The time is here and open registration for the 5th Annual Broadleaf Writers Briefing is upon us. Though the Covid-xix pandemic has pushed our event online, we still plan to offer the same great lineup, complete with plenty of informative and inspirational panels and workshops, ane-on-ane pitch sessions with agents, as well as our brand new one-on-ane mentoring sessions with authors and agents, and a one-on-one first page critique with New York Times bestselling writer David L. Robbins! All for a lower price! We're confident you volition get all you lot await from us, and as much more as we can possibly offer!

The 5th Annual Broadleaf Writers Conference Schedule is now bachelor for you to review! From open Q&A sessions, to storytelling, to getting your outline and story structure in place, we've put together a schedule of sessions we know will requite you the tools and inspiration yous demand to grow as an creative person, and to pursue your dreams of publication.

On Saturday, October 17th, we'll kick things off with an open Q&A session with a fable of the comic book and gaming industries (Yous can't say Wolverine without mentioning him!), Paul Jenkins! Nosotros can retrieve of no greater source of encouragement and information to go your weekend started than Paul, and this is your opportunity to hear his story, pick his encephalon, and learn from one of the best around.

Consisting of 7 more than panels and one workshop, our Sabbatum schedule digs its heels into the hard work of creating a dynamic story, memorable characters, and, of class, nailing that first folio. An annual favorite, the First Page Critique returns to close out the mean solar day, giving y'all the opportunity to have the first folio of your manuscript critiqued past our panel of literary agents. The submissions are anonymous and highly recommended. Not ready to submit? No problem! You can still nourish and proceeds invaluable tips from agents to help you in perfecting your first folio!

Nosotros return on Sunday with a brand-new session! Our literary agents volition sit one time more, this time to listen to your query letters! A daunting undertaking for whatever writer, this volition be your chance to hear what agents accept to say about the query letters our attendees accept submitted! Much like Commencement Pages, if y'all are non up for submitting, no worries! Y'all tin yet proceeds from their insights and use all yous learn to get yours right! Only nosotros do recommend you lot submit! Afterwards all, your submissions remain anonymous!

With vi additional panels and 2 more than workshops, Sunday is some other decorated twenty-four hours full of opportunities to larn! And it includes another new session we're beyond excited to present. Hosted by the dynamic duo of YATL, Kimberly Jones and Vania Stoyanova, the YATL Pitch Match is your chance to present your story to an agent in a whole new way! Covering four categories—Young Adult, Fiction, Romance, and Nonfiction—we will select four attendees for each (yous will submit your proper name on Saturday) and Kimberly and Vania will lead our contestants through a series of fun and entertaining questions and scenarios for a literary agent that represents that category. At the finish, our amanuensis volition select a winner and meet with them in a individual breakout room for fifteen minutes to discuss the story further! Not but will it be fun, simply you'll have the opportunity to learn more than near pitching your piece of work and give an amanuensis even more reason to consider reading your manuscript!

We're working difficult to add together more elements to this quite unlike fashion of presenting a briefing. From social rooms to chat with other attendees and our speakers, to a storytelling reception to celebrate our fifth year of beingness, we programme on giving y'all all the elements of our briefing from the cozy confines of your abode. Additionally, you no longer have to determine betwixt which session to attend. Every attendee of the 5thursday Annual Broadleaf Writers Briefing will receive access to the recordings of every session! Spotter information technology all over again or catch the ones you missed!

Register early on to ensure your identify in our ane-on-1 sessions! With your registration you receive i pitch and one mentoring session, but for an extra $25 for each you can add together more than if y'all wish! With a lower cost, yet as much or more of what we normally offer, this is an incredible opportunity to attend a conference and grow as a author! We hope to run into you lot at that place!

We're nearing one month until the quaternary Annual Broadleaf Writers Conference is here, and we're adding a new wrinkle! In addition toNew York Timesbestselling and award-winning authors, representatives from literary agencies and publishing houses, sessions and workshops packed with information to help improve your writing, and a growing customs of writers like y'all, there's ane more reason to register!

We're pleased to announce that every attendee for our 4th Almanac conference will be entered into a drawing to win a free (FREE IS Adept!) copy of either Scrivener or Final Draft 11! SIX lucky winners will be called during this yr's briefing and will receive one of three copies of Scrivener or one of 3 copies of Terminal Draft 11! Both are fantabulous programs designed to simplify and assistance in the writing process, whether yous're writing a manuscript or a screenplay! And with your registration, you could have one for costless!

That's correct! Not merely tin you chat with our speakers, hobnob with agents, acquire from professional writers, and make new friends who absolutely understand your struggle, but yous could leave with a free writing plan!

Then, annals today for your chance to win!

