Category: Conferences, Classes, Workshops, etc.
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Bear Lake Writers Workshop
It’ll be held 11 October 2025 at the Oregon Trail Center in Montpelier, Idaho. The theme is “A Whole World of Writing,” and the topics will range from children’s picture books to romance to nonfiction and everything in between. Our presenters are published authors and industry experts who are excited to share their insights with…
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Virginia Woolf Workshop
Learn craft while participating in this interactive workshop organized by MMMWriters. It’ll be conducted the morning of Saturday 25 October in Boise at the Hillcrest Library. Bring your determination to improve your writing skills (open and appropriate for both advanced and beginning writers) — along with your laptop, paper, pens/pencils. Learn more on the MMMWriters…
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Zoom on Author Procrastination
MMMWriters is hosting nationally known author and presenter Colleen M. Story this coming Thursday (6 to 7 p.m. MT). This is a FREE event, but registration is necessary. This is a rare opportunity to gain insight from someone you’d normally only see at writer’s conferences. Read more (and register) on the MMMWriters website.
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Write from the Bottom of the Mind
Learn or hone the Zen approach to writing as instructed by Natalie Goldberg in this 14 June workshop conducted by Ivy Raff at Surel’s Place in Garden City. Open to all levels of writers and aspiring writers. Newly-published or prolific, casual, or committed, those who write only in private journals or carefully-crafted work emails…this workshop…
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Bookmarks (teens etc. focus)
News you might have missed, in the book / reading / learning realm. Brooklyn Public Library Offers Free eCards to Teens Nationwide Facing Book Bans in Local Communities “Brooklyn Public Library (BPL) is launching a new campaign today, titled Books Unbanned, to help teens combat the negative impact of increased censorship and book bans in libraries across the country. For a limited time,…
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Writer’s Workshop in North Idaho
Emily Moore (whom we’ve profiled) has just announced a new Market Your Book Workshop in northern Idaho, scheduled for April. All the info is on the flyer image (below), but we’ll reprint here:
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2025 Writer’s Conferences
Will you attend a conference this year? Believe it or not, 2025 is nearly here, and in a lot of cases those Early Bird Discounts expirations come up before you realize. We’ve previously collected opportunities, and keep you informed on an ongoing basis via our “Conferences, Classes, Workshops, etc.” category, but here’s a fresh new…
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Fine Tune Your Fiction
Act fast! It’s 3 August!! Most every month the local RWA chapter, Coeur Du Bois, in Boise, hosts a meeting that’s typically not just for romance writers. They cover both craft skills and marketing training. Meetings are the first Saturday, and for 3 August the topic is: Nuance in Fiction: Saying More by Saying Less…
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Screenwriters’ Workshops
With the six-week workshop beginning Sat 10 February, join in either in person at Boise’s JUMP or online. Join our Screenwriter’s Workshops happening every week in JUMP’s PLAY studio. Story artists are invited to bring their screenplays for story discussion. Develop your screenplay to the point of setting up a table read. Collaborate and network…
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Plan Your Best Year
TH 11 January Zoom: AUTHORPRENEUR: Level Up the Business Side of Writing with Laurie Buchanan When writing is treated as a business, a writer becomes a serious contender in magazines, newspapers, and on shelves in bookstores. In this interactive session, writers will learn what it means to be an authorpreneur and about the business side…
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Sun Valley Writers’ Conference
If you weren’t able to attend this prestigious event in August (which is already accepting registrations for SVWC2024!), you can still benefit by watching these recorded interviews — either: On Fridays 1 December through 29 December, well-known host Marcia Franklin will interview: Dr. Abraham Verghese, Hernan Diaz, David Grann, Andrea Elliott, and Mohsin Hamid.
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Test Your Lit-Wits
The Cabin is hosting a Literary Trivia Night on Wednesday, 13 September. The cost is only $10 (discount for teams) and it promises to be fun. Join with other Lit-Wits (sorry; I can’t let it go) in the Treasure Valley for this fun event. Location: Lost Grove Brewing, 1026 S. La Pointe St. in downtown…
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Idaho Writers Conference
Reminder! There’s still time to register for this conference organized by the Idaho Writers Guild. It’s 19-20 May, with a special pre-conference masterclass by Robert Dugoni. Read more about it on their website.
