The 2024 Storymakers Conference will be held at the Utah Valley Convention Center in Provo, UT on May 9-11th, 220 West Center Street, Suite 200.

• In person $285
• Virtual $185

Registration for the 2025 conference opens on January 17th, 2025 at 7 AM MT.

Registrants of the conference must be 16 years of age in order to participate. We encourage young writers to consider the following conferences: Teen Author Boot Camp and The Teen Writer’s Conference, all held annually in Utah. Please let us know if we can add a local teen conference to this list!

Infants that can be cared for quietly and without disruption to other attendees may attend with a parent. Other children are not welcome. We hope you understand. We love children. We are a committee full of mothers and fathers. But preserving the learning environment of our conference for all paying attendees is paramount. We appreciate your willingness to respect the experience of others by leaving your children at home.

Please visit the Cancellation Policy page for more information.

You can find all the information about the first chapter contest on the website HERE.

No. The conference is put on by the guild, but any interested writer is welcome to register and attend.

No. The Storymakers Conference is open to all writers. We offer classes for beginning writers to expert writers.

Lunch on Friday and Saturday, and a snack on Thursday (for Thursday Workshop attendees), Friday, and Saturday.

Please email us with your allergy ASAP.

Of course! You’ll recognize us by the different color lanyards of our name badges.

We have switched our registration portal to Cvent. If you have any trouble registering, our registration team is more than happy to help!

Yes. The in-person ticket will allow you to access virtual classes after the live conference.

Yes, and we tend to fill up fast! Our cap this year is 770 for in person. THERE IS NO CAP FOR ONLINE TICKETS.

If you are a presenter or a member of the Storymakers Author Guild, yes. Your guild discount will be emailed to you a week before registration opens IF you are current on your dues. If you register without using these codes, we cannot refund the difference.

Please check the Storymakers Guild website for application/renewal information. You may wait until you have renewed your dues before you register, however, we do anticipate the conference selling out, so if you wait, wait cautiously.

Yes! Please go here for more information, to apply for yourself, or to donate. Please be aware there is a deadline to apply.

You may cancel if you no longer wish to attend, but unfortunately, Agent/Editor Consults are NON-REFUNDABLE.

Please contact our agent/editor coordinators for specific questions regarding your consult with an agent.

Definitely not! Many conference attendees have faith in common, but our conference is not religious in nature. We’d love to have you!

• For critiques with agents: Please email our special guests coordinators.
• For Intensive Classes: If the intensive class you’d like to sign up for is full, please email our Instructions team with an explanation of which class you’d like to attend.
• For Thursday Workshops: If the workshop you’d like to attend is full, please sign up on our Thursday Workshop Waitlist HERE.

As soon as someone registers (pays) for those sessions, we have people working in the background. Time and effort are put into those slots immediately. We very often have MANY cancellations in the final couple of weeks before the conference – after our committee members have worked hard on the schedule, and adding new people causes issues for registration. Our agents travel long distances to our conference, and we need to make it worth their while. Due to the attendees on agent and editor wait lists, we can’t allow an attendee to give their spot to a friend.

Attendees are allowed only ONE pitch consultation unless otherwise authorized by the conference chairs. Intentional violation of this policy will result in a warning, the additional sessions will be deleted from the account and will not be refunded. Further violations may result in the loss of pitch consultation privileges. Be sure to read registration instructions and the agent critique page very carefully.

The Storymakers Facebook Group has you covered. They’ll post links with roommate sign-ups, and once they do, we’ll post the link here.

For newer attendees feeling unsure about attending the conference, we’re offering the services of conference guides. Having a guide means a seasoned attendee will assist you in selecting classes best suited to your interests and needs, save you a spot at meals, and introduce you to other attendees also newer to the Storymakers scene. If this sounds like something you’d like, there’s an option for signing up during registration.

Also be sure to join the Storymakers Conference Facebook Group Page, the Storymakers Ink Facebook Group Page, and/or sign up for the conference newsletter. These resources will tell you everything you need to know about attending the conference, including what to bring and how to get the most out of the conference.

We recommend pasting your most recent Facebook or Twitter avatar to your forehead. Please do not use a stapler. We do not have an EMT on call.