To find out more contact CC Robinson (207) 712-3295 or cc@portlandhive.org.
This year The Portland Hive runs from August 1st to August 5th. Application deadline extended. Apply today!
The Portland Hive is an award-winning collective of writers offering a week-long workshop for the next generation of storytellers and poets. Our camp takes place at The Telling Room at 225 Commercial Street in downtown Portland, Maine. Tuition for the week is $385. Apply here to join this year’s Hive. Apply here for a scholarship to the Hive.
Meet the Hive faculty:
In 2007, Portland author Sarah Braunstein received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award. This winter W. W. Norton published her debut novel, The Sweet Relief of Missing Children.
Arda Collins’s poems have been published in journals and magazines including The New Yorker and The American Poetry Review as well as in her first book, It Is Daylight. She was the 2008 winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets. She lives in Denver where she recently completed her PhD in poetry.
Aaron McCollough has published three books of poetry: Little Ease, Double Venus, and Welkin. He, together with Arda, is the editor and founder of the online poetry magazine GutCult. He received his PhD in English Language and Literature from the University of Michigan.
Lewis Robinson’s first collection of short stories, Officer Friendly and Other Stories won the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award. His first novel, Water Dogs, was published in 2009. He is a recipient of the Whiting Writers Award and a National Endowment of the Arts grant.
James Shea is the author of Star in the Eye, selected by Nick Flynn as the winner of the 2008 Fence Modern Poets Series. His poems have appeared in various journals, including American Letters and Commentary, Boston Review, Mrs. Maybe, and Verse. He currently teaches at Columbia College Chicago and DePaul University.
Jaed Coffin is the author of A Chant to Soothe Wild Elephants, a memoir chronicling his experience as a Buddhist monk in his mother’s native village in Thailand. His forthcoming book, Roughhouse Friday, is about the year he fought as the middleweight champion of a barroom boxing show in Juneau, Alaska. Jaed was the 2009 William Sloane Fellow at Bread Loaf Writers Conference.
Join the Hive faculty and fellow high school writers for a fun and intense week of sharing your work, honing your craft, and literary adventure. Tuition for the week is $385. Scholarships are available.
Apply here to join this year’s Hive. Apply here for a scholarship to the Hive. Or download this form to apply by mail. Questions? Contact Hive Director CC Robinson (207) 712-3295 or cc@portlandhive.org.
