by Kevin A Davis | Mar 14, 2025 | Authors Workshop
Saturday Slush: 11:30 a.m. and 4:00 p.m.
Even with two sessions planned, we’ll be working on a waitlist soon. This is the Authors Workshop Track’s most popular event. We never know how many readings we can get through in each session.
Friday Night Workshop: 8:30 p.m. (for about 2 hours)
We’ve got a strong list of Guests available for this workshop who will work in pairs with small pods of writers. Submit 1000 words for your pod and get crucial feedback from everyone.
More details.
Submit your work now.
New in 2025:
One-on-One Mentorship: Multiple slots Friday and Sunday
Trying to market your book and need advice? Considering indie, hybrid, or trad? Want the right conference to polish that craft? Get one-on-one advice from an industry professional. Keep checking our social media as we’ll be putting up the form to grab a slot in the next week or so. Sign up here!
Sweet Openings with John Hartness: Saturday 5:30 p.m.
Write a promising opening with publisher John Hartness. Start with that first line.
Winning Author Bios with Regina Kirby and John Hartness: Saturday 1:00 p.m.
Join Regina Kirby, Senior Director of Programming for Dragon Con and John Hartness, founder of the SAGA conference and publisher at Falstaff, to sculpt a winning bio for your convention applications.
by Kevin A Davis | Mar 7, 2025 | LitRPG, Main, Programming
How now, you crusty bag of nature, you egg! Do ye have what it takes to step into an original production of Shakespeare’s ROMEO & JULIET? To explore the shifting yet constant nature of language and dramatic action? Come and take part in a group staging of Act I, Scene 1, wherein the company shall roundly insult each other with Elizabethan screeds and many, many thumbs shall be bit. Cosplay welcome—nay, encouraged!
A collaborative production between the Main Programming and LitRPG Tracks with narrator Neil Hellegers:
This is a group workshop I have done many times with all ages, and with as many as 50 people, and it ends with everyone doing a scene from Romeo and Juliet together! (background: I worked as a university instructor and teaching artist for decades before becoming an audiobook narrator).
It starts with splitting the group in two, taking opposing sides of the room. I’ll then distribute slips of paper with insults from numerous Shakespeare plays, and do a quick review for sense. These are always fun, a little more graphic than people generally expect from Shakes, and an exploration of language and action. We practice firing them at each other at the other group from across the room.
Then I have each group pick two “captains”, with whom I cast and review a shortened version of the first scene from R&J (aka the “Do you bite your thumb at me, sir?” scene). We then choose a fun setting and stage the scene, with each group as rival Montagues and Capulets, and let the insults and biting of thumbs fly, complete with police (The Prince) intervention.
I can fold in a little or as much literary analysis and dramaturgical import as fits the group, while we also have a blast, a rowdy and energetic experience, with a unique version of the play, and tons of archaic insults to keep throwing around the con for the days to follow.
Expect to have a blast at this panel!
by Kevin A Davis | Feb 28, 2025 | Authors Workshop, Programming
Collaborating with the Gaming Track, Authors Workshop Track brings writers a game design workshop with professionals in the industry to meet and talk about your ideas for your game. Bring a manuscript of 1,000 to 3,000 words, to discuss in detail with industry professionals. Feel free to discuss content, game design philosophy, mathematical systems, layout, and professional topics related to game design.
Tentatively scheduled for Friday evening!
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by Kevin A Davis | Jan 31, 2025 | Authors Workshop, Programming
What’s an Elevator Pitch?
An elevator pitch is a brief (30 second) way of expressing a story idea. It’s called an elevator pitch because it’s the time you’d spend on an elevator ride with someone. It might be what you’re working on, a story ready to sell, or a concept for upcoming work.
Bring your pitches to JordanCon, and we’ll have a panel of industry professionals ready to listen. They’ll be a good sounding board to find out if your 30 seconds is effective in grabbing their interest and relaying your idea. For writers, pitches are a skill to be learned.
We’re waiting to hear your pitch!
Tentatively planned for Saturday night at 2:30 p.m.
See what else we have planned at the Authors Workshop Track
by Kevin A Davis | Jan 10, 2025 | Authors Workshop, Programming
Write and Read Flash Fiction
Returning to the Authors Workshop Track at JordanCon 2025: Robby Hilliard leads a guided flash-fiction writing session on Saturday morning where prompts are provided! We’ll give you a short bit of time to put down some words, then you’ll read your story to your peers.
We love to see what comes from creatives!
Join us and let’s see what we come up with. Tentatively scheduled for 10 a.m. Saturday.
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