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:
TAYLOR BROWN
Author of the novels Wingwalkers, The Pride of Eden, The Fallen Land, The Gods of Howl Mountain and River of Kings.
Taylor will give a craft lecture and a reading.
the yokshop.
The Yokshop Faculty to Student ratio is an incredible 1:4!
GUEST LECTURER:
SEAN ENNIS
Author of story collection CHASE US. Stories in Tin House, Missisippi Review, Wigleaf, HAD and many others.
Sean will give a craft lecture on writing flash fiction.
WORKSHOP LEADER:
OLIVIA CLARE
Author of the novel Here Lies and story collection Disasters in the First World.
Olivia will lead daily workshop and give a reading.
Yokshop Alums have gone on to publish with major presses and in journals such as One World/Random House,
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 Pushcart Prize nominations and landed multiple book deals.
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.
GUEST PRESENTER:
MELISSA GINSBURG
Author of the novels The House Uptown and Sunset City and poetry collections Doll Apollo and Dear Weather Ghost.
Melissa will read from her work.
Recent Faculty
William Boyle
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