From our friends at Pennwriters, Inc:
What Makes A Writer’s Road Trip Mini Conference Unique?
• We offer industry experts, published authors, and other specialists in their field.
• Our venue is small enough to allow you one-on-one interaction with speakers and guests and time to get your writing, publishing, and marketing questions answered.
• In between attending workshops, you can spend time in our hospitality suite where you can talk with like-minded writers, chat with speakers, browse and buy books by our speakers, and enter our silent auction.
• A variety of workshops for all genres and all levels of writing skill, from beginner to published, and everything in between.
Writers Road Trip offers writers:
• Writing workshops
• Networking with other writers
• Option to receive help from a Pitch Doctor
• Option to pitch your work to an Editor
• Billboard Writing Contest
• Authors’ book table
• Basket Raffle
• Hot buffet lunch included with registration
Workshops: Types of editing, Pantsing Your Way to a Complete Novel, Historical Fiction Writing, Map to World Building for Different Genres, Selling via Amazon, Writing Prompts, Stage Playwriting, Journal Writing, How to Write a Marvelous Mystery, Writing action scenes, Paragraphing, Pitching, AI. Learn How to Make It Work For You, How to Regain Your Muse, A Fictional Characters Anonymous Workshop, Writing Social Justice Poetry, Using Poetic Voice to Enhance Any Writing, Self-Publishing with KDP and KindleCreate, Writing Prompts, Stage Playwriting: From Page to Stage.
October 5th, 2024
Zem Zem Banquet & Conference Center
2525 West 38th Street, Erie, PA
For more information, class schedule, speaker bios and registration visit:
https://www.writersroadtrip.com/
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