For this 6-student workshop, RYW is partnering with a VCUarts graphic design class in the most exciting way! Divided between two dates, this workshop will consist of one 2.5-hour writing workshop and one 2-hour public reading, allowing students and designers to showcase final work.

Writing Workshop (Oct. 20th, 4:30-7 at VCUarts - 822 West Broad St.)

Our first two hours of workshop will be spent brainstorming, crafting, editing, erasing, peer reviewing and finalizing individual poems, prose OR flash-fiction pieces. (Each student will choose only one piece to move forward with).

In the last half hour of our workshop, six wonderfully talented designers from VCU will join us! We will pair each student with a designer — together, they will discuss the young writer’s creative piece. The designers will then take the text home and transcribe each student’s work onto spreads for a collective publication.

Public Reading (Oct. 27th, 5-7pm at Pizza Bones)

The second Sunday of this experience will be a live reading! Open to family, friends and the general public, the reading will happen at the one-and-only Pizza Bones in Church Hill. Our young writers will have a chance to read their pieces aloud at a microphone, while designers will have the chance to distribute copies of the workshop publication. RYW students will leave with a better understanding of how writing can transfer to print, all while seeing the inside work of a VCUarts graduate graphic design class!

Pen to Print: A VCUarts Graphic Design Collaboration [Ages 13-18]