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Algonkian Writers Conference Events and Workshops
 
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In the context of teaching novel writers the most successful methods for becoming published, Algonkian Writer Conferences emphasize the art of dramatic structure and complication for purposes of strong story, the model-and-context method for the creation of competitive narrative, and the development of a middle to high-concept story premise the market will embrace. See our FAQ for more details on our methods and types of events. In short, our goal is to make you a career author by setting you on a realistic path to publication. The past two years have been our biggest for writers in all genres published and under contract. Our popular writer events and workshops are found here and below:
• Santa Barbara • Algonkian Park • Write To Market • NYC Pitch Event • Algonkian Niagara
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A Memory Gallery to Celebrate Algonkian's 11 Year Anniversary
Algonkian Conference Event Photos and Captions
We can't believe it either. After starting on the banks of the Potomac in 2002, Algonkian has grown from a single novel workshop to an ongoing series of successful events from Santa Barbara to New York city. In honor of the anniversary, we've included a few pics from past Algonkian events, even Harper's Ferry and Arizona. Highlights include, "Bring Me Coffee or I'll Make a Napkin Puppet!" ... 
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Algonkian Writers Conference News and Notes
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The Writer's Block Features Pre-Event Assignments for Algonkian
Algonkian Conference News
Algonkian has established online forums at the Writer's Block as a means of delivering pre-event assignments to writers preparing to attend Algonkian events. Assignments focus on foundational aspects of writing and planning a competitive commercial novel ...
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Algonkian's Michael Neff Contributes to "DEEP" Website Author Salon
Algonkian Conference News
Algonkian director, Michael Neff, has provided several important articles on the art of advanced fiction writing to Author Salon, including but not limited to works on antagonistic force, sets, narrative evolution, and project coverage (DEEP = Display, Educate, Evolve The Project) ...
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Introducing the Santa Barbara Author-Mentor Novel Workshop
Algonkian Conference News
A faculty that includes Pulitzer winners Jane Smiley and Robert Olen Butler and Hollywood film/book producer Ken Atchity, will work one-on-one with aspiring authors at the Santa Barbara Author-Mentor Novel Workshop come 2014. The workshop is unlike any other ...
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Conference Stars for Algonkian Writers : Writers Sign With Talcott Notch
Agent News re Algonkian Writer Conferences
A couple of accomplished Algonkian writers, Barbara Conrey and Dave McMenamin, met their future agent, Paula Munier, at an Algonkian event, and after some jostling and pitching, signed with her agency Talcott Notch Literary. Commentary by Barb and Dave :
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Roberta Gately's New Novel "The Bracelet" Selling and Selling!
Algonkian Writer Conference Alum News
After Algonkian broke out Roberta's first novel, she's at it again! Boston nurse Abby Monroe and New York Times reporter Nick Sinclair find themselves entrenched in the middle of a human trafficking ring overseas. When Abby realizes she may have witnessed the murder of a Pakistani woman by a high-ranking official, she and Nick must break the story ...
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A Conference Star for Rosemary DiBattista's "Murder Marinara"
New York Pitch Conference News
Just when we're kicking back to toast our successes, the good news never stops! One of our fav Pitch alums, Rosemary DiBattista, just sent us the news that she signed with NAL and veteran NYC pitch editor Sandy Harding, thanks to BookEnds agency. According to Rosemary ...
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A Conference Star for Luke McCallin's "The Scar Life Leaves"
Algonkian Writers Conference News
What does it take to get a mystery novel by an unknown author published? Mystery writer Luke McCallin met editor Tom Colgan at the NY Pitch and NYC staff set him up with his current agent, Peter Rubie from Fine Print Agency. It all worked like a dream. According to Luke ...
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A Conference Star for Susan Moger's "Grace at War"
Algonkian Writers Conference News
Susan Moger wrote to tell us her novel GRACE AT WAR has been signed by Kate McKean of the Howard Morhaim Agency. "I attended Pitch and Shop in NYC in Dec. 2006, and I now have an agent for the book I pitched, Grace at War ...
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New York Pitch Conference Graph Climbing
Algonkian Writers Conference News
More than 45% of total ms presented at the NYC Pitch are requested, and 50% of these by more than one editor--made possible via intelligent project screening, strong workshops, attentive editors and applications of superb pitch craft ...
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Algonkian Director Michael Neff Joins AEI
Algonkian Writers Conference News
Michael Neff of Algonkian is now an Associate for AEI Motion Picture Productions in Los Angeles, and as such, an agent and scout for high-concept fiction that can be turned into motion pictures, bestselling novels, or both. Michael leads workshops at Algonkian Park and at other events ...
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Michael Hagan's Pitch Wagged The Novel and Finally Paid Off
Algonkian Writer Makes Good and Lands Contract
Former Algonkian student, Michael Hagan, a writer of YA novels, wrote and told us he has recently signed with Sam Stoloff of the Frances Goldin Literary Agency in New York. As Michael said to us regarding Algonkian: "This is the conference that separates the determined ..."
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Signed by Marsal Lyon - A Conference Star for "The Wisdom of Hair"
Algonkian Writer Conference Blog
Kim Boykin enticed three publishers, and inevitably, a strong agent (Marsal Lyon Literary) as a result of the Algonkian conference, who then sold her ms to an editor from Berkley who heard Kim's pitch at the New York Algonkian. "Sixteen agents asked to read; ten asked for the whole manuscript, and five asked for exclusives, which of course I couldn't give them ..."
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ICM Literary Agent Tina Wexler Talks About Algonkian
Algonkian Writers Conference Commentary
"I've yet to leave without requesting manuscript pages from participants. What's more, the manuscripts deliver ... Serving on the Algonkian faculty has also been tremendously gratifying. Not only does the conference attract a wide variety of writers working in many different ..."
