Extracurriculars That Build Creative Writing
Crafting original stories, poems, or scripts that express ideas and imagination.
The Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth (CTY) offers advanced academic programs for gifted students in grades 2–12. Through summer…
The Scholastic Art and Writing Awards are a prestigious national competition that recognizes the creative achievements of students in grades…
YoungArts is a highly prestigious national arts competition and talent development program for high school students ages 15 to 18…
Participate in a rigorous, five-week professional actor training intensive. Develop foundational skills in acting technique, scene study, Shakespeare, voice and…
A highly competitive pre-college program for young creatives. Includes core studio classes in digital art, painting, and sculpture, alongside weekly…
The International Thespian Society (ITS) is an honor society for theatre students in grades 6–12 that recognizes excellence in dramatic…
The Ocean Awareness Contest is an annual international competition organized by Bow Seat that invites students in grades 5–12 to…
River of Words is a free international youth poetry and art competition hosted by Saint Mary's College of California that…
The Adroit Prizes for Poetry & Prose is an annual literary competition organized by The Adroit Journal that recognizes exceptional…
The EngineerGirl Writing Contest, run by the National Academy of Engineering, is an annual competition where students in grades 6–12…
ExploraVision is a national K-12 science competition co-sponsored by Toshiba and the National Science Teaching Association (NSTA) that challenges student…
The Davidson Fellows Scholarship is a highly prestigious annual scholarship program that recognizes exceptional students ages 18 and under who…
The Blank Theatre Young Playwrights Festival is a free national playwriting competition open to writers aged 19 and younger who…
The Norm Strung Student Writing Contest, sponsored by the Outdoor Writers Association of America, is an annual competition that invites…
The Jane Austen Society of North America Essay Contest is a free annual writing competition open to high school students…
The Bennington College Young Writers Awards is an annual international writing competition open to students in grades 9–12, recognizing outstanding…
The Ayn Rand Anthem Essay Contest is an annual writing competition sponsored by the Ayn Rand Institute that invites high…
The Nancy Thorp Poetry Contest, sponsored by Hollins University, is a free annual competition open to sophomore and junior high…
The Lewis Center Ten-Minute Play Contest is a prestigious annual playwriting competition hosted by Princeton University's Lewis Center for the…
YouthPLAYS is a theatrical publishing company that accepts script submissions from young playwrights ages 19 and under on a rolling,…
The Worldwide Plays Festival Competition is an annual playwriting competition organized by Writopia Lab for students in grades 3–12, challenging…
National History Day is an annual academic competition that challenges students in grades 6 through 12 to conduct in-depth historical…
The Scholastic Journalism Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) is a national community dedicated…
GENIUS Olympiad is an international high school project competition organized by Terra Science and Education that challenges students to develop…
The International Linguistics Olympiad (IOL) is an annual international competition where secondary school students analyze the grammar, structure, culture, and…
Destination Imagination is a national STEAM competition where teams of students in grades 3 through 12 collaborate to solve open-ended…
The Aspiring Scientists Summer Internship Program (ASSIP) is a nationally recognized eight-week research internship offered by George Mason University for…
New York Film Academy's Summer Film and Acting Camps offer intensive, hands-on training in filmmaking, acting, screenwriting, photography, animation, and…
Immerse Education is a global academic organization that offers undergraduate-level summer programs for high school students aged 13 to 18…
UConn Pre-College Summer is a week-long college preparation program offered by the University of Connecticut at its Storrs and Hartford…
Summer at Columbia is an intensive four-week pre-college program offered by Columbia College Chicago for high school students ages 15…
Interlochen Summer Arts Camp is a prestigious residential summer program for students in grades 3 through 12, offering immersive instruction…
The Kenyon Review Young Writers Workshop is a selective creative writing program for high school students hosted by the prestigious…
Camp Cronkite is a selective summer media program hosted by Arizona State University's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass…
The National High School Game Academy (NHSGA) is a selective six-week summer program hosted by Carnegie Mellon University that teaches…
Stanford Pre-Collegiate Summer Institutes is a two-week online summer enrichment program offered by Stanford University for students in grades 8…
The Day of AI Festival is a free annual celebration of student creativity and innovation in artificial intelligence, held each…
