Authors' Conference - Writers' Workshop

Writers' Workshop

The writers' workshop process occurs during the conference meeting. The workshop consists of 6-10 sessions, one per submission to be reviewed. The workshop participants are the authors of those submissions and any other reviewers the authors choose to accept. In a session, the authors of the submission listen quietly while the other participants discuss what they liked about the submission and suggest improvements. This gives the authors of the submission insight into what information readers are learning from the work and ideas for improving the work. Reviewers discussing a work are careful to make productive comments, both because the author is listening and because in other sessions that author will become the reviewer and make comments.

For example: Iowa Writers' Workshop, Clarion Writers Workshop, Gotham Writers' Workshop, Milford Writer's Workshop etc.

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