Brent Glenn is a member of the Theatre and Dance Department at Converse College. In addition to being an active member of Actor’s Equity, Brent was a founding member of the Echota Performing Arts Festival and artistic director of the Center Theatre in Georgia. Many of his plays have been produced or presented as staged readings in Georgia and New York City. In addition, he has received two Georgia Folklife Grants in playwriting, written plays on commission for the Arts Councils of Hall, Banks and Towns Counties in Georgia, and has had a collection of his poetry entitled The Dracula Poems published by Circle Myth Press.

Sarah Gray is a fiction writer living in Greer, South Carolina.  She received her MFA in creative writing with a concentration in fiction from Converse College.  Her work has been published in Concept, and she is currently working on a novel-length piece. She is the co-founder and editor of the online literary magazine, South85. This will be her first year serving as director of the Young Writer’s Workshop at Converse College.

Linda Holden received her MLA in English from Converse College. She has taught poetry for the SC Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities for the past three years. She is also a teacher and consultant to the Spartanburg Writing Project and the Teen Writing Program. Her work has appeared in The South Carolina Review, Passenger, Upcountry Review, and Prickly Pear. One of Holden’s poems was recently performed in Stepsisters: A Poetic dialogue on Race and Womanhood. She was poetry editor for the 2011 edition of the literary magazine, Emrys Journal.

Lyn Riddle began her journalism career on the high desert of Wyoming. It looked like the moon, a rough-and-tumble place that lured thousands of workers to build a huge coal-fired generating plant by day and wreak havoc by night. Political corruption came next. A reporter's paradise. She worked cityside for the Los Angeles Herald Examiner with a cigar-smoking city editor in a rumpled shirt, gray pants and a clip-on tie who demanded precision in reporting and classy writing. Jobs as a staff writer and an editor on the city desk and state desk with the Greenville Piedmont and The Greenville News came next. Fifteen years of freelance writing followed for publications such as The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Newsweek and Readers Digest. Riddle yearned to write stories that would make a difference in her hometown - Greenville - and went back to The Greenville News as projects editor then city editor. She took the job of editor of the Greenville Journal in October 2004 because she believes community-based stories will be the salvation of newspapers. In the years since, she and her staff spearheaded the development of the Spartanburg Journal and a specialized newspaper website journalwatchdog.com. She is the author of four non-fiction books and teaches journalism at Furman University and Converse College. She holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Northern Colorado and a master of fine arts degree in creative writing from Converse College.

Additional faculty and guests will be added to the program.

June 20- 25, 2012

Early bird registration deadline March 31

Applications accepted through April 15 Tuition is $675 for early bird rate (apply by March 31) and $775 for regular rate