just look at our 2024 schedule!
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Friday, July 26th
11:00 am - 1:00 pm: Registration 1:00 - 1:50 pm: Keynote Chasing Success -- Lynn Austin 2:00 - 2:50 pm: Session 1 10 Years, 40 Titles, 6 Secrets to Success-- Glenys Nellist SEO Basics -- Grant Patterson How to Write a Novel -- PeggySue Wells 3:00 - 3:50 pm: Session 2 Practical Creativity -- Ann Byle How to Build a Website with SEO in Mind -- Grant Patterson How to Create a Memorable Fantasy or Sci-Fi World -- Josiah DeGraaf 4:00 - 4:50 pm: Roundtables Get Serious about Your Goals with a New Style of Writing Group -- Writer Chick Society Finding Success as a Self-Published Author -- Sherwood DeVisser Why Write Fantasy for the Adult Market? -- Josiah DeGraaf 5:30 - 6:30 pm: Dinner 7:00 - 7:50 pm: Group Gatherings: Find Your Tribe 8:00 - 8:30 pm: Faculty Book Signing 8:30 - 9:30 pm: Open Mic Readings 9:30 - 10:30 pm: Night Owl for High School Students (with conference staff) Saturday, July 27th 8:00 - 8:30 am: Breakfast 9:00 - 9:50 am: Keynote Mermaids, Unicorns, and Christian Writers -- Jim Watkins 10:00 - 10:50 am: Session 3 Make Money Writing for Specialty Markets -- Lin Johnson Build Strong: Creating an Outline for Your Nonfiction Book -- Ann Byle Point of View -- PeggySue Wells 11:00 - 11:50 am: Session 4 Bible Journeys: Teaching the Bible Like a Tour Guide -- Sharla Fritz The First Verb: A Life-Changing Theology of Creativity -- Colleen Warren Research for Novel Writers -- Susie Finkbeiner 12:00 - 12:45 pm: Lunch 1:00 - 1:50 pm: Session 5 Telling a Story that People Want to Read -- Janet Hart Leonard Writing Personal Experience Articles -- Lin Johnson But I'm Not Funny! Helps to Up the Humor Level in Your Writing -- Rachael Phillips 2:00 - 2:50 pm: Session 6 Editorial Budgeting: Which Edits Are Worth the Cost? -- Tim Pietz Finding Your Way to Being a Newspaper Columnist -- Janet Hart Leonard Authentic Characterization in Historical Fiction -- Susie Finkbeiner 3:00 - 3:50 pm: Session 7 7 Things I Wish I Had Known When I Started Speaking -- Sharla Fritz Fiction Proposal Pitfalls: Common Reasons Publishers Turn Authors Down -- Tim Pietz Becoming Sherlock & Watson: How to Compose a Mystery or Thriller -- Jori Hanna 4:00 - 4:50 pm: Session 8 10 Years, 40 Titles, 6 Secrets to Success-- Glenys Nellist Writing Naturally: Nature Writing as Wonder and Worship -- Colleen Warren Writing the Cozy Mystery -- Rachael Phillips 5:00 - 6:00 pm: Keynote Counting the Cost of Being a Writer -- Lynn Austin |
TOPICS FOR 2024!
Our plan for the General Conference includes focusing on the craft of writing. If you're ready to dive more deeply into making your writing the best it can be, this conference is just what you need to take the next step on your writing journey.
One-on-One Appointments One of the best things about a conference like ours is the opportunity for you to sit one-on-one for 15 minutes with a faculty member. We'll give you a list of each faculty member and how they might be able to help you during a one-on-one appointment. After you register you can sign up! To read each faculty member's bio, check the Faculty page. (Note that the one-on-one appointments are during the General Conference only.) 
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