Young Writers’ Conference
Saturday, May 22, 2027 •8:15 am - 4:30 pm•Brevard College
About The Young Writers’ Conference
The Looking Glass Rock Young Writers’ Conference is a one-day conference where current 8th-12th-grade students visit the Brevard College campus to attend creative writing workshops led by Brevard College faculty, meet LGRWC faculty, and connect with other young writers. Conference attendees are also encouraged to attend the LGRWC public readings featuring conference faculty on Friday and Saturday evenings. The total conference cost is $75, including writing workshops, individual writing conferences, and lunch.
Registration for 2027 will open in February.
2027 Conference Details
schedule and workshops
8:15 - 8:30 am: Check-In
8:30 - 8:45 am: Welcome
9:00 - 10:15 am: Workshop 1 - Nonfiction/Fiction or Poetry
10:15 - 10:30 am: Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:45 am: Workshop 2 - Nonfiction/Fiction or Poetry
11:45 am - 12:15 pm: Writing and Inspiration
12:15 - 1:00 pm: Lunch and LGRWC Scholarship Readings
1:15 - 2:00 pm: LGRWC Faculty Meet and Greet
2:00 - 4:00 pm: Writing Time and Individual Conferences with LGRYWC Faculty
4:00 - 4:30 pm: Open Mic and Closing
4:30 - 5:00 pm: Pick-Up
Fiction and Creative Nonfiction Workshop with Lauren Wolf
Whose Story Is It?
Poetry Workshop with Lily Crowder
Going Home: Poetry in the Places We Come From
About Our Workshop Leaders
Lauren Wolf has been inside the machine of major storytelling projects, and she's here to show you how it works. A graduate of the University of Texas at Austin School of Journalism, she worked alongside a Pulitzer Prize winner and an Academy Award winner as a fact-checker, research assistant, and associate producer on Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief and its Emmy Award–winning HBO film. She went on to fact-check Leah Remini's memoir Troublemaker. A Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference award-winning essayist, Wolf has written everything from a screenplay about the life of boxer Ann Wolfe to an original television series. These days she's focused on fact-checking, civic research, and story development. She lives with her family in Brevard.
Lily Crowder is a lifelong writer from the woods and waters of North Carolina. In 2018, she was awarded the WILMA Women to Watch Award in Writing. She received the Kurt Green Fellowship at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, where she received her MFA in Poetry in 2024. Throughout her writing career, she has served in various roles for publications, including Ecotone Magazine, Portals Magazine, Atlantis Creative Magazine, and WILMA Magazine. Her work has been featured in places such as The Bangalore Review, Poet's Choice, and Pithead Chapel, and her poetry received the First Matter Press Ekphrastic Award in 2025. Alongside her creative endeavors, she has written and published over 400 journalistic articles, many of which cover environmental topics. Currently, she teaches College Writing at Brevard College as an adjunct professor. She lives in Asheville with her dog, Frannie Jo.