Registration will close soon for the 2015 Seaside Writers Conference, a weeklong event put on by the Cultural Arts Alliance, Seacoast Collegiate High School, Seaside Neighborhood School and the Seaside Institute.

The conference will be held at the beautiful beachside location of Seaside from May 11 through May 17, 2015. Registration closes May 5.

This year, the headlining author will be New York Times bestseller Jacquelyn Mitchard, the author of nine novels for adults, including the her award-winning The Deep End of the Ocean; a memoir; and 12 books for young adults and children.

The Seaside Writers Conference is an annual gathering of creative writers from all over the nation. Award-winning writers in poetry and fiction and screenwriting offer a full week of intensive writing workshops, one-day seminars, school outreach programs, and social events.  This event gives beginning, intermediate, and advanced writers the opportunity to celebrate writing, network with other writers, and hone their craft. Seminars are also hosted by professional editors and literary agents who offer one-on-one consultations.

All participants who pay the full conference tuition fee will be able to take part in all daily activities, while those paying a la carte pricing will have the pick of which classes and workshops they would like to attend.

Journalist and novelist Mitchard’s first novel, The Deep End of the Ocean, was the inaugural selection of the Oprah Winfrey Book Club and was later adapted for a feature film, as was her novel Still Summer.  At the conference she will be joined by core faculty members; novelist Matt Bondurant, author of The Wettest County in the World, The Night Swimmer, and The Third Translation; and poet Seth Brady Tucker, author of Mormon Boy and We Deserve the Gods We Ask For.  Agents and editors include Melissa Flashman of Trident Media and Roger D. Hodge, author of The Mendacity of Hope and editor at the Oxford American.

All events take place in the Seaside Academic Village at 168 Smolian Circle in Seaside.

For more details and to register, click here.