the yokshop.
GUEST LECTURER:
ANNE GISELSON
Author of The Futiliatarians. Essays in The Atlantic, Oxford American, The Smithsonian and others.
Anne will give a craft talk and reading.
GUEST LECTURER:
SNOWDEN WRIGHT
Author of the novels American Pop, Play Pretty Blues and The Queen City Detective Agency.
Snowden will give a craft talk and a reading.
Yokshop Faculty
The Yokshop Faculty to Student ratio is an incredible 1:4!
GUEST LECTURER:
SCOTT MORRIS
Autor of the novels The Total View of Taftly and Waiting for April.
Scott will give a keynote speech.
GUEST LECTURER:
OLIVIA CLARE FRIEDMAN
Author of the novel Here Lies and story collection Disasters in the First World.
Olivia will give a craft talk.
WORKSHOP LEADER:
KENT WASCOM
Author of the novels The Great State of West Florida, The New Inheritors, Seccesia and The Blood of Heaven
Kent will lead a daily workshop.
CONFERENCE DIRECTOR:
M.O. WALSH
Author of the novels The Big Door Prize, My Sunshine Away and short story collection The Prospect of Magic.
Will host conference and serve as spirit guide for all events.
Recent Faculty
Sheila Sundar
Beth Ann Fennelly
Michael Farris Smith
Katherine Fausset
C. Morgan Babst
Taylor Brown
William Boyle
Melissa Ginsburg
Mary Miller
Michael Knight
Hannah Pittard
Tom Franklin
Ace Atkins
John Brandon
Josh Weil
Sonja Livingston
Julie Cantrell
Randy Bates
Ann Fisher-Wirth
Yokshop Alums have gone on to publish with major presses and journals such as One World/Random House, Hub City Press, SOHO, Press 53,
Oxford American, Virginia Quarterly Review, Fugue, Bitter Southerner, Los Angeles Times, among many others.
They have also won the Stegner Fellowship, William Faulkner-William Wisdom Award, the Iowa Short Fiction Award, garnered Edgar Award and Pushcart Prize nominations and landed multiple book deals.