The USM Authors Academy is a series of writing camps hosted by the Southern Miss Center for Writers. Our flagship camp, The Young Authors Academy, began in summer 2022 and offers a week of creative writing activities for kids on USM’s campus. Since we started the Young Authors Academy, many people have reached out looking for writing opportunities for all ages and for ways to connect with other writers in the area. To help support our creative communities, we’re adding a new range of camp experiences including a college essay bootcamp, a creative writing workshop for teens, a virtual workshop for adult writers, and multiple free half-day and day-long workshops around the Hattiesburg area.

All camps are delivered by USM faculty and graduate students in English, who are trained and assisted by the Center for Writers and the Mississippi Review. The coordinator of the Authors Academy is Rachael Fowler.