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Writing articles on conferences
Me and the boss want to cover conferences this year. We attended Wikimania last year and discovered a great project there that we went on to write a few articles on.
However, does anyone know of a good article or have any advice on how to approach getting commissionings before attending a conference?
Also, does anyone know of any good resources that advertise up and coming conferences? As the boss writes on a vast array of topics an all in one solution would be great but I doubt that exists.
What are your experiences of conferences?
Comments
Have you searched for your previous thread to see if there were any answers on there?
If you're thinking of targeting events for writers, it's unlikely a writing mag will cover anything other than big events - like the London Book Fair (which Writing Mag did via an article by an attendee). Pieces about residential courses and events are similarly written.
Local literary festivals will only have limited interest - depending on who attends. The Purbeck Lit Fest in February is being supported by Writers' Forum who are publishing the winning story in a comp run by the festival. But WF are a Dorset-based mag and the editor lives in the area, so he won't pay anyone to write content. Dorset Life (nothing to do with the Archant group of 'county' magazines) might run something, but their content is very localised and if the editor needed something but didn't have a contributor to provide some copy, he'd drive the ten miles to the festival's base and do it himself.
I don't know how any writer can 'specialise' in these events - you need to pick your specialty and then locate associated events. You could do that via magazines about the subjects - but if there's a magazine, there's already writers that are ahead of you.