Thanks for your interest in the Looking Glass Rock Writers' Conference, which will be held May 15-18, 2025, at Brevard College and the Transylvania County Library in Brevard, North Carolina. The conference theme is "A Sense of Place."

Workshops will be led by Terrance Hayes (poetry), Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle (fiction), and Elizabeth Rush (creative nonfiction).

Applications open September 1, 2024, and close December 31, 2024. Accepted participants will be notified by February 15, 2025. Upon acceptance, you must show proof of being vaccinated for COVID-19 before arriving at the conference.

Acceptance to conference workshops in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry is based on manuscript evaluation. Tuition is covered by the Transylvania County Library Foundation for all accepted participants, who pay only for room and board. Full scholarships that cover room and board are available from the Transylvania County Library Foundation. You may apply for both scholarship and regular categories. 

Each workshop is limited to 12 participants. You may apply to two workshops but will be selected for only one. Send us your best published or unpublished work to apply. If you are accepted, you may submit a new manuscript for your faculty conference and workshop.

Please do not put your name in the text or file name of the saved document. All submissions will be read anonymously.

Fiction: Submit up to 20 double-spaced pages of a story or novel excerpt, or multiple short pieces.

Creative Nonfiction: Submit up to 20 double-spaced pages of an essay and/or memoir excerpt, or multiple short pieces.

Poetry: Submit up to 10 pages of poetry, with one poem per page, all in one document.