Young Writers’ Conference
Saturday, May 16, 2026 •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.
Registration for 2026 will open in March 2026. The total conference cost is $75, including writing workshops, individual writing conferences, and lunch.
2026 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
Let’s Get Real (Then Get Wild)
Poetry Workshop with James Everett
Mystery of the Familiar: The Strangeness of Place
About Our Workshop Leaders
Lauren Wolf has been inside the machine of major storytelling projects—and she’s here to show you how the machine 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 film counterpart, HBO’s Going Clear. She went on to fact-check Leah Remini’s memoir Troublemaker. Wolf is a Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference award-winning essayist, and her own writing spans a screenplay adaptation of the life of female boxer Ann Wolfe to developing an original television series. While serving as an adjunct professor of communication at Brevard College, she created a course called “Fact-Check Your Life,” where students dig into their own stories, flip their perspectives, and discover what becomes possible when you let facts spark your imagination. She lives with her family in Brevard, North Carolina.
James Everett is a graduate of Davidson College, where he held the Patricia Cornwell Scholarship in Creative Writing for Poetry. Everett was the inaugural John and Renée Grisham Fellow in Poetry at the University of Mississippi, where he received an MFA in Poetry and a PhD in English. Everett was featured in the Winter 2004 edition of storySouth’s “Poets Under 30: a special poetry feature on the best young southern poets.” He received a Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg poetry prize in 2011. He has served as a presenter for the Mississippi Writer’s Workshop, and is a former poetry editor for the Yalobusha Review. He teaches writing and literature at Brevard College, where he is a member of the faculty for the Looking Glass Rock Young Writers’ Conference. He lives with his wife and three daughters near Asheville, North Carolina.