Support LUMS Young Writers Workshop

LUMS Young Writers Workshop has been supporting and inspiring writers in their journeys since 2012. It is the only institution in Pakistan of its kind that offers an all-expenses paid residential experience to all its participants. It provides a crucial space for reflection, creativity, and community in a country where creative work and support for young writers is severely lacking.

 

In the thirteen years of the workshop, the LUMS Young Writers Workshop has success stories to share. Rabia Saeed (LYWW 2018) was selected the Stegner Fellow for 2022-2024. Hurmat Kazmi, a participant from Karachi (LYWW 2017) was admitted to Iowa Writers Workshop and published in the New Yorker.

 

Anum Asi, a participant in 2015, MFA Cornell University, said, "I've found the LUMS Young Writers Workshop to be a unique experience in Pakistan both for its focus on craft as well as its residential format. I gained ideas and principles for my stories, for finding my own voice. It helped direct my writing in really productive and inspiring ways. And though one might think a week is not very long I formed lasting relationships with the other young writers I met there, and gained a creative community that I didn’t really have access to before."

 

The LUMS Young Writers Workshop is supported by annual grants as well as through the LUMS Young Writers Workshop Endowment Fund. Your support will allow us to expand the workshop to other genres including poetry and Urdu writing. If you would like to support the workshop, please don’t hesitate to reach out to Bilal Tanweer (bilal.tanweer@lums.edu.pk) or Ahmad Saad Qureshi at Office of Advancement (ahmad.qureshi@lums.edu.pk). Your donation is eligible for tax benefits in Pakistan and the USA.

 

We value every contribution, no matter the amount.

 

Our Supporters

1. Osman Khalid Waheed

2. Shah Salim and Shehzad Shah

3. Mohsin Hamid

4. Danish Iqbal

5. Bilal Hasan Minto

6. Kamila Shamsie