The end is approaching. Young Writers getting their last poems in, hoping to transform Kenyon College Young Writers Program; bringing it to another level. Young Writers want to leave this campus with one last “bang,” everyone coming together with great poems, free writes, and short stories will end in two days, writers want to leave with at least one memorable piece.
In my opinion, the Young Writers Program shaped the writer in me. It showed that I have the potential, when I had no idea; something very surprising. Two weeks to express my way of writing was very interesting and a lifelong memory. Coming to Kenyon College with friends and leaving with more is very profound to me because I’m always quiet and not the social type. But the experience showed that I am able to gain as many friends as possible, and I was able to break the “fence” that I had with my family. The fence that encircles me around my family: depending on them, searching for them, and calling them had a limitation.
I didn’t know leaving would be so complex, it was only two weeks. The first day, Tyler, the head honcho, and Anna Duke Reach, the Queen, sought out to let us a leave with a new way of thinking. A lifelong experience, something we can look back to as many times as possible. Better yet, keep in the back of our minds, because if it wasn’t for my wonderful instructor, Tori, writing would always be a backslide, but now I see and understand the feeling to wake up and enter a classroom and that notion will always disappear, the pen to the paper will appear, and innovation will appear.
