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Workshop Sessions

One of the biggest draws of the SCWC remain the quality and diversity of our workshops. As always, there is a rotating slate of morning, mid-morning and afternoon sessions Saturday and Sunday, each containing at least one workshop fully devoted to read & critique. Conferees are in no way limited to attending only a single workshop during any session, and are, in fact, encouraged to roam from one to another.

There are basically two types of workshops at the conference: Lecture/Q&A and Read & Critique. In the latter, participants can bring works-in-progress to read aloud to the group for critique. While the daytime R/C workshop leaders try to distribute time evenly, it is during the late-night "Rogue Workshops," beginning at 9 p.m., where the most lengthy readings occur as they are open-ended sessions. It is not uncommon for these workshops to go anywhere from Midnight to 5 a.m.

FICTION

• To Be Announced – TBA

NONFICTION

• To Be Announced - TBA

BUSINESS AND ALTERNATIVE

• To Be Announced - TBA

Advance Submission Critique & Consultation

The SCWC offers comprehensive Advance Submission Critique of manuscripts, followed by one-on-one consultation with our respective Reader(s) for an additional fee of $50.00. You will find each Reader's criterion on the Staff page. Please be mindful of the genre in which you're working when selecting a Reader for Advance Submission Critique & Consultation. This is a unique opportunity to receive substantive one-on-on evaluation of your work. If you're uncertain of who would be best for you, just e-mail Wes Albers SCWC Associate Director, or phone him at (619) 303-8185 for guidance. One suggestion: Do not submit a manuscript to an agent unless you're confident that it's ready for market consideration. Instead, choose a Writer-Reader to ascertain the viability of your material, then introduce yourself to the agent during the conference for follow-up after.

Submissions must be in proper format and be received by no later than January 3, 2009. Advance Manuscript Critique is available only to registered conferees and will be returned at the conference. Appointments times for one-on-one sessions will be posted at the Registration Desk.

Address your manuscript to the appropriate Reader in care of the conference: SCWC, 1010 University Ave., #54, San Diego, CA 92103. You may register first then submit your material later, as long as material is received before deadline.

All submissions – including submissions to Agents – will be administered in the order of registration confirmation. Once the maximum number has been met, it will be posted on the website and submissions will be administered to alternative reader.

Panels & Special Events

Saturday and Sunday's Agents & Editors Panels features fiction, nonfiction and screen representatives actively seeking properties. Also, it is not uncommon to find industry reps listening quietly to manuscripts read in workshops. We've had network television writing assignments secured at the conference, freelance and stringer work obtained, agent requests, publisher requests, and more. In fact, it was at SCWC 9 that an agent in attendance landed The Celestial Bar by first-time author Tom Youngholm, which sold to Dell for a reported quarter-million dollars. The year before Nancy Taylor Rosenberg met her agent at the conference and acquired a multi-million dollar, three-book contract with Dutton.

Special Events in years past have included impromptu panels, roundtable discussions, writers-in-a-band jam sessions, didgeridoo-a-thons, sneak screenings of Michael Steven Gregory's We, The Writer & We, The Screenwriter, and more.

FRIDAY, February 13th

Noon - REGISTRATION OPEN

2:00-3:30 - WORKSHOPS

• Extended Fiction Read & Critique - TBA
• Fiction - TBA
• Nonfiction - TBA
• Alternative - TBA

3:40-5:10 - WORKSHOPS

• Extended Fiction Read & Critique - TBA
• Fiction - TBA
• Nonfiction - TBA
• Alternative - TBA

5:30-7:15 - NO-HOST MIXER & BOOKSIGNING

7:15-8:00 - INTRODUCTIONS

8:00-8:45 - EVENING SPEAKER: TBA

9:00-On - ROGUE WORKSHOPS

• Read & Critique - TBA
• Read & Critique - TBA
• Read & Critique - TBA

SATURDAY, February 14th

7:30 a.m. - REGISTRATION OPEN

8:00-8:50 - MORNING SPEAKER: TBA

9:00-10:30 a.m. - WORKSHOPS

• Extended Fiction Read & Critique - TBA
• Fiction - TBA
• Nonfiction - TBA
• Alternative - TBA
• ONE-ON-ONE ADVANCE SUBMISSION CRITIQUES

• Extended Fiction Read & Critique - TBA
• Fiction - TBA
• Nonfiction - TBA
• Alternative - TBA
• ONE-ON-ONE ADVANCE SUBMISSION CRITIQUES

1:00-2:30 - WORKSHOPS

• Extended Fiction Read & Critique - TBA
• Fiction - TBA
• Nonfiction - TBA
• Alternative - TBA
• ONE-ON-ONE ADVANCE SUBMISSION CRITIQUES

2:40-4:10 - WORKSHOPS

• Extended Fiction Read & Critique - TBA
• Fiction - TBA
• Nonfiction - TBA
• Alternative - TBA
• ONE-ON-ONE ADVANCE SUBMISSION CRITIQUES

• TBA

6:45-8:00 - SCWC BANQUET

8:00-9:00 - EVENING SPEAKER: TBA

9:00-On - ROGUE WORKSHOPS

• Read & Critique - TBA
• Read & Critique - TBA
• Read & Critique - TBA

SUNDAY, February 15th

8:30 a.m. - REGISTRATION OPEN

9:00-10:30 a.m. - WORKSHOPS

• Extended Fiction Read & Critique - TBA
• Fiction - TBA
• Nonfiction - TBA
• Alternative - TBA
• ONE-ON-ONE ADVANCE SUBMISSION CRITIQUES

• Extended Fiction Read & Critique - TBA
• Fiction - TBA
• Nonfiction - TBA
• Alternative - TBA
• ONE-ON-ONE ADVANCE SUBMISSION CRITIQUES

1:00-2:30 - WORKSHOPS

• Extended Fiction Read & Critique - TBA
• Fiction - TBA
• Nonfiction - TBA
• Alternative - TBA
• ONE-ON-ONE ADVANCE SUBMISSION CRITIQUES

2:40-4:10 - WORKSHOPS

• Extended Fiction Read & Critique - TBA
• Fiction - TBA
• Nonfiction - TBA
• Alternative - TBA
• ONE-ON-ONE ADVANCE SUBMISSION CRITIQUES

4:00 - "TOPIC" WRITING CONTEST DEADLINE

4:15-5:30 - AGENTS/EDITORS PANEL

• TBA

7:45-8:00 - AWARDS CEREMONY

8:00-9:00 - EVENING SPEAKER: TBA

9:00-On - ROGUE WORKSHOPS

• Read & Critique - TBA
• Read & Critique - TBA
• Read & Critique - TBA

*Schedule subject to change without notice.  Check in periodically for updates, additions and/or revisions. 

Special Guest Speakers

FRIDAY EVENING: TBA

SATURDAY MORNING: TBA

SATURDAY EVENING: TBA

SUNDAY EVENING: TBA