ROCK ISLAND, ILLINOIS (August 10, 2022) — The Young Emerging Writers (YEW) Summer Internship Program will host a release party for the latest issue of the Program’s literary magazine, The Atlas, on Thursday, August 18 at Rozz-Tox in Rock Island. The event will also be streamed to Midwest Writing Center’s YouTube and Facebook Live pages.
The event will start at 7PM CST. The YEW Interns will give brief readings of their work appearing in the magazine, and the Tim Curry Outstanding Intern award will be presented. Food and drink will be available for purchase at the Rozz-Tox, both inside and outside. Masks are required for entry to use the facilities.
Bring a blanket or a lawn chair and some friends for an evening of terrific writing and performance from some of the best young talent around.
About Young Emerging WritersThe YEW Program is composed of students ages fifteen to nineteen who applied and interviewed for this selective paid internship program. This summer, 14 interns from around the Quad Cities, and three interns from outside the area (a first for the program), participated in YEW at a distance, meeting via Zoom and collaborating online, to compose, edit, and release the sixteenth volume of The Atlas Literary Magazine.
YEW provides writing instruction in a variety of writing styles and processes, and develops professional skills in areas such as editing, collaborative project management, and magazine production/design. In fifty hours of meetings over seven weeks, the interns went from meet-and-greet to producing a high-quality literary magazine published by MWC Press.
Copies of The Atlas 16 will be available for $10, and back issues will be available for $5. Pre-orders for The Atlas 16 and back issues are available now via the MWC Press bookstore:
https://www.mwcqc.org/mwc-press/online-catalog/
Please contact Ryan Collins for more information about the YEW Summer Internship Program, The Atlas, or this event: mwc@midwestwritingcenter.org, work: (309) 732-7330, cell: (309) 269-6569.
Funding and material support for the 2021 Young Emerging Writers Summer Internship Program and The Atlas generously provided by a special program grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency, the Regional Development Authority, Modern Woodmen of America, the Quad City Community Foundation, and Rozz-Tox.
