The 2021 young writer annual conference is 4 weeks away - on the Gold Coast - Saturday 11 September. The program is forming as it does a month before all our annual conferences.
Some things stay the same - the morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea slots remain in the same static time slots.
Lunch is different this year - we are planning pizza to be bought in. Now that those logistics are out of the way, we can focus on the program.
The annual Basil Sellers Awards are at the usual time slot at 4.00pm - we finish the day after the awards.
Afternoon session
Every year the young writers want time out for small group sessions - this will again happen this year. 1.30pm-2.30pm is a plenary by Ben Campbell CEO Africa Enterprise on how best to writer about missions
Then the annual small group session.
Last session of the day
After the small group session (after lunch) - the young writers will come together facilitated by Russell Modlin and Rebecca Moore as we did last year.
This is an invaluable time where a lot of information and ideas are gathered.
Morning sessions
The morning sessions are plenary’s and this year is no different. We are planning a butcher paepr session led by Russell Modlin with 3-4 questions.
The second plenary we have one of the distinguished young writer’s Thomas Devenish from Hobart on Zoom. His topic is the breadth of submission for publishing./
Times
9.45am - 5.00pm
LTCC facility – Tugun - adjacent to the Gold Coast airport
This is the same time as last year and previous years - it allows people to fly into the Gold Coast airport in the morning and then fly home (if required) in the very late afternoon or early evening.
Some will want to stay over for the weekend.