In-person workshop with Tommy Dean in Harpers Ferry, WV
(Lodging Not Included)
May 13th through May 15th, 2025
The workshop will run from 9am – 4pm each day
The workshop space is in the outskirts of Harpers Ferry, WV. There is ample free parking onsite. (This is about an hour from Northern Va and about 1 hour and 15 minutes from Washington, DC.)
Tommy Dean
Tommy Dean is the author of two flash fiction chapbooks Special Like the People on TV (Redbird Chapbooks, 2014) and Covenants (ELJ Editions, 2021). Hollows, A collection of flash fiction is forthcoming from Alternating Current Press. He lives in Indiana where he currently is the Editor at Fractured Lit and Uncharted Magazine. A graduate of the Queens University of Charlotte MFA program, he is currently working on a novel. A recipient of the 2019 Lascaux Prize in Short Fiction, his writing can be found in Best Microfiction 2019 and 2020, Best Small Fiction 2019, Monkeybicycle, and the Atticus Review. He taught writing workshops for the Gotham Writers Workshop, the Barrelhouse Conversations and Connections conference, and The Writers Workshop.
You can Find him at tommydeanwriter.com
and on X @TommyDeanWriter.
Sarah Freligh
Sarah Freligh is the author of seven books, including Sad Math, winner of the 2014 Moon City Press Poetry Prize, Hereafter, winner of the 2024 Bath Novella-in-Flash Contest, and the recently-released Other Emergencies. Her work has appeared many literary journals and anthologized in New Micro: Exceptionally Short Fiction (Norton 2018), and Best Microfiction (2019-22). Among her awards are poetry
fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Saltonstall Foundation.
You can Find her at
Twitter/X: @sfreligh
Tara Campbell
With a BA in English, an MA in German, and an MFA in Creative Writing, Tara Campbell has a demonstrated aversion to money and power. Originally from Anchorage, Alaska, she has also lived in Washington DC, Oregon, Ohio, New York, Germany and Austria. She currently lives in Seattle, WA. She’s proud to be on the current roster for the Humanities Washington Speakers Bureau, and is a mentor the the 19th season of AWP’s Writer to Writer Mentorship Program. She’s the recipient of the following awards from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities: the 2016 Larry Neal Writers’ Award in Adult Fiction, the 2016 Mayor’s Arts Award for Outstanding New Artist, and Arts and Humanities Fellowships for 2018 – 2022. She is also a 2017 Kimbilio Fellow and winner of the 2018 Robert Gover Story Prize. Tara earned her MFA from American University in 2019, and is a fiction editor at Barrelhouse. She teaches creative writing with venues such as American University, Johns Hopkins University, Hugo House, Clarion West, the Writer’s Center, Politics and Prose, Catapult, and the National Gallery of Art’s Virtual Studio.
You can Find her at:
Twitter/X: @TaraCampbellCom
Instagram & Threads: @thetreevolution
Format
- This in-person workshop will be capped at 12 writers.
- The workshop is generative and the goal is to help you start as many stories as possible.
- After the farewell dinner, all writers will be invited to give a reading from something they worked on during the workshop. Each reading will be held to a tight 3-minute maximum. This is a voluntary activity but highly encouraged!
Location/ Accomodations
- The workshop space is in the outskirts of Harpers Ferry, WV. There is ample free parking onsite.
- (This is about an hour from Northern Va and about 1 hour and 15 minutes from Washington, DC.)
- Hotel accommodations are not included but if you’re traveling the area for the workshop and need accommodations, please just let Ellen know and she can send you a list of hotels/AirBnBs/etc.
Transportation
- Transportation is not included.
- If you are driving, there is ample free parking at the location.
Deposit/ Payment
- The registration fee is $635.00 per person
- A 50% deposit is due to reserve a spot and balance is due by midnight (EST) on April 30, 2025
- The registration fee covers the workshop sessions, several meals, snacks, workshop materials, and the farewell dinner.
- Cancellations after May 1 will only be refunded if another writer registers for the spot. All cancellations may be subject to a 10% fee.
Apply for the In-Person Work Shop by Filling out the form below
Please be sure to read over the requirements (Requirements) before you apply. By applying, you are indicating that you agree to these terms.
Ellen will be in touch with more details regarding registration, deposit, and payment information. In the meantime, if you have any questions, feel free to reach out to Ellen at [email protected]