Our 10th anniversary book is NOW available on Amazon.com. 50% of the profits will be donated to the CCA Creative Writing Club so that future students can continue to attend the conference for FREE! The rest of the profits will be donated to a 501c non-profit in San Diego. We are offering this book at a special price for the duration of the conference - check out stories from some of your favorite authors as well as past conference attendees! Your purchase would be greatly appreciated!
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REGISTRATION TO CCA'S 10th ANNUAL WRITERS' CONFERENCE
IS NOW OPEN!
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We are excited to announce CCA's 10th Annual Writers' Conference
for
High School and Middle School Students
will be held online in 2021.
We will have 4 sessions:
Feb 20 and 21 and Mar 6 and 7, 2021
Meet Three of our Keynote speakers:
Gretchen McNeil is the author of several young adult novels for Balzer + Bray including POSSESS, 3:59, RELIC, I’M NOT YOUR MANIC PIXIE DREAM GIRL, GET EVEN, GET DIRTY, and TEN, as well as the horror/comedy novels #MURDERTRENDING, #MURDERFUNDING, and #NOESCAPE for Disney/Freeform. Her next novel DIG TWO GRAVES, pitched as a YA Strangers on a Train, hits shelves in March 2022. Ten: Murder Island, the film adaptation of TEN starring China Anne McClain premiered on Lifetime in 2017, and GET EVEN and GET DIRTY have been adapted as the series Get Even for BBC and Netflix. Series 1 premiered in 2020.
Gretchen McNeil
Get Even, based on my novels GET EVEN and GET DIRTY is now streaming on Netflix! Watch the trailer HERE.
Gretchen McNeil
Get Even, based on my novels GET EVEN and GET DIRTY is now streaming on Netflix! Watch the trailer HERE.
American poet, novelist, and children’s author Benjamin Alire Sáenz was born and raised in New Mexico. He earned a BA in Humanities and Philosophy from St. Thomas Seminary in Denver, Colorado, studied theology at the University of Louvain in Louven, Belgium, and was a priest in El Paso, Texas for a few years before leaving the order. He returned to school, earning an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Texas at El Paso and studying in PhD programs at the University of Iowa at Stanford University, where he was awarded a Wallace Stegner Fellowship and, under the guidance of Denise Levertov, completed his first book of poems, Calendar of Dust (1991).
Sáenz is the author of four additional poetry collections: Dark and Perfect Angels (1995), winner of the Southwest Book Award; Elegies in Blue (2002); Dreaming the End of War (2006); and The Book of What Remains (2010). His short stories collections are Flowers for the Broken (1992) and Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club (2012), which won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction (and was the first Latino author to win the award), the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction, and was named a Stonewall Honor Book by the American Library Association. He has authored several books for children and novels for adults and young adults, including Names on a Map (2008) and Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (2012), winner of the Lambda Literary Award, the Stonewall Book Award, an Amelia Elizabeth Walden Award honor, the Pura Belpré Narrative Medal for Latino fiction, and the Michael L. Printz Award honor for Young Adult fiction.
Sáenz lives and works in El Paso, Texas.
Sáenz is the author of four additional poetry collections: Dark and Perfect Angels (1995), winner of the Southwest Book Award; Elegies in Blue (2002); Dreaming the End of War (2006); and The Book of What Remains (2010). His short stories collections are Flowers for the Broken (1992) and Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club (2012), which won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction (and was the first Latino author to win the award), the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction, and was named a Stonewall Honor Book by the American Library Association. He has authored several books for children and novels for adults and young adults, including Names on a Map (2008) and Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (2012), winner of the Lambda Literary Award, the Stonewall Book Award, an Amelia Elizabeth Walden Award honor, the Pura Belpré Narrative Medal for Latino fiction, and the Michael L. Printz Award honor for Young Adult fiction.
Sáenz lives and works in El Paso, Texas.
Kiersten White is the New York Times bestselling, Bram Stoker Award-winning, and critically acclaimed author of many books, including the And I Darken trilogy, the Slayer series, the Camelot Rising trilogy, and her upcoming adult debut, Hide. Her books have been published in over twenty territories, and her novel The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein is currently in development with Sony Pictures Television. Kiersten lives with her family in San Diego, where she can regularly be found pressing her hands against the glass of her back door, furtively whispering I love you to her deeply ambivalent tortoise, Kimberly.
