What separates Middle Grade from Young Adult? YA from Adult? Join panelists as they discuss writing at the kid's table and why it's so much fun (aide from the Dino Nuggets)!
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Featuring: George Jreije, K. Tempest Bradford, Kwame Mbalia, Rob Cameron
Writers who have community thrive better in their creative work. Come listen to our panelists talk about the communities they participate in, best practices, and how to get started.
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Featuring: Bryan Young, C. S. E. Cooney, James Lowder, Karen Menzel née Bovenmyer
Learn the tips, tricks, and strategies behind successful literary crowdfunding campaigns from Kickstarter's Head of Publishing
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Oriana Leckert is the Head of Publishing at Kickstarter, where she helps creators bring a marvelous array of literary projects to life. She’s written and edited for Vice, MTV News, Slate, Atlas Obscura, and more. Her first book, Brooklyn Spaces: 50 Hubs of Culture and Creativity, grew out of a multi-year project chronicling NYC's creative places. Follow her at @orianabklyn.
Long-time DM Gregory A. Wilson leads Symposium authors through a one-shot D&D session, building on previous live events; watch your favorite writers roll dice and roleplay in this interactive TTRPG!
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Speculative fiction author and long-time DM Gregory A. Wilson has run many live D&D events at conventions and in historic venues from Connecticut to San Francisco to London, England--but it all began here with our first live event, at the Gen Con Writers' Symposium, ten years ago this year! That event spawned Tales and Tomes from the Forbidden Library, Greg's best-selling adventure and sourcebook from Alligator Alley Entertainment. Join him, Richard Lee Byers, Brandon O'Brien, Jennifer Brozek, Toiya Kristen Finley, and Karen Menzel from the Writers' Symposium as they play through a new tabletop adventure--with audience participation, to boot!
Developing Community Partnerships to Sustain Your Career
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Interested in embedding your creative career where you live? Join us as we discuss how to work with local institutions, foundations, and libraries to support your career.
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Featuring: Maurice Broaddus, Indy Type Shop, Learning Tree, Ray Bradbury Center
Genre has always explored a better future, world, and society. Join our panelists as they discuss how writing diverse genre can be a means of resistance in today's world and why you should do it.
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Featuring: Cat Rambo, J. B. Garner, Khaldoun Khelil, Jason Sanford
Writers discuss some of the difficulties of translating creative works from the page to the screen, who famously did it best, and what to consider the next time your IP switches mediums.
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Featuring: Demetrius Witherspoon, Justina Ireland, Mia Ginaé, Nicholas Marchetti
Zombies. “Chosen One” fantasy narratives. Space Marines in powered armor. All of these and more have been done to death. How do you put a fresh spin on them?
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Featuring: Erin Roberts, James P. Nettles, Jim C. Hines, Lark Morgan Lu
Do you love reading movies? Have you ever thought about creating a novel based on a movie script? Then this is the workshop for you!
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Want to turn a movie into a book? Join Tim Waggoner's workshop to learn how! Topics covered include: What a novelization is and isn’t. How novelizations are born. Current attitudes toward novelizations. How are writers for novelizations chosen? Working with editors and IP holders. Adding material vs not adding material. How much freedom does the author have? Techniques for writing novelizations. Landing novelization gigs. Trad publishing novelizations vs indie novelizations.