OUR INSTRUCTORS
Different voices. Different specialties. One commitment.
Every Open Workshop instructor teaches with a shared philosophy: serious attention to writers and their work.
FOUNDER & INSTRUCTOR
Bryan Hurt
Bryan is the author of Everyone Wants to Be Ambassador to France, winner of the Starcherone Prize for Innovative Fiction, and editor of Watchlist: 32 Stories by Persons of Interest. His work has appeared in McSweeney’s, Guernica, and the New England Review, with criticism in Tin House and Literary Hub. He served as editor in chief of The Arkansas International and teaches in the MFA program at the University of Arkansas.
He built the Open Workshop around a simple belief: what actually keeps a writer going isn’t talent or prizes, it’s other writers—people who expect your pages and keep reading them long after any class is over.
FICTION
EDITING
LITERARY MAGAZINES
A GROWING BENCH
For now that’s one instructor. But as the Open Workshop grows, the page grows with it. Every future instructor teaches with the same philosophy: questions over conclusions, curiosity over certainty.