WriterCon Conference Registration

Early Bird Pricing Ends 5/31 || Admission to all sessions on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday || Pitching and consultations to authors, agents, editors, and publishers || Registration Gift Package || Author Photo by Professional Photographer

Admission to all sessions on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday ||. Pitching and consultations to authors, agents, editors, and publishers. || Registration Gift Package. || Author Photo by Professional Photographer. || Unlimited Contest Entries. || Private consultation with author of your choice

Early Bird Pricing Ends 5/31. || Admission to all sessions on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. || Pitching and consultations to authors, agents, editors, and publishers. || Registration Gift Package. || Author Photo by Professional Photographer. || Unlimited Contest Entries. || Private consultation with author of your choice. || Manuscript review by author of your choice. || A one-year subscription to WriterCon Magazine

Ever wish you could spend thirty minutes picking the brain of a successful multi-published author, agent, or marketing expert? You can. You will make a selection from our speakers.

You will select one reviewer from a list of authors. During the conference, you will meet with your reviewer and receive face-to-face feedback on your work.

Friday, Saturday, and Sunday sessions will be recorded and made available within 30 days after the conference.

Do you have a book to sell? Would you like more exposure for your work? During all three days, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, authors will have a dedicated space to set up displays, chat with attendees, and sell their work to both readers and writers. Space is very limited, so don’t delay.

Especially geared toward commercial fiction, this workshop will dig into what makes a book feel fast-paced and why it’s only tenuously connected to the actual action in the scene. Find out why starting your book off with an explosion is often a mistake, how kicking the cat is as effective as saving the cat, and how you can plot out your book without losing the fun of exploration. We’ll be analyzing some text in this class, but we’ll mostly be discussing full story lines, and pre-writing. This is the story preparation you need to feel confident you’re on the right track before you dive into the actual world (wilderness!) of words.

An agent or editor will give you three pages. But a reader will give you three chapters … IF they’re good chapters, and if they give the reader a promise to grasp onto. Writers sometimes get tunnel-vision on those first three pages, and sometimes those first three sentences, so in this workshop we’ll zoom out and analyze the first pages of the first three chapters and look at how some of today’s best storytellers build the foundations of their stories. Be prepared to read and workshop and please bring your opinions!

Writing for the screen is unlike any other writing discipline. It’s active, not passive writing. It’s happening as the reader reads it. You can’t show thoughts or intentions, only what the audience can see and hear. You have a prescribed maximum page count. An industry standard prescribed format that can’t be deviated from. Dialogue that must be realistic, using subtext. There is no blatant exposition in screenwriting. It’s so unlike narrative writing that it requires a change in thought process to do it correctly. Unlike novels where detail can be king, screenwriting is about telling your story in the most economical way you can. Thought needs to taken about the budget of the film you’re trying to tell, depending on who you see producing it and where you intend it to show. All these things add up to new form of writing to most of you. a writing discipline that is difficult to master. But it can be done. Basic format and rules, treatments, outlines, story concepts, screenplay story structure, set ups and pay offs, realistic dialogue, subtext, settings, cinematic transitions…. All these things and more will be covered when we talk about screenwriting.

Join the team from Zealot Branding and you will learn the importance of a compelling author brand and how it can significantly impact your career. This class will guide authors through the process of identifying their unique brand elements, themes, and values, and teach them how to communicate these effectively to their audience. Through an interactive workshop and real-world examples, participants will develop a personalized branding strategy that resonates with their target readers and sets them apart in the literary world.

The masterclass will cover how to break into the inspirational market and write for it. It will cover the basics of the market, the different types of content that editors are looking for, and the boundaries when writing for this market. We will also delve into some craft topics that will help you enrich your writing.

Do you have a book to sell? Would you like more exposure for your work? During all three days, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, authors will have a dedicated space to set up displays, chat with attendees, and sell their work to both readers and writers. Space is very limited, so don’t delay.

In this Friday small-group (ten or fewer) lunch, you’ll have a chance to interact with literary agents.

In this Saturday small-group (ten or fewer) lunch, you’ll have a chance to interact with literary agents.