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Places I’ll be speaking in 2012
European Writers Association Annual Conference May 7-9 in Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria
Brighton, England May 31 at the Earth and Stars. RSVP required.
London, England June 2 at the Mad Hatter Hotel.
Craig, Alaska August 13-21. Venues TBA.
Crossroads Writers Conference October 5-7 in Macon, Georgia
Want me to come visit your group, conference, or festival? Drop me a line with your dates and we’ll talk!
Bus photo by Beccapie.
“Smart, hilarious, and life-changing, in writing and beyond.”
Hi there! I’m booking summer, fall, and winter 2012 speaking engagements.
I love giving talks that make people laugh and feel inspired. I want everyone to walk out of the room knowing they have the power to do amazing things.
I can give a variety of talks, and will customize them to make sure they’re useful and entertaining to your audience. Potential topics include the curious benefits of high-velocity writing, surviving the novel revision process, unlocking happiness through creativity, National Novel Writing Month, kids and teens as writers, and the process of founding and growing a next-generation nonprofit.
I’ve given keynotes and talks at the Writers Digest Conference, O’Reilly Tools of Change For Publishing Conference, the Fall for the Book Festival, Facebook, Microsoft, MIT, Stanford University, and many other fine institutions.
If you’d like me come give a talk at your festival, conference, university, company, or family reunion, please drop me a line with your event date and budget. We’ll get the ball rolling!
Chris
Chris Baty founded National Novel Writing Month in 1999, and oversaw the annual writing challenge’s growth from 21 friends to more than 250,000 writers in 90 countries. In 2005, Chris co-founded National Novel Writing Month’s Young Writers Program, which now provides a free creative writing adventure to thousands of K-12 classrooms every fall. Two years after the launch of the Young Writers Program, Chris co-founded Script Frenzy, where writers of all ages can find the encouragement and terrifying deadlines they need to pen a screenplay or stage play.
Since January 2012, Chris has been working as a full-time writer and speaker. Chris is the author of No Plot? No Problem! and the co-author of the Ready, Set, Novel workbook. His freelance writing has appeared in the Washington Post, Afar magazine, the Believer, and Lonely Planet guidebooks. His quest for the perfect cup of coffee is never-ending and will likely kill him someday.
