https://TheCompleteCreative.com and
https://WordsmithWritingCoaches.com are bringing you The
https://OnlineWritersConference.com this coming weekend, April 18-19.
A tsunami of cancellations and postponements has swept away all the bright happy events from the calendars of millions of fans and professionals.
But local book lovers and publishing professionals have banded together to offer an online alternative. Led by author & publisher
Russell Nohelty, and editor & writing coach
Nicolas Nelson, The Online Writers Conference offers two days of content simultaneously live-streamed to three different platforms (YouTube, Twitch, and Facebook), featuring Keynote Conversations with
Tania Del Rio, Jonas Saul, Phil & Kaja Foglio, Joe Biel & Elly Blue, and
Jody Lynne Nye. Not to mention eight hours of panel discussions with various industry experts including screenwriter and coach
Ethan Ransom and veteran script doctor
Sara Anne Fox, pitch sessions with the
Paul S. Levine Literary Agency (Paul Levine himself will join us), hosted writing sprints debriefed by working authors like
James Yu and
Alycia Crane, and breakout Q&A sessions with some of the experts and keynote guests. All of it free.
Most "online conferences" offer little more than a live-stream broadcast on one platform with a chat channel on the side. The Online Writers Conference is trying to make this online experience more like attending an actual writers' conference. We stream to Twitch, YouTube, Facebook, and our own conference page. We offer active interaction with comments and questions in all three streams, and both scheduled and spontaneous breakout sessions alongside our broadcast.
It doesn't offer the rich
shopping experience that the #LABookFest normally would, this weekend. There is nothing to buy, it is entirely free. It is geared for writers and authors, not readers... although the opportunity to hang out in a video chat with your favorite author
might draw some fans to those Keynote Conversations and afterparty sessions! But TOWC is better than nothing this weekend.
And future iterations of TOWC —and other enriched-experience online "conferences" like it—may someday give mega-festivals like the Festival of Books a run for their money.