James River Writers

Building community by connecting and inspiring writers and readers in central Virginia. Join the conversation with our hashtag for this year's annual conference, October 16-18, 2015 #JRW15

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Writers use their words to educate, inspire, and entertain. James River Writers exists as a reminder. If you engaged with any of our events such our Annual Conference and monthly Writing Show, please consider making a donation. If your writing life is richer because of James River Writers, please do what you can to keep the inspiration going. Your gift will ensure that we reach not only writers of diverse experience levels but all those with a love for and belief in the power of the written word. It will bring engaging new speakers to our stage for the Writing Show and our 15th annual conference, and it will allow us to connect with more partners in our community. We wouldn’t be here without you, and your support in any amount cheers us on! To donate, go to this link (also in our profile) now: http://www.jamesriverwriters.org/how-you-can-help/donate #rvawrites #rvawriters #rva #rvaarts #amwriting #writersofinstagram #writing #writer #jrw16 #jrw17

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Dr. Neal Hall delivered a powerful open to the last day of our annual conference on Sunday. His time on stage testified to the power of the written word. We were honored to have him back for JRWC 2016. ・・・ Repost from @leilagaskin ・・・ Dr. Neal Hall ( @surgeonpoet )preparing for the opening of the 2nd day of the @jamesrvrwriters conference. #poetry #jrw16 #writing (at Greater Richmond Convention Center)

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Windsor is grumpy, because the conference is over. Erica Orloff put on a great conference and is passing her conference tiara to Leila Gaskin, the chair for next year's conference. #JRW16 #JRW17 #rvawrites #rva #anwriting #amtired #dragonsofinstagram (at Greater Richmond Convention Center)

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The Agent Dating Game is under way with our first agent Gemma Cooper from the Bent Agency. #JRW16 #rvawrites #amwriting #literaryagent #agentdatinggame (at Greater Richmond Convention Center)

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Jason Tesauro is in the house and getting some pointers from Windsor, the Grumpy Dragon, to light it up at our first ever Agent Dating Game! It's gonna be groovy, baby. Yeah! #JRW16 #rvawrites #rva #literaryagent #amwriting #dragonsofinstagram (at Greater Richmond Convention Center)

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Windsor took advantage of JRW's one-on-one meetings to spend some time with literary agent Gemma Cooper from the Bent Agency and talk about their times living in London. #JRW16 #rva #rvawrites #amwriting #dragonsofinstagram #london #literaryagent (at Greater Richmond Convention Center)

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Windsor found a perfect place to perch, hanging out with sci-fi author Gini Koch. #rva #rva #rvawrites #amwriting #dragonsofinstagram (at Greater Richmond Convention Center)

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Windsor is making sure all the pages are in order for our First Pages panel which starts in just 30 minutes. #JRW16 #rva #rvawrites #amwriting #dragonsofinstagram (at Greater Richmond Convention Center)

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The Grumpy Dragon is checking out the JRW bookstore to admire the book that has two stories with him in it. Vanity, thy name is Windsor. #JRW16 #rva #rvawrites #amwriting #dragonsofinstagram #shortstories (at Greater Richmond Convention Center)

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This foggy morning has Windsor missing his former home of London, but not enough to fly back and miss Day Two of the James River Writers Conference. #JRW16 #rva #rvawrites #amwriting #dragonsofinstagram (at Greater Richmond Convention Center)

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Windsor, wake up! It's Day Two of the James River Writers Conference. We promise he'll be there as soon as someone risks waking the dragon. #JRW16 #rvawrites #rva #amwriting #amsleeping #amsnoring #wakeywakey

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Even though mystery writer Brad Parks is happy about being a 2016 Library of Virginia Literary Awards finalist, he still managed to share a grumpy moment with Windsor, the Grumpy Dragon. #JRW16 #rvawrites #rva #amwriting #literaryawards (at Greater Richmond Convention Center)

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Maybe letting Windsor the Grumpy Dragon counsel our attendees wasn't the best idea. #oops #JRW16 #amwriting #rvawrites #rva #thedoctorisin (at Greater Richmond Convention Center)

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Windsor insisted on going to the picture books panel before lunch. #JRW16 #amwriting #rvawrites #rva #picturebook (at Greater Richmond Convention Center)

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I think we know which book Windsor will be buying at this year's James River Writers Conference. #JRW16 #dragonsofinstagram #amwriting #rvawrites #rva #deardragon #joshfunk (at Greater Richmond Convention Center)

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Padma Venkatraman just delivered an incredible description of the spiritual journey of writing. If you aren't here, you've missed something wonderful. #JRW16 #rvawrites #rva #amwriting (at Greater Richmond Convention Center)

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Conference chair Erica Orloff is introducing this year's keynote speaker Padma Venkatraman, author of A Time to Dance. #JRW16 #rvawrites #rva #amwriting #dragonsofinstagram (at Greater Richmond Convention Center)