LET'S JUST WRITE! AN UNCOMMON WRITERS
CONFERENCE 2023 is
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NEW FOR 2023: PITCH SESSIONS
Join us on March 25-26, 2023, Warwick Allerton Hotel, Chicago, Illinois
CLICK HERE to access our room block at the Warwick Allerton Hotel.
Let's Just Write! An Uncommon Writers Conference was named one of the best conferences in the U.S. by The Writer Magazine two years in a row!
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Memories from the 2022 conference
2023 Faculty:

Jacquelyn Mitchard
- Conversation with this Award-Winning Author at Saturday dinner
- Panel Discussion: Fiction

Jane Hamilton
- Opening keynote from this best-selling author
- Panel Discussion: Fiction

Ann Garvin
- Plotting Made Easy
- Conversation with Jacquelyn Mitchard at Saturday dinner

Eric Charles May
- Now You Scene It, Now You Don't: The Interaction Between Scene and Non-scene Forms in the Writing of Fiction and Nonfiction
- Panel discussion: Nonfiction

Sandra Jackson-Opoku
Panel discussion: Fiction

Jon Eig
Panel Discussion: Nonfiction

Catherine Johns
Panel discussion: Nonfiction

Nancy Johnson
Panel Discussion: Writing Outside Your Own Race/Ethnicity

Donna Seaman
A Publishing Expert Riffs on Books

Kristin Oakley
- Characters Who Jump Off the Page
- Emcee - Live Lit Event

Alexis Pride
Panel Discussion: Writing Outside Your Own Race/Ethnicity

Don De Grazia
Panel Discussion: Writing Outside Your Own Race/Ethnicity

Billy Lombardo
Everything You Need to Know About Point of View

Tony Trigilio
Panel Discussion: Poetry

Faisal Mohyuddin
Panel Discussion: Poetry

CM Burroughs
Panel Discussion: Poetry

Steven L Baron, Lawyers for the Creative Arts
The Nuts and Bolts of Publishing for Authors

Jeff Kurz
Pitch Perfect: Learn from an expert how to pitch an agent in two or three minutes and make them want your manuscript.

Oral History Panel
Oral history, a vital genre for preserving voices and memories of the past. In the Studs Terkel tradition.
Agents and Publishers

Lauren Bieker, FinePrint Literary Management
Agent panel discussion and pitch sessions

Joelle Delbourgo, Joelle Delbourgo Associates
Agent panel discussion and pitch sessions

Doug Grad, Doug Grad Literary Agency
Agent panel discussion and pitch sessions

Peter Rubie, FinePrint Literary Management
- Finding Your Book's Voice
- Pitch sessions

Tina P Schwartz, The Purcell Agency
Agent panel discussion and pitch sessions

Leticia Gomez, Kensington Publishing Corp.
Publishers panel discussion and pitch sessions

Samantha Keating, Wild Rose Press
- Publishers panel discussion and pitch sessions

Kara Rota, Chicago Review Press
Publishers panel discussion and pitch sessions
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