UW-Milwaukee Spring Writers Festival

UW-Milwaukee School of Continuing Education is sponsoring the sixth annul Spring Writers Festival March 7-9, 2008. The fee is $269.

The three-day conference is offering sessions on things like:


- Crafting the Short Story-- From Start to Finish

- How to Pitch Your Ideas

- What Every Author Learns from Their First Book

- Crafting An Other World

- A Visit to the Book Doctor

- Breaking In: The Basics of Writing for Magazines

- Pitch Session Workshops

- Agent and Editor Panel

- How Editors Think

- Show, Don't Tell: How to Grab Readers by the Neck

- Pathways to Publishing

- A Writer's Website

- Wiki-Whatia: Finding Credible Sources Online and Off

- How to Write Without a Muse

- Book Proposal Basics

- The Personal Essay

- Poetry Workshops