Goals for Our Program's Future

Short Term Goals (1-2 years):

-Scholarships targeted to increase the diversity of the student participants
-Scholarships to endow a full scholarships each year in each of the 5 workshop genres
-Funds to attract visiting writers
-Funds to produce a Young Writers literary journal

Longer Term Goals:

-Endowment that funds the Directorship (which will ensure the program's continuation beyond Margo Figgins' tenure at the University)
-A full-time school (which could be housed at UVa; it could also be a charter school).
-Interlochen in Michigan is a prototype, with the difference that ours would focus on cultivating writers instead of musicians; another difference is that it would be public, not private, so that there would be greater access for all students.
-Regional and National Conferences for Young Writers
-On the order of those which the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation hosts for adults and which have become the focus on a series of Bill Moyers specials.
-A parallel workshop for recruiting students -- particularly minority students -- into the teaching profession (currently a substratum of the program) which, with more resources, could become a more visible part of what we do.