While we can’t be together,
our stories still connect us.
Two days of education, art, and community.
Can’t make it to the conference but want to hear all the amazing talks and presentations? You’re in luck! With the recorded pass, you will be provided with a full recording of both days of the conference, our digital goodie bag, AND the Authorpreneur Guide!
Virtual Writers Conference May 1st & 2nd, 2021
- in celebration of and focused on mental health awareness month -
How to become a working author shouldn’t be a secret, because creativity is coping, and your mental health relies on it.
Join writers, industry professionals, literary agents, and editors for a virtual writers conference that’s a little different than what you’re used to.
Admission includes:
Admission to both days of the conference
TWO in-person (virtual) literary agent pitches (SOLD OUT - discounted tickets now in effect)
Digital goodie bag, courtesy of many great mental health advocacy and writers’ organizations
An opportunity to showcase your own work during the conference and across our platforms
The knowledge and support you need to become a working author
What We’re About
Accessibility. Transparency. Community.
A NOTE FROM AMANDA
As a writer, editor, and book coach, I’ve long envisioned a better way for writers to support themselves using their craft, while acknowledging that an active writing practice is good for our mental health. In that pursuit, I’ve spent my career creating a one-stop shop for writers who want to be working authors, providing everything from content creation to production and design to publishing and marketing tools. Because your dreams should be attainable. Yes, working authors do exist. Yes, there is a path to your success, and it shouldn’t cost you a paycheck.
ACCESSIBILTY
Here are some questions. Why does every writers conference cost $3982759.49? Who decided the knowledge at these conferences is so sacred that barely any writers can afford it? Why do you have to pay to pitch an agent in-person when you can do it over email for free? Why doesn’t the ticket price include lunch? Why does it cost so much to not be a starving artist?
I spent the first half of my career attending writers conferences across the country, and while they were (sometimes) informative, they were boring. Great people. Lame hotel conference rooms. Exorbitant prices. And guess what? They’re charging even more for their virtual conferences in the midst of a global pandemic. No thanks.
The Authorpreneur Conference will provide you with the same knowledge and information as every other writers conference PLUS some (seriously, check out our schedule). You also get 2 free agent pitches with admission.
Your dreams should be affordable.
TRANSPARENCY
As a book coach, I’ve spent my career building a unique one-stop shop for writers where they can find professional guidance from content creation to production and design through publishing and book marketing. The Authorpreneur Conference won’t be any different! Bring your questions - all of them.
With purchase of admission, you will receive the Authorpreneur Guide©, which contains the details of my personal book coaching program, helping writers become working authors, whether they choose to self-publish their book or seek out traditional publishing.
How to become a working author shouldn’t be a secret.
COMMUNITY
Tired of being talked at? Want to find your tribe of like-minded writers? Want to showcase YOUR writing at THIS conference?
Every attendee will have the opportunity to schedule a time during our Storytelling Sessions to take the (virtual) stage and read us their work. You can tell us a story, The Moth style, or recite a piece of prose, or read us a poem, or show us that secret performance dance you developed in quarantine. We’re here for all of it. We’re here to support you, and to spread the word about you!
Being a working artist shouldn’t be lonely.
Forge Your Path
Authorpreneur Conference (Virtual) Admission
Join us May 1st & 2nd for a unique and creative one-of-a-kind experience.
Admission includes TWO 10-minute agent pitches (SOLD OUT - discounted tickets now in effect).
Want a professional critique of the first 5 pages of your book? Available at checkout! Limited spots available.
About the Founder
AMANDA is an internationally recognized editor, writer, book coach, and chief architect and advisor for many women authorpreneurs. She started her career as an associate editor for the Oyez Review in Chicago, and has studied under a number of industry titans, including Stuart Dybek and Melissa Pritchard. An award-winning writer herself and publishing industry expert, Amanda has done it all from freelance to copy editing to content editing to ghostwriting and book coaching to previously serving as Editor-in-Chief for One Idea Press. Amanda specializes in helping writers realize their authentic voice and thrive as working authors.
Amanda’s work has also been widely published and featured, including in Barzakh Magazine, TEDxWomenPittsburgh, ACA/PCA, Pittsburgh in the Round, and WHIRL Magazine. She was the recipient of Pittsburgh Magazine’s 40Under40 award, and is the co-founder of Pittsburgh’s first premier writers conference, Pitch, Publish, Promote.
Amanda is also the host of Write to Heal workshops, where she helps people connect and heal through the power of storytelling. Before becoming a professional writer, Amanda worked in the mental healthcare system for ten years, teaching adolescent survivors of trauma how to take control of their narrative. Amanda continues this work through her writing, workshops, the School of Writers, and as a publisher.
Amanda is the author of Blue Rooms, a book of poetry that was adapted for the stage and received with critical acclaim. Amanda believes in creating experiences out of Art, and is currently in progress on her second poetry collection and its supporting experiential event, as well as her women’s fiction novel, Lionfish.
