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SoCal Writers Conference

If you've been rejected, prepare to get accepted!

About Me

Founded and run by professional writers, the SCWC provides veteran and emerging talent with authoritative critique to help distinguish those manuscripts that are ready for market consideration, facilitating some $3 million in first-time authors' book and screen deals over the past 21 years.Held annually in San Diego, Los Angeles and Palm Springs, with extended one-on-one evaluation of advance submissions and dozens of read & critique and Q&A workshops, the SCWC is among the only writing conferences in the country specifically tailored to provide comprehensive feedback on YOUR work.So whether you're a writer unable to determine why your work's not working, a writer simply in search of some answers, a writer wanting feedback on what you've written, a writer just starting out, or just a writer who wants to hang with other writers, do yourself a favor and join us for the Southern California Writers' Conference .

My Interests

SoCal Writers' Conference
Write now, you!
We, The Screenwriter
Pictures begin with words.
Random Cove, ie
Independent entertainment for the active intellect.

I'd like to meet:



Novelists, nonfictionalists, flash fiction writers, memoirists, hardcore genre writers, screenwriters, videogame writers, poets -- storytellers of every level, so long as they truly have something to say, are of absolute interest to the SCWC!If you're an author with a published title, become a friend of the SCWC and plug your book in the comments section down below!

Books:

Recent books by SCWC staff and conferees alike...

Heroes:

All writers who finish what they start.

My Blog

11.27.07: SAN DIEGO SCHEDULE AND MORE

A quick note to inform you that WritersConference.com has been updated to reflect the working schedule, workshop leaders & guest speakers currently slated, as well as all of the readers accept...
Posted by SoCal Writers Conference on Wed, 28 Nov 2007 04:20:00 PST

10.29.07: SAN DIEGO CONFERENCE SHAPING UP

The 22nd Annual Southern California Writers' Conference *San Diego takes place Presidents' Day Weekend, Feb. 15-18, 2008. Here's all the latest news: 1. Agents and editors aboard 2. Workshop leader...
Posted by SoCal Writers Conference on Mon, 29 Oct 2007 01:54:00 PST

08.25.07: BOOKTELEVISION NEEDS YOUR VOTE

Humorist Gordon Kirkand, a regular staffer at the San Diego conference, needs your vote to land him a cush bunk to crash in during this year's BookTelevision 3-Day Novel Writing competition. Support G...
Posted by SoCal Writers Conference on Sat, 25 Aug 2007 10:15:00 PST

08.06.07: AUGUST UPDATE FOR IRVINE

The 5th Annual Southern California Writers' Conference *L.A. takes place in Irvine Sept. 28-30, 2007.  Here's the latest news you need to know.1. "Novel Cram" filling up2. Advance submission read...
Posted by SoCal Writers Conference on Tue, 07 Aug 2007 04:17:00 PST

07.28.07: MORE ADVANCE READERS ADDED TO IRVINE

In addition to the expansive slate of agents, editors and authors already accepting manuscript pages for review prior to our Fifth Annual Southern California Writers' Conference *Los Angeles, followed...
Posted by SoCal Writers Conference on Sat, 28 Jul 2007 02:39:00 PST

06.27.07: "WE, THE SCREENWRITER" WINS IN TORONTO

At its festival premiere, We, The Screenwriter wins Best Feature-length Documentary 2nd place at the ReelHeART International Film Festival in Toronto.  The frenetic, highly-stylized "doculogue," ...
Posted by SoCal Writers Conference on Wed, 27 Jun 2007 01:51:00 PST

06.19.07: THE SECRETS BEHIND "THE SECRET" REVEALED

Selling 2 million DVDs in a year and nearly 4 million books based on it in only six months, The Secret has become one of the biggest overnight sensations in publishing history, earning for its autho...
Posted by SoCal Writers Conference on Wed, 20 Jun 2007 06:42:00 PST

05.22.07: L.A. CONFERENCE UPDATE

The 5th Annual Southern California Writers' Conference *Los Angeles(ish) is four months near and regular website updates are underway.  Taking place Sept. 28-30, 2007, our new location is the Cro...
Posted by SoCal Writers Conference on Wed, 23 May 2007 07:59:00 PST

05.16.07: WE, THE SCREENWRITER PREMIERE IN TORONTO

"More millionaires have been made by winning the California Lottery than by writing screenplays."  So begins the new feature documentary by Michael Steven Gregory, We, The Screenwriter, in which ...
Posted by SoCal Writers Conference on Wed, 16 May 2007 02:24:00 PST

04.03.07: L.A. DATES ANNOUNCED

The Fifth Annual Southern California Writers' Conference *Los Angeles(ish) will take place Sept. 28-30, 2007 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Irvine.  As usual, many familiar friends are aboard ...
Posted by SoCal Writers Conference on Wed, 04 Apr 2007 05:13:00 PST