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• Sponsorship for Let's Just Write!

  • Start
    March 21, 2025
  •  
    9:00 AM
  • End
    March 23, 2025
  •  
    4:00 PM
  • Location
    Warwick Allerton Hotel

  Register

  Becoming a sponsor is an opportunity for your organization to encourage and inspire writers of all levels, and to introduce them to the supportive Chicago writing community. Our target audience for this event will draw from our more than 1000 dues-paying members, more than 2000 newsletter subscribers, 8,000 Facebook members and 2,500 Twitter followers. We are a diverse group of all ages, all skill levels and all ethnicities.  

  Let’s Just Write! Chicago Writers Association Conference will take place on March 21-23, 2025 at the Warwick Allerton Hotel, 701 N Michigan Ave, Chicago.

  For the last two years we sold out with 200 attendees. We were named twice as one of the best conferences in the U.S. by The Writer Magazine.

  
  

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• 2025 Let's Just Write! Chicago Writers Association Conference

  • Start
    March 21, 2025
  •  
    6:00 PM
  • End
    March 23, 2025
  •  
    4:00 PM
  • Location
    Warwick Allerton Hotel

  Register

  REGISTRATION WILL OPEN ON OCTOBER 1ST.

  PLEASE NOTE: YOU MUST BE A CWA MEMBER TO ATTEND THE CONFERENCE. IF YOU ARE NOT A MEMBER YOU MAY JOIN HERE FOR ONLY $25/YEAR.

  We will welcome you on Friday evening for a reception with food, cocktails and conversation, and our live lit event.

  Then you'll enjoy two days of presentations, workshops,  panels, pitch sessions, master classes...and more. Your registration fee includes the banquet dinner on Saturday evening at the hotel. 

  The conference will take place at the Warwick Allerton, 701 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago, IL 60611.

  PITCH SESSION AND MASTER CLASS REGISTRATION WILL OPEN AFTER THE FIRST OF THE YEAR.

  Visit our website for more information and to meet our speakers. 

  NOTE: Agent/publisher pitch session will be available for $25 each. You will be able to sign up for as many as you like.

  Non-members: Join CWA for only $25/year.

  Registration will close on March 14, 2025 or until sold out. There will be no same day registration.

  Registration for the pitch sessions will open at a later date.

  Warwick Allerton Hotel:  CLICK HERE to reserve your room under our block at the rate of $129/night. 

  REFUND POLICY: We have a no refund policy. If you are unable to attend you may transfer your registration to someone on the waitlist (assuming we have one, and we are happy to assist in that regard) or someone of your choosing. We can move your registration to next year for a service fee of $300.

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