Writing Conference Season Is Here: Begin with Prayer

by Ginny Cruz, MPA, PT

The 2025 writers' conference season is here. Some of you may be pondering whether to attend, while others may feel led to a conference but are unsure which one. Let me encourage you to ask God for your answers, whatever your circumstances.

I have written since 2007. His call to write was clear, but the content and the direction were out of focus. Over time, having many submissions critiqued by my Word Weavers groups and attending conferences where I felt like a fish out of water, my audience and purpose have come into focus. Without the relationships with writers I met at conferences and critique groups, my reach and impact would likely be much smaller.

Dipping the Quill Deeper—Words and Writings

by Eva Marie Everson

If you follow me at all, if you know only a little about me, you may know that my favorite devotional book is A Guide to Prayer for Ministers and Other Servants, compiled and edited by Rueben P. Job and Norman Shawchuck. Reading from it, and underlining those words that resonate best within me, is a part of my early morning routine. I also read from this book often as a part of my Word Weavers International private Facebook group monthly devotion. 

Dipping the Quill Deeper—The Value of a Critique Group

by Eva Marie Everson @EvaMarieEverson

In March 1997, five Christian writers gathered around a table in Longwood, Florida with one goal in mind: to become better writers. We wanted to be the iron that sharpened iron by use of honest critique that included “what works” as well as “what needs to be improved upon.”