2025 Summer Workshop Program
Our Tiered Tuition System asks you to choose one of the following tuition levels:
$900 - Sustaining Level
$800 - Standard Level
$700 - Subsidized Level
$500 - Student/Teacher Level
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This workshop is designed to unlock creativity and explore the power of language. Using an engaging blend of fiction and nonfiction, this workshop provides inspiration through thought-provoking prompts, discussions of literary techniques, and close readings of exemplary prose. Together, we’ll tap into authentic voice, discover new storytelling perspectives, and experiment with form. Ideal for writers at any stage, this workshop encourages both bold exploration and skill refinement, sparking the ideas that will drive your next writing project.
Please submit a 250-500 word prose writing sample to ssiegel@fawc.org by June 30. This will be read only by the instructor in order to help plan for individualized lessons tailored to the classroom.
Biography
Garrard Conley
is the New York Times bestselling author of the memoir Boy Erased (Riverhead/Penguin 2016) and the novel All the World Beside (Riverhead/Penguin 2024). He is the creator and co-producer of the podcast UnErased: The History of Conversion Therapy in America (Stitcher/Limina 2018). His work has been published by The New York Times, Oxford American, TIME and Virginia Quarterly Review, among others. Conley is a graduate of Brooklyn College’s MFA program, where he was a Truman Capote Fellow specializing in fiction. He is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Kennesaw State University.
