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Juniper Institute

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The Juniper Institute is one week of intensive writing workshops, craft sessions, Q&As, readings, and more. Visit our website for updates.

 Amherst, MA
umass.edu/juniperinstitute/
Joined February 2010
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We are absolutely ecstatic to welcome @lenizumas to Juniper 2023! Leni Zumas will offer a fiction workshop, Fiction Laboratory, and a craft session, Writing What We Don’t Know, as well as an evening reading followed by Q&A.
Leni Zumas looks directly at the camera with their name and June 11-June 17 written beneath their image. Below the date, inside a circle, are the words Juniper 2023.

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We are so pleased to welcome @tiphanieyanique to Juniper 2023! Tiphanie Yanique will offer a fiction workshop and a craft session, So For Real: going beyond western, white & other constraints towards developing more fully realized character, followed by an evening reading & Q&A.
Tiphanie Yanique looks directly at the camera with their name and June 11-June 17 written beneath their image. Below the date, inside a circle, are the words Juniper 2023.

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The Juniper Independent Writing Residency provides all of the benefits of the Juniper experience, but replaces the afternoon workshop time with time you can dedicate to self-directed writing.
Juniper participant sits cross-legged in front of a tree, writing in a notebook with a Juniper Summer Writing Institute sign in the background.

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We’re delighted to welcome back UMass Amherst’s own Jeff Parker to Juniper 2023! Jeff Parker will offer a fiction workshop and a craft session, Exercises in Style, as well as an evening reading followed by Q&A.
Jeff Parker looks directly at the camera with their name and June 11-June 17 written beneath their image. Below the date, inside a circle, are the words Juniper 2023.

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We’re overjoyed to welcome back Diana Khoi Nguyen to Juniper 2023! Diana Khoi Nguyen will offer a poetry workshop, Listening to Images, and a craft session, The Prose Poem, Lyrical Prose, and the Intimacy of a Sentence, as well as an evening reading followed by Q&A.
Diana Khoi Nguyen looks off to the right with their name and June 11-June 17 written beneath their image. Below the date, inside a circle, are the words Juniper 2023.

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We’re over the moon to have T Kira Māhealani Madden with us for Juniper 2023! T Kira Māhealani Madden will offer a workshop, The Self, The Selves: A “Nonfiction” Workshop, and a craft session, Feeding the Lake, as well as an evening reading followed by Q&A.
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We’re elated to bring Santee Frazier to Juniper 2023! Santee Frazier will offer a poetry workshop and a craft session, The Poetics of Typographic Design, as well as an evening reading followed by Q&A.
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We are so pleased that the Valley Advocate is once again sponsoring a full tuition scholarship open to local writers who live in the paper's distribution area. The deadline to apply for the 2023 Valley Advocate scholarship is January 15, 2023. bit.ly/3B6wIZ3
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Alumni Gabriel Bump takes a selfie with Juniper participants

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We are incredibly excited to have CAConrad return for Juniper 2023! They will offer a poetry workshop, (Soma)tic Rituals with CAConrad, and a craft session, How AMANDA PARADISE Became the Golden Boomerang, as well as an evening reading followed by Q&A.
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We are absolutely thrilled to welcome Mahogany L. Browne to Juniper 2023! She will offer a poetry workshop, YA Novels & Other Poetic Intersections, and a craft session, Political Poetry, Personal Boundaries: An American Awakening, as well as an evening reading followed by Q&A.
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