McMullan Young Writers Workshop

Registration for the 2026 McMullan Writers Workshops is open! We hope this feature about one of our alums will inspire you to join us June 8-12 at Millsaps College. Thanks to Emelia Bosarge for sharing her story with Millsaps College student and fellow workshop alum Ryan Harper!
https://mcmullan.substack.com/p/alumni-spotlight-emelia-bosarge

A couple years ago, a friend of Margaret McMullan and the McMullan Writers Workshops, Scott Saalman, sent an email asking how to help support the young writers who join us each summer for an immersive week of creative writing in a residential setting at Millsaps College. Scott's gift created a full scholarship for a young writer to join us in the workshop -- and gave us the idea to create an easy way for others to support Mississippi's young writers. Thank you, Scott!

As Eudora Welty said, "all serious daring starts from within." Join us as we lift up the vision and creativity of our young writers and consider a small gift today! Link in comments or email us at [email protected].

Stay tuned for news about the 2026 workshop, including our keynote speaker announcement and summer workshop registration. Until then, save the date for June 8-12, 2026!

Nostalgic for the magic of summer and the McMullan Writers Workshops?

Join us at Millsaps College Friday, September 5, at 4pm in the Riggs Reading Room of the Millsaps-Wilson Library for a reception celebrating the opening of a new exhibit featuring the McMullan Writers Workshops!

This “Decade of Daring” retrospective will be on view throughout the fall semester, Sept. 5 - Dec. 19. The Riggs Room is located in the Millsaps-Wilson Library on the campus of Millsaps College, and can be viewed anytime during the Library’s regular operating hours.
https://millsaps.edu/.../millsaps.../library-hours-calendar/

The exhibit showcases images and memorabilia from all ten of the workshops held from 2015 to 2025. We’re thankful to our friends at the Millsaps-Wilson Library for this opportunity to continue our Decade of Daring anniversary celebration!

So grateful to our founder Margaret McMullan whose vision has made this Decade of Daring possible! This article exemplifies the impact the McMullan Young Writers Workshop has had on young writers in our state and region, because it represents the first byline of a workshop alum who attended the first four years in the workshop's history and is now following her dream of a writing career. How's that for full circle! Way to go, Maeve!!! 🤩

https://mississippitoday.org/2025/06/24/mcmullan-young-writers-workshop/

Day 4 was packed with a trip to the and two showcase readings from our incredible faculty members Jamie Dickson Amelia Plair !!! 🤩 From our adult cohort to our high school and middle school cohorts, we've been writing hard and playing hard at all week! ✨️📚✨️

Day 3 took us to and brought us two incredible visits from featured writers and ! From the realms of afrofuturism to the depths of our own personal archives, the day was packed with inspiring perspectives and concrete strategies for all our writers to apply to their creative practice! ✨️📚🤩

Day 2 was packed with writing inspo! 🤩 At Eudora Welty House & Garden we enjoyed the garden, wrote surrounded by Miss Welty's books, and were delighted by poems on demand from SIR! In the afternoon immersed us in the world of screenwriting and in the evening C. Liegh McInnis captivated us with a powerful literary craft talk! In the classrooms at Millsaps College students are building community and writing up a storm...Serious daring?! Challenge accepted. ✨️📚✨️

We are star-struck by our time with Pulitzer-winning nature writer Jack Davis and the engaging conversation our founder led with him to kick off our first day of the tenth McMullan Writers Workshops at ! ✨️📚🤩

Our favorite week of the year is almost here! We can't wait to welcome our to campus at to write with incredible talents like featured writer and faculty members like and to name just a few of the writing stars who will be with us next week! 🤩 As Eudora Welty said, "All serious daring starts from within," and we could not be prouder that we have served over 500 young writers from Mississippi and the Deep South during this Decade of Daring! 💖 Be sure to join us Monday night for a special keynote address from Pulitzer-winning nature writer Jack Davis, who will be in conversation with the one and only whose Serious Daring has made all of this possible! ✨️ 📚 ✨️ Follow for more of all the amazing things these writers will be up to next week! 😍

Jack Davis & Margaret McMullan
6pm Monday June 9
McMullan Lecture Hall, Millsaps College

Have you registered yet for the McMullan Writers Workshops? Head over to https://mcmullanwritersworkshops.com/ today to join us for our tenth anniversary workshop! We're celebrating a Decade of Daring with keynote speaker Pulitzer-winning writer Jack Davis! Our three workshop cohorts serve middle school writers (rising 8th and 9th grade), high school writers (rising 10th grade - rising college first-years), and adult writers. We can't wait to write with you June 9-13!

This summer's June 9-13, 2025 workshop marks TEN YEARS of supporting young writers throughout our state and region! Eudora Welty said "All serious daring starts from within," so we are excited to celebrate a Decade of Daring by inviting your support to help us grow and reach more young writers than ever before! Consider making a gift to the McMullan Young Writers Workshop today -- 100% of all funds raised through our Decade of Daring campaign expands the number of talented young writers with financial need we can invite to join us in the workshop. You can also support us by spreading the word and sharing this post! https://give.millsaps.edu/campaigns/51116/donations

📚 Faculty Spotlight: Liz Egan ✍️

Meet Liz Egan, our Director of the Centers for Writing and Academic Success and Lecturer in Creative Writing! With an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from George Mason University and a B.A. in English from the University of Chicago, Liz brings her passion for prose and pedagogy to everything she does at Millsaps.

From training and mentoring 40-50 peer consultants in the Centers for Academic Success to teaching creative writing courses, Liz is dedicated to helping students find their voice. She also directs the McMullan Writers Workshops, a summer program that brings together middle school, high school, and adult writers with celebrated authors.

🎉 Fun Fact: Liz has worked as a journalist and an editor for a small literary press!

✨ Exciting News: Liz will be leading a workshop at the Mississippi Book Festival! Join her on September 14th at 4 p.m. in the State Capitol room 202 for "Building Characters & Building Worlds," where she’ll explore how character and setting intertwine to create stories that leap off the page. Suitable for all ages—don’t miss it!