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ASJA Austin 2018

 

Online registration for the Austin Conference is now closed. We still have room for onsite registrations, please plan on arriving early!

February 3, 2018 in Austin, Texas
Joe C. Thompson Conference Center at UT-Austin

Click here for the conference program


Join us in sunny Austin, Texas for a full day of insights and inspiration for emerging and established nonfiction writers in Texas and beyond. Hone your writing skills with sessions on interview techniques, content marketing, self-editing and landing your first national story. Boost your business savvy with panels on personal branding and money management for freelancers, handling sticky situations with editors and more.

You’ll also be able to:

  • Start your day with a Mindfulness for Writers session.  
  • Network with like-minded writers over coffee, lunch and a cocktail reception (included in registration fee).
  • Polish your personal brand with a professional headshot session (available for an additional fee).
  • Meet and network with editors from across the Lone Star State during Client Connections.*

Interested in volunteering or discussing sponsorship opportunities? Email asjatx@gmail.com.

Click here for information on the Shop Talk: Austin Conference Preview


*Client Connections is open to Professional ASJA members only. To see a list of those participating in Client Connections, click here.


Scholarship Sponsor

Additional Sponsor
Damon Brown's "The Bite-Sized Entrepreneur"
 

Hotel Information

AT&T Executive Education & Conference Center
1900 University Avenue
Austin, TX 78705

Delta Airlines Discount

Taking advantage of this discount is easy! Just click the “Advanced Search” link on www.delta.com and enter NMRCL in the box that says “Meeting Event Code.” If your flight qualifies for a discount, it will automatically be applied to your search results. We suggest using this discount to book your ASJA flight.

ASJA REFUND POLICY: ASJA will refund 100% of an attendee's registration remittance upon receipt of written notice of cancellation received by or before Thursday, November 30, 2017. 50% of your registration fee will be refunded if cancellation is received between Friday, December 1, 2017 and Thursday, January 18, 2018. There are no refunds after Friday, January 19, 2018. Refunds may take up to 10 business days to process.

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  • A blank piece of paper is God's way of telling us how hard it is to be God.
    – Sidney Sheldon
  • A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.
    – Kenneth Tynan
  • A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self–addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor.
    – Ring Lardner
  • A young musician plays scales in his room and only bores his family. A beginning writer, on the other hand, sometimes has the misfortune of getting into print.
    – Marguerite Yourcenar
  • All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary – it's just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences.
    – Somerset Maugham
  • Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.
    – Christopher Hampton
  • Being a writer is like having homework every night for the rest of your life.
    – Lawrence Kasdan
  • Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research.
    –Wilson Mizner
  • Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them.
    – Flannery O'Connor
  • I just wrote a book, but don't go out and buy it yet, because I don't think it's finished yet.
    – Lawrence Welk
  • I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
    – Douglas Adams
  • I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done.
    – Stephen Wright
  • It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.
    – Robert Benchley
  • It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word.
    – Andrew Jackson
  • Most writers can write books faster than publishers can write checks.
    – Richard Curtis
  • No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly; and this self–deceit is yet stronger with respect to the offspring of the mind.
    – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
  • There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
    –Somerset Maugham
  • Writing a novel is like paddling from Boston to London in a bathtub. Sometimes the damn tub sinks. It's a wonder that most of them don't.
    – Stephen King
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    – Chang–rae Lee
  • Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.
    –Samuel Johnson