Solebury School
Writer-in-Residence
Write. Workshop. Grow.
An evening program for students and writers of different ages and experience levels, taught by renowned author and journalist Jonathan Miles
Solebury’s Writer-in-Residence Program offers an exclusive opportunity to develop your writing in a small college-level workshop led by a working literary novelist. Students and adult community members come together to write, read, discuss, and refine their work with the guidance of an accomplished author.
Why Join the Class
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Learn from an acclaimed author. Receive editing and mentorship from a novelist and journalist whose work is published and read around the world.
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Be challenged at a college level. Experience the rigor of a true writing workshop, with drafting, critique, and revision, while still in high school.
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Finish what you start. Each course is designed to carry an idea all the way to a completed piece of writing.
The class is intentionally small, creating an environment where every writer’s voice is heard and there's room for meaningful feedback and guidance throughout the writing process.
This year’s Writer-in-Residence Program offers two evening courses.
The class offers an exclusive opportunity for high-school students and adult community members to engage with their writing in a college-level workshop setting, and to have their work guided and edited by a working literary novelist. What Solebury School offers with this program is unique among independent schools, and is a tremendous asset to its community—parents, alums, faculty and staff, and others—as well as to its students. Jonathan Miles
What Students Say
In freshman year I took Jonny's class as an aspiring novelist and English teacher. Over the course of my four years with him as my mentor, he has fostered my ambitions and created a space where they could expand, all the way to the end of two novels and countless short stories. His lessons and support helped me understand myself not only as a writer, but as a person. Workshopping in his class revealed to me aspects of my writing, and of myself, I'd never seen before. My time with him and in his class has led me to join the new Arts Concentration at Solebury as well as apply to and attend the Iowa Young Writers' Studio program this past summer. I am ever grateful to Jonny for the close work he's done with me, and I really hope that every member of the Solebury community, interested in any form of writing or not, will consider taking one of his classes. Ian E. '27
Learn from Jonathan Miles
JONATHAN MILES is the author of the novels Dear American Airlines and Want Not, both New York Times Notable Books, and the novel Anatomy of a Miracle: The True* Story of a Paralyzed Veteran, a Mississippi Convenience Store, a Vatican Investigation, and the Spectacular Perils of Grace, which was the featured selection for the American Library Association’s Book Club Central. His latest novel, Eradication: A Fable, was published by Doubleday in 2026, and was hailed by the Washington Post as an “instant classic.” His work has been translated into more than a dozen languages, and his journalism, essays, and criticism have appeared in a wide variety of publications including the New York Times, where he served as a columnist. In 2024 he toured as a multi-instrumentalist in the band of the Grammy-winning artist Jon Batiste.