by Kevin A Davis | Mar 21, 2025 | Authors Workshop
We’re just weeks away from JordanCon! It’s time to plan your weekend.
Friday we’ll have some one-on-one mentorship opportunities with guests like Darin Kennedy, Milton J. Davis, and Sarah J. Sover, and pitches with John G. Hartness and Nicole Givens Kurtz.
Sign up here. First come, first served; we’ll do our best to get you to your preferred choice.
In collaboration with Gaming, we’re hosting a game design workshop on Friday evening with professionals in the industry. Moderated by Ryan Szesny; join Sarah Madsen, Bill Bridges, and Christina Stiles for a workshop to meet and talk about your ideas for your game. Bring a manuscript, 1000 to 3000 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.
For our legacy event, the Friday Night Writers Workshop, we’ve got a line-up of Guest volunteers that include Jody Lynn Nye, Darin Kennedy, Janci Patterson, Robyn Huss, Aleksandra (Ola) Hill, Paige L. Christie, JM Paquette, Rosemary Williams, Rey Nichols, Michael Head, October K Santerelli, Ashley Chappell, Mia Tsai, Carrie Callahan, Marisa Wolf, and Jez Cajiao!
Learn more about this workshop – or –Â Submit your 1000 words here
Curious about our guests and panelists? Check them out here at https://www.jordancon.org/jordancon-guests-2025/
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 | 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!
Find more workshops at the Authors Workshop Track
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.
Don’t forget our Friday Night Workshop and our two Saturday Slush Panels – Read More
by Kevin A Davis | Oct 18, 2024 | Authors Workshop, Guests, Programming
This year the Authors Workshop Track will host one-on-one mentorships, and possibly even pitches, depending on the interest of the attending publishers.
During a one-hour session, we’ll offer a few fifteen-minute time slots for attendees to sit with an industry professional and discuss their career plans, story plots, or writing habits. As mentioned above, there might be pitch sessions. We’re sure this will be a new Authors Workshop Track favorite.
We’ll have a lot more information on this project as the weeks progress, and logistics will be key in getting guest preferences connected to attendee interest. Keep watching our blog and social media for sign-up forms because the early preparation will determine match-ups.
