Move up to the next level!

Nashville: April 8 and 9, 2011

The retreat features more than twelve hours of small group and private manuscript consultation work; professional editing and critiquing of your manuscript during the retreat; teaching on how to evaluate, copyedit, and proofread manuscripts; plus the rewriting of your manuscript several times.

Mentoring groups include:
• Article Writing
• Children's Writing
• Devotional Writing
• Nonfiction Book Writing
• Writing For Youth
• Fiction Book Writing and more!

A rare opportunity to have your own mentor/instructor. Only four to six students with each teacher. Personal attention and free consultations. Critiquing and rewriting of your manuscript. Learn how to think like an editor.

A hands-on writing experience. Ideal for the struggling writer

Qualified instructors (tentative)
• Stanley C Baldwin (Oregon) professional editor, 20 books
• Jack Cavanaugh (California) 30 books, novelist, editor
• Dennis Hensley (Indiana) 51 books, university professor
• Lin Johnson (Chicago) 60 books, editor of three periodicals
• Holly G. Miller (Indiana) Saturday Evening Post, 15 books
• Cecil Murphey (Atlanta) 120 books, ghostwriter
• Janet Thoma (Charlotte) Thomas Nelson
• Jim Watkins (Indiana) 25 books, Wesleyan Press Editor

What those in attendance have said

"My mentor helped me greatly at the ACW writers' retreat in Nashville and went over my manuscript with an eagle's eye. Subsequently, my book Light in the Night was published and is now on sale nationwide." Rev. Lud Golz, Ohio

"The ACW writers' retreat was a great time of fellowship and learning. Within a year after the retreat, my book, Keeping His Pants On . . . Until He Gets Home was published by ACW Press and I starting appearing on TV talk shows in several major cities. I now speak at women's retreats and conferences across the country." Joyce Oglesby, Indiana

The friends I made at the ACW writers' retreat have stayed close to me ever since, and we've encouraged each other in our writing careers. It's a marvelous experience of learning, sharing, growing, and maturing as writers." Betsy Kalman, South Carolina

Conference location
GuestHouse at Opryland
2420 Music Valley Dr, Nashville, TN 37214
$85
(615) 885-4030

Schedule

Friday
Registration and bookstore is open at 8 AM
Retreat officially begins at 9 AM
Lunch is served at 12:30 PM
Dinner is served at 6 PM
The day concludes around 9:30 PM

Saturday
Bookstore opens at 8 AM
First meeting is at 9 AM
Lunch is served at 12:30 PM
Private Consultations at various times
Retreat concludes around 5 PM

Conference Fee
$399 if paid prior to 30 days before the event
$449 if paid after 30 days before the event
The retreat fee also includes coffee at breaks, lunch both days and the Friday dinner. Other meals are at your own expense. You may bring a spouse or friend to the Friday dinner ($33) and/or to lunches ($22 each day).

Discounted retreat fee You pay a lower fee if you register 30 days prior to the event. The retreat fee includes all sessions, coffee breaks, Friday and Saturday lunch, Friday night dinner and private consultations.

Cancellations
We refund the full tuition except $50 administration fee if we are notified up to seven days prior to the conference. After that point no refunds are given.

For serious writers only
Because of the intense nature of the event we offer no scholarships, single-day participation, or discount for skipping meals. The tuition does not include transportation, accommodation or breakfast.

Book sales
Books of interest to writers will be on sale. You may bring your books to sell in the bookstore for a 20% fee.

Bring a manuscript
Bring seven copies of the first five pages of a manuscript. You will need a laptop computer to complete the assignments. Also bring a printer for your laptop if you have one.

Procedure
When you registration indicate the genre (e.g. fiction, nonfiction, poetry, article) of your manuscript. That will help us select the best mentor/instructor for you. Four to six weeks before the event we will inform you who your mentor will be. Please arrange your travel only after you have been assigned. If you are in a group too small (three or less) your payment will be returned.

American Christian Writers is a member of: Evangelical Press Association, Evangelical Christian Publishers Association and Global Network of Christian Ministries