O-oh say can you see… the fun Ch1Con online events we have coming your way this month!
Saturday, July 8th from 7:00 to 10:00 PM Eastern: Virtual Write-In
Join us to write (and procrastinate) at any point that you’re available during the evening. Link to the chat room: http://us20.chatzy.com/12264013236271
Thursday, July 27th at 8:00 PM Eastern: Twitter Chat
The topic of our Twitter chat this month is killing characters. Join us using #Ch1Con to answer our questions and talk with other young writers!
– The Ch1Con Team
P.S. Don’t forget to register for the 2017 conference! You have ONE MONTH LEFT to register before the late rate period begins. Don’t miss out!
It’s June, which means HAPPY SUMMER! Here’s the schedule of Ch1Con online events coming your way this month.
Thursday, June 15th at 8:00 PM Eastern: Twitter Chat
The topic of our Twitter chat this month is sidekicks. Join us using #Ch1Con to answer our questions and talk with other young writers!
Saturday, June 24th from 7:00 to 10:00 PM Eastern: Virtual Write-In
Join us to write (and procrastinate) at any point that you’re available during the evening. Link to the chat room: http://us23.chatzy.com/37796686721615
May the Fourth be with you! Here’s the schedule of Ch1Con online events coming your way this month.
Thursday, May 11th at 8:00 PM Eastern: Twitter Chat
The topic of our Twitter chat this month is love interests. Join us using #Ch1Con to answer our questions and talk with other young writers!
Saturday, May 27th from 7:00 to 10:00 PM Eastern: Virtual Write-In
Join us to write (and procrastinate) at any point that you’re available during the evening. Link to the chat room: http://us23.chatzy.com/32693865293519.
– The Ch1Con Team
P.S. Don’t forget to enter our writing contest! Winners get e-published (and conference discounts!).
P.P.S. Our spring blog tour is ongoing! Don’t miss out on all the awesome giveaways (including signed books and critiques)!
Happy March! Here’s the schedule of Ch1Con online events coming your way this month.
Thursday, March 9th at 8:00 PM Eastern: Twitter Chat
The topic of our Twitter chat this month is antagonists. Join us using #Ch1Con to answer our questions and talk with other young writers!
Saturday, March 18th from 7:00 to 10:00 PM Eastern: Virtual Write-In
Join us to write (and procrastinate) at any point that you’re available during the evening. Link to the chat room: http://us22.chatzy.com/99394866141839.
– The Ch1Con Team
P.S. Keep an eye out for a fun, new opportunity here on our website soon!
The Ch1Con team is excited to announce the 2017 Ch1Con Yule Ball!
The Ch1Con Yule Ball is in no way associated with the Yule Ball from the Harry Potter series, our queen J.K. Rowling, or Warner Brothers. We just really like this GIF.
The Yule Ball will be an hour-and-a-half long live video panel taking place Saturday, February 11th from 8:00 to 9:30 PM EST. It’ll feature young authors, answering YOUR questions about writing and the publishing process. (Oh, and did we mention that there will be all kinds of awesome giveaways too?)
Our amazing panelists are:
Christine Lynn Herman
Christine Lynn Herman was born in Manhattan, but grew up in Japan and Hong Kong. She came back to the United States to study at the University of Rochester, where she traded out a subtropical climate for harsh, snowy winters and an Honors English degree of questionable real-world value.
She returned to NYC post-grad to attend the Columbia Publishing Course. Currently, she works as a literary assistant at Sanford J. Greenburger Associates by day and writes YA novels by night, and is represented by Kelly Sonnack of the Andrea Brown Literary Agency.
Hannah Moskowitz
Hannah Moskowitz wrote her first story, about a kitten named Lilly on the run from cat hunters, for a contest when she was seven years old. It was disqualified for violence. Her first book, BREAK, was on the ALA’s 2010 list of Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults, while her novel GONE, GONE, GONE (2012) was a Stonewall Honor Recipient and TEETH (2013) earned starred reviews from Booklist, Kirkus, and The Bulletin. NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED was named the Bisexual YA Book of the Year in 2016 by the Bisexual Book Awards. She lives in Maryland.
Joan He
Joan He started out in art – the pencil-sketching, oil-painting kind of art – only to quickly discover the art of the written word. So, here she is now, love undivided. When she’s not trying to balance writing and sophomoring at the University of Pennsylvania (where she’s a Psychology Major), she over-indulges in her love for wombats, Mao Feng tea, and scary anime.
