Attention Writerconners

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Because the sign-up post contains a lot of detail in the comments, it is locked to community members only. Now joining the community in no way commits you to coming to any of the events - but if anyone is pimping the August event in their own journal it makes sense for the info to be available un-locked.

So - this is both a reminder of the upcoming event for community members and also a post to which you can link others!

WriterConUK Event 2013.

Dates:

Friday 9th August to Sunday 11th August


Venue:

Ramada Hotel, The Butts, Coventry City Centre.


Membership Cost: £35.

This covers our room hire, refreshments on Saturday and Sunday morning and Saturday afternoon, our private room for Saturday evening dinner (but not the cost of that dinner or other meals) and, of course GOODY BAGS.


Programme:

Full programme will be available closer to the dates, but in outline you can expect; Quiz/Icebreaker, Goody Bags and Introductions on Friday evening.

A full day of talks and workshops by fanfic writers, fan vidders, and fan artists, on Saturday, followed by socialising, and supper*.

More socialising, drawing of the raffle, and AGM on Sunday morning.

A special cocktail menu will be available at the bar just for us, as last year.

*Saturday evening buffet, £19 a head, menu broadly similar to last year's choice of three mains, one without meat or fish, sides, and a choice of two or three sweets. Suggestions from anyone with particular likes/dislikes/allergies could be forwarded to the people in charge.
We should be able to provide wine/pop/juice to accompany the meal at no extra charge.


Intended Audience:

Anyone currently involved with, or wishing to become involved with, the creative side of any fandom as a writer, vidder, artist, beta or reader/reviewer. All levels of experience welcome.


Accommodation:

Members will be responsible for booking their own accommodation.


Details of accommodation at the venue are:

Guest rooms with breakfast, booked mentioning WriterCon, £65 a night single occupancy, £75 double. Free wifi. This is the same charge as last year.

Mike the manager has told us that we can have a 15% discount on any individual food orders while we are there - lunches, bar food etc. \o/

Bookings should be made direct to Ramada Coventry.

You can book by phone. The number is '02476 238 110', ask for Reservations. You will need to quote Writercon UK Event 2013 to ensure the group rate.

Alternatively, you can also book via email to reservations@ramadacoventry.co.uk – again, quote Writercon UK Event 2013 to get the group rate.


Car Parking:

Car parking is usually £4.50 per night, but the hotel have agreed that we can have Free parking.



Please note:

Membership numbers are limited to a maximum of 40. Membership will be on a first- come first-served basis.


How to Register: Please join the community here (or on Dreamwidth if you prefer), and then you can access the sign-up post where you will be asked for some details, and you will find the Paypal button.

For various reasons, we have need of some graphic designs suitable for multiple fandoms. We have gorgeous banners already, thanks to ningloreth, but they would take a lot of ink to print or might smear because they are so beautifully dense with colours.

We're not saying exactly what it's for, except that we think it's something you'll like. It needs to be fairly clear and simple and capable of being printed out in a range of sizes, from full A4 size down to calling-card size. Pretty would be a definite bonus - or striking, if you prefer. It should suggest multiple fandoms in some way, and ideally have "WriterconUK" as text somewhere on it.

We already have one image, created some while back by the delectable kazzy_cee, but we'd like something new, specially for this year, though possibly adaptable for later years too.

You can either post a link to your creation in the comments below, or email the file to me, gill dot othen AT gmail dot com

Have a go, folks. I think you'll enjoy the results!
If we get enough entries, we'll run it as a competition, with an actual poll, and a cocktail as a prize.

It's that time again!

Yes, that time of year when your committee go before you, caps in hands, bearing reminders that Writercon UK is nothing without the presentations and workshops that take place. Well, apart from the cocktails, obviously. And we'd love to hear from anyone who wants to present or run a workshop at this year's Event.

Have you been burning all year to furnish us with knowledge of the arcane arts of using crayons to depict scenes from Game Of Thrones?

Can you convince us that your word-smithery is second to none, by presenting Supernatural in iambic pentameter?

Do your actual-knitted-sock-puppets regularly perform The Hobbit on direct-to-you-tube?

All forms of writing, all the arts, and all the crafts are welcome!

Whether you want to share your experiences, or teach us how, we'll be glad to hear from you!

Feel free to leave a comment or to contact your friendly exec-members direct, and let us know what you'd like to do.

I've changed the date on the icons, but I've lost the .upx files for the banners and so can't edit the text on the originals, so I've made new(ish) ones. The last banner is -- um -- self-indulgent, but if you'd like one showing a particular fandom, let me know...



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This afternoon I went to the Ramada and paid our deposit.

This means:



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Feel free to pimp this widely. All welcome - we all become friends, but we don't do cliques.

I went to the Ramada today to arrange our booking. It appears they have a long-standing "first of the month" booking for "our" rooms for the Saturday afternoon.

Members voted for the first weekend in August back when we ran the poll. (That had already been booked by the Enemy Group even then. My bad for not checking first - many apologies.)

Our options are find a new hotel, try to force the Ramada to change their minds by threatening to find a new hotel, or go for the following weekend, the 9th-11th August.

Poll #1893669 Vote for the options that apply best.
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 14

What should we do about the hotel?

View Answers

Find a new hotel in the area
0 (0.0%)
try to force Ramada to give us priority
0 (0.0%)
Go for the 9th-11th August instead
12 (92.3%)
I don't mind - I will come regardless
1 (7.7%)
I can only manage the first weekend
0 (0.0%)
I can't manage either weekend, so I don't mind
0 (0.0%)
Ticky box has a suggestion in the comments
0 (0.0%)

OK, people. It's now clear that for a variety of reasons today's Mini-meet in London is the opposite of a happening thing.

This is your Official Announcement of the Postponing Till It Can Be A Happening Thing.

There will be some sort of mini-get together in the early(ish) New Year, which will be announced as soon as everyone's recovered from the Festive Season, but in the meantime I'm sure you'll all join us in sending our hope that brutti_ma_buoni's father recovers fully and soon.

As brutti_ma_buoni is no longer able to attend or organise the proposed Sat 1st Dec mini-meet in London, can we have a quick show of hands from those who were still planning to attend?

Please make it clear in your comment if you had already made arrangements to be in London for the mini-meet.

If enough folk are still interested we can rustle up a table somewhere. If not, we'll postpone till the New Year.

If no one responds in the comments by 1am Saturday, we'll assume the mini-meet is off for now, so it's important to get the message out. Please spread the word to other writercon_uk members.

Guys, I'm sure it's been obvious that I'm not on top of arranging a 1 December meeting since posting a few weeks ago - I'm really, really not, and I should have said it here before now. My Dad's been quite ill for some time and I'm spending next weekend at the parents' again.

There was quite a bit of interest and if anyone has made plans to come to London for the evening, I'd be happy to help book a table that meets what most of you wanted, set up a meeting point etc. But I can't come along.

I really apologise for letting this slip so badly. It seems like it's not been our autumn for meeting up.