Wyoming Writers, Inc. 36th Annual Conference

June 4-6, 2010

Holiday Inn

Cody, WY

Featured Presenter:

Max McCoy

 

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Cody, WY

Holiday Inn, Cody, WY

Transportation to and from Hotel
Yellowstone Regional Airport (COD)

* Distance: 3 MI / 4.83 KM West to Hotel
* Complimentary Airport Shuttle
* Taxi Charge (one way): $5.00 (USD)
* Time by taxi: Five minutes
* Turn right on Hwy 14/16/20. 3 miles to hotel entrance.

BILLINGS INTL (BIL)

* Distance: 120 MI / 193.12 KM South West to Hotel

Denver International (DIA)

* Distance: 480 MI / 772.46 KM North West to Hotel
 

 

 

 

2010 WW, Inc. Conference Feature Presenter Workshops:

• Max McCoy: Non Fiction: Find Your Story: Why narrative matters, narrowing a topic down to a story, and how the best stories often find you. The similarities between good journalism and good scholarship.

 

• Max McCoy: Non Fiction: Find Your Audience: Determining how big your story is, who you’re writing for, and how to pitch an editor. Answering the big question: Are you writing for love or money?

 

• Max McCoy: Non Fiction: Find Your Voice: Putting it all together, honing a style and tone that is appropriate, knowing the rules and knowing when to break them.

 

2010 WW, Inc. Conference Panelist Workshops:

 

• Robert Roripaugh: Writing Fiction: Beginnings: Starting points in fiction writing and our growth as writers, including the sources of fiction in our own lives, memories, imaginations, research, and reading. Discussion of opening paragraphs and short-short writing.

• Robert Roripaugh: Writing Fiction: Middles: Development of stories through middle sections that relate to and add to the writing’s meaning and effect upon the reader.

• Robert Roripaugh: Writing Fiction: Endings: True or not, many believe the novel is final proof of a writer’s mastering the craft of fiction. Commitments of time and mental focus, working conditions, structure, beginnings and endings. Discussion of revising and editing skills needed for long and short fiction, including ways to judge and improve one’s own work.

• Lee Ann Roripaugh: Poetry: Dramatic Monologues: A session devoted to the art of the dramatic monologue, focusing on aspects of craft and technique (characterization, voice, and tone) that make monologues effective poems, and discussing writerly research in creating a strong monologue.

• Lee Ann Roripaugh: Poetry: Collaborative Poetry: This will be a session devoted to the history and pleasures of writing collaborative poems. The session will discuss different types and approaches to the collaborative poem, look at samples of collaborative poetry, and offer participants the opportunity to collaborate with each other in the creation of such works.

• Lee Ann Roripaugh: Music of Poetry: This will be a session that examines ways of creative music within your poems separate from the techniques of rhyme and meter. In particular, we will focus on line length, line breaks, consonance, assonance, onomatopoeia, and other sound effects.

• Gordon Warnock, Literary Agent: One-on-one pitch sessions: Seven, six-minute pitch slots available, SIGN UP AT REGISTRATION

• Suzie Townsend, Literary Agent: One-on-one pitch sessions: Seven, six-minute pitch slots available, SIGN UP AT REGISTRATION

• Moderated Round-Table Discussions