Tag: Writers Conference

  • A Writer, an Agent, and a Children’s Book Story

    A Writer, an Agent, and a Children’s Book Story

    The San Miguel Writers’ Conference is excited to announce that after attending the 2012 conference, writer Stacy Clark has found an agent and subsequently a book deal.  Her children’s book When the Wind Blows will be published in the near future by Holiday House Books. How did this all happen?  Well, we wrote Stacy and…

  • Dreams Come True

    Dreams Come True

    Over the past few months we’ve received quite a few emails from conference attendees telling us what has happened to them since the 2012 conference.  Some people have started writing groups back home.  Others have started relationships with the agents who attended.  And some have gotten publishing deals. Kelly Daniels, winner of the 2012 San…

  • Writer’s Work Groups By John Scherber

    Author, John Scherber, was nice enough to take time off from writing to send us an excerpt from his new book, Writer’s Notebook: Everything I Wish Someone Had Told Me When I Was Starting out, a nonfiction book filled with writing tips about character development, plot, point of view, and more.  Writer’s Work Groups Over…

  • Warm Winter at the San Miguel Writers’ Conference By Dhana Musil

    I had the most wonderful fortune of being awarded a scholarship to attend the San Miguel de Allende Writers’ Conference last month.  It was the first time in 16 years I’d traveled abroad without children in tow. The anticipation was extreme– a combination of counting down the sleeps and– maybe I shouldn’t go? From the…

  • Teen Workshop at the Writers’ Conference By Susan Page

    The Teen Creative Writing Workshop has always been a beloved part of the San Miguel Writers’ Conference and Literary Festival. Conference planners are keen to share the excitement of the week and the rich opportunities for learning and inspiration with local high school students. This year, the workshop, taught entirely in Spanish, reached new heights,…

  • The San Miguel Writers’ Conference By Nathan Feuerberg

    Three years ago a friend from graduate school coerced me into volunteering for the 6th annual San Miguel Writers’ Conference.  She needed people to check tickets at the door and, although I wasn’t interested in spending my weekend as a bouncer, I agreed to do it.  At the time I didn’t know much about the…

  • 2013 Viva Mexico Fiesta

    I attended the San Miguel Writers’ Conference “Viva Mexico Fiesta” for the first time in 2011, the same year Sandra Cisneros was the keynote speaker.  I’d lived in Mexico for about eight months, but I’d never seen anything like it before. I remember walking into the courtyard of the Instituto Allende and being greeted by…

  • Handling the Truth By John Scherber

    Jack Nicholson famously said to Tom Cruise in the 1992 movie A Few Good Men, “You can’t handle the truth!” This line has a resonance that survives today––a remarkable feat for a statement that is fundamentally untrue. Because at a personal level, there is no single ongoing truth to be handled. The reality is that…

  • A Writer, an Agent, and a Children’s Book Story

    The San Miguel Writers’ Conference is excited to announce that after attending the 2012 conference, writer Stacy Clark has found an agent and subsequently a book deal.  Her children’s book When the Wind Blows will be published in the near future by Holiday House Books. How did this all happen?  Well, we wrote Stacy and…

  • Dreams Come True

    Over the past few months we’ve received quite a few emails from conference attendees telling us what has happened to them since the 2012 conference.  Some people have started writing groups back home.  Others have started relationships with the agents who attended.  And some have gotten publishing deals. Kelly Daniels, winner of the 2012 San…

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