Planning for 2011, I realized I would not be able to get away for conferences this year, so I decided to build my own. Today, I want to share with you some of the resources I’ve found. Faithwriters.com: As a “free” member, I had taken advantage of some of their services. However, I discovered that […]
Would you like to attend a writers’ conference—but you can’t get away or don’t have the money? I’m in that situation myself this year, and here’s what I’m going to do about it. I’m putting together my own personal conference. I can assemble the components now and work on them when I have the time. […]
Great faculty, great keynotes, and a great location add up to a wonderful conference experience for around 75 writers this past weekend. If you aren’t familiar with KCWC, take a look at the Web site. Virginia Smith did an outstanding job as keynote speaker with a pothole-by-pothole description of her road to publication. Beginners and […]
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.