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Reasons Why Passionate Writers Fail to Publish
Algonkian Writer Conferences Blog
Far too many writers make the Dan Brown mistake, i.e., they attempt to emulate a well published writer, falsely believing it will get them published. They don't understand that a privileged few can get away with horrible crimes and still be published ...
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Author Roberta Gately Talks Life and Publication
Algonkian Writer Conferences in The Press
Given Roberta's gifts and tenacity, it was only a matter of time before she sought a new form of happiness, that of becoming a published author in order to tell the world of the struggles she has witnessed. As all hopeful authors discover ...
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New and Different Home Page For Algonkian
Algonkian Writers Conference Mirror Site
A new site from Algonkian that displays much of the same information as this site, but delivered in a manner some prefer. Includes special intro pages to the Write to Market Conference, Algonkian Novel Workshops, the New York Pitch Conference, and Fisherman's Wharf ...
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PRNewswire, 2011: Alum Ann Garvin Talks New York Pitch Conference
Algonkian Writer Conferences and Writers at The New York Pitch
The two female characters, Maggie and Julia, have fun and are suburban, Midwestern soccer moms, but they also have a flair for the dramatic. And they have deep souls. Garvin takes the reader through the women's deepest fears: losing a child, whether in the womb or ...
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New Algonkian Novel Writing Events Featured on Shawguides
Shawguides Writer Conference Guide
Unlike most other writer conferences, manuscript and writing critique comes only from professional editors and agents. Also unlike others, we have extensive pre-event readings and assignments, as well as a challenging ten-part syllabus ...
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Beware and Background Check - Agenda? Defamation? To Trust or No?
Algonkian Writer Conferences Examines the World of Cheap Shotting Online
So how do you cull the truth from falsehood and misleading commentary, or simply from irresponsible conjecture? Below are some sensible questions to ask yourself when it comes to discerning the degree of reality on forums and blogs ...
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Algonkian Expands Presence on Facebook, Serving Up Brilliance ... or Not?
Algonkian Writer Conferences on Facebook
Lots of comments, helpful links, notes on a writers conference, articles, and "This article points out that getting face-to-face feedback with an acquisition editor has advantages over e-forms of communication. This might go without saying, but actually, it doesn't ..."
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Talks of Passion, Craft, and Platform With Dana Isaacson of Random
Algonkian Writer Conferences Blog - Comments Welcome
These days it appears more and more true that for various genres of fiction aspiring authors often have an edge in getting a first novel published if they possess an authentic platform for telling the story ...
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Algonkian Establishes a Presence on Publisher's Marketplace
Publisher's Marketplace
Past students of our writers conference circuit include published and soon-to-be published authors Gillian Royes, David Klein, Roberta Gately, Ann Garvin, Sujatha Hampton, Brandi Lynn Ryder, Will Lavender, Christina Meldrum, Susan Breen and Talia Carner ...
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Web del Sol a Good Place for Building Literary Creds
Web del Sol.Com - Locus of Literary Art
The origin of Algonkian online classes and each writers conference, Web del Sol is a community and portal for the literary world, hosting several top literary journals and writer blogs. Algonkian supports Web del Sol, Locus of Literary Art on the WWW ...
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Algonkian Alum Discusses Her Reasons for Past Failure to Publish
Algonkian Writer Conferences Alum Liz Brody
I loved cozy for years and cut my literary teeth on badly writing my first cozy called The Big Julianne Murders. Not only was the title poor but my arrangement of the plot and other things was awful. I learned only later that I had gone about it all wrong ...
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The God of Social Media Demands Obedience
Algonkian Writer Conferences on The Writer's Edge
Algonkian has recently undertaken a mission to go viral with the social media and Web 2.0 tropes of the day. We established a presence on Facebook, of course, and it's rather attractive (as if that matters--it does) ...
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Upcoming Writers Conference and Novel Workshops
 Begun by Web del Sol after Y2K, Algonkian now holds several writers events, conferences, and workshops including our new (the only conference that starts before you arrive) San Francisco Write to Market Conference as well as our New York Pitch Conference that takes place quarterly. We also hold workshop intensives at Algonkian Park.
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THE NEW YORK PITCH CONFERENCE
 It started at Web del Sol and evolved to "The Fiction Class" by Susan Breen. Going into 2013, Algonkian events have assisted and networked writers into dozens of agent and publishing contracts. More information can be found on our commentary page. 
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 Ken Atchity, film producer and literary agent, has launched many books and films. His life's passion is finding great storytellers and turning them into bestselling authors and screenwriters. He will attend the SF Write to Market Conference.
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 Penny Warner, author of The Connor Westphal Mystery Series, will be a guest author at the WTM. She has had over 50 books published, fiction and non-fiction. Her books have won national awards, garnered excellent reviews, and have been printed in 14 countries. She will attend the SF Write to Market Conference.
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THE NEW YORK PITCH CONFERENCE
 Simon and Schuster has recently published Lipstick in Afghanistan, an upscale women's fiction by Roberta Gately. We just received a wonderful note from Roberta thanking the Algonkian pitch conference.
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 Ann Garvin's On Maggie's Watch, is out from Berkeley. Our Algonkian staff played a big role in making this important literary project come to life, and huge congrats to Ann for writing it! More information can be found on Annie's site.
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Gina Damico's YA Fantasy grim reaper novel, Croak, was sold to Julie Tibbott at Houghton Mifflin in a two-book deal by Tina Wexler at ICM--project acquired from Algonkian's NYC Pitch. Thank you, Gina!
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Algonkian Park Workshops - One of our best for writers serious about publication. Craft, pitch and market workshops led by M. Neff, Shannon O'Neill, Howard Yoon, and Bob Bausch.
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