James River Writers
CONFERENCE 2006

Friday & Saturday, October 6-7, 2006
at the
Library of Virginia

JRW Conference 2006 blended genres, styles, writers, editors and agents together in a unique series of sessions providing wide-ranging perspectives on the writing life. Business basics and creative struggles, victories and dead ends, challenges and opportunites, surprises and unexpected angles—we mixed it up with multiple points of view in every session, while maintaining our signature conference features: an intimate setting at the Library of Virginia, a balanced focus on the art and the business of writing, terrific panelists, and the bracing First Pages Critique and One-on-One with an Agent.

Here's what we featured at Conference 2006:

Featuring:

Chuck Adams, Executive Editor at Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill

Celia S. Friedman, best-selling author of In Conquest Born and Black Sun Rising

Brian Haig, author of Man in the Middle, 6th book in the "Sean Drummond" series

Alex Kershaw, author of the New York Times bestseller Bedford Boys

Don Mancini, screenwriter, director & creator of the Child's Play/"Chucky" series

Dennis McFarland, author of the New York Times besteller The Music Room

Hampton Sides, 2002 PEN USA winner & editor-at-large for Outside magazine

Jeannette Walls, author of the New York Times bestseller The Glass Castle

Details:

•Conference schedule (Friday) (Saturday)

•Panelist bios

•One-on-one with an agent

•First pages critique

•Directions and parking

•Hotel and Richmond information

Registration:

NEW THIS YEAR FOR JRW MEMBERS: Receive priority registration for conference and one-on-one with an agent sessions through July 15, 2006. (Non-members may submit conference registration before July 15; however, if One-on-One with an Agent and/or Conference is filled, priority will be given first to JRW members registered before July 15.) Online registrations accepted through September 30, 2006, or until conference is filled.

•Join JRW

Online Registration is now closed. Walk-in registrations will be accepted at the Library of Virginia, on a first-come basis, during Conference hours on Friday, October 6 and Saturday, October 7.

•Confirmations: Please allow approximately one week after registration before checking confirmation.

(No refunds on registration fees after September 15, 2006.)

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