Faith Shearin, a prizewinning young adult novelist and poet, will serve as one of four faculty members during the 26th annual West Virginia Writers’ Workshop July 20-23.
The workshop gives writers at any stage of their careers an opportunity to improve their craft in a warm, welcoming atmosphere. Participants work closely with nationally and internationally acclaimed authors and attend readings, craft talks, writing exercises and panel discussions.
Shearin is the 2021 recipient of the YA Global Fiction Prize and the author of seven collections of poetry. Her work has won awards including the May Swenson Poetry Award, the Press 53 Award for Poetry and the Dogfish Poetry Prize.
Poet Jim Daniels and nonfiction author Katie Fallon will also serve on the faculty alongside Mark Brazaitis, a professor of English at Eberly College of Arts and Sciences.
Daniels is the author of numerous collections of poetry, most recently “The Middle Ages” (Red Mountain Press, 2018) and “Street Calligraphy” (Steel Toe Books, 2017). Katie Fallon is the author of the nonfiction book “Cerulean Blues: A Personal Search for a Vanishing Songbird,” which was a finalist for the Reed Award for Outstanding Writing on the Southern Environment.
Brazaitis is the coordinator of the WVU Creative Writing Program. He is the author of two novels, a book of poems and five collections of short stories. His short story, “The Incurables” won the 2012 Richard Sullivan Prize and the 2013 Devil’s Kitchen Reading Award in Prose.
The 2023 West Virginia Writers’ Workshop will take place on the WVU Downtown Campus and on Zoom. Registration is open online. No writing experience is needed to participate.
“This is a great opportunity for writers in our community, and from all over the country, to work with accomplished and helpful professional writers,” Brazaitis said. “Anyone with an interest in creative writing — poetry, fiction, and nonfiction — is encouraged to sign up.”
Register to attend the workshop.
For more information, contact Brazaitis at 304-276-8846 or Mark.Brazaitis@mail.wvu.edu.