How do we create a community that doesn't stagnate? Join our panelists of mentors and their eager upstarts as they discuss how we might create a future together.
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Featuring: Arley Sorg, C. S. E. Cooney, James Lowder, Maurice Broaddus, Rob Cameron, Mychal Threets
Pitch your novel to literary agent Gabrielle Harbowy in a comfortable, low-stress group pitch session. BYO coffee!
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Gabrielle Harbowy is an Associate Literary Agent at Corvisiero Literary Agency. An award-nominated editor, author, and anthologist, she is the author of the novel Pathfinder Tales: Gears of Faith, and has written game adventures for Pathfinder PFS and D&D Adventurers League. For more information, including her MSWL (manuscript wish list), visit her online.
Pitch Us and Refine Your Game is a targeted, four-hour workshop with Scott Lynch, Brandon O'Brien, and Monica Valentinelli to help you polish and present your drafted game.
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In this session, you and your peers will be pitching the judges your game, receive feedback, and then get help to polish and present your drafted game. This is a crash course in how to take your existing game's draft to the next level by learning how to present your game, how to pitch to game companies, when to decide whether or not to self-publish, how to teach new players your rules, and more! Pending the number of attendees, this workshop may also include a breakout session to help you finalize the parts you're having trouble with.
In this workshop you will: learn playwriting basics, engage in quick writing prompts, and play theatre games to help get you out of your head and put your full body into your creative work!
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If you're a playwright, or ever wanted to try your hand at writing for the stage, you've got to be able to keep your words "Active." You've got to feel the emotions in your body as you commit words to page. Join Ashley Lauren Rogers in this interactive workshop.
Press, Public Relations and Marketing for Authors & Creators
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Writing the book is only half the battle - the other half is promoting it! Join author, editor and publicist Sean CW Korsgaard who will guide you through selling your books and yourself!
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"You've written your book, found a publisher, and have a release date - now comes the hardest job yet, selling your book AND yourself to the public!
Luckily, your host and instructor Sean CW Korsgaard has been there before, first having spent a decade as a reporter, and then having spent three years building Baen Books' media and marketing department from the ground up, then launching a pair of magazines of his own! He will teach you how to build a promotion kit, how to punch up your bios and promos, handle reviewers and interviewers, and how to get the right kind of attention from both, and help you to put your very best foot forward as a writer in the public eye.
You've already got a story to tell - from this workshop, you'll come away with the tools, knowledge and confidence to share them with the world!"
Jennifer Brozek teaches you how to manage your job, house, family, and get creative work done, all at the same time, without burning out.
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Jennifer Brozek’s popular workshop is back by demand! How do you stay on top of the daily tasks of being a writer or a creator of any stripe? How do you plan—and carry out that plan—for a novel? A podcast? A painting? How do you make sure one aspect of your creative endeavor doesn’t swallow up all the rest? Basically, how can a creator stay in control of the daily chaos of existence even when you have multiple projects going at once? Not to mention that Life keeps happening? Learn the tips and tricks that keep a creator organized and on top of things from someone who has been in the creative trenches for almost two decades. All questions are welcome.
Join literary agent Gabrielle Harbowy for insider info and Q/A about the querying process, the submissions package, and how it all works.
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Gabrielle Harbowy is an Associate Literary Agent at Corvisiero Literary Agency. An award-nominated editor, author, and anthologist, she is the author of the novel Pathfinder Tales: Gears of Faith, and has written game adventures for Pathfinder PFS and D&D Adventurers League. For more information, including her MSWL (manuscript wish list), visit her online.
Read & Critique Speculative: Speculative Works of Up to 2,000 Words
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We will read the first 2,000 words of your prose or 1st 10 pages of your graphic novel/graphic novel script and give feedback. Each participant may read up to 5 minutes.
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LaShawn M. Wanak: reviewed books for Lightspeed M and is published in: Fireside Magazine, FIYAH, Best American Science Fiction 2019, Uncanny Magazine, & etc. She is editor of GigaNotoSaurus and was Lead Narrative Writer with the immersive art collective, Meow Wolf, on the Real Unreal.
Aysha U. Farah: a writer and game developer who wrote for Magic the Gathering, Homestuck, and the Life is Strange series. Her short fiction has appeared in Uncanny Magazine, Anathema Magazine, and the Locus-nominated Amplitudes Anthology.
Rob Cameron: a teacher and Andre Norton nominated author. He leads Brooklyn Speculative Fiction Writers, Constellations Mentorship for the Octavia Project, was a guest author at the National Council for Teachers of English and the Dartmouth College Speculative Fiction Project. He’s published in Magazine of F&SF, Tor.com, Apex, FIYAH, etc.
Read the opening of your short story or novel and get feedback from professional writers! Each participant may read up to one minute.
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Read aloud up to one minute of your short story or novel, and receive feedback and constructive advice from Toiya Kristen Finley, Max Gladstone, and Tim Waggoner. All genres welcome. We ask that all participants stay during the entire session.
Read the opening of your short story or novel and get feedback from professional writers! Each participant may read up to 5 minutes. W/ Bryan Young, Katherine Monasterio, and Michael A. Stackpole.
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Bryan Young writes in the BattleTech and Shadowrun universes, among others, and teaches writing at the University of Utah and Writer's Digest's online university. Katherine Monasterio is a longtime developmental editor who works freelance for many companies, but has also worked on the BattleTech and Shadowrun line for a long time. Michael A. Stackpole is a New York Times Bestselling Author of numerous novels in the Star Wars universe.