Webinars are held on Tuesdays or Thursdays each month at 7pm ET. Please refer to the list of dates and times below.
Chapter members will receive an email with a link to the webinar via Zoom. The link will also be posted in the ACFW Virginia Facebook Group. When instructors permit, we will make PowerPoint slides available to members under the file tab of the ACFW Virginia Facebook group page as well. Webinars are recorded and accessible for two years for members whose dues are up to date.
As a reminder, each time you attend a live webinar January – September, you will be entered into a drawing for a paid registration fee to our November virtual conference! You’ll also have the chance to win a book chosen by the webinar speaker when you attend live.
If you’re not eligible for Virginia Chapter membership but want to view the webinars, click here to learn about webinar-only access.
Virtual Assistant: Need One? Be One?
Presented by Tammy Karasek
August 19, 2025 @ 7 p.m. EDT
You’re a writer! Yet, now you need to do more than write. The responsibility to build followers may overwhelm you—you may need a Virtual Assistant or VA. A VA can wear many hats from admin to graphic designer and more. I’ll share what I do as a VA for authors and as the BRMCWC Social Media Manager. I’ll give ideas to assist you in your decision to hire an assistant. But wait, do you have skills to offer that others may need? You may be able to make some side-gig money for your writing expenses by becoming a VA!
Tammy Karasek uses humor and wit to bring hope to everyone she meets. Being bullied by her family now drives her passion to encourage and inspire others. No longer defeated, she lives a “Tickled Pink” life knowing there’s a giggle wanting to come out!
Her debut book, Launch That Book, released in November 2023. She’s a writing team member for The Write Conversation, The Write Editing, and Blue Ridge Conference. As The Launch Team Geek, she helps authors launch their books, a Virtual Assistant for authors, and Social Media Manager for the Blue Ridge Mountains Christian Writers Conference. Connect through her website.
Mind Mapping Mayhem: How to Brainstorm and Organize Our Writing Life
Presented by Patricia Tiffany Morris
September 18, 2025 @ 7 p.m. EDT
Take a dive into the various methods to brainstorm and ignite your creativity with eclectic author and artist Patricia Tiffany Morris. We’ll explore mind maps and brainstorming tools, play with color, and simmer ideas into a visual soup of inspiration on paper and with digital tools. Your head will buzz with all the ways you can imagine worlds and stories as well as keep track of your writing life.
Patricia Tiffany Morris gravitates toward inspirational messages through words and illustrations. An eclectic creative with a geeky-tech affinity and a poet with three names, she has earned over 50 awards since 2019 in poetry, children’s, YA, spec fiction, short fiction, articles, & suspense. She gives back to the writing community and helps others reduce anxiety that can come from learning technology and software.
In 2024, Children’s Book International named her a double winner in inspirational and picture book categories, and a finalist in children’s literature and religious PBs for her unpublished book, “Grief Like Rain.”
Publications include Guideposts, Lyrical Iowa, NFSPS, EnLiven, and others. She adores Pinterest and hashtags, but finds Twitter quirky. Most of all, Patricia encourages others to find hope through a vibrant relationship with God.
Finding Ways to Build a Platform Before You are Published
Presented by KyLee Woodley
October 21, 2025 @ 7 p.m. EDT
We are told that we must have a platform to land a contract/agent, but how do you reach readers before you are published? This class focuses on different ways to reach future readers, connect with authors of your genre, and create content that will last.
Kylee Woodley is a wife and a 30-something-year-old mother of teenagers. She has a Bachelor’s in Elementary Education, with a Minor in Creative Writing from the Karen Kingsbury Center of Creative Writing at Liberty University.
In 2021, she started the Historical Bookworm Show promoting historical authors from Baker Publishing and Tyndale House to promote their books. When not podcasting, teaching, or spending time with family, KyLee writes historical fiction with a pinch of adventure for Wild Heart Books. You can connect with her at www.KyLeeWoodley.com
No November Webinar
Excel for Writers
Presented by Jacinta Meredith
December 4, 2025 @ 7 p.m. EST
Learn how to use Microsoft Excel to organize multiple aspects of your writing life! This class will briefly touch on some basic functions, such as creating and filtering a table, before focusing on specific ways you can use it as a writer, including easily tracking tax information or making your tasks automatically turn red if they are overdue.
Please note: All taught functions can also be used in Google Sheets.
Jacinta Meredith is a full-time author living in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. with her husband, Daniel, and her cat, Tennyson, who was named after her favorite poet.
Her previous job as an analyst required her to use Microsoft Excel on a regular basis to analyze data, and she now uses that expertise to track various aspects of her writing life. She has had multiple short stories published and won the 2023 Genesis award for Historical Fiction.
When she isn’t writing or editing, you can usually find her reading, cooking, binging Castle, or researching just for fun.