From the President’s Desk – Inspiration and CWCL
Four of the five board members were present at last year’s conference L to R: Ellen Gable Hrkach, Ann Margaret Lewis, Jennifer Fitz, Karina Fabian
For me, it is all of the above. Ideas often pop into my head at all hours of the day and night. Novels, movies, plays, art work, photography can all give me inspiration. For instance, a visit to the art gallery recently sparked three different ideas for future books/stories.
Many CWG members have shared with me that their greatest inspirations and ideas came when they attended either the online conference or the live conference.
Which brings me to the Catholic Writers Conference Live, to be held in conjunction with the Catholic Marketing Network Trade Show just outside of Chicago from July 29th to August 1st. With daily Mass, confessions and adoration, if you need inspiration, this will be the place for you! The theme will be “Perseverance” and confirmed speakers are Lisa Hendey, Gene Wolfe, Cassandra Poppe, Lizzie Velasquez, Claudia Volkman and many others. There will be interesting panels on self-publishing, rejection, action writing and blogging, to name a few.
So…please consider attending! We’d love to meet you! For more information or to register, please click on this link: Catholic Writers Conference Live.
As always, if you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact me president (at) catholicwritersguild.com.
In Christ,
Ellen Gable Hrkach
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In my case if you have a good story you ever reflected like a catholic point of view. This story have to be good, and in relation with your faith respect the conference although i can not assist for being a foreign. I like very much the presence of Gene Wolfe. One of the most important writers in the fiction. I have not the chance to read any book, but i know that it is one of the greatest catholic writers. I was speaking of this topic with my friend Julie Davis. One of my maniac is to find a writer who write epic fantasy like Tolkien. Perhaps Gene Wolfe does not write this fantasy, but i have the feeling that he is near to write. He wrote letters with Tolkien in his yout. I wish i could listen his lecture, sincerely Fonch.
Thanks so much for your comments, Fonch! I wish you were able to attend the conference! Blessings…
For being spanish i believe that i can not attend to the lectures, but thanks for the offering Mrs. Gable and the best president that Catholic writers guild can offer to me, (a catholic writer collector, and reader) it is the catholic literature continue having good health. That the new and the old catholic writers share his experience, and it continue appearing new catholic writers, who continue the good moment of the catholic literature in United States, and of course i send a big hug to my friends Julie Davis, and Elena Maria Vidal. And i believe that it is a pleasure an gift that in this lecture appear a legend like Gene Wolfe. The Wikipedia said about him that he is the Herman Melville of the science fiction, and one of the best writers nowadays. Respect the rest of writers i expect that very early in Spain i heard to speak about them. God bless to everybody and i expected the event was excellent.