Adroit Journal Mentorship

I don’t know how I started writing in the first place. I still can’t quite believe I write. To this day, I look back to the past summer with a mix of wonder and disbelief, because venturing into writing has completely changed the trajectory of my life, when I signed up for my first writing workshop. I think luck might have been involved in this decision: truthless, ruthless luck. Somehow the planets were aligned the right way, and the right song was playing in my head, the wind was knocking right against the windowpanes, and I was right enough to click on the first weekly assigned reading and fall over, smack in love with the words of Ocean Vuong, or Terrance Hayes, or Toni Morrison. I had never been exposed to contemporary literary fiction before, and those works were inspiring, and breathtaking, and bruising. And so I started writing as well—enthusiastically, and badly too. Since then, I still haven’t left the floor. I was also fortunate to have great experiences with past workshops and mentors. Lisa Zou was my brilliant poetry mentor for the Quartz …show more content…
Many friends, alumni of this program, have recommended this opportunity as an incomparable, life changing experience. The Adroit Journal mentorship, as the epicenter of teen writing, specifically fosters an encouraging environment that’s conducive to the growth of high school writers. And I’m thrilled about the selection of mentors this year—everyone is just so vibrant and incisively insightful, and I’ve read and adored some of their past pieces, and I’d love to work with any one of them, in fiction or in prose. Moreover, I really like how this mentorship is emphasized as a friendship, and not a class, as I believe that an atmosphere of genuine interest is instrumental to the enjoyment of writing itself. I’m excited to interact with emerging writers who share my passion for poetry and prose, as well as to inspire and be