Poetry Workshop with Victoria Chang: Come Play!

This will be a generative writing lab where we will read poems together and then write poems together. We will begin from the place of play as a poetics, as a way against writer's block, and as a way to move out of our comfort zones. We will go from one set of poems and writing exercises to the next with some time at the end to share what we’ve written. Come to this workshop with a big imagination, an open mind, a laptop and/or a notebook, and be prepared to have fun as we experiment in new ways.

Submission Guidelines

Use this submission form if you are not applying for a TCLF Full Scholarship. You may submit here and in the full scholarship form to be considered for both categories.

Submit up to 10 pages of poetry, with one poem per page, in a standard, legible font (Times New Roman, Garamond, Arial, etc.). Your work may be published or unpublished, as you will be able to submit a different manuscript for the workshop upon acceptance.

Please do not put your name in the text or file name of your document, as submissions will be read anonymously by our screeners.

Poetry Workshop with Victoria Chang: Come Play!

This will be a generative writing lab where we will read poems together and then write poems together. We will begin from the place of play as a poetics, as a way against writer's block, and as a way to move out of our comfort zones. We will go from one set of poems and writing exercises to the next with some time at the end to share what we’ve written. Come to this workshop with a big imagination, an open mind, a laptop and/or a notebook, and be prepared to have fun as we experiment in new ways.

Submission Guidelines

You may only receive a TCLF Full Scholarship once. If you have previously received a TCLF Full Scholarship, you may only apply to the conference using the general application form.

Use this submission form if you are applying for a TCLF scholarship (covers tuition, room, and board). Full scholarships cover housing and board and are available to Transylvania County residents, merit-based applicants, and need-based applicants. All scholarships are provided by the Transylvania County Library Foundation. If you wish, you may submit here and in the regular form to be considered for both categories.

Submit up to 10 pages of poetry, with one poem per page, in a standard, legible font (Times New Roman, Garamond, Arial, etc.). Your work may be published or unpublished, as you will be able to submit a different manuscript for the workshop upon acceptance.

Please do not put your name in the text or file name of your document, as submissions will be read anonymously by our screeners.

Creative Nonfiction Workshop with Leslie Jamison: Landscapes of Feeling

In this generative workshop, we’ll be thinking about how landscapes—built and wild, domestic and public, life-long and transient—offer fresh ways of looking at our most essential subjects: love, grief, transformation, inheritance, confession, loss. How do places shape us, illuminate us, infect us, astound us, wound us, orient and disorient us? How can writing toward places we’ve loved—or fled, or lost—clear new pathways into writing our own stories? We’ll examine how we write about places that are charged with emotion, landscapes remembered and conjured, places we’ve said goodbye to, places we’ve longed for, places we’ve carried around inside of us long after we left. We’ll be devoting particular attention to how places—in their tangible textures and sensory specificity—might challenge us to write more vigorously and precisely into the vast intangible realms of emotion, the childhood pantries and wet wormy soil and skittering dusk light of our earthly days. How can places become prompts and catalysts and fissures opening onto vast subterranean caverns of feeling? We’ll read personal narrative, travel writing, fiction, and lyrics. We'll write elegies and make maps; we'll think about memory palaces and the ecosystems we carry around inside of us; we’ll take risks with form and content; we’ll leave our days together with writing that feels like fresh paint still drying on the canvas: raw, real, urgent.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Use this submission form if you are not applying for a TCLF scholarship. You may submit here and in the TCLF scholarship form to be considered for both categories.

Submit up to 20 double-spaced pages of an essay or memoir excerpt, or multiple shorter essays, in a standard, legible font (Times New Roman, Garamond, Arial, etc.). Your work may be published or unpublished, as you may submit a different manuscript for the workshop upon acceptance.

Please do not put your name in the text or file name of your document, as submissions will be read anonymously by our screeners.

