Panelists share tips, tricks, and approaches that keep players engaged, maintain player agency, and craft a story that builds and engages.

Read more about This Ain’t the Hero’s Journey: Writing for Video Games (Sponsored by 4theWords)

Writers discuss what experiencing a real worldwide pandemic has taught them about crafting speculative worlds.

Read more about What Sheltering-In Teaches Us About Our Speculative Worlds (Sponsored by Uncanny)

Authors and editors discuss what makes a first line successful at a craft level, breaking down their favorites and sharing their own strategies.

Read more about Crafting the First Line (Sponsored by Plottr)

Authors (parents!) talk about finding time and balance between the needs of family and writing–how to keep motivation, and how to prevent and deal with overwhelm.

Read more about Writing and Parenting: Finding Balance and Time (sponsored by plottr)

Experienced authors and editors discuss how the middle grade and young adult markets shifted due to COVID-19 and how they stay agile as the rules begin to shift.

Read more about How Quarantine Has Changed the Middle Grade and Young Adult Markets (Sponsored by Candlewick press)

Panelists discuss the methods that help them navigate writing through pain and fatigue, and share strategies for writers in similar situations.

Read more about Writing Through Pain and Fatigue (Sponsored by Tj Berry)

Editors discuss how they approach pitching books featuring marginalized identities and non-western inspired worlds in acquisition meetings to marketing and sales teams that might fear they are not “commercial enough.”

Read more about Taking Marginalization to Acquisitions (sponsored by Liminal Fiction)

Experienced freelance editors give insights on how writers and publishing professionals can set up their own businesses in editorial.

Read more about Hanging up Your Shingle: How to Start in Freelance Editorial (Sponsored by podium audio)

Join short fiction writers for a discussion about best practices for assembling and publishing a collection of your own stories.

Read more about Assembling a Short Story Collection (sponsored by Kurth Lampe Worldwide)

Authors who are based outside the United States discuss their financial experiences with a publishing industry that is largely based in New York City and offer tips to those in similar situations.

Read more about Taxes and Finances for Non-U.S. Writers Publishing in the United States (Sponsored by Kurth Lampe Worldwide)