Upcoming Events

Events
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Mar 16
Setting – Nancy Arbuthnot
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May 18
Starting Your Story/Characters – Jack Woodville London
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Jun 1
2025 Season Submission Window Closes
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Jul 27
Telling – Narration and Dialogue – Bob Doerr
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Aug 17
Plot and Story Arc – Jim Tritten
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Sep 25
2025 General Membership Conference
 

Past Events

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Jan 19
Writing Your Story – Jim Tritten
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Jan 2
2025 Season Starts
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Sep 26
Wyndham Bayside San Diego
2024 Conference San Diego, CA
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Wyndham Bayside San Diego
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Aug 10
Writers Ed Series: Writing for Screens Big and Small (Part 4)
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Jul 23
MWSA Elections
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Jul 6
Announcement of 2024 Awards Finalists
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Jun 15
Writers Ed Series: Writing for Screens Big and Small (Part 3)
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Jun 1
2024 Awards Season: Submission Window Closes
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Apr 20
Writers Ed Series: Writing for Screens Big and Small (Part 2)
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Feb 24
Writer Education Zoom
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Jan 2
2024 Awards Season Opens
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Nov 9
Writers Education Zoom with Greg Elliot
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Sep 14
Holiday Inn North
2023 Conference New London, CT
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Holiday Inn North
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Aug 3
Writers' Education Zoom Session
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Jul 15
2024 Conference Poll
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May 20
Writers Education Series: Story Structure by Greg Elliot
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Jan 15
2023 Review & Award Season Submission Window Open
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Aug 25
Higgins Hotel
2022 Conference New Orleans, LA
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Board of Directors Election
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Jul 1
2022 Season Awards Finalists Announcement
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Jun 1
2022 Awards Season Submission Window Closes
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Jan 23
Writer Education Zoom Session -- Writing Workshop
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Jan 15
2022 Awards Season Starts
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Oct 1
Quarterly Deadline for Dispatches Magazine Submissions
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Oct 1
Writers Education Zoom: Writing the Short Story by Jim Tritten (Date & time TBD)
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Sep 18
2021 Conference Virtual/Online
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Aug 7
Announcement of 2021 Season Finalists
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Jul 11
Writers Education Zoom: Get Your Book Right Before the World Judges You (Part 4) by Dawn Brotherton
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Jul 1
Quarterly Deadline for Dispatches Magazine Submissions
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Jun 15
2021 Awards Season Submission Window Closes

Calendar of Events
Past and Future

Writers Education

See the Writers’ Education page for more details and videos

Featured
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Jan 19
Writing Your Story – Jim Tritten
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Aug 10
Writers Ed Series: Writing for Screens Big and Small (Part 4)
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Jun 15
Writers Ed Series: Writing for Screens Big and Small (Part 3)
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Apr 20
Writers Ed Series: Writing for Screens Big and Small (Part 2)
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Nov 9
Writers Education Zoom with Greg Elliot
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Jan 23
Writer Education Zoom Session -- Writing Workshop
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Jul 11
Writers Education Zoom: Get Your Book Right Before the World Judges You (Part 4) by Dawn Brotherton
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Jun 13
Writers Education Zoom: Get Your Book Right Before the World Judges You (Part 3) by Dawn Brotherton
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May 23
Writers Education Zoom: Get Your Book Right Before the World Judges You (Part 2) by Dawn Brotherton
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May 15
Writers Education Zoom: Navigating Nonfiction: How to tell a compelling true story by Ruth Crocker
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Apr 25
Zoom: Get Your Book Right Before the World Judges You: What Agents, Publishers, and Reviewers Are Looking For by Dawn Brotherton
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Apr 17
Zoom: Sustaining Tension in a Novel by Joe Badal
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Mar 20
Writers Education Zoom: Website FUN-damentals by Wendy Meyeroff
 

MWSA Conferences
Past Conferences and General Information

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Sep 26
2024 Conference San Diego, CA
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Sep 14
2023 Conference New London, CT
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Aug 25
2022 Conference New Orleans, LA
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Sep 18
2021 Conference Virtual/Online
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Sep 17
2020 Conference Virtual/Online
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Sep 12
2019 Conference Albuquerque, NM
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Nov 8
2018 Conference Charleston, SC
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Sep 7
2017 Conference San Antonio, TX
2015 Conference Phoenix, AZ
Sep 24
2015 Conference Phoenix, AZ
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Sep 25
2014 Conference, Phoenix, AZ
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Sep 26
2013 Conference, Dayton, OH
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Sep 27
2012 Conference; Dayton, OH

General Information

  • MWSA bylaws require that we hold an annual general membership conference.

  • In the past, we’ve alternated between locations east and west of the Mississippi River.

Cancellation Policy

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