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Wesleyan Writers Conference, Middletown, Connecticut [144] West Coast Writers Conference, July 20–22, 2012, Los Angeles Valley College, Los Angeles [145] White County Creative Writers Conference, Searcy, Arkansas [146] Willamette Writers conference, Willamette Writers' annual conference, first weekend in August, Portland, Oregon [147]
Western Writers of America (WWA), founded 1953, promotes literature, both fictional and nonfictional, pertaining to the American West. Although its founders wrote traditional Western fiction , the more than 600 current members also include historians and other nonfiction writers, as well as authors from other genres.
The Western Literature Association (WLA) is a non-profit, scholarly association that promotes the study of the diverse literature and cultures of the North American West, past and present. Since its founding, the WLA has served to publish scholarship and promote work in the field; it has gathered together scholars, artists, environmentalists ...
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The Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference runs through Saturday, Aug. 24, giving Vermonters the chance to attend free talks and readings by some of today’s top fiction authors, nonfiction writers and ...
Screen Writers Guild; Scribblers' Retreat Writers' Conference; Sewanee Writers' Conference; Sisters in Crime; Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators; Society of Midland Authors; Soul Mountain Retreat; Southern Writers Conference; Split This Rock; Stonecoast MFA Program in Creative Writing; Swordsmen and Sorcerers' Guild of America
An authors' conference or writers' conference is a type of conference where writers gather to review their written works and suggest improvements. This process helps an author improve their work and learn to be a better writer for future works, both by receiving critiques of their own work and by mentoring the work of the other authors.
The Owen Wister Award for lifetime achievement in Western literature, first awarded in 1961, is also a Western Writers of America award, distinct from the Spur Awards. Initially, there were five Spur Awards categories: western novel, historical novel, juvenile, short story, and reviewer.