The Tallahassee Writers Conference strives to bring you quality presenters on stimulating topics that will hone your writing skills and motivate you to Write Now!

Recent TWA conferences brought such notables to Tallahassee as:

• Lee Gutkind, the "godfather" of creative nonfiction
• Leonard Pitts, Pulitzer-Prize winning Miami Herald columnist
• David Morrell, novelist of Rambo First Blood fame
• Jessica Morrell, editor and author of numerous books on writing technique
• Robert Olen Butler, Pulitzer-Prize winning novelist
• Philip Gerard, creative nonfiction guru
• Donald Maass, renowned New York agent
• Lucia Robson, Jeff Shaara, and Don Yaeger, New York Times bestsellers
• James Scott Bell, author of Plot and Structure and numerous thrillers
• Chuck Sambuchino, editor of  the annual Writers Guide to Literary Agents
• Cassandra King, author of The Same Sweet Girls and The Sunday Wife

 

Acclaim from those attending past conferences:

“Good speakers. Relevant workshops. Organized by nice and helpful people.”

“Access to authors and agent. Plenty of good meals...no hunting for meals in an unfamiliar place.”

“Appreciated the mix of authors, agents and editors!”

“Jessica Morrell's seminars were excellent.”

"Well organized. The speakers were knowledgeable. Overall, outstanding.”

“A first class event”

“The best conference I have been to, ever!!!”

“A wonderful conference and quite a bargain for the price”

“I learned so much, and got inspired. Couldn't have asked for more.”

“Informative, varied, well managed and entertaining”
“Reignited my passion for writing”
“All the suggestions and techniques I heard are spinning in my head, and the ideas they
are generating are so exciting.”
“An ambitious, thorough, and helpful event for all of us writers”
“Fantastic event with a wide variety of great speakers”
“Donald Maass' Sunday session was especially valuable to me.”
“Can't wait to see what you have in mind for next year.”