- for 2008
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Beginning with our 2008 event, we have added new services to make your conference experience more rewarding:
- Editors Books from Barnes & Noble
Teen discounts Free wireless Internet
- Group rates Professional critiques
Publishers On Board!
Think you're ready to pitch your book idea to a publisher? We will have editors
on hand representing several prominent Christian publishing houses:
Teens
- For students ages 12 - 18, we now offer a reduced rate of $80 per person. In the future, as this
segment of our attendance grows, we are hoping to offer a specialized track for young writers. For a
school or church sending five or more, a chaperone may attend at no charge. (Since this is already a
reduced rate, group discounts do not apply.)
Groups
For churches and schools who enroll ten or more conferees, a special rate of $100 is available. That's
20% off! Just sign up and pay in full by April 2, 2008. Teens may be included to meet this total;
however, they must pay the full teen rate.
Books
- By the time that you leave our conference, we hope you’ll be inspired to tackle
your writing projects as never before. You might want to start that rewrite, call
that editor, or join a writers’ group. But perhaps you'll need some additional
help to get there. So why wait? Our local Barnes & Noble store has graciously
might be beneficial to a writer who needs help to polish and market that manuscript.
Free Wireless Internet
There are true geeks among us. Yes, you know who you are. Your PDA is permanently affixed to
your hip, and your wireless headset is forever epoxied to your ear. You can’t stand to unplug from your
electronic gadgets for even a moment. Therefore, as we strive to be all things to all men, this is for you:
Our entire building is one large Wi-Fi Hot Spot. So, feel free to bring your laptop computer. You can
surf the Web, check your email, or chat with friends. We ask only that you mute the speakers during
our sessions, so as not to disturb your neighbors.
Critiques!
- Are you ready for a challenge? Do you want to know how a publisher might view your work? Our
critique service is your opportunity to find out. And as a special incentive, each student can receive
one FREE critique by a member of our faculty.
No doubt, attending a conference is a great way to advance your writing career. And books can teach
you a great deal about grammar and style. But how about your story, in particular? How does it
measure up? Several of our faculty members have agreed to provide critiques for our conferees.
writing skills. We'll assess your work on the basis of several important issues: What are your strengths and challenges? Is
your message coming through? Do your arguments support your thesis? Do you have an engaging personal style? Are
your characters genuine and believable? In addition, we can help with your plot, structure, pace, and dialogue.
manuscript. Additional critiques are available at the special rate of $30.00 each.
your name appears in the header on every page. Use 12-point Times New Roman font, with one-inch margins on all sides.
When you're done, place it unfolded into a 9 x 11.5” envelope. Enclose a check for your registration fee (plus any
applicable critique fees), payable to Quartz Hill School of Theology. Mail it to:
- Antelope Valley Christian Writers' Conference
Attn: Critiques
5022 Avenue N, Suite 102-128
Palmdale, CA 93551
with .doc extension only, please.) Email to avwriters@yahoo.com. At that time we will send you an invoice for your
registration fee (plus any applicable critique fees), which will enable you to make your remittance through Pay Pal. Your
manuscript will then be forwarded to a faculty member who handles your genre.
By either method, all submissions must be received no later than April 2, 2008, in order to have your critiqued manuscript
returned to you at the conference.
Critiques, Plan B
If you don't have your manuscript ready in time for pre-submission, all is not lost. Our panelists will be available for private
15-minute appointments, to take a quick look at your writing and offer their evaluations. In some cases, by mutual
agreement, our speakers can make themselves available for ongoing critiques and mentoring after the conference. They are
independent contractors, not employees of our organization, and they set their own policies and fees.
Great writers are either husbands or lovers. Some writers supply the solid virtues of a husband: reliability,
intelligibility, generosity, decency. There are other writers in whom one prizes the gifts of a lover, gifts of temperament
rather than of moral goodness. Notoriously, women tolerate qualities in a lover—moodiness, selfishness, unreliability,
brutality—that they would never countenance in a husband, in return for excitement, an infusion of intense feeling. In the
same way, readers put up with unintelligibility, obsessiveness, painful truths, lies, bad grammar—if, in compensation,
the writer allows them to savor rare emotions and dangerous sensations. It’s a great pity when one is forced to choose
between them. --Susan Sontag, American Writer and Literary Critic
| Copyright © 2007, Quartz Hill School of Theology. All Rights Reserved. |
Writers ought to be regarded as wrongdoers who deserve to be acquitted
or pardoned only in the rarest cases: that would be a way to keep books
from getting out of hand. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
or pardoned only in the rarest cases: that would be a way to keep books
from getting out of hand. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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