{"id":7075,"date":"2026-07-20T06:53:36","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T11:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=7075"},"modified":"2026-07-20T06:53:36","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T11:53:36","slug":"1st-summer-creative-writing-seminar-for-teens-at-updike-house-is-a-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2026\/07\/20\/1st-summer-creative-writing-seminar-for-teens-at-updike-house-is-a-success\/","title":{"rendered":"1st Summer Creative Writing Seminar for Teens at Updike House is a success"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n\r\nUnder the direction of Dr. Maria Lester and with the support of a National Endowment for the Humanities grant, the inaugural Summer Creative Writing Workshop concluded\u2014after perhaps giving a boost to a new generation of writers who got to spend a week thinking and writing inside the house where a young John Updike said his own &#8220;creative eggs were hatched.&#8221; Here are some scenes from the week. We&#8217;ll all look forward to seeing what these young talents will publish in the future.\r\n\r\n <div class=\"wp-block-image\">\r\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/johnupdikechildhoodhome.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/readingpm.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1160\" src=\"https:\/\/johnupdikechildhoodhome.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/readingpm.png?w=600\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\r\n<\/div> <div class=\"wp-block-image\">\r\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/johnupdikechildhoodhome.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/work1.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1162\" src=\"https:\/\/johnupdikechildhoodhome.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/work1.png?w=600\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\r\n<\/div> <div class=\"wp-block-image\">\r\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/johnupdikechildhoodhome.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/work-2.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1163\" src=\"https:\/\/johnupdikechildhoodhome.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/work-2.png?w=600\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\r\n<\/div> <div class=\"wp-block-image\">\r\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/johnupdikechildhoodhome.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/certificates-pm.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1165\" src=\"https:\/\/johnupdikechildhoodhome.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/certificates-pm.png?w=600\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\r\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Under the direction of Dr. Maria Lester and with the support of a National Endowment for the Humanities grant, the inaugural Summer Creative Writing Workshop concluded\u2014after perhaps giving a boost to a new generation of writers who got to spend &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2026\/07\/20\/1st-summer-creative-writing-seminar-for-teens-at-updike-house-is-a-success\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":818,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-classroom","category-the-john-updike-childhood-home"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/818"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7075"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7076,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7075\/revisions\/7076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}