Mark your calendars for those interested in attending the 2014 Gay Romance Northwest Meet-Up conference on September 20, 2014. Registration will open this Saturday, April 26, 2014!
(April 26 Edit! Aaaaand it’s open! Go forth and save your seat!)
How much is registration for GRNW 2014?
Early-bird tickets will be $17.50. That ticket price will go up to the final ticket price in August to $25.
What will happen at GRNW 2014?
GRNW 2014 will be a full day of events, starting in the morning of Saturday, September 20 with workshops, pitch sessions with publishers, and a reader meet-up with games and giveaways.
The main conference will start in the afternoon at 1pm with a keynote address and followed by three panel discussions on different aspects of the genre.
Like last year, after the conference we will have a book festival across the street at the Hotel Monaco. And following the book fest, there will be an after-party for more mingling and also short readings!
It will be a long, but very fun day. We hope you can join us! (And wear comfortable shoes!)
And like last year, we’ll have a free public reading event on the Friday night before the conference as well as more opportunities to meet with other attendees.
How big will GRNW 2014 be?
The main conference space at the Seattle Public Library fits 275 people, so that is our max.
Who is attending GRNW 2014????
Great question! Here are the more than 50 authors planning on attending!
- Astrid Amara
- Talya Andor
- Eric Andrews-Katz
- Cate Ashwood
- David-Matthew Barnes
- Laura Baumbach
- Jove Belle
- Heidi Belleau
- Angela Benedetti
- Sarah Black
- Kade Boehme
- L.C. Chase
- Diana Copland
- Adrianna Dane
- DP Denman
- Megan Derr
- Kim Fielding
- LE Franks
- Stormy Glenn
- Amelia C. Gormley
- Ginn Hale
- Dena Hankins
- Daisy Harris
- David Holly
- Laylah Hunter
- Amber Kell
- Nicole Kimberling
- Morticia Knight
- Lori L. Lake
- Emma Lanner
- Belinda McBride
- Sasha L. Miller
- M.J. O’Shea
- E.E. Ottoman
- Samuel Jarius Pettit
- Jordan Castillo Price
- Radclyffe
- Rick R. Reed
- Devon Rhodes
- Charlie Richards
- Jeffrey Ricker
- EJ Russell
- Tara Spears
- Andrea Speed
- Draven St. James
- Ethan Stone
- Lou Sylvre
- Anne Tenino
- Karis Walsh
- Sheri Lewis Wohl
Check out the GRNW Authors page for more info about all these wonderful writers!
If there anything else going on beside the September conference??
OMG—tons! We have two events this month, more events next month, and more coming soon!
Please check our events page for more info about our upcoming Portland reader meeting on April 27, “The Queer Detective” reading event at the Seattle Public Library on April 30 with Nicole Kimberling, Lori L. Lake, and Lou Sylvre, an event on May 4 in Tacoma with Andrea Speed, the Lambda Literary finalists reading in Seattle with LC Chase on May 9, and more!
Geez, that’s a lot! What is up with GRNW? Are you guys bored?
GRNW is not so much one conference but more a regional movement to better connect local LGBTQ romance authors and readers to each other and to community resources and organizations.
There are so many great reasons why these wonderful books should have a higher profile within popular culture, and our role is to help shepherd these communities, events, readings, and convenings, so more readers can find these awesome works, and more writers can have their voices heard.
As always, GRNW is a completely volunteer-run initiative. Give us a shout-out if you would like to join the movement! We’d love to have you a part of these events! 😀
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