CONFERENCE DIRECTOR:

M.O. WALSH

Author of the novels The Big Door PrizeMy Sunshine Away  and short story collection The Prospect of Magic.


Will host conference and serve as spirit guide for all events.


The Yokshop Faculty to Student ratio is an incredible  1:4!

Yokshop Alums


Faculty 2024

Yokshop Faculty

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.

Yokshop Alums have gone on to publish with major presses and in journals such as One World/Random House, Hub City Press, SOHO,

Oxford American, Virginia Quarterly Review, Fugue, Bitter Southerner, Los Angeles Times, among many others.


They have also won the William Faulkner-William Wisdom Award, the Iowa Short Fiction Award, garnered Edgar Award and Pushcart Prize nominations and landed multiple book deals.


WORKSHOP LEADER:

Gwen E. Kirby


Author of the story collection Shit Cassandra Saw. ​Stories in Tin House, Guernica, One Story and others.


Gwen will lead a daily workshop.​











WORKSHOP LEADER:

SCOTT MORRIS


Author of novels Waiting for April  and The Total View of Taftly.


Will give keynote speech and lead a workshop.

GUEST LECTURER:

Katherine Fausset

Literary Agent and Vice President of Curtis Brown, Ltd Agency. Represents literary and upmarket fiction (Emily St John Mandel, Laura Vandenberg, Ben Percy and many more).


Will give a talk on finding representation.






GUEST LECTURER:

​Jim Beaugez

​Music and culture writer for Rolling Stone, the New York Times, Oxford American and Smithsonian.


Jim will give a craft talk on music and freelance writing.

Recent Faculty

Sheila Sundar

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