Regional Coordinator & Scholastic Awards Affiliate
Instructor

Hassan Alshiyoukh is beyond excited to join the Writopia Lab team this summer! Hassan A. J. is a writer and an educator. He is the former creative writing mentor at Montpelier High School and its Community Based Learning program. He received his MFA in Writing & Publishing from the Vermont College of Fine Arts where he focused on historical fiction and the art of reimagining, and was the assistant fiction editor for Hunger Mountain Magazine. He attended the Yale Writers’ Workshop and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. His work has appeared in Montage, Words for Charity, and Tale Time Podcast. He is a winner of the 2019 Wilder Fiction Prize.