Chapter One Young Writers Conference

5/17/2016

For today's Teen Tuesday, I'm participating in the Ch1Con 2016 Blog Tour, an annual tour in preparation for this year's Chapter One Young Writers Conference.

If you haven’t heard of it, the first Chapter One Young Writers Conference (Ch1Con) took place in Chicago in 2012 with six teenagers in attendance in person and countless others attending via an online live stream. It was an experiment limited to members of the Scholastic’s Write It community and their friends: could they, a group of teenagers from across North America, really get together and run their own conference? The answer soon became apparent: yes. So, wanting others to be able to enjoy the experience too, the team took the conference public.

Because the teen writing community is a particularly vibrant one, Chapter One Young Writers Conference (Ch1Con) is proud to say they are the only writing conference by young writers, for young writers. The team comprises a number of high school and college-age writers with different experience levels who work to create a unique, inclusive experience for writers their age.

This year, Ch1Con will take place on Saturday, August 6th in St. Charles, Illinois, a western suburb of Chicago. Registration is currently open on the Ch1Con website for writers from a middle school to undergraduate level (approximately ages eleven to twenty-three) at an early bird discount price of $74.99. The full speaker lineup on the website.

Early bird registration is currently open at this link through June 1st.
So if you’re a writer from middle school to undergraduate age and you’re interested in this opportunity, consider registering.

For more information and to join the Ch1Con community online, check out these links:
Website: Chapter One Young Writers Conference
Twitter: @Ch1Con
YouTube: Chapter One Young Writers Conference
Facebook: Chapter One Young Writers Conference

Have you ever been to a writing conference? Any tips for conference-goers of all ages?

Coming Friday: the cover reveal for C. Lee McKenzie's new middle grade novel, Sign of the Green Dragon!

jean davis link

5/17/2016 08:11:25 am

What a neat idea! I love hearing about motivated young people. Wait. No. It's great that they are motivated to do great things, but it just reminds me how unmotivated my own young people are. Sigh.

Yvonne V link

5/17/2016 02:15:41 pm

Thanks for the smile, Jean.

Liz A. link

5/17/2016 01:41:25 pm

Interesting. I'll keep this in mind if I come across any young writers. (And I do, from time to time.) I've never been to an actual adult writers conference. I hear they're great.

5/17/2016 02:17:38 pm

Liz -- I hope you get to go to a writing conference! I've been to the SCBWI conferences (about writing for children, which includes YA), and they were a great opportunity to learn and to network.

Karen link

5/17/2016 09:11:44 pm

What a great event and how awesome that the young writers pull it all together themselves.

5/19/2016 07:56:57 am

I know, right?

Stephanie Faris link

5/19/2016 09:50:45 pm

So many conferences and book expos and such in big cities. We don't have very many in Nashville but I participate in the few we have!

5/20/2016 10:04:31 am

I think Utopia Con is near you? I haven't been to that one.

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