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Recently, I encountered a author who informed me that, before finally coming to one our programs, they thought we were a scam. Not a malicious, out-to-ruin-all-things, kind of scam, but rather ane of those nonprofits that seek to prey on people in need. It stumped me, to be honest. I'd never even considered that perception a possibility, as my brain doesn't work that way. I'm more "free the spider to the outside world" than the "beat it into a thousand pieces and embrace the darkness of pain" type.

Yet, in review, I go information technology. The globe can be a nasty, spiteful, cocky-captivated identify and ane must be vigilant. There are nonprofits taking advantage of people trying to discover their way. Offer a hand for help and people might pull you upward so they can better option your pocket. But that'due south not who I am. That's not what Broadleaf is.

Broadleaf is, and e'er will exist, a dream. An opportunity. An idea of community, education, inspiration, and connection. I'one thousand a writer myself, after all. I accept needs. I long to talk writing, to share work, to be J.K. Rowling or Douglas Adams or Terry Pratchett (wait, why practise I not alive in the U.1000. again?). I want to spin a web of writers and proclaim them Terrific and Radiant. And it would exist admittedly skilful and well if I found others who could do the same for me.

Being a writer is a lonely, lone, profession. Nosotros demand to remember at that place'due south a world outside our caput, even if nosotros don't similar it virtually as much.

Hence, Broadleaf.

Hence, programs like Write Now or the annual conference.

Or, coming very soon to a Ballroom (B) well-nigh y'all (specifically at the Cobb Galleria, whether near or far from you I'd rather not guess), our Self-Publishing Seminar. I don't personally want to self-publish, nor is it "learning the craft of writing" per se, but information technology's important to a large segment of writers and I want to make sure they have the tools to do it right. Afterward all, we can all do this no problem. What we can't all exercise, is do it right. So, if you're in the military camp of "should I cocky-publish", keeping warm past the fire of indecision and doubt (with every unmarried ane of us crowded around), then invest in yourself and your work, register today, and come learn with us. Our speakers have washed it, had success, made mistakes they tin't await to share, and desire—every bit I do as well—to ensure you do this right.

Like every program we put together, this 1 is for y'all. For the community of writers we seek to build. And if you want to find me and let me know what you need equally a writer, what you'd similar to see us every bit an organization do to better serve your needs, I promise nosotros volition take your mitt, lift you up, and do our best to pad your pockets rather than option them.

In celebration of National Poetry Calendar month, The Arts Exchange and Broadleaf Writers Association are pleased to present a i-day Poetry Workshop, to be held Saturday, April 6th from 10-4 at the Arts Exchange! With three workshops and a Q&A panel to address your questions, poets Theresa Davis , Andrea Jurjević and Collin Kelley will guide y'all through diverse styles and techniques! Be set to write, ready to take notes, and prepare to review poems you've brought with you! This program is complimentary and open to the public, and then don't miss this opportunity to acquire the art of poetry from three talented and prolific poets.

Workshops will include:
Giving Voice, led by Collin Kelley: This generative workshop will explore persona and ekphrastic poems. Y'all'll be giving vocalism to a narrator other than yourself, or peradventure a different version of yourself, and providing context or backstory to a work of fine art. Bring your pen and notebook and write poems to be shared with the grouping.

Andrea Jurjević will atomic number 82 a workshop that explores passion and authenticity in poetry. Bring 2 of your strongest poems of 40 lines or less, newspaper, pen, and a sense of humor.

Random Facts and Musing, led by Theresa Davis, will incorporate random facts near the writer, random facts about a favorite discipline or topic, and a the answers to a few questions. Mix it all together and a poem volition be built-in. This is experimental poetry. Exist brave.

We'll conclude the day with a console discussion, answering questions you may have about the craft, or the procedure of putting your work into a collection for publication!

Find the poems yous'd similar to share, bring a pen and paper or a latop to write, and bring together usa for solar day devoted to poetry!

In the starting time, you stared at a blank screen. This may take lasted a while. Y'all may or may non have deleted your first line a few times. You made some java. Y'all came dorsum. The dog stared at you. You typed away, determined to keep the cat off the keyboard this time. Eventually yous found a groove. Y'all wrote some lines, which became paragraphs, which became a page.

Then a story happened. The pages flew by. You really like information technology (except when you hate it). Y'all've developed feelings nearly it.

But the beginning page continues to telephone call to you. Afterwards all, information technology'due south what will become you in the door with an amanuensis or editor. It's what a potential reader may apply to make up one's mind whether to buy your book. You think it needs something. But what? What if information technology's okay to adequate already? What if you change something you shouldn't change? How do you fifty-fifty know when it'southward right?

Commencement, have a breath. It'll be all correct.

We have a program just for you.

