Wyoming Arts Council

Register now for Wyoming Writers conference

Uncategorized | March 25, 2008

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Register now for the annual Wyoming Writers, Inc., conference June 6-8 at the Holiday Inn on the River in Casper. Register by May 15 for the Early Bird discount of $165 for members and $180 for non-members.

Here are the 2008 conference faculty members:

• Screenwriting: Robert Ben Garant, screenwriter for A Night at the Museum, and Comedy Central’s hit show, Reno911!
• Poetry: Ray Gonzalez (pictured above), author of 10 books of poetry and former poetry editor of The Bloomsbury Review.
• Fiction: Masha Hamilton, author of three novels, including two Book Sense picks, Hamilton served as a foreign correspondent for the Associated Press in the Middle East and Moscow.
• Literary agents: Rita Rosenkranz, founded the Rita Rosenkranz Literary Agency in 1990 after a career as an editor with major New York houses; and Katharine Sands, agent and author of Making the Perfect Pitch: How to Catch a Literary Agent’s Eye, a collection of pitching wisdom from leading literary agents.

Read more about this year’s conference faculty here.

Get a FREE critique and one-on-one meeting with one of our 2008 conference faculty with your conference registration. Selection is first-come, first-served; six slots per genre will be accepted. Submissions must be postmarked between March 1 and April 10. Critique cost without conference registration is $25. Ray Gonzalez, poetry, will critique a one-page cover letter plus five poems, not to exceed 10 pages total. R. Ben Garant, screenwriter: one-page cover letter plus 20 pages of a screenplay. Masha Hamilton, fiction/nonfiction panelist: one-page cover letter plus 10 pages of prose. Send submissions to: WW Inc. Critique, Jeanne Rogers, P.O. Box 501, Sundance, WY 82729-0501. Please note genre on the envelope.

Are you ready for a literary agent? Bring your proposals and find out what you are doing right, and what needs fixing. Pitch your project to Rita Rosenkranz or Katharine Sands, literary agents looking for good writers marketing good work. Rosenkranz will have 20 one-on-one slots and Sands 15 slots on a first-come, first-served basis, with a sign-up sheet at the registration table.

A limited number of conference scholarships are available. Application deadline: postmark by April 25, 2008. For more details, contact Scholarship Chair Nancy Wall at 208-238-8079 or scholarship@wyowriters.org.

Request a conference brochure from conference@wyowriters.org or 307-283-2813.

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