Story Lines is a competitive, reading-intensive summer program presented by Wonderworks for high school students of special promise and ability,…
The Lighthouse High School Summer Writing Intensive is a one-week program offered by Lighthouse Writers Workshop for students ages 14…
CSU Dance Lab: Summer Intensive is a two-week college preparatory program hosted by Colorado State University's Department of Dance for…
The Denver Writing Project Young Writers Camps are week-long summer writing programs serving students in grades 3 through 12 at…
Access ASU Summer Programs are enrichment offerings hosted by Arizona State University for high school students in grades 9 through…
Summer Shakespeare is a free, highly selective five-week summer intensive program offered by the Stella Adler Center for the Arts…
The Wooster Group Summer Institute is a free, three-week intensive performance workshop for New York City public middle and high…
AstroCamp's 2-Week Summer Camp is a residential sleepaway program in the San Jacinto Mountains of Southern California where students ages…
The California State Summer School for the Arts (CSSSA) is a prestigious, state-sponsored residential summer program that offers intensive arts…
College-Ready Writing: Personal and Academic, Both! is a two-week summer writing workshop offered by UCLA Center X for students in…
Juniper Young Writers Online is an intensive one-week virtual creative writing program offered by the University of Massachusetts Amherst for…
The Boston Architectural College's Summer Academy – Global is a four-week online pre-college design program for students ages 14 and…
Writers' Week is a one-week pre-college summer program at Sarah Lawrence College that immerses high school students in creative writing…
Interlochen's Animation Summer Program is a three-week residential experience at one of the nation's most celebrated arts institutions, where high…
Letters About Literature is a national reading and writing contest administered by the Library of Congress that invites students in…
The Iowa Young Writers' Studio Summer Residential Program is a two-week immersive creative writing experience hosted by the University of…
USC Summer Programs is a prestigious pre-college initiative at the University of Southern California that invites outstanding high school students…
The ESU National Shakespeare Competition is a prestigious national program where high school students in grades 9 to 12 memorize,…
The NextGen Leadership Institute is a three-week pre-college summer program offered by Barnard College that combines rigorous academics with leadership…
The Product Design Academy is a three-week intensive program offered by the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton Global Youth Program that…
The Steppenwolf Young Adult Council (YAC) is a year-round teen program organized by the renowned Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago…
The Dr. Phillips Center Teen Ambassadors is a selective year-long program at the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts…
The Youth Ambassador Program (YAP), sponsored in part by Bank of Utica, is a year-round extracurricular opportunity for high school…
Synchronicity Theatre is an Atlanta-based theater organization that produces bold, original works while centering the voices of women and girls.…
Brave New Voices is an annual international youth poetry festival organized by Youth Speaks that brings together the world's most…
Albany Park Theater Project (APTP) is a Chicago-based youth theater organization that empowers high school students to create and perform…
The Next Narrative Monologue Competition (NNMC) is True Colors Theatre Company's signature program for high school students in grades 9…
The Musical Theater Songwriting Challenge is a free national competition presented by the National Endowment for the Arts and the…
ENOUGH! Plays to End Gun Violence is a national initiative that invites teen writers and playwrights ages 13 to 19…
The Indigenous Youth Media Workshop is a summer program offered by Northern Arizona University's School of Communication for high school…
The AAPT High School Physics Photo Contest is an international competition hosted by the American Association of Physics Teachers that…
The American Anthropological Association Virtual High School Internship is a four-week summer program where students explore the field of anthropology…
The Theatre & Dance Summer STARS Camps are a series of week-long day camps hosted by the University of New…
Ohio University's Pre-College and Youth Online Summer Programs offer high school students an immersive, one to two week experience across…
Norwich University of the Arts offers a free six-week summer workshop series open to students aged 14 and older, running…
Teen Academy is a six-week summer program offered by the Art Academy of Cincinnati for students ages 13 to 18,…
The Octavia Project Summer Institute is a free, five-week summer program in Brooklyn for young women and trans, nonbinary, and…
The Moth High School StorySLAM is a free, multi-week workshop series offered by The Moth that teaches students in grades…