LET'S JUST WRITE! AN UNCOMMON WRITERS CONFERENCE
CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
NEW FOR 2023: PITCH SESSIONS
We will award SIX scholarships. CLICK HERE for details.
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 Jackso 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
Joelle Delbourgo, Joelle Delbourgo Associates
Agent panel discussion and pitch sessions
Doug Grad, Doug Grad Literary Agency
Agent panel discussion and pitch sessions
Michelle Grajkowski, 3 Seas Literary Agency
Agent panel discussion and pitch sessions
Peter Rubie, FinePrint Literary
- 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
- Cracking the Social Media Code
Kara Rota, Chicago Review Press
Publishers panel discussion and pitch sessions
WELCOME TO OUR 2023 SPONSORS!
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