We’re happy to announce the faculty and mascot for this year’s Ironwood Writers Studio!
Ironwood is a week-long event where high school students stay on campus and work with talented writers from across the region. This year, attendees will study poetry with Manuel Iris, winner of the Merida National Award and Poet Laurate Emeritus of Cincinnati; fiction with Julia Watts, winner of a Lamba Literary Award; and nonfiction with Karen Salyer McElmurray, winner of the AWP Award Series and the Lillie Chaffin Award.
Outside of their genre classes, students will try their hand at nature writing with educator Moriah Warner and photography with artist Tyler Barrett, and they will also have generative writing sessions with the renown George Ella Lyon. Counselor mentors who will stay the week include Kentucky writers and educators Jamey Temple and Clint Waters.
Like previous years, students will also learn about publishing, practice reading their work to an audience, and unwind with trivia night, a cosplay contest, and lots of free time to get to know other young writers from across Central Appalachia.Each year we have a new logo and animal mascot, and this year we are excited to unveil the logo for 2024, designed by Tyler Barrett. A lightning bug! (Or is it firefly?)
To learn more and register for Ironwood, go to Hindman.org/ironwood.
To help foster the next generation of Appalachian writers, you can support scholarships for students by donating here, buy items for Ironwood on our Amazon WishList, and share this post with educators and young writers in your life.
