Western Writers of America
2021 Convention Schedule
Embassy Suites
4705 Clydesdale Parkway
Loveland, CO
June 16-19, 2021
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
Manager’s Reception for Embassy Suites Hotel Guests
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
8 a.m.: Breakfast for Embassy Suites Hotel Guests
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 a.m.: Breakfast for Embassy Suites Hotel Guests
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
Manager’s Reception for Embassy Suites Hotel Guests
7 – 9 p.m.: Homestead Dinner and Auction (Ticket required)
9:30 p.m. – close: Roundup Room music
Saturday, June 19, 2021
8 a.m.: Breakfast for Embassy Suites Hotel Guests
10 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.: Vendors.
8:30 – 10 a.m.: General Business Meeting. All members invited.
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
Manager’s Reception for Embassy Suites Hotel Guests
7 – 9:30 p.m.: Spur Award Banquet (Ticket required)
9:30 p.m. – close: Roundup Room music
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All announcements regarding the schedule made prior to, or at the convention in Loveland, take precedence over this preliminary schedule.
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