Attend Virtually or Face-to-Face
The convention committee has been busy planning this fantastic confernce with YOU in mind. We will be recording all workshops, so each ticket, whether virtual or in person, will come with links, after the convention, to all of the sessions. You won't have to miss a single one! Recordings will be available for viewing through the end of the year.
We look forward to seeing you there!
Sandee Taylor & Tyler Henning, Convention Chairs
Anne Spry, Ann Vigola Anderson, Linzi Garcia, Tracy Million Simmons
Jenn Bailey has her MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults from the Vermont College of Fine Arts. Her work received the American Library Association’s Schneider Family Honor Award in January, 2020, along with the Kansas Author’s Book Award in 2019. She has received the Candlewick Picture Book Scholarship and the Beyond Words award. |
Explore: Dynamic Dialogue & The Short Play Format
Debra A. Cole is a playwright from Lawrence, Kansas. Her plays have been seen by audiences around the world. Debra was a selected playwright for the William Inge Theatre Festival - New Play Lab 2023. Debra’s 20-play collection titled "The Wrinkle Ranch and Other Short Plays About Growing Old" is available through Next Stage Press, as well as additional plays with Drama Notebook, Off The Walls Plays, and Heuer Publishing. Debra is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America, a member of Honor Roll!, an advocacy group of women+ playwrights over 40, and 2023-24 Kansas City Public Theatre's Playwright’s Roundtable cohort. |
Learn About: Writing Historically Accurate Fiction
A professional historican who continues to teach university-level history, Gretchen Eick is also a writer of 8 published books and one of Blue Cedar Press's editors for prose manuscripts. Her two academic histories won prizes and the first is cited in the Smithsonian's Museum of African American History and Culture. |
Choose Your Own Adventure with Persona Poetry
Lisa M. Hase-Jackson is author of Insomnia in Another Town (Clemson University Press, 2014) selected by Clair Bateman as winner of the 2023 Converse MFA Alumni Book Prize, and Flint and Fire (The Word Works, 2019) which was selected by Pulitzer prize-winning poet Jericho Brown for the 2019 Hilary Tham Capital Collection Series. Her award-winning poems appear or are forthcoming in Chiron Review, Cimarron Review, The South Carolina Review, and Midwest Quarterly. She is a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh. |
And so much more! 15 workshops, a weekend of inspiration and relaxation at the beautiful Rock Springs Ranch. You don't want to miss this.
Workshop descriptions can be found on our website.