COACHING & CRITIQUE
2025 WRITERS CONFERENCE
Our in-person conference admission ticket includes a free optional twenty-minute coaching or critique appointment with a faculty member. Select a coaching appointment to brainstorm, ask questions, and glean wisdom, OR select a critique appointment to get professional feedback on your writing. Appointments are available on a first-come, first-serve basis.
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During registration, you'll be asked for the following information when selecting a coaching or critique appointment. If you wish to sign-up for an appointment but don't yet know what you'll be submitting or asking about, you may enter TBD in those fields and return later to fill them in using your registration account portal to make changes to your order (no later than Oct 1, 2025).
COACHING
List the topic area you’d like to discuss, such as marketing, website development, audiobooks, business, social media, beginning a novel, etc.
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CRITIQUE
If you wish to bring a manuscript, list your title and genre, provide some contextual information, and outline the type of feedback you are seeking. Print your manuscript excerpt and bring it with you to the conference.
Manuscript should be 1000 words (or fewer) in the following format: Times New Roman, 12 point; double spaced; one-inch margins. Include the title, genre, and author name in the header of the document. Your coach will not review anything longer than this.
NEW FOR 2025
This year, there will be no advance submission of manuscripts for critique; instead, you will bring your printed manuscript excerpt to your appointment. Your coach will spend about the first five minutes of your meeting reading your material. To account for this, we have extended appointments from fifteen to twenty minutes. Questions about appointments? Reach out to coaching@westcoastchristianwriters.com.
When selecting a faculty member for coaching or critique, it is very important that you first review their interests and experience.
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All coaching and critique appointments are scheduled during workshop sessions. But don't worry about missing part of a workshop - the conference recordings are included in your in-person admission ticket. You will be able to choose your time slot during registration. At your scheduled time, check-in at the appointment desk. All appointments take place in the appointment room. ​