About The Kenyon Institute
For a summer week on one of the world’s most beautiful college campuses, the Kenyon Institute immerses you in an exceptional intellectual experience. Writing workshops for professionals form the heart of the Institute. Here, you perfect your skills under the guidance of eminent practitioners. The Institute also offers a unique professional development program for high school teachers and a stimulating “education vacation” for adults.
Choose from 5 programs for playwrights, scientists, art critics, teachers, and adult learners.
Great professors offer an "education vacation" featuring artistic astronomy, cinematic Shakespeare, muscular molecules, and more
The art of writing about art, for critics, scholars, journalists: workshops led by noted critics Peter Plagens and Terry Barrett
An intensive playwriting workshop led by the artistic staff of Hampstead, Atlantic, and Steppenwolf theater companies
For doctoral students, M.D./Ph.D. candidates, and post-docs: a four-day boot camp in writing for publication
For teachers of all subjects: a practical workshop on how to get high school students to produce college-level writing







It’s easy to reserve your spot in your Institute program, but don’t wait. Enrollments are limited.
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