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The 2013 Writers@Work Conference will be held June 5-9, 2013, at Alta Lodge in Alta, UT. Be a part of it by registering today!
Join workshops led by the following award-winning authors:
- Poetry: Katharine Coles
- Fiction: John Dufresne–ONE SEAT LEFT IN THIS WORKSHOP
- Nonfiction: Christopher Merrill–THIS WORKSHOP IS FULL
- Multi-Genre: Michael Martone
Register for private consultations with the following professionals:
- Nancy Stauffer-Cahoon: Nancy Stauffer Associates
- Nicole Walker: Visiting Writer
- Steve Woodward: Graywolf Press
Want to learn more about the 2013 Writers at Work Conference?
- All the conference details can be found on our 2013 Conference page.
- Learn everything you need to know about the 2013 Faculty on the Faculty and Workshops page, including workshop descriptions, what to expect if you attend, and brief faculty biographies.
- Learn how to choose the right consultant on the Choosing a Consultant page.
If you’re ready to register, you can register online or download an application.
Online registration is now available for the 2013 Writers@Work Conference to be held June 5-9, 2013, at Alta Lodge.
Ways to think about what kind of consultation you need at this juncture:
1. Editor at a publishing house: You are fairly confident that you are getting close to being ready to publish and need confirmation of that; and specific guidance about your professional writing prospects; and information about the literary environment and publishing industry.
Questions you might ask:
- Is my work ready or nearly ready to submit for consideration?
- If yes, where should I submit it?
- If no, why not? What should I do to bring it closer to being ready?
- What expectations should I have when I submit my work? When or if it is accepted?
- What are the strengths and weaknesses you see in my writing?
2. Agent: You believe you are getting close to being ready to publish and need confirmation of that and specific guidance as to your professional writing prospects and advice as to how to proceed.
Questions you might ask:
- Is my work ready for agency representation?
- If yes, in what ways should my work be marketed to editors?
- What expectations should I have?
- If my work is not ready, what do I need to do and why?
- Do I even need an agent? What are my options?
3. Independent Editor: You are still developing as a writer or at work on a project that is still in a developing stage and need guidance concerning approaches to revision of your fiction or nonfiction.
Questions you might ask:
- What does my sample writing demonstrate in terms of my relative development
- as a writer?
- What narrative skills should I be focusing on pertinent to my chosen genre?
- How do I continue to develop my writing and my writing life?
- What is the work of substantive revision about? What are some strategies for revision I might consider?
- What might this writing be wanting to “say” to me about, for example, latent themes or other narrative forms or structures?
4. Visiting Writer: You are still developing as a writer or are at work on a project and need some mentoring advice and specific critique from a working writer.
Questions you might ask:
- I have all these ideas but I can’t seem to get them organized.
- What are the strongest aspects to my writing?
- How can I strengthen some of the weaker aspects?
- How do I make my characters more life-like or my narrator more real?
- What images are the most immediate and present in my work?
- What should I cut? Where do I need to expand?
- How do I make the writing seem more immediate and more relevant?
- How do I create more vivid scenes?
- What should I read as a model?
- After I revise this again and again, then what do I do?
- I’m stuck. How do I get started again?
If you are ready to register for your consultation, please download the application here, then please attach this application to your manuscript and use our online Submissions Manager to submit your manuscript for consultation.
