The Greater Philadelphia Christian Writers Conference is Going VIRTUAL this year! 

Join Liz Curtis Higgs at This Year's Greater Philadelphia Christian Writers Conference

The Greater Philadelphia Christian Writers Conference is Going VIRTUAL this year! 

The Greater Philadelphia Christian Writers Conference is Going VIRTUAL this year! 

Registration Is Open for GPCWC’s June 24-26 Conference!

Because of the ongoing pandemic and the new mutations, and out of an abundance of caution for everyone’s safety, GPCWC will be virtual in 2021.

JoinGPCWC faculty online June 24-26.

Save $$$ – NO cost for travel, lodging, and meals!

This highly INTERACTIVE and virtually AMAZING conference includes:

  • Faculty of over 55 agents, editors, authors, and other professionals!
  • 5 LIVE challenging Keynotes
  • Choose 1 of 8 LIVE Continuing Sessions
    (6 hours each plus 90 minutes in small group breakouts)
  • 6 LIVE Workshops
  • 36 pre-recorded video Workshops
  • LIVE Editors, Agents, and Indie Publishers Panels
  • Lunchtime Q & A Breakouts
  • Dinnertime Breakouts with Authors
  • Surprise LIVE Author’s Night
  • 2 Appointments with Editors or Agents on first-come basis. Must register by June 1.
    Additional appointment for first 50 to register!

PLUS – at NO additional cost:

  • Access to videos of all the sessions for two months
  • Special pre-conference webinars
  • Several Zoom meetings
  • Two Wednesday early bird workshops

ALL INCLUDED in this low registration fee of

$157 through June 1
$177 after June 1

Less than HALF the cost of our last 3-day conference.

GPCWC is delighted to bring Liz Curtis Higgs to this year’s event. You will not want to miss her two keynotes and hour-long workshop. Click here for an encouraging message from Liz.

For practical help to grow your writing ministry click on “Blog and Freebies” and visit Marlene’s home site, https://writehisanswer.com for even more free resources.

 

 

 

“All writers conferences stimulate the mind;
Marlene Bagnull’s conferences
challenge the heart.”

Cec Murphey

Let Us Endeavor to Speak Until They Silence Our Voices

CHRISTIANS FIRED FOR THEIR BELIEFS

Let Us Endeavor to Speak Until They Silence Our Voices

Jennifer De Chiara Literary Agency Fires Agent for Having Parler and Gab Accounts

The Jennifer De Chiara Literary Agency fired literary agent Colleen Oefelein after the firm discovered she had accounts on social media sites Parler and Gab. Oefelein had publicly acknowledged starting the accounts two months earlier.

Kate Hartson, Former Editor With Center Street for Supporting Donald Trump

Kate Hartson, former editor with Center Street, was recently fired, “for political reasons,” she says. The New York Times reports that her colleagues considered her a “true believer” in Donald Trump.

In an industry where imagination and words are the tools of the trade, such actions should give all authors pause for concern.

The “Information Establishment” shapes minds with words. When only one voice is heard, that is propaganda.

The “Entertainment Establishment” creates false reality and has the ability to make what is evil appear good and what is pure to appear prudish.

The “Academic Establishment” shapes young minds and is the recruiting field for the expanding army of thought police.

The “Political Establishment” enacts laws and sets public policy to insure its citizens remain in line.

The “Corporate Establishment” decides who works, eats, and lives in comfort or squalor.

All the above establishments exists within the kingdom of man.

Only in the Kingdom of God will you find free will for all, love for all from God, and the freedom to live without sin and hate through the Spirit of Christ. Those in Christ are not called to wage war on the kingdom of man. That is above our pay grade. Instead, we are called to pray that God’s words go forth and proclaim his Good News. Let us endeavor to speak, write, and teach until they silence our voices.

Calling All Christian Romance Authors

Calling All Christian Romance Authors

 

Announcing the opening of the 2021 Faith, Hope and Love Reader’s Choice Award, sponsored by the Faith, Hope and Love Chapter of RWA. Books published in 2020 are eligible.

All authors of Christian fiction are welcome to enter. They do not have to be members of any set group. There are seven categories available: Long Contemporary, Short Contemporary, Long Historical, Short Historical, Women’s Fiction, Romantic Suspense, and Novella.

The FHLRCA is the only contest that is solely for Christian fiction and judged by readers of Christian fiction who are not involved in the writing industry. This is an excellent opportunity to get your author’s work in front of new readers who love to tell fellow readers about books they love.

If you would like more information, the rules and entry form can be found on the FHL website: https://www.faithhopelove-rwa.org/fhlrca-contest/. You can also email me directly for information:  nancy-rca@faithhopelove-rwa.org. Please share this information with your authors and the other editors at your publishing house.

Blessings,
Nancy J. Farrier
FHLRCA Coordinator

acwc.live

Join us for the
Asheville Christian Writers Conference
February 26, 27 and 28, 2021

https://acwc.live/In the years following the formation of Christian Devotions Ministries, our small staff of volunteers would gather at the Ridgecrest Conference Center outside of Black Mountain, North Carolina, and discuss how we could help writers and authors.

Back then ChristianDevotions.us served as our only online presence. After a few years of gathering with thirty or more writers, we decided we should offer those who drove up for the day some instruction. After all, they were giving up part of their weekend simply to help the ministry. That year Yvonne Lehman, Ann Tatlock, and several other award-winning authors offered classes on plotting, character development, and other ways to improve our writing. Thus began our next ministry: a Christian writing bootcamp.

Today we call that ministry The Asheville Christian Writers Conference.

All Christian writing is a battle cry, a call to rally around God’s words and act as a herald for his Kingdom. God calls us to step up and answer with the best work possible using the talents received. We are called together to focus our hearts on the task Christ assigned us . . . to strengthen our ties with one another and hone our craft of writing in order that we might clearly spread God’s message of love for all and to all through fiction and non-fiction books, screenplays, scripts, articles, and blogs.

Past attendees have gone on to write for Inspire A Fire, our online magazine, Christian Devotions, CBN Devotions, the Upper Room, and Inspiration.org. Some attendees have received book contracts from Iron Stream Media, Thomas Nelson, Tyndale, and other book publishers.

This year we will offer both in person and  virtual options for attendees. Whether you join us online at ACWC.live or at The Billy Graham Training Center at the Cove, you will be challenged to improve, encouraged to persevere, and prayed for and pray with fellow believers who take serious the call of Christ to “go and make disciples in” his name.

If you wish to attend in person, we would love to see you! Currently, we have a limited number of rooms available for on-campus housing. Act fast to reserve a room on site at The Cove. Hotel space is available nearby, but staying at The Cove is a treat you will not want to miss.

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