It's a mystery no longer! WRITE HERE IN EPHRAIM writer's conference!

I know it's Friday the 13th, but some pretty great stuff can happen on this day too!

www.snow.edu/whe

Start Date: Oct 13, 2017
End Date: Oct 14, 2017
Friday: 12:00PM to 5:00PM
Saturday: 9:00AM to 8:00PM
Location: West Campus Gym & Hi-Tech Building 
Friday Only Cost: $25
Saturday Only Cost: $35 Includes Lunch
Conference Cost: $60 Includes Lunch
Early Bird Conference Cost: $50 Includes Lunch
Note: Keynote Speaker - Natalie Whipple
FREE: Students are free! Valid ID required.

October 13, 2017 - Friday Writer's Bootcamp

Location West Campus Gym, 250 West 100 North, Ephraim, UT 84627
11:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m.

Meet with published authors in small groups for professional feedback on your personal writing. Bring 5 copies of at least one chapter of your writing, less than 10 pages (double-spaced) is recommended.

 

"I like the smaller, intense classes. I know of one from my group last year who got a publishing contract from it." - Mikey Brooks

Writer's Camp Instructors: Natalie Whipple, Meg Jensen, Steve Clark, Brent Boswell, Lindsay Flannigan, Megan Batterman, Juliana Ali, Kevin Nielson, Heather Clark, Nikki Trionfo, Rod Miller, Robin King, Erin Summerill, Janell Youngstrom, Eschler Editing (check back soon...more instructors and authors to be announced).

REGISTRATION

11:00 a.m. - 11:50 a.m.

WELCOME AND DOOR PRIZES

12:00 p.m. - 12:20 p.m. 

BOOTCAMP ROUND TABLE

12:30 p.m. - 1:50 p.m.

SNACK BREAK

2:00 p.m. - 2:20 p.m.

BOOTCAMP ROUND TABLE

2:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

6:00 P.M.  Guest Speaker - Brent Boswell

Brent Boswell is an American young-adult fiction writer and playwright best known for his action adventure novels, Brother’s Bones, Big Mean Pig, Mission Invisible: The Magician’s Curse, and the best-selling Christmas novella, The Santa Exclusive. As a playwright, he wrote and directed. The Mormon Handcart Pageant, an outdoor, nighttime production depicting the 1856 crucible migration of the Martin and Willie Handcart Companies to Utah, and their subsequent rescue, which ran for eight season and played to over 100,000 people.

REFRESHMENTS, MIX AND MINGLE with Brent and other published authors!

7:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.

VISIT BOOKSTORE 
GET YOUR AUTOGRAPHS (I will be at the bookstore!)

8:00 P.M.  ~End Bootcamp~

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On Saturday, I will be teaching two classes. One on self-publishing, the other on nonfiction writing.

October 14, 2017 - Saturday 

Classes

Location West Campus Gym & Hi-Tech Building, 250 West 100 North, Ephraim, UT 84627
9:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m.

Simply attend whichever class you want! No need to pre-register for individual classes.

REGISTRATION - West Campus Gym (Registration will also be available in the Hi-Tech Building after Welcome & Door Prizes)

8:00 a.m. - 8:50 a.m.

WELCOME AND DOOR PRIZES - West Campus Gym

9:00 a.m. - 9:20 a.m. 

FIRST BREAKOUT SESSION - High Tech Bldg.

9:30 a.m. - 10:20 a.m.

Room 138 - Critiki Room: Critique Group Panel
Room 120 - Closed
Room 163 - Steps to Self Editing by Lindsay Flannigan
Room 137 - Self Publishing by Kathryn Elizabeth Jones
Room 109 - Closed

SECOND BREAKOUT SESSION - High Tech Bldg.

10:30 a.m. - 11:20 a.m.

Room 138 - Creativity 101 by Juliana Ali
Room 120 - Kevin Nielson
Room 163 - Using Humor in Fiction by Rod Miller
Room 137 - Constructing the Novel - Part 1 by Meg Jensen
Room 109 - Critiki Critique Group - Brainstorming/Feedback

THIRD BREAKOUT SESSION - High Tech Bldg.

11:30 p.m. - 12:20 p.m.

Room 138 - Publishing Realities by Steve Clark
Room 120 - Characters Readers Can Root For by Natalie Whipple
Room 163 - First Chapters Lure Readers AND Agents by Nikki Trionfo
Room 137 - Constructing the Novel Intensive - Part 2 by Meg Jensen
Room 109 - Critiki Critique Group - Brainstorming/Feedback 

LUNCH - (blue nametags: ham, red nametags: chicken salad)

12:30  p.m. - 1:20 p.m.

ALOHA ENTERTAINMENT by the SNOW COLLEGE POLYNESIAN CLUB!

1:30 P.M. Keynote Speaker - Natalie Whipple

West Campus Gym

Natalie Whipple, sadly, does not have any cool mutations or magical powers like her characters. Unless you count the ability to watch anime and Korean dramas for hours on end. Or her uncanny knack for sushi consumption. She grew up in the Bay Area and relocated to Utah for high school, which was quite the culture shock for her anime-loving teen self. But the Rocky Mountains eventually won her over, and she stuck around to earn her degree in English linguistics at BYU, with a minor in editing. Natalie still lives in Utah with her husband and three kids, and keeps the local Asian market in business with all her attempts to cook Thai curry, pho, and bulgogi. 

FOURTH BREAKOUT SESSION - High Tech Bldg.

2:10 p.m. - 2:40 p.m.

Room 138 - Lies They Tell Writers by Rod Miller
Room 120 - Ignite a Sense of Mystery in Every Genre by Nikki Trionfo
Room 163 - Everything to Write a Query Letter That Gets Manuscript Requests by Rebecca Butler
Room 137 - Writing Nonfiction that Sells - Kathryn Elizabeth Jones
Room 109 - Critiki Critique Group - Brainstorming/Feedback 

FIFTH BREAKOUT SESSION - High Tech Bldg.

3:00 p.m. - 3:50 p.m.

Room 138 - Editing Basics and Beyond by Eschler Editing
Room 120 - Maximizing Conflict by Natalie Whipple
Room 163 - Erin Summerill
Room 137 - The Seven Deadly Sins of Fiction Writing by Steve Clark
Room 109 - Critiki Critique Group - Brainstorming/Feedback 

SIXTH BREAKOUT SESSION - High Tech Bldg.

4:00 p.m. - 4:50 p.m. 

Room 138 - Book Marketing 101 by Steve Clark
Room 120 - Bringing Reality Into Fiction by Daniel Godard
Room 163 - How To Write a Novel In 30 Days by Robin King
Room 137 - Reaching "The End" Using Self-Management by Janelle Youngstrom
Room 109 - Critiki Critique Group - Brainstorming/Feedback 

FIRST PAGE PREVIEW - RM 109, High Tech Bldg.

5:00 p.m. - 5:50 p.m.

Find out what works and what doesn't by a panel of professionals. Bring the first page of your writing anonymously for a random drawing to be read and evaluated by professional authors and publishers. Learn from feedback on other writers' first pages, too! Fun and informative.

CLOSING CEREMONIES - West Campus Gym

6:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.

FINAL DOOR PRIZES

BOOK SIGNING - West Campus Gym

6:30 p.m.

MASS BOOKSIGNING
MIX AND MINGLE WITH AUTHORS AND PUBLISHERS! (Come and see me!)

LUAU DINNER SHOW - West Campus Gym

7:00 p.m (open to the public)

DINNER SHOW BY SPECIAL GUESTS FROM THE AMERICAN SAMOA ISLANDS!
COST: $5 PERSON (pay at the door)

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