about the summit

DATES AND LOCATION

May 27th to June 2, 2024

Digital event over zoom

SESSION TIMES

May 27th: 11am, 2pm, and 7pm

May 28th-June 2nd: 9am (Writing Sprints), Sessions at 11am , 2pm, and 7pm.

COST

Earlybird Member Price = $99

Earlybird Guest Price = $129

*earlybird rates available through April 2024

Member Price = $109

Guest Price = $139

*normal rates begin May 1st 2024

THEME

The theme this year is “for the love of genre,” which will also be the theme for volume two of WordWorks in 2024. We want to celebrate our love for all genres and to glean the best learnings from each to strengthen our works regardless of what realm our writing inhabits. Whether you consider yourself a genre writer or not, there will be something for everyone. We look forward to welcoming you all digitally to the summit in May.

WHAT IF I DON'T CONSIDER MYSELF A "GENRE" WRITER?

This event is open to and designed for all writers. We are celebrating genre writers and genre tropes, but with an emphasis on all participants being able to take the best learnings from different genres and be able to apply it to their work.

LENGTH OF SESSIONS

Sessions will run for approximately 1 hour each. On occasion, Q&A may push us over, but if time restraints prevent you from staying, no one will be offended if you have to duck out before we are done.

ACCESSING SESSIONS AND SIGNING IN

The Zoom room will open approximately 5 minutes before each session.

We typically allow for 2-3 minutes at the start of each session so that anyone experiencing technical challenges can still join us without missing anything.

We recommend you open zoom a bit early for the first session as there have been some software updates from zoom recently that can take a few minutes to configure. (This is most important for people who have not used zoom in a while)

RECORDINGS

All sessions except discussion events will be recorded.

Links to the recordings will be sent out approximately 2 days after the last session of the Writing Intensive (November 27th)

Recordings will be available to you for 1 month.

OTHER DETAILS

Each session is independent from the other sessions, so if you miss one, you will not be left behind.

The presenters have prepared handouts that will be sent out over the week. We do this to avoid people feeling like they need to ask for slides.

We want everyone to enjoy themselves and to leave each session feeling inspired.

MORE TO COME!