WWA INVITES YOU TO
THE 68th ANNUAL WWA CONVENTION
Loveland, CO
Embassy Suites
4705 Clydesdale Parkway
Loveland, CO
June 16-19, 2021
Each year WWA holds its annual convention somewhere in the American West. Members, agents, publishers, editors, and more gather together to talk shop, learn, teach, make connections, renew friendships, and listen to music. Join us!
Reserve Your Room now. A discounted rate for Western Writers of America is available at Embassy Suites, Loveland, CO
Reserve a vendor space: Vendor Registration
For more information contact:
Western Writers of America
271 CR 219
Encampment, WY 82325
wwa.moulton@gmail.com
307-329-8942
2021 Convention Schedule
Wednesday, June 16, 2021
9 a.m. – Noon: WWA Board Meeting
1:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.: Homestead Foundation Board Meeting
3 – 5 p.m.: Registration
Dinner on your own
7:30-9 p.m.: Opening Session – Recognition of 2020 Award Winners and Why Cows Need Cowboys Launch Party
Thursday, June 17, 2021
8 – 11 a.m.: Registration
9:00 – 10 a.m.: Presentation: Book Marketing
10:30 – 11:30 a.m.: Panel: Santa Fe Trail
Lunch on your own
1:30 – 2:30 p.m.: Panel: Author Boot Camp
3 – 4 p.m.: Panel: Nonfiction Focus – Who Owns History
Dinner on your own
4:30 – 9 p.m.: Drive yourself Optional activity: Tour and Dinner at Fort Lancaster Lupton Historic Site.
9:30 p.m. – close: Roundup Room music
Friday, June 18, 2021
8:30 – 11 a.m.: Registration
9 a.m. – 4 p.m.: Vendors
9 – 10 a.m.: Digital Publishing Presentation by Mike Bray, Wolfpack Publishing
Coffee Break Sponsored by WWA Patron and Sustaining Members
10:30 – 11:30 a.m.: Panel: Editor-Agent Roundup
Noon – 2 p.m.: Spur Finalist and Hall of Fame Luncheon and Keynote address by 2021 Owen Wister Award winners W. Michael and Kathleen O’Neal Gear. (Ticket required)
3 – 4:30 p.m.: Packing the West Premiere
7 – 9 p.m.: Homestead Dinner and Auction (Ticket required)
9:30 p.m. – close: Roundup Room music
Saturday, June 19, 2021
8:30 – 10 a.m.: General Business Meeting. All members invited.
10 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.: Vendors.
10:30 – 11:30 a.m.: Panel: Fiction Focus – Writing Series Characters
10:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.: Editor-Agent Interviews
10:30 a.m. – noon: WWA Board Meeting
Lunch on your own
1:30 – 2:30 p.m. Panel: Writing the West in the Age of “Enlightment”
3 – 4 p.m.: Panel: Advice for Novelists: Writing Dialogue
7 – 9:30 p.m.: Spur Award Banquet (Ticket required)
9:30 p.m. – close: Roundup Room music
