we want to give you the information and advice you need to better understand, guide and support your young writer.
Here are the three ways we’d like to do so at the Young Writer Retreat for parents who purchase the parent ticket:
General Sessions
Attend the normal sessions each day with your child.
Parent Lounge
Connect with other parents in our parent lounge.
Daily Parent Sessions
Each morning, we’ll offer a special session on how parents can support their young writer.
Parent Volunteer Opportunity
We’re looking for parent volunteers to help us with some different responsibilities at the retreat.
Night volunteers will act as dorm room supervisors by staying in the dorm rooms and providing oversight in case any issues come up between 10 PM and 8 AM. In exchange, we’ll cover the costs of dorm bed lodging for the parent volunteer and their child.
Day volunteers will help guide groups, manage the coffee/breakfast bar, and ensure meeting spaces remain tidy. In exchange, we’ll cover the volunteer’s parent ticket.
Parents may serve as both day and night volunteers, or as only one type of volunteer.
Parents will need to be background checked as a part of the application process for this position. Fill out the secure application form by clicking the button below.