SWW-sponsored writing conferences are held sporadically. Each one brings well-known experts in a specific topic or genre as well as critical information relevant to all fields of writing.
In “The Power of a Conference to Teach Success” past SWW president Rob Spiegel said: “I’ve attended dozens of conferences around the country, and I learned from every one.” Conferences inspired him to persevere and gave him direction to make his work more effective. He “listened hard to the professionals from out of town as well as the local professionals…soaked it all in, gaining some understanding of the vocabulary of the genre, learning the industry ins and outs, and discovering what constitutes strong writing in the genre.” Ultimately, conferences “guided [him] to a path of developing and delivering a writing project that engaged the attention of a major editor.”
This is what SWW strives for in every conference we sponsor—to help writers increase the skills and knowledge they need to produce (and publish) their best writing.
No SWW conferences are scheduled at this time.
Past SWW Conferences Include:
2020
Last scheduled conference before Covid shut down human interaction.
An all-day conference — Writing IS a Business — was scheduled for Saturday, September 26. Due to the Covid-19 threat, the in-person conference was cancelled. A business lecture series was scheduled in its place via Zoom for Saturday and Sunday, September 26 and 27.
2019
September 2019 – A joint conference between SWW and Military Writers Society of America (MWSA) Theme: Moving up the Ladder: From Writer to Author—was a great success with hundreds of attendees and finished with an Awards Banquet honoring the winners of the 2019 Prose and Poetry Contest (sponsored by SWW) and the winners of MWSA’s annual book contest.
2018
June ♦ Sci-Fi/Fantasy Writers Conference
October ♦ The Secrets to Getting Published Conference
2017
June ♦ Memoir Conference
October ♦ The Roadmap to Getting Published
2016
May ♦ Novel Conference
October ♦ The Self-Publishing Conference
2015
September ♦ Memoir Conference