Chicago Writers Association (CWA) board member Samantha Hoffman attended writers’ conferences for years and then decided to launch her own with help from other board members and CWA president Randy Richardson. “I knew I wanted to replicate the best features of each of the ones I’d been to,” she says. “We created the conference because we know how motivating it is to be in the company of other writers.”
Let’s Just Write! An Uncommon Writers Conference, now in its third year, focuses on craft and community as they relate to fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Held at the Warwick Allerton Hotel in downtown Chicago, the two-day event includes workshops, panels, and one-on-one meetings with many of the 20-plus presenters.
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