Scrib Fest presents events that are informative, enriching, engaging, and fun! for attendees.

Once your event is confirmed, it must be executed as described in your submission. Participants who fail to execute their accepted event as described may forfeit participation in future conferences.

SCRiB LAB reserves the right to reject any event if one or more of its participants fails to meet the guidelines or go against our community values. Participants who harm others in any way will be uninvited from participation and will forfeit participation in future conferences.

To Consider

Your event* should feature presenters** who are diverse in their professional, cultural, intellectual, personal, and creative backgrounds. As you create your event, consider how anyone attending could benefit. Our attendees have a wide variety of identities and backgrounds, including age, race, gender, ability, experience, career stage, and performance writing genres.

* Event = all type of sessions, including workshops, panels, presentations, discussions, readings, performances, and activities
** Presenter = all types of event participants, including presenters, moderators, panelists, speakers, performers, and hosts

Community Values

SCRiB LAB stands for the following values. As a Scrib Fest presenter, you help represent SCRiB LAB to the community.

• Accountability: taking responsibility for our actions and their consequences, respecting others who do the same

• Community: making space to support, respect, encourage, and connect with our peers

• Experimentation: brainstorming ideas and attempting possibilities

• Joy: sharing and celebrating one another’s successes

• Openness: actively welcoming new people, new knowledge, new ideas, and new experiences
  

Important Dates

• 2/9 - 3/6: submit form about event info

• 3/27: review info on web site for edits

• 4/10: deadline to confirm all info
  

Information You’ll Provide

• contact information for event organizer

• names, bios, photos for all presenters

• title and description of event

• confirmation that the event will be 60 minutes long
  

Types of Events

• Panels

  • 1 moderator + 2 - 4 panelists

  • specific topic that all participants are experts in

  • includes Q&A with attendees

• Workshops & Presentations

  • 1 - 2 presenters

  • specific topic with interactive exercises

  • can have visual aids or handouts

• Discussion

  • 1 - 2 speakers

  • open conversation with attendees about specific topic

  • more casual than a panel, may or may not have exercises to do like a workshop

• Reading

  • 1 - 4 writers or performers

  • read work out loud and discuss a topic about the work

  • can include Q&A with attendees

• Performance

  • up to 4 performers

  • rehearsed show, either in form of staged reading or production

  • may or may not include follow-up discussion

• Activity

  • 1 facilitator or coordinator

  • community-focused activity for all attendees

  • either facilitated or self-guided involvement
    

Compensation

• $50/session/presenter

• waived registration to the full conference