Briana Morgan
Briana Morgan is a YA and NA writer, editor, and blogger who loves dark, suspenseful reads, angst-ridden relationships, and complicated characters. Her interest in Jay Gatsby scares her friends and family. You can find her in way too many places online, eating too much popcorn, reading in the corner, or crying about long-dead literary heroes.
Interested in asking a question? Tweet using #Ch1ConYuleBall and we’ll have the panelists answer as many questions as we have time for!
Interested in entering a giveaway? We’ll announce the giveaway prizes and post Rafflecopter raffles for you to enter throughout the Yule Ball! (And we think you’re going to be pretty excited about these prizes. So many books!)
And most importantly: interested in watching the Ch1Con Yule Ball? You’ll be able to watch the panel live on our Youtube channel at www.youtube.com/chapteroneconference!
I’m also conveniently embedding the video in the post below:
So: join us Saturday, February 11 from 8:00 to 9:30 PM EST for the second annual Ch1Con Yule Ball!
(Maybe there’ll even be some awkward dancing involved.)
Looks like it’s Fe-brrr-uary! (Sorry. We’ll see ourselves out.) Here’s the schedule of Ch1Con online events coming your way this month.
Saturday, February 18th from 7:00 to 10:00 PM Eastern: Virtual Write-In
Join us to write (and procrastinate) at any point that you’re available during the evening. Link to the chat room: http://us22.chatzy.com/96615673582883.
Thursday, February 23rd at 8:00 PM Eastern: Twitter Chat
The topic of our Twitter chat this month is writing cliches. Join us using #Ch1Con to answer our questions and talk with other young writers!
– The Ch1Con Team
P.S. Keep an eye out for info on the 2017 Yule Ball and our 2017 conference speaker reveals!
Happy 2017! Here’s the schedule of Ch1Con online events coming your way this month.
Thursday, January 19th at 8:00 PM Eastern: Twitter Chat
The topic of our Twitter chat this month is novels vs. short stories. Join us using #Ch1Con to answer our questions and talk with other young writers!
Saturday, January 28th from 7:00 to 10:00 PM Eastern: Virtual Write-In
Join us to write (and procrastinate) at any point that you’re available during the evening. Link to the chat room: http://us20.chatzy.com/29756799120106
Happy December (aka the Month of a Million Holidays)! Here’s the schedule of Ch1Con online events coming your way this month.
Thursday, December 8th at 8:00 PM Eastern: Twitter Chat
The topic of our Twitter chat this month is revising. Join us using #Ch1Con to answer our questions and talk with other young writers!
Saturday, December 17th from 11:00 AM to 11:00 PM Eastern: Virtual Write-a-Thon
It’s back! Join us for the 2016, twelve-hour, through-the-day Ch1Con Virtual Write-a-Thon!
A virtual write-a-thon is an event where a bunch of people get together to write a bunch of words, talk about writing, and procrastinate–online. You don’t have to attend for the whole event (only as much as you want to) and you can write whatever you want.
We’ll post a link to the Chatzy chatroom we’ll be hosting the virtual write-a-thon through soon.
Talk to you Thursday!
– The Ch1Con Team
P.S. Keep your eye out for more 2017 conference news, coming soon!
It’s NaNoWriMo!!! (And November. But that’s slightly less exciting.) Here’s the schedule of Ch1Con online events coming your way this month.
Every Saturday in November from 7:00 to 10:00 PM Eastern: Virtual Write-In
Join us to write (and procrastinate) at any point that you’re available during the evening. Link to the chat room: http://us21.chatzy.com/64240259446785
Thursday, November 17th at 8:00 PM Eastern: Twitter Chat
The topic of our Twitter chat this month is–you guessed it–National Novel Writing Month. Join us using #Ch1Con to answer our questions and talk with other young writers!
Boo! It’s October. Here’s the schedule of Ch1Con online events coming your way this month.
Thursday, October 20th at 8:00 PM Eastern: Twitter Chat
The topic of our Twitter chat this month is platform building. Join us using #Ch1Con to answer our questions and talk with other young writers!
Saturday, October 29th from 7:00 to 10:00 PM Eastern: Virtual Write-In
Join us to write (and procrastinate) at any point that you’re available during the evening. Link to the chat room: http://us20.chatzy.com/18298760521341
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