{"id":442,"date":"2011-05-15T16:47:21","date_gmt":"2011-05-15T23:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/professorlarry.com\/?p=442"},"modified":"2011-05-15T16:47:21","modified_gmt":"2011-05-15T23:47:21","slug":"boardwalk-empire-author-headlines-philadelphia-writers-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/professorlarry.com\/?p=442","title":{"rendered":"Boardwalk Empire Author Headlines Philadelphia Writers Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 The\u00a062\u00a0nd Annual Philadelphia Writers\u2019 Conference will take place on Friday, June\u00a03 rd\u00a0through Sunday, June 5 th at the Holiday Inn at Fourth and Arch Streets in downtown Philadelphia. This year&#8217;s theme is:\u00a0A Year of Living Creatively: Words Matter.<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0This year&#8217;s keynote speaker is\u00a0Nelson Johnson, author of Boardwalk Empire, which was the basis of the popular HBO Series. The opening session speaker will be\u00a0author and Philadelphia Daily News Columnist Solomon Jones.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The conference features several three-day workshops, including Short Story,\u00a0Nonfiction Writing, Poetry,\u00a0\u00a0Memoir, Juvenile, Novel, Screenwriting\/Playwriting,\u00a0and Nonfiction Book. Other topics include\u00a0Writing for New Media, Column Writing, Marketing Your Work, Op-Eds, Legal Issues for Writers, Writing Query Letters, Flash Fiction, and Overcoming Writer&#8217;s Block.\u00a0The conference includes meetings with book agents and editors.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Past speakers at the conference have included Pearl Buck, James Michener, Jennifer Weiner, Jeffrey Zaslow, Michael Smerconish, Larry Platt, Chris Satullo, Jane Eisner, Mark Bowden, Larry Kane, Will Bunch, and Rachel Simon.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The conference typically draws between 150 and 200 conferees from the Philadelphia area and around the country. Beginning and experienced writers are welcome.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Conferees can register for the conference through\u00a0Kathryn Craft, PWC Registrar, 67 Woodbridge Drive, Doylestown, PA 18901-1971.\u00a0 \u00a0Telephone: 610-653-5037.<br \/>\nWebsite: <a title=\"http:\/\/www.pwcwriters.org\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pwcwriters.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.pwcwriters.org<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Email: <a title=\"mailto:info@pwcwriters.org\" href=\"mailto:info@pwcwriters.org\">info@pwcwriters.org<\/a>\u00a0<br \/>\nCost for the conference is $225 plus the cost of the optional Friday buffet and Saturday banquet.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 The\u00a062\u00a0nd Annual Philadelphia Writers\u2019 Conference will take place on Friday, June\u00a03 rd\u00a0through Sunday, June 5 th at the Holiday Inn at Fourth and Arch Streets in downtown Philadelphia. This year&#8217;s theme is:\u00a0A Year of Living Creatively: Words Matter. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0This &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/professorlarry.com\/?p=442\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/professorlarry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/professorlarry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/professorlarry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/professorlarry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/professorlarry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=442"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/professorlarry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":445,"href":"https:\/\/professorlarry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442\/revisions\/445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/professorlarry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/professorlarry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/professorlarry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}