In the United States, which are the most popular writing conferences
and how many are in attendance? If that info is not available, then
would you let me know how many people attend writers conferences? In
the hundreds? Or thousands? |
Clarification of Question by
wordsmitten-ga
on
05 Nov 2002 09:49 PST
To clarify this question, I'm looking for the ten most well-attended
writing conferences in the United States. Thanks. (Okay, this is
part of my internship and not a regular homework assignment, but I'm
running into dead ends).
JJ Marino
Intern
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Request for Question Clarification by
leli-ga
on
06 Nov 2002 03:54 PST
Hi JJ
I think other researchers must have found, like me, that this
information is not easily available. Since you too have run into dead
ends, I wonder if you'd be interested in a database I've found which
might be useful. It lists many writers' conferences attended by
hundreds of people, as well as book festivals attended by thousands.
(It also lists small writers' workshops.)
Unfortunately there is no way to search the database by 'number of
attendees' though the majority of entries do give a figure for that.
You can search by state, month and/or 'focus', e.g. fiction,
non-fiction, horror, technical etc.
I started trying to pick out the largest conferences but it would be a
long job - perfectly possible but time-consuming, as there are about
900 conferences listed for the USA.
If you think information about this database would be a suitable
answer to your question, please let me know.
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Clarification of Question by
wordsmitten-ga
on
07 Nov 2002 08:35 PST
Hi
Thank you for letting me know about your database. If it is Shaw's
that you have, that's the dead end I'm talking about. They don't
quantify the information beyond the list of conferences itself, and
I've checked the Library of Congress (they have an online researcher
who is great) but found little in the Census (1998) so I'm starting to
think that the info just isn't "quantified" anywhere. Do you have a
better direction for me to go in?
Best,
JJ
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