Blog Me MAYbe: What Writing Conferences Would You Like to Attend?
Wednesday, May 30, 2012 at 12:00AM 
It's the last Wednesday of May, which similar to last week, means not only do I get to ask something about you - but I also get to participate in today's RTW!
AND THIS WEEK'S TOPIC: What book and/or writing conference would you love to go to?
For RTW's Conference Theme Week, they want to know which writing, reading, book blogging, or other publishing-related conferences are on your "must attend" list. Here's a great breakdown of some of the main conferences, as well as Phoebe's reminder that other kinds of conferences can totally relate to writing, too!
There are several conferences I'd love to go to, but in particular, I've got two I've always wanted to attend - and some day I will! What would be even better, is if all my writing pals out there were able to go, too - I'd love to meet so many of you in person!
1. Society of Children's Book Writers & Illustrators annual conference in LA:
2. BEA: Book Expo America in NYC:
So how about you? What writing conferences have you always wanted to attend?
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Reader Comments (8)
I'd love to attend SCBWI in NYC, Comic-Con (San Diego), and YALLFest. BEA does sound pretty great too! It's really too bad it's just so darn expensive to go to any of them. Especially living in Canada. And I agree with you: meeting up with writer friends at one of these conferences would be fantastic! :)
I think BEA is number one and SCBWI in LA is number two on my conference wishlist. So who knows, maybe one of these years we'll attend these conferences together.
I also agree that one of the great things about an "in-person" conference would be meeting writer friends I've so far only got to know online. However, I'm much more interesting online, so I'm not sure this would be a good thing for everyone else! :)
I would love to be able to attend SCBWI but alas being on the other side of the pond + a poor uni student make that impossible! Hopefully someday though.
I'm so glad I found your blog! I'm in WA as well (at least I'm guessing that's where you are from after I read Did You Know? section). Both of the conferences you listed sound fabulous. I would love to go to either of them but that will have to wait for a future time when I have a lot more money sitting around pegged for writing expenses. Since you are from the northwest, are there any Washington or Oregon conferences you've been to that you can recommend?
I really want to go to SCBWI LA and hope to next year! I answered this question on my blog too. :)
EVERYONE needs to come out to SCBWI LA! It's so much fun!
I would love to check out SCBWI national but it's so expensive! Also would like to go to RWA National. So far I've just been to a regional RWA conference and it was awesome!