NH Writers' Project - Writers Day

New Hampshire Writers' Project

Registration Form
You may register online using the form below. After you have submitted your registration you may choose to pay online using Mastercard or Visa, or to mail in your payment via the US Postal Service (check or credit card). Your registration will be processed when we receive your payment.

Enrollment is limited, so preregistration and prepayment are required. We're sorry we can't offer refunds, but please let us know if you can't attend so that we can accommodate those people on our waiting list.

Note: All facilities are wheelchair accessible.

Registration is now open.
To begin your registration process, choose from the member or nonmember price and then be sure to pick from each of the breakout sessions below.

Writers' Day Conference - $135 member

Writers' Day Conference - $175 nonmember

NHWP Membership.
I would like to renew my membership/become a member of NHWP at the individual rate of $55 and enjoy the Writers' Day member discount

I would like to renew my membership/join NHWP at the senior rate (age 65 and up) of $25 and enjoy the Writers' Day member discount

I would like to renew my membership/join NHWP at the full-time student rate of $25 and enjoy the Writers' Day member discount

Session #1 Workshop
(please indicate first choice in lefthand check box and second choice in righthand check box)

A: Meet the Keynote
B: Point of View: What's the Big Deal?
C: Linked Worlds: Discovering Connections
D: The Picture Book: Creating Memorable Characters
E: Poems at the Edge of the Ordinary
F: The Uses of Anger in Memoir
G: Flash Fiction: Oblique Angles of Entry
H: Social Media for Authors

Session #2 Workshop
(please indicate first choice in lefthand check box and second choice in righthand check box)

I: Block? What Block?
J: Inside the Writer's Studio with Joe Monninger
K: Linked Worlds: Discovering Connections
L: Making the Most of Memory FULL
M: Poems at the Edge of the Ordinary
N: Why Won't Editors Take My Stuff?
O: Let Your Light Shine: Reading Your Work Aloud
P: Taking the Hysterical Out of the Historical

Session #3 Networking OR Pitch Sesions
(please choose the networking session you plan to attend)

Seacoast
Upper Valley
Central (Manchester, Nashua, Concord)
North Country
Monadnock
Women Writers with AROHO (you do not need to be a member of AROHO to attend)
Learn more about Print on Demand

(OR select your first and second choice of Agent or Editor you would like to Pitch to)

Joanne Wyckoff , Zachary Shuster Harmsworth FULL
Kermit Hummel, Countryman Press FULL
Roland Pease, Steerforth Press FULL
Lorin Rees, Helen Rees Literary Agency FULL
Jeremy Townsend, PublishingWorks FULL
Lissa Warren, DeCapo Press FULL

**Please note that each editor and agent has limited slots. Pitch sessions fill up very quickly, therefore you may not get your first or even second choice. If this happens we will be in touch to discuss your options.

Session #4 Workshops
(please indicate first choice in lefthand check box and second choice in righthand check box)

Q: Agents and Editors Panel
R: The Art of Collaboration
S: Expanding Myth
T: Every Word Counts: Crafting Nonfiction that Sings
U: Nonpoets' Poetry (Reading) Session
V: Why Won't Editors Take My Stuff?
W: Writing About Art
X: Is an MFA Right for Me?

Literary Idol
Yes, I'd like be a contestant on Literary Idol and read a three-minute flash fiction piece of my original work. FULL

I understand that Literary Idol will be assigned on a first come, first served basis and that I will be notified if I am to be a contestant.

Box Lunch Choice
All lunches come with a bottled water and cookies. Sandwiches include pasta salad and hummus plate comes with pita bread. Please click your choice below.

Ham Sandwich
Turkey Sandwich
Roast Beef Sandwich
Hummus Plate (Vegetarian)

Member Book Sales
If you are a member and are interested in selling your books at Writers' Day, preregistration is required by March 26, 2010.
Yes, please contact me with information about selling up to two of my books at the member book sales table at Writers' Day.

Please be sure to choose member or nonmember conference rate above and make a first and second choice for each session before clicking submit.

THANK YOU!!
We look forward to seeing you at Writers' Day 2010

New Hampshire Writers' Project
2500 North River Road
Manchester, NH 03106
603-314-7980

April 17, 2010	Writers' Day Schedule
8:00 a.m.	Registration and coffee
8:40 a.m.	Welcome and Orientation
8:50 a.m.	Keynote address: Nicholson Baker
10:00 to 11:15 a.m.	Session #1
11:30 a.m. to 12:45 p.m.	Session #2
1:00 to 1:30 p.m.	Lunch, book sales, and exhibits
1:45 to 2:45 p.m.	Session #3: Pitch OR Networking Sessions
3:00 to 4:15 p.m.	Session #4
4:30 to 5:30 p.m.	NH Literary Idol
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	This year Writers' Day is being held at: Southern New Hampshire University in Manchester, NH

Writers' Day is made possible in part by generous support from Southern New Hampshire University, Lincoln Financial Foundation, RiverStone Resources, Northeast Delta Dental, Sheehan Phinney Bass + Green, P.A. and Gibson's Bookstore, and through operating support grants from The Blythe and Dan Brown Foundation of the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation and the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts.

Traveling to Writers' Day 2010?

Coming from far? Take advantage of the special Writers' Day rate at the Fairfield Inn. Only $79!

Call (603) 606-5485. When booking, be sure to mention NHWP's Writers' Day.

8 Bell Avenue Avenue, Hooksett.

Fairfield