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2020 SAN FRANCISCO

WRITERS CONFERENCE

17th Celebration of Craft, Commerce & Community

February 13-16, 2020 at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco

Speakers:    *Walter Mosley*Jonathan Maberry    *Brooke Warner

Plus authors, editors, publishers & literary agents from New York, L.A. & S.F. Bay Area

Visit www.SFWriters.org to get event/contest/scholarship details, access online registration for the free SFWC Newsletter.

Considerable Early Discounts and Special Room Rates!

2019 SAN FRANCISCO

WRITING FOR CHANGE

A one-day conference for all writers who want to change the world through their writing.

September 14th at the Unitarian Center Details and registration:

www.SFWritingforChange.org

SFWC/San Francisco Writers Foundation is a nonprofit organization

Behind the Scenes of a Writing Conference

When you attend a writing conference, you see a facade that took months or longer to make up. Plenty is going on behind the scenes. Let’s take a look behind the curtain.

The day starts long before attendees walk through the door. Registration is set up, signs posted and tables arranged. Logistics ( 后 勤 ) all fall on the conference organizers. For example, the annual conference I direct in San Francisco (see the poster above) is a simple one-day conference that takes more than eight months to put together and around 15 staff and volunteers to manage. Larger multi-day conferences have even more going on behind the scenes.

Overseeing it all is the conference director, a conductor who typically works with committee directors to make sure everything runs smoothly. Over the course of the conference, staffers make sure everything stays on track. It’s not unusual for staff to walk miles in a day and go without meals.

Conference staff and volunteers are always behind the curtains making sure your experience is perfect. The next time you attend a well-run writing conference, take a moment to thank staff and volunteers for their devotion. They deserve all the praise they can get because without them, there would be no conference.

1.The underlined word facade refers to  ___.

A.the effort behind the scenes

B.the scenes visible to the public

C.the literary masterpiece on display

D.the material distributed at the meeting

2.What’s the latest time to start to arrange for the one-day conference in San Francisco?

A.July, 2019. B.March, 209.

C.September, 2019 . D.January, 2019.

3.According to the writer, the attendees of the 2020 San Francisco Writers Conference should praise the ____ .

A.three speakers B.authors and editors

C.staff and volunteers D.corporate sponsors