PART III: POST-CONFERENCE REFLECTIONS The final part of the YWC 2014 posts. Post-conference ennui exists. It is real. For days or weeks you live, breathe, eat and sleep in an environment designed to facilitate your writing; you engage with writers … Continued
Part II: LESSONS AND EXPERIENCES Two screenwriters, a memoirist, three novelists, one creative nonfiction author, and a poet: This is what a typical breakfast table in the Pierson Dining Hall during the 5 days of Session II of YWC 2014 … Continued
PART I: PREPARATION After months of waiting… I executed several Corp de Ballet-worthy pirouettes across the room after the news sank in that I had, indeed, been accepted to the Yale Writers’ Conference (YWC) to be held June 18 – … Continued