YEW is celebrating 20 years of helping to develop some of the best young writers anywhere. Applications are open through Monday, May 12 for both interns and staff.

YEW is celebrating 20 years of helping to develop some of the best young writers anywhere. Applications are open through Monday, May 12 for both interns and staff.
We are excited to kick off the 20th anniversary of the Young Emerging Writers Program starting in February, when the Tuesday night Write-Ins return:
-online the 2nd Tuesday of the month (starting Feb. 4)
-in-person meetings at MWC will be on the 3rd Tuesday of the month (starting Feb. 11).
There is no meeting at MWC on Tuesday, January 21 – stay warm & we will see you next month. Thanks!
We are writing, like so many other nonprofits are, to ask for your support this Giving Tuesday (December 3, which kicks off our year-end giving campaign) by renewing or starting a membership so that we can continue to provide high-quality, low-cost literary programming to our community as we have for going on 45 years.
In 2025, we will continue our traditional programming: both the Collins Writers’ Conference and the Young Emerging Writers Internship will celebrate their 20th anniversaries in 2025, and we’re planning some special events to celebrate. Writers’ Studio (our twice-monthly critique group) will continue as it has for over 50 years, The SPECTRA Reading Series returns in the spring with four events, and we have a number of terrific workshops coming up. We will be publishing an anthology on the theme of “Being Human in the Age of AI” in partnership with Galvin Fine Arts, in addition to two the Foster-Stahl chapbooks and The Atlas. We also want to bring more writers to the Quad Cities, host more workshops, and continue to grow our partnerships with other organizations throughout the community. And we cannot do that without you.