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Workshop Sessions
One of the biggest draws of the SCWC remain the quality and diversity of our workshops. As with our San Diego and
Los Angeles events, there is a rotating slate of general sessions throughout the conference weekend. Unique to
Palm Springs, however, is the track system options for writers seeking an intense, total immersion experience to
which they elect to commit their full time and efforts.
FICTION
• To Be Announced
NONFICTION
• To Be Announced
BUSINESS AND ALTERNATIVE
• To Be Announced
VIDEOGAME WRITING
• To Be Announced
*Intensive, immersion track open to limited number of participants. The track may be removed from schedule if attendance not met.
Advance Submission Critique & Consultation
The SCWC*PS offers comprehensive Advance Submission Critique of manuscripts, followed by
one-on-one consultation with our respective Reader(s) for an additional fee of $50. You will find each
Reader's criterion on the Staff page. Please be mindful of the genre in which
you're working when selecting a Reader for Advance Submission Critique & Consultation. This is a unique opportunity
to receive substantive one-on-on evaluation of your work. If you are uncertain of who would be best for you, email
Wes Albers or
Michael Steven Gregory, or phone the SCWC at (619) 233-4651 for
guidance. One thing that should always be kept in mind is that agents rarely can provide the sort of substantive
feedback that working writers do. Writers write. Agents react.
Submissions must be in proper format (double-spaced courier font) and must be received by no later than Sept. 1,
2006.
Manuscript pages submitted will be returned to the writer at the conference. Appointments for one-on-one sessions will
be available at the Registration Desk. Manuscript pages received in excess of the Reader's page limit requirement will
be removed from the Reader's package.
Address your manuscript to the appropriate Reader in care of the SCWC*PS, 1010 University Ave., #54, San Diego, CA
92103. You may register first then submit your material later, so long as material is received on or before
the deadline. You may also submit material to more than one reader, accompanied by appropriate payment.
Aquisitions Panel and Special Events
Saturday's Acquisitions Panel features fiction, nonfiction and screen representatives actively seeking properties.
While those sitting on the SCWC*PS Panel are officially listed in the program, it is not uncommon to find literary and film
representatives who are not, preferring to listen anonymously to manuscripts read in workshops. We've had network television writing
assignments secured at the conference, freelance and stringer work obtained, agent requests, publisher requests, and
more. In fact, it was at SCWC*SD 9 that an agent in attendance landed The Celestial Bar by first-time author
Tom Youngholm (co-written by Mike MacCarthy), which sold to Dell for a reported quarter-million dollars. The year
before Nancy Taylor Rosenberg met her agent at the conference and acquired a multi-million dollar, three-book
contract with Dutton. Following SCWC*SD 14, conferee Peggy Vincent's Baby Catcher: Chronicles of a Modern
Midwife sold to Scribner for a six-figure advance, which was derived from the original manuscript that first earned
her the SCWC's Outstanding Nonfiction Award for that year.
Special Events in years past have included sneak screenings of Michael Steven Gregory's
We, The Writer and We, The
Screenwriter, impromtu First-Time Published Novelist Panels, Didgeridoo-Downs, Writers-In-A-Band Jam Sessions, and more.
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FRIDAY, September 29