For our first Write At present program of 2019, nosotros're going to talk y'all through your kickoff folio. With the assistance of authors Emily Carpenter and Roger Johns, we'll gather and chat, hold an informal discussion on the craft of writing a first folio, then chat some more. Bring your page with you if you'd like. Time permitting, you may be able to read it aloud and we'll offering our thoughts. We desire you to leave feeling confident nigh writing the beginning page. Not only for your piece of work-in-progress, just for all the first pages in your future.

Bring together us at Play a joke on Tale Volume Shoppe on Sat, February 16thursday, 2019 at 2:00 p.g.!

Emily Carpenter is the critically acclaimed, bestselling writer of suspense novels, Burial the Honeysuckle Girls, The Weight of Lies, and Every Single Undercover. Later on graduating from Auburn with a Bachelor of Arts in Speech Communication, she moved to New York City. She'due south worked as an actor, producer, screenwriter, and behind-the-scenes lather opera assistant for the CBS shows, As the World Turns and Guiding Light. Born and raised in Birmingham, Alabama, she at present lives in Atlanta, Georgia with her family. You can visit Emily at emilycarpenterauthor.com and on Facebook and Twitter.

ROGER JOHNS is a erstwhile corporate lawyer and retired college professor, and the author of the Wallace Hartman Mysteries from St. Martin's Press/Minotaur Books:Night River Rise (2017) andRiver of Secrets (2018). He is the 2018 Georgia Writer of the Year (Detective ▪ Mystery Category), a 2018 Killer Nashville Readers' Pick Award nominee, and a finalist for the 2018 Silverish Falchion Award for all-time police procedural. His articles and interviews on writing and the writing life have appeared in Career Author, Criminal Element, Killer Nashville Articles, and the Southern Literary Review. Roger belongs to the Atlanta Writers Gild, Sisters in Crime, Mystery Writers of America, and International Thriller Writers, where he is one of The Fearless Bloggers, and a mentor in the Big Writer programme. Along with four other crime fiction writers, he co-authors the MurderBooks blog at www.murder-books.com. Visit him at www.rogerjohnsbooks.com and you can find him on Twitter at @rogerjohns10.


Writer'southward Night is coming to Eagle Eye Book Shop for Act Two!

Bring together featured authors and 2018 Townsend Prize for Fiction Finalists, Stacia Pelletier and Daren Wang for an informal discussion on the craft of writing Human action Two of your manuscript!

Spend some real-earth time with writers like yous, browse Eagle Middle'south great selection of books (Stacia and Daren's books will exist available for buy!) take some nutrient and drink, and chat with our featured authors! Notice your inspiration! Join united states of america!

This programme is free and open up to the public!

Stacia Pelletier is the author ofAccidents of ProvidenceandThe Half-Wives, both curt-listed for the Townsend Prize in Fiction. She earned graduate degrees in religion and historical theology from Emory Academy in Atlanta. A two-time young man of the Hambidge Center, located in the mountains of North Georgia, she currently lives in Decatur, Georgia, and works at Emory Academy'southward School of Medicine.

Daren Wang is the Founding Executive Director of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution Decatur Book Festival, the largest independent book festival in the country. Before launching the festival, he had a twenty-yr career in public radio, both national and local, with a particular focus on books and authors. Wang has written for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Paste magazine, and 5 Points magazine, among others. The Hidden Light of Northern Fires is his first novel.

Family. That'due south what you lot will find, first and foremost, at the The Writer's High Retreat 2018. As a writer, y'all're looking for your tribe, for a customs that will not merely accept you, just embrace your dreams, encourage you frontward. Yous want to learn, to abound as a writer, to accomplish on the page that which fills the scope of your imagination.

At the Writer'southward High, it all begins with the Mari Ann Stefanelli Perusek, the artistic heed behind this retreat. You will not meet a more genuine, enthusiastic, and supportive person, and her energy and drive to offer writers the all-time haven for creativity is truly unparalleled. The connections yous make over a weekend of writing, learning, and fun, will carry on beyond the retreat. Yous will leave a improve writer than you arrived.

We are thrilled to be a sponsor of this amazing retreat. Be there. Yous won't regret it.

Patti Callahan Henry, theNew York Times best-selling writer of 12 novels, is the keynote speaker for the quaternary annual Writer's High Retreat® March 9–11 at Amicalola Falls Gild in Dawsonville, Georgia. Ms. Henry's latest book isThe Bookshop at Water'due south Terminate, which was released in July. Her work has received numerous awards, including a Townsend Prize for Fiction finalist, an Indie Next Pick, an OKRA pick, and a multiple nominee for the Southern Independent Booksellers Brotherhood (SIBA) Novel of the Year.

