Saturday, March 8th, 2025
Chesapeake College in Wye Mills, MD
Organized and sponsored by the nonprofit Eastern Shore Writers Association, the Bay to Ocean Writers Conference (BTO) is dedicated to providing first-rate educational sessions and inspirational tips across a variety of writing genres. Choose a track to follow, or mix it up and select sessions that are just right for you! | This year’s keynote speaker is Brian Turner and features six tracks with thirty-one sessions to help writers develop their craft, edit, publish, and market their writing. The sessions, all 50-minutes in length, are carefully designed to help attendees generate solid writing, hone their craft, and ask pointed questions of published and award-winning presenters about the process. |
Keynote Speaker |
BRIAN TURNER is the author of five collections of poetry (from Here, Bullet to The Wild Delight of Wild Things) and a memoir (My Life as a Foreign Country) and is the editor of The Kiss and co-editor of The Strangest of Theatres anthologies. A musician, he has also written and recorded several albums with The Interplanetary Acoustic Team, including 11 11 (Me Smiling) and The Retro Legion's American Undertow. His poems and essays have been published in The New York Times, The Guardian, National Geographic, Harper’s, among other fine journals, and he was featured in the documentary film Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience, which was nominated for an Academy Award. A Guggenheim Fellow, he has received a USA Hillcrest Fellowship in Literature, the Amy Lowell Traveling Fellowship, the Poets’ Prize, and a Fellowship from the Lannan Foundation. He lives in Orlando, Florida, with his dog, Dene, the world’s sweetest golden retriever.
Early-Bird Rates: through January 15th, 2025 | Regular Rates: January 16th – March 8th |
ESWA members must be logged in to the website to receive the member discount.
Thirty-One Sessions to Choose from! |
FICTION: How to Avoid Creating Cardboard Characters Concision and Precision in Flash Fiction Turn Your Novel into a Movie! Beauty of Beats and Free indirect Speech The Character Compass: Finding Narrative Direction Through Deep Characterization POETRY: Fractures & Fragments: Layer, Distill, and Illuminate Your Poetry Using Everything You Were Taught Not To Do Writing the Sonnet: Poetry's Strict Mistress Hello & Goodbye: Aubade, Praise, Elegy All Over the Floor: Poems and the Quotidian Immanent The Skinny Poetry Workshop Redux: Line/Breaks/Love NONFICTION: Better Listeners Make Better Storytellers: Interviews, OralHistories, And Firsthand Accounts Inspired by Pain Designing a Smart Research Plan for Your Nonfiction Book or Memoir Red String and Push Pins: So You Want to be a True Crime Writer? Writing Business Non-Fiction | CRAFT: Watch Out, It's a Trope!: Writing Disabled Characters
This is My Teddy Bear: Walking the Line between Show and Tell
Summoning Spells: Channeling the Voices of History Experimental Writing Workshop Overcoming Imposter Syndrome for Writers PUBLISHING, MARKETING, PROMOTION: How to Survive (and Thrive) During Your Rookie Season as a Published Author Book Marketing Without a Platform or Social Media Promote Your Own Book Covers: The Art of Marketing Your Book You've Published Your Book, Now What? Creative & Practical Approaches to Direct Marketing SPECIALTY: Ghostwriting for Fun and Profit 100 Words: The Writing Practice that Works Things a Journal Editor Would Like to Say: From Nuts & Bolts to It's Not Your Fault How to Create a Voice Agents Love Writing is Writing is Writing |
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2025 Conference At-A-Glance |
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Highlights from the 2024 Bay to Ocean Writers ConferenceSaturday, March 9th, 2024 was dedicated to providing first-rate educational sessions and inspirational tips across a variety of writing genres. Featuring six tracks with thirty sessions helping
writers develop their craft, edit, publish and market their writing. The 2024 conference included a keynote by Grace Cavalieri. Learn all about last year’s sessions by viewing the full Program PDF at the link below. 2024 Conference Program PDF |
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