Upcoming Events Calendar

Conferences

The Literary Congress
January 16-18, 1999
Sales Conferences with individual publishers for booksellers to review book I lists and find out about publishers' promotion plans and co-op programs. The Literary Congress is a buying show for booksellers.

Website: http://www.literarycongress.com/

Florida Christian Writers Conference
January 29 - February 1, 1999
This conference offers instruction and marketing opportunities to writers at different levels --beginning, intermediate, advanced, and professional. Writers attend continuing classes and elective workshops, interact one-on-one with editors, and "talk shop" with fellow writers. The website can be found

BookTech, 99
February 16 - 18, 1999
BookTech is a national conference and exposition specifically designed for book professionals to come together to learn more about leading-edge production and manufacturing issues. BookTech '99 will feature top notch seminars by industry pioneers and an exposition of suppliers.

Contests

--Beginning November 20, 1998, TNT's Roughcut.com hosts The Screenplay Challenge, a 10-week online round-robin screenwriting project that allows contributors to continue an original screenplay started by Hollywood screenwriter Pen Densham (Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Moll Flanders, Backdraft). Each week, a panel of judges will select the best submission and post that chapter on the site. In addition to the opportunity to collaborate with Densham and publish online, each winner will be awarded $100.00 and the chance to win the Grand Prize -- a new laptop computer from which to write his or her next screenplay. Densham will write the final chapter.
More details on the website at: http://www.roughcut.com.

Return to the December 1998 issue of The IWJ.