Fiction Toolbox

Lighthouse's Young Writers Workshops are designed to foster creativity, self-expression, and excitement about writing. There are no grades here, just the stories. We offer in-person and virtual workshops at Lighthouse including afterschool and weekend workshops, the Young Authors Collective, and summer camps, as well as youth outreach in schools, at juvenile residential treatment centers, and in collaboration with other arts organizations.

Led by working, published writers with a passion for sharing their craft, our outreach workshops provide access to our innovative creative writing programming to students across the Denver metro area. Our instructors actively engage young writers in the art of creative writing, provide new tools for self-expression, and increase literacy and writing skills.

We offer workshops in poetry, short story, novel, memoir, flash fiction, graphic novel, personal essay, and more. And because we know much of school curriculum is already in place, we customize workshops to fit individual classroom or program goals. We provide hour-long presentations, one-day or week-long intensives, after-school programs, multi-week sessions, or more long-term workshops culminating in public readings or published anthologies (or both) depending on the needs of the school or program and its young writers.

To schedule a field trip to Lighthouse or outreach at your school, contact info@lighthousewriters.org.