OCLS Writers Conference

The annual OCLS Writers Conference will be virtual in 2026!

Make 2026 the year you finish and publish a novel. The OCLS Writers Conference will provide the tools and knowledge you need to reach your writing and publishing goals this year. Authors and publishing professionals will teach workshops on both craft and business topics. 

This conference is free to the public, but registration is required for all attendees. 

Register now.

Please see other upcoming writing workshops at ocls.org/writerscorner.

Schedule

Saturday, January 24

10 a.m. to 6 p.m. (all times Eastern)

Sunday, January 25

12 p.m. to 5 p.m. (all times Eastern)

Conference Faculty (Subject to Change)

Jennie Jarvis

Jennie Jarvis is an award-winning screenwriter, novelist, story consultant, and college educator. Her textbook, Crafting The Character Arc, is used in creative writing classrooms around the world.

Michael Mammay

Michael Mammay is the author of the military sci-fi Planetside series as well as The Misfit Soldier, The Weight of Command, and Generation Ship.

Janice Hardy

Janice Hardy is the award-winning author of the teen fantasy trilogy The Healing Wars from Balzer+Bray/Harper Collins. She also writes the Grace Harper series for adults under the name, J.T. Hardy.

Alli Martin

Alli Martin is a science fiction and alternate history author, as well as a freelance editor. Alli holds an MFA in Fiction from the University of Central Florida, runs the writing group Central Florida Inklings.

Kristen Stieffel

Kristen Stieffel is a writer and freelance editor specializing in speculative fiction. Kristen is a member of the Editorial Freelancers Association, Christian Editor Connection, and American Christian Fiction Writers.

Elle E. Ire

When she isn’t taking shooting lessons, getting mock-kidnapped, or cave swimming with bats, Goldie Award winner Elle Ire writes science fiction romance and paranormal romance featuring kick-butt women who fall in love with each other.

José Pablo Iriarte

José Pablo Iriarte is an award-nominated speculative fiction writer as well as the author of middle grade novels Benny Ramirez and the Nearly Departed and AJ Torres and the Treasure of Captain Grayshark

Lorin Oberweger

Lorin Oberweger is a highly sought-after independent book editor and ghostwriter with almost thirty years experience in publishing. Her company, Free Expressions, offers intensive, deep craft workshops nationwide.

Anjanette Barr

Anjanette Barr is a Literary Agent at Dunham Literary, Inc, representing authors and illustrators for all genres and age categories. She has been working in various branches of the writing and publishing world for over a decade.

Kelly Thomas

Kelly is a literary agent at the Serendipity Literary Agency, a published poet, and a certified copy editor with a bachelor’s degree in English from Pace University. She is a member of New York Women in Film & Television, Women in Film, the Editorial Freelance Association, and the Association of American Literary Agents.

Vicky Weber

Vicky Weber is a bestselling children’s book author, literary agent at Creative Media Agency, and the founder of At Home Author.

Sam Farkas

Sam Farkas is a literary agent and foreign rights associate at Jill Grinberg Literary Management. She worked in the rights division at Penguin where she was involved in major international publishing events before she joined the JGLM team in 2018.

Sandra Proudman

Sandra Proudman is a literary associate at Gallt & Zacker Literary Agency as well as the author of Salvación and the editor of the YA Latinx anthology Relit.

Caridad Pineiro

Caridad Pineiro is a NY Times and USA Today bestselling author with over a million romance novels sold worldwide. She is a founding member of the Liberty States Fiction Writers.