GUEST LECTURER:
WILLIAM BOYLE
Author of the novels Gravesend, Everything is Broken, The Lonely Witness and A Friend is a Gift You Give Yourself.
Bill will deliver a craft lecture and give a reading of his work.
WORKSHOP LEADER:
SCOTT MORRIS
Author of novels Waiting for April and The Total View of Taftly.
Will give keynote speech and lead a workshop.
Yokshop Faculty
Yokshop Alums
Faculty 2019
The Yokshop Faculty to Student ratio is an incredible 1:4!
the yokshop.
Yokshop Alums have gone on to publish with major presses and in journals such as
Oxford American, Virginia Quarterly Review, Fugue, Bitter South, Los Angeles Times, among many others.
They have also won the William Faulkner-William Wisdom Award, the Iowa Short Fiction Award, garnered Pushcart Prize nominations and landed multiple book deals.
WORKSHOP LEADER:
OLIVIA CLARE
Author of the short story collection Disasters in the First World.
Will lead daily workshop and give a reading.
GUEST LECTURER:
BETH ANN FENNELLY
Poet Laureate of Mississippi. Author of 3 books of poetry, two books of non-fiction and co-author of a novel. Most recent book is Heating and Cooling: 52 Micro-Memoirs.
Beth Ann will give a craft lecture.
CONFERENCE DIRECTOR:
M.O. WALSH
Author of the novel My Sunshine Away and short story collection The Prospect of Magic.
Will host conference, give a talk on publishing, and serve as spirit guide for all events.
Recent Faculty
Michael Farris Smith
Mary Miller
Michael Knight
Hannah Pittard
Tom Franklin
Ace Atkins
John Brandon
Josh Weil
Sonja Livingston
Julie Cantrell
Randy Bates
Ann Fisher-Wirth