the yokshop.
GUEST LECTURER:
ANNELL LOPEZ
Author of story collection I'll Give You a Reason. Winner of the Louise Meriwether First Book Prize.
Annell will give a craft talk and reading.
GUEST LECTURER:
ROBERT BUSBY
Author of the story collection Bodock. Winner of the C. Michael Curtis Prize for fiction.
Robert 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.
WORKSHOP LEADER:
OLIVIA CLARE FRIEDMAN
Author of the novel Here Lies and story collection Disasters in the First World.
Olivia will lead a daily workshop.
WORKSHOP LEADER:
MICHAEL KNIGHT
Author of six books, including the novels The Typist and story collections Eveningland and Goodnight, Nobody.
Michael will lead daily workshop and give a reading.
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
Anne Giselson
Snowden Wright
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.