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Scholarship Available for 31st Annual Conference at Sylvia Beach Hotel

February 12, 2018 By Jan

UPDATE: The deadline is past for the 2018 scholarship.

OWC is pleased to announce two scholarships for the 31st Annual Conference at the Sylvia Beach Hotel in Newport, Oregon, April 13-15, 2018. These scholarships are made available by the M. K. Wren Estate fund and by anonymous donors.

  • 2018 M.K. Wren Scholarship
  • 2018 Demarginalizing Voices Scholarship

These scholarships will cover the registration fee for the 2018 OWC Annual Conference at the Sylvia Beach Hotel in Newport, Oregon. This includes all workshop sessions along with room and board at the Hotel; accommodations may be in a shared room. We will celebrate the winners online via our website, Facebook and Twitter, with photos and a bio of the winners.

Please apply byMarch 10, 2018.

Applicants do not need to be current OWC members, but scholarship winners, if not currently members, will need to join OWC for a $30 annual fee. Depending on where winners are coming from, we may be able to help facilitate carpool transportation, but this is not guaranteed at this time. We expect to announce winners mid-March.

Questions? Please send them to Conference Programming Chair Haley Isleib at owcwriterswrite@gmail.com.

Apply today!

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Literary Agent Stephanie Cabot to Hear Pitches at 2015 Annual Conference

December 22, 2014 By Jan Leave a Comment

Stephanie CabotStephanie Cabot, literary agent with the Gernert Company, will listen to your pitch at OWC’s Annual Conference, May 1-3, 2015.

Stephanie is selectively adding writers from a variety of genres, including commercial and literary fiction, upmarket women’s fiction, historical fiction, thrillers, fantasy, new adult, and nonfiction. She is especially interested in writers who tell original stories with strong narratives and create distinctive characters. Her literary mantra: “Character, character, character!”

Here are some recent author publications that she has represented:

  • The Secret Wisdom of the Earth, by Christopher Scotton
  • Vanessa and Her Sister, by Priya Parmar
  • We Are Called to Rise, by Laura McBride
  • The Unexpected Waltz, by Kim Wright
  • The Cairo Affair, by Olen Steinhauer
  • The Resistance Man, by Martin Walker
  • Small Move Big Change, by Caroline Arnold
  • Hild, by Nicola Griffith
  • Babayaga, by Toby Barlow
  • The Demonologist and The Damned, by Andrew Pyper

She has worked with the Gernert Company since 2005. She began her career as an agent in London, where she spent nine years at William Morris—London, building a list of international best-selling and prize-winning authors. The last five years of her tenure with William Morris in London, she was managing director.

Half French, half American, Stephanie was educated in Europe and in the United States. She majored in history at Harvard.

She now spends her weekends working on a family dairy farm, Boggy Meadow, with her husband and four children.

To reserve your opportunity to pitch to Stephanie, sign up with your conference registration: $15.

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Save the date! Cara Black at Annual Conference May 1-3

November 10, 2014 By Becky Kjelstrom Leave a Comment

Cara BlackWe’re proud and excited to announce that Cara Black will be our workshop leader at the 2015 Annual Conference at the Sylvia Beach Hotel in Newport, May 1-3.

Cara Black, New York Times bestselling author of the Private Investigator Aimee Leduc Series, which is set in Paris, will present “Setting as Character.” Her latest book is Murder in Pigalle.

We’ll have more details about the conference as they become available. Registration will open in December. Stay tuned — this conference is sure to sell out!

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