2024 Sewanee Young Writers' Conference Recommendation

Dear Colleague,

One of your students is applying for admission to the Sewanee Young Writers' Conference and has requested that you fill out this recommendation form on their behalf. The Sewanee Young Writers' Conference is a two-week residential creative writing conference for rising sophomores, juniors, and seniors at the University of the South.

Recommendation forms are due by Friday, March 1, 2024. Without this form, student applications are considered incomplete.

To ensure that your recommendation form is correctly matched with your student's application, please identify your student by providing the first name, last name and email address exactly as shown in the email we sent you (Subject line: Sewanee Young Writers' Conference Recommendation).

Once you successfully submit your recommendation form, you will receive a confirmation email from sywc@sewanee.edu. If you don't receive that email within 24 hours of submitting your recommendation, please check your spam folder. If you still can't find it, please email us at sywc@sewanee.edu.

From all of us at SYWC, thank you for your help in this process and for all you do as a teacher. We look forward to reading your recommendation!

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Student Information

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Recommendation Questions

1. Please discuss the applicant’s level of interest in creative writing and their strengths and weaknesses as a writer and a reader.

2. Because the Sewanee Young Writers’ Conference is an intensive, two-week residential program, its success depends on each participant’s ability to contribute fully to both its curricular and extracurricular life. We are dedicated to cultivating a vibrant, safe, inclusive, and diverse writing community. What are the most important contributions this applicant can make to their writing workshop and to the conference as a whole?

3. Please describe any concerns you have about this applicant's ability to participate in daily writing workshops (with approximately ten other students), as well as in larger group discussions, optional workshops, and extracurricular activities.

4. Please use this space to tell us anything else about the applicant that you think would be helpful in our evaluation process. Please also tell us anything that would help us ensure that this applicant have a successful academic and social experience during the conference.

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2024 Sewanee Young Writers' Conference Recommendation

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