Creative Nonfiction Workshop with Leslie Jamison: Landscapes of Feeling

In this generative workshop, we’ll be thinking about how landscapes—built and wild, domestic and public, life-long and transient—offer fresh ways of looking at our most essential subjects: love, grief, transformation, inheritance, confession, loss. How do places shape us, illuminate us, infect us, astound us, wound us, orient and disorient us? How can writing toward places we’ve loved—or fled, or lost—clear new pathways into writing our own stories? We’ll examine how we write about places that are charged with emotion, landscapes remembered and conjured, places we’ve said goodbye to, places we’ve longed for, places we’ve carried around inside of us long after we left. We’ll be devoting particular attention to how places—in their tangible textures and sensory specificity—might challenge us to write more vigorously and precisely into the vast intangible realms of emotion, the childhood pantries and wet wormy soil and skittering dusk light of our earthly days. How can places become prompts and catalysts and fissures opening onto vast subterranean caverns of feeling? We’ll read personal narrative, travel writing, fiction, and lyrics. We'll write elegies and make maps; we'll think about memory palaces and the ecosystems we carry around inside of us; we’ll take risks with form and content; we’ll leave our days together with writing that feels like fresh paint still drying on the canvas: raw, real, urgent.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

You may only receive a TCLF Scholarship once. If you have previously received a TCLF scholarship, you may only apply to the conference using the general application form.

Use this submission form if you are applying for a TCLF scholarship (covers tuition, room and board). Full scholarships are available to Transylvania County residents, merit-based applicants, and need-based applicants. All scholarships are provided by the Transylvania County Library Foundation. If you wish, you may submit here and in the general form to be considered for both categories.

Submit up to 20 double-spaced pages of an essay or memoir excerpt, or multiple shorter essays, in a standard, legible font (Times New Roman, Garamond, Arial, etc.). Your work may be published or unpublished, as you may submit a different manuscript for the workshop upon acceptance.

Please do not put your name in the text or file name of your document, as submissions will be read anonymously by our screeners.

Fiction Workshop with David Joy: An Ear To The Ground

Eudora Welty once said that, "One place understood helps us understand all places better." What she meant is that a writer who captures the humanity of a particular place by extension illuminates the human condition as a universal. James Joyce shared that sentiment when he noted that, "If [he could] get to the heart of Dublin [he could] get to the heart of all cities of the world." Every place has a sound, a smell, a flavor, an ecology, a people so deeply rooted to that ground that they must claw themselves from the dirt to find their place on the page. In this workshop we will closely examine place as a governing principle of story, as the lens through which all things find focus.

Submission Guidelines

Use this submission form if you are not applying for a TCLF Full Scholarship. You may submit here and in the full scholarship form to be considered for both categories.

Submit up to 20 double-spaced pages of a short story or novel excerpt, or multiple shorter stories, in a regular font (Times New Roman, Garamond, Arial, etc.). Your work may be published or unpublished, as you may submit a different manuscript for the workshop upon acceptance.

Please do not put your name in the text or file name of your document, as submissions will be read anonymously by our screeners.

Fiction Workshop with David Joy: An Ear To The Ground

Eudora Welty once said that, "One place understood helps us understand all places better." What she meant is that a writer who captures the humanity of a particular place by extension illuminates the human condition as a universal. James Joyce shared that sentiment when he noted that, "If [he could] get to the heart of Dublin [he could] get to the heart of all cities of the world." Every place has a sound, a smell, a flavor, an ecology, a people so deeply rooted to that ground that they must claw themselves from the dirt to find their place on the page. In this workshop we will closely examine place as a governing principle of story, as the lens through which all things find focus.

Submission Guidelines

You may only receive a TCLF Full Scholarship once. If you have previously received a TCLF Full Scholarship, you may only apply to the conference using the general application form.

Use this submission form if you are applying for a TCLF scholarship (covers tuition, room and board). Full scholarships are available to Transylvania County residents, merit-based applicants, and need-based applicants. All scholarships are provided by the Transylvania County Library Foundation. If you wish, you may submit here and in the general form to be considered for both categories.

Submit up to 20 double-spaced pages of a short story or novel excerpt, or multiple shorter stories, in a regular font (Times New Roman, Garamond, Arial, etc.). Your work may be published or unpublished, as you may submit a different manuscript for the workshop upon acceptance.

Please do not put your name in the text or file name of your document, as submissions will be read anonymously by our screeners.

Submission Requirements and Guidelines

Use this submission form if you are a currently enrolled Brevard College student and are applying for a Brevard College Scholarship to attend the 2026 LGRWC. 

Full scholarships that cover tuition, housing, and board are available to current Brevard College students and are provided by Brevard College.

If you are a Brevard College student and have previously received a scholarship to attend the LGRWC, you are ineligible to apply. 

Submit up to 20 double-spaced pages of fiction or creative nonfiction or 10 pages of poetry, with one poem per page, in a regular, legible font. Your work may be published or unpublished, as you may submit a different manuscript for the workshop upon acceptance.

Please do not put your name in the text or file name of your document, as submissions will be read anonymously by our screeners.