Registered for a pitch or critique? Join us online to meet with your industry professional. Login before your meeting starts and we will get you settled in to a private Zoom room for your conversation with your professional. Zoom links are sent to participants via email.
Category: WilWrite26 Schedule
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July 29th 9AM – 5PM Zoom: Pitches
Registered for a pitch? Join us online to meet with your industry professional. Login before your meeting starts and we will get you settled in to a private Zoom room for your conversation with your professional. Zoom links are sent to participants via email.
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July 19th 7 – 9PM Zoom: Pitch for the Prize
Come pitch your work to a panel of industry professionals. You can step up to the Zoom spotlight for three minutes to share your work and receive feedback from the panel, or you can listen in and learn. At the end of the evening, the professionals will pick the grand prize winner. Come to pitch and come to learn! It’s going to be a great evening online.
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1 – 1:30PM Sunday Belmont Foyer: Auction & Book Pick-Up
Pack your bags, grab your baskets and books, and head out the door. Time for auction pick up and settling of consigment sales. The conference is over, but we will see you online and in-person this September!
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11:30AM – 1PM Sunday Belmont A/B/C: Keynote and Goodbye
What an amazing weekend it has been. from critiques to conversations and workshop and keynotes, we wrote and laughed and shared so much together. It will be hard to say goodbye, but don’t worry…there’s more to come (including a keynote announcement this April!).
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11 – 11:30AM Sunday Belmont Foyer: Brunch
Your weekend of writing is almost over! Join us for Sunday brunch. Pour your coffee and take your seat for our final keynote presentation. Keynote announcement coming in April!
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10 – 11AM Sunday Zoom 1: Poetically, short.
What happens when a poem steps off the page and onto the screen? In this workshop, you’ll learn the techniques and mechanics of screenwriting by turning a favorite poem into a short script. Bring three poems you love (no advance submission required) and choose one to transform into a screenplay for a short film. You’ll learn how to shape material that originated elsewhere, developing the collaborative skills essential to film and television, as you build an outline and begin drafting your short in proper screenplay format.
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10 – 11AM Sunday Windsor C: Write the Movie, Not the Script
Take your scripts to the next level by learning how to “direct on the page,” one of the film industry’s longest-standing taboos. In this “dangerous” workshop, Randall Jahnson teaches screenwriters how to incorporate stage directions and visual storytelling directly into their scripts without breaking any rules. You’ll gain techniques to make your writing more dynamic, visceral, and cinematic.
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10 -11AM Sunday Windsor B: BIPOC Social
Meet your fellow BIPOC writers in this warm and welcoming space. Come share experiences and make connections as you wrap up your 2026 Conference.
Note: This is a time for community members to gather and support one another in a safe space.
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10 – 11AM Sunday Belmont C: Put them on the Couch: Therapy for your Characters
Complex and interesting characters are essential to any story, but how do you reach their true depths? In this fun, exploratory writing class, you’ll step into the role of therapist while your character becomes the patient. Using an adapted psychological intake form, you’ll uncover childhood traumas, bad habits, and quirky hobbies to create the marvelous, messy details that make characters come alive. It’s character therapy without the copay! This class is perfect for writers who want their characters to stop behaving like cardboard cutouts and start acting like the complicated bundles of contradictions we all are.