The West Virginia Writers’ Workshop, designed to give writers at any stage of their careers the opportunity to improve their craft in a welcoming atmosphere, will take place on the WVU Downtown Campus and on Zoom July 20–23.
Register by Saturday (July 15) to attend.
The workshop will offer readings, craft talks, writing exercises and a publishing panel, and an opportunity for participants to work with nationally and internationally acclaimed authors in small group settings.
Workshop faculty member Faith Shearin, the 2021 recipient of the YA Global Fiction Prize and the author of seven collections of poetry, will give a craft talk and lead a writing exercise.
Also on the faculty are poets Jim Daniels and Katie Fallon.
Daniels is the author of numerous collections of poetry, including the most recent “The Middle Ages” (Red Mountain Press, 2018) and “Street Calligraphy” (Steel Toe Books, 2017).
Fallon, the author of the nonfiction books “Vulture: The Private Life of an Unloved Bird” (2020, 2017) and “Cerulean Blues: A Personal Search for a Vanishing Songbird” (2011), is a finalist for the Reed Award for Outstanding Writing on the Southern Environment.
The workshop will be directed by Mark Brazaitis, a professor of English and the coordinator of the University’s Creative Writing Program. Brazaitis is also the author of two novels, a book of poems and five collections of short stories, including “The Incurables,” winner of the 2012 Richard Sullivan Prize and the 2013 Devil’s Kitchen Reading Award in Prose.
For more information, contact Mark Brazaitis at 304-276-8846 or Mark.Brazaitis@mail.wvu.edu.