Young Writers’ Conference

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 2025 will open in the spring. The total conference cost is $75, including writing workshops, individual writing conferences, and lunch.

2025 Conference Details Forthcoming

Sample conference schedule and workshops

8:15 - 8:30 am: Check-In (MG Lobby)

8:30 - 8:45 am: Welcome (MG 125)

9:00 - 10:15 am: Workshop 1 - Fiction or Poetry (MG Classrooms)

10:15 - 10:30 am: Coffee Break (MG Lobby)

10:30 - 11:45 am: Workshop 2 - Fiction or Poetry (MG Classrooms)

11:45 am - 12:15 pm: Writing and Inspiration

12:15 - 1:00 pm: Lunch and LGRWC Scholarship Readings (Myers Dining Hall)

1:15 - 2:00 pm: LGRWC Faculty Meet and Greet (Beam Breezeway)

2:00 - 4:00 pm: Writing Time and Individual Conferences with LGRYWC Faculty

4:00 - 4:30 pm: Open Mic and Closing (MG 125)

4:30 - 5:00 pm: Pick-Up (MG Lobby)

Fiction Workshop with Adam Mills

Building Worlds and Stories Together

Poetry Workshop with James Everett

Mystery of the Familiar: The Strangeness of Place

About Our Workshop Leaders

Adam Mills is an Assistant Professor of English at Brevard College in Brevard, NC. He previously earned an MFA in Popular Fiction from the University of Southern Maine and a Ph.D. in Creative Writing and Literary Studies from the University of Kansas. His short stories and book reviews have appeared in such venues as FUSION Magazine and the Los Angeles Review Online. He is a World Fantasy Award-nominated editor for his service with the webzine Weird Fiction Review Online from 2012-2014. For fifteen years, Mills has taught writing, including fiction writing workshops, at institutes of higher learning. His research and writing interests include but are not limited to science fiction and fantasy, horror and Gothic literature, and graphic novels.

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.

Sponsored by Brevard College