2022 Sewanee Young Writers' Conference Recommendation

Dear Colleague,

One of your students is applying for admission to the Sewanee Young Writers' Conference and has identified you to write a recommendation on his or her 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.

Please complete your recommendation form as soon as possible. The review of applications is under way, and we would like all materials by February 25. Offers of admission will be made on a rolling basis until all the workshops are full. No application will be considered for acceptance until the recommendation form has been received.

To ensure that your recommendation form is correctly matched with your student's Conference application, please identify your student by providing the first name, last name and email address exactly as shown in the email we sent you (with the 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 form please check your spam or junk mailbox. If you still can't find it, please email sywc@sewanee.edu so we can check to see if it was successfully received.

I thank you for your help in this process and hope you won’t find this form too onerous at this busy time of year. We look forward to reading your recommendation!

Recommender Information

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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 his/her strengths and weaknesses as a writer and student of literature.

2. Because the Sewanee Young Writers’ Conference is an intensive, two-week residential program, its success depends on each participant’s ability to contribute immediately to both its curricular and extracurricular life. What are the most important contributions this applicant can make to a writing workshop and to the larger community of the Young Writers’ Conference?

3. Please describe any issues that may make it difficult for this applicant to participate constructively in daily writing workshops 10 other students, as well as in larger discussions, optional workshops, and extracurricular activities that help students make friends who have similar interests and help form a sense of community in this difficult time.

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

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2022 Sewanee Young Writers' Conference Recommendation

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