Joining Ms. Henry is Nick Chiles, aNew York Timesbestselling author, Pulitzer Prize-winning former journalist, and literary amanuensis. Mr. Chiles' extensive torso of piece of work includes theNew York Times bestselling memoirEvery Fiddling Footstep: My Story, which he co-authored with Bobby Brownish in 2016, andJustice While Black: Helping African-American Families Navigate and Survive the Criminal Justice System, which he co-authored with attorney Robbin Shipp in 2014. The book was an NAACP Epitome Awards finalist in 2015. Mr. Chiles is also a literary agent with Aevitas Creative Direction.

The featured speakers are accomplished authors, well versed in fiction, narrative nonfiction, and memoir––and recognized for their warm, engaging personalities and willingness to share their wisdom with others.

The Writer's High Retreat® at Amicalola Falls Lodge package includes ii nights' accommodations, all retreat presentations, workshops, and events; meals included are Friday and Saturday dinner buffet, dejeuner buffet Saturday, and breakfast cafe Saturday and Sunday (price includes java, tea, and iced tea). Rates are $733/unmarried and $579/double (per person). Prices include all tips, taxes, and gratuities. This is a pocket-size, intimate retreat, and infinite is very limited. To annals or for more information, visit the retreat website at world wide web.thewritershighretreat.com.

You've fleshed out a story, created a earth, outlined, fretted, written, edited, edited some more, worried, and spent hour upon hour disruptive friends and family by talking to yourself nearly your project when you idea they weren't listening. At present you've developed feelings about it. You demand to talk it out with someone who understands. Someone who gets y'all. Someone like you lot. Someone with thoughts and ideas about the craft of writing, about your writing, well-nigh any writing!

Your opportunity has arrived! Come and spend some real-earth time (in a bookstore no less!) with writers, course new connections, chat with our featured authors, sit in on an informal conversation about writing Act One! Detect your inspiration and inspire others! Join usa! We'll bring the nutrient and drinks!

Our featured authors for this gathering will be Kimberly Brock and Ricki Schultz!

Kimberly Brock is the author of the award-winning modern gothic novel, The River Witch, and founder of the Tinderbox Writer's Workshop, a transformative creative experience for women in the arts. She is a member of the Tall Poppy Writers, the merely author-driven marketing cooperative in the U.S. that is exclusive to female authors who publish in a variety of genres. Her short fiction and essays have appeared in Psychology Today and Author Unboxed, among other publications, and Kimberly is a bi-monthly contributor to the pop online writers site, Writers in the Storm, where she writes nigh the author'south life.

Ricki Schultz is the author of Mr. Right Swipe, published June 2017 past Grand Central Press, and the forthcoming follow-up, Switch and Bait, due June 2018. A teacher, speaker, editor and author, Ricki earned a B.A. in English and an M.Ed. in Secondary Didactics from John Carroll University in Cleveland, Ohio.

Bring together us for a fun time with the fine folks at FoxTale Book Shoppe!

Nosotros're most there!

In ii days, registration for the 2nd Annual Broadleaf Writers Conference volition open! Bring together united states of america for two days of panels, discussions, and community, September 23rd and 24th, 2017 at the Decatur Library in downtown Decatur, Georgia! Invest in your writing and go the all-time writer y'all can be!

At the Broadleaf Writers Briefing yous can:

  • Attend arts and crafts-focused panels featuring bestselling authors!
  • Learn the art of Page One at the Commencement Pages critique!
  • Pitch your story during 5-minute sessions with Literary Agents!
  • Bring together our growing community of writers, connect and acquire!

Purchase an annual membership with Broadleaf Writers and save $25 off your registration!

The registration page will launch Friday, March 31st at 9:00 a.m. Sign upwardly and reserve your spot!

The fourth dimension is well-nigh at mitt! In simply ix days, registration for the 2nd Almanac Broadleaf Writers Conference opens! We're lining upwardly some other all-star cast of talented writers, agents and editors to offer you all yous need to refine and amend your arts and crafts, and get you on the route to publication!

Join us September 23-24, 2017, at the Decatur Library in downtown Decatur, Georgia for two days of educational sessions, packed with expertise and insight to address the questions you lot have about the craft of writing!Attending a writing conference is an opportunity to invest in yourself as a author, to learn from experts, and to become a function of a customs of writers that inspire, uplift and support i another!

In addition to attention sessions, you will take the opportunity to schedule a five-infinitesimal one-on-one session with an agent. We're in the procedure of adding our agents, and then please check back with the states soon for more than information!

On Saturday, we volition likewise be presenting a Showtime Pages Critique featuring a console of literary agents. Once you have registered, exist sure to submit your outset page and take advantage of this fantastic opportunity to get your manuscript on the correct path!

Once over again, the talented pool of writers in the state of Georgia moves into our spotlight. Each has earned great praise for their work, and at present they are ready to offer you their thoughts and free energy over the class of the weekend. Cheque out our list of this year's confirmed speakers!

Take the leap. Invest in yourself. Be the writer you long to be. Find new friends, new connections, and be inspired!