The California State Summer School for the Arts is a rigorous, preprofessional, month-long training program in the visual and performing arts. The mission of CSSSA is to annually provide a select number of California high school students of the visual, literary, performing and media arts with an intensive learning experience conducted by distinguished arts professionals, designed to enhance the students’ artistic skills and to develop their understanding as individuals of their potential for growth as creative artists.

Eligible Participants: US citizens only (but California residents preferred)

Genre(s): Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Play/Script

Location(s): Santa Clarita, CA

Submissions Open: Various

Submissions Close: February 28

Submission Fee: $20 (application) & $4,830 (summer program tuition for CA State Residents)

$9,977 (summer program tuition for Out-of-State and International Students)

Fee Waiver: Yes

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