Message from the Director
Dear Writer,
In 2025 we’re back with immersive programming the mixes what we know about successful in-person workshops with the best of what we learned teaching remotely. YWW will offer on-campus and online workshops. Pick the session and faculty member that best fits your sensibility, schedule, and budget. And for the emerging high school writer, we’re continuing our very successful youth program. In this program, writers generate new work and meet with published authors. I encourage all attendees to familiarize themselves with this year’s guest writers.
I’m excited to announce we are continuing our collaboration with Woodhall Press, a Connecticut-based indie publisher. Next summer Woodhall will open a special submission period for YWW alumni to submit book-length manuscripts for possible publication. In the fall of 2024 Woodhall selected a novel to publish from YWW submissions. That book will be published in 2026. In 2022 a similar collaboration with EastOver Press resulted in the publication of Andrea Rinard’s collection, Murmurations. In addition, three magazines are participating in our annual short-form submission drive. Each year the participating editors publish YYW writers. Our conference offers unique collaborations with publishers.
Working writers and publishing professionals are at the heart of the workshop. Our talented and energetic instructors guide writers on individual journeys of discovery. Drawing on their unique backgrounds as writers and editors, instructors provide readings and exercises designed to improve all aspects of a writer’s craft—facilitating breakthroughs on the page. Sessions do not rely on a set curriculum, but instead draw on each instructor’s expertise to provide writers with a personalized experience. In workshops we motivate and critique, celebrate and problem-solve. In 2025, I’m placing a special emphasis on journal exercises. The faculty will facilitate generative sessions for writers who attend.
Our workshops assist writers in advancing their craft and provide insight and instruction on how to revise—how to re-see—their manuscripts. With a trusted community supporting you, writers are encouraged to do the hard work of composing compelling narratives. The endgame of all our programs is this: to better prepare writers to tackle their next story.
I look forward to meeting you at Yale. Hope you’re reading something good.
