NC Writers’ Network Announces Spring Conference for Asheville
The North Carolina Writers’ Network Spring Conference is the organization’s signature event, featuring three days of author talks, panels, workshops and literary community.
Registration is now open for the NCWN 2025 Spring Conference. The conference will open on Friday, May 2, with a keynote address by Ron Rash, author of The Caretaker, Serena, and The World Made Straight.
The spring Conference takes place May 2-4, 2025 at the DoubleTree Asheville-Biltmore. The organization’s biannual conferences are hosted in different North Carolina cities each year. The last time the conference took place in Asheville was 2019. The weekend event, designed to deepen meaningful connections among attendees, is a three-day celebration of North Carolina’s literary craft with talks, workshops, panels, and resources.
“Just about everything we offer Network members is in the Spring Conference: the chance to hone your craft, the chance to learn the business, the chance to find or nurture or renew community with other writers,” says Ed Southern, Executive Director.
Each year, the conference addresses two sides of literary craft: the evolving publishing environment for North Carolina writers, as well as craft technique that makes good writing endure through the ages. Rash will be joined on the conference faculty by more than three dozen award-winning and acclaimed writers, editors, and publicists leading classes on the craft and business of writing. Events include: “Got Rhythm?” with Jennifer McGaha to “Author Events” with Gold Leaf Literary, “What Writers Should Know About Small Presses” with Hub City’s Meg Reid to “Let’s Get Weird” with Ross White, “Food for Inspiration” with Ronni Lundy to “Finding Your Audience and Building Your Writing Community” with The Rumpus publisher Alyson Sinclair.
The 2025 Spring Conference also will include the annual Manuscript Mart with agents and editors from leading agencies and publishers, as well as Master Classes in Creative Nonfiction (with Alysia Li Ying Sawchyn), Fiction (with Robert Gipe), and Poetry (with Catherine Carter).
The full schedule, faculty lineup, registration fees, accommodation details, and scholarship information can be found on the website. Registration is now available at ncwriters.org, or by calling 919.308.3228 or 336.293.8844.
