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Conferences: A Must for Aspiring Writers
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Conference attendance is necessary for writers wanting to get published. In fact, conferences are a critical component of your marketing strategy. Conferences give you access to published writers and editors who can help you learn the craft and the industry. Whether you have anything to sell or not, networking opportunities provided by conferences are invaluable to you in promoting yourself as a writer. People are more likely to work with you if they have met you or if you are recommended by someone they know.
If you haven’t planned to attend a conference this year, now’s the time to consider it. If cost is a factor, look for a conference nearby to keep travel expenses down. If you have never attended a conference before, choose one of the smaller ones to “get your feet wet.” So, how do you go about finding the right conference?
- Search online for conferences in your area at Shawguides.com. For Christian conferences, go to Sally Stuart’s conferences page. Sally has not updated the list for 2011, but the list includes links to conference websites.
- Agent Steve Laube offers a conference list on his site here.
- Ask for recommendations from fellow writers. Members of online groups are happy to make recommendations if you don’t have local contacts to help you.
- Visit author John Vonhof’s WritersConferenceGuidelines.com and browse the wealth of information he provides about how to choose a conference and prepare for attendance.
I can answer questions about Kentucky Christian Writers Conference, Indianapolis Christian Writers Conference, and Southern Christian Writers Conference, as I have attended all three numerous times.
See my previous post on conferences, Writers Conferences: Why-to, How-to.
Writers Conferences: Guide to Publication
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Kentucky Christian Writers Conference begins Friday, and I’m getting more excited by the minute. I’ve been on the organizing committee for KCWC for the past four years. Last year, about 50% of the attendees were first-timers, total newbies. We try really hard to help the beginners. They come so that they can get as much information as possible, but they invariably end up glassy-eyed, suffering from information overload. I view them with great sympathy because I remember my first conference.
In the summer of 1999, I attended my first conference, Southern Christian Writers Conference at Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama. Somehow, an announcement about the conference reached my local newspaper in Union City, Tennessee. I managed to locate some other West Tennessee writers who were attending SCWC, so I decided to go with them. I had no idea what I would learn or what I would do with the information. I just knew that I liked to write and had been told that I was good at it. I wanted to explore the possibilities. (more…)
