Writers' Police Academy

Live and In-Person at the NWTC Public Safety Training Academy

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June 8 - 11, 2023 - Green Bay, Wisconsin REGISTRATION is scheduled to open in January 2023. Details TBA

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Four days of exciting hands-on training. Real police equipment and vehicles. Over 30 certified instructors and top law enforcement and forensics experts.

The 2022 Writers' Police Academy offers a unique opportunity for attendees to participate in many of the same hands-on training classes - basic and advanced - taught to Law Enforcement, Fire, EMS, and Corrections personnel. The 2023 event features a special tract focued on homicide investigations. These incredibly exciting cutting-edge sessions are typically reserved only for professionals. Until now.

2023 WPA Guest of Honor - TBA

Special Guest Speakers - TBA

Why Should You Attend the Writers' Police Academy?

Wildly fun, incredibly informative, the Writers Police Academy is one of my all-time favorite conferences. Though I did die multiple times in the SWAT drills. Can't wait to attend again!

Lisa Gardner

#1 New York Times bestselling and global award-winning thriller novelist

The WPA is fascinating, informative, and absolutely stimulating to writers. Top-of-the-line instructors with genuine expertise in their fields not only take you through presentations full of interesting stuff, they willingly answer your questions. It's great.

Charlaine Harris

International bestselling author of the "Aurora Teagarden" mysteries, "Lily Bard" mysteries, and the "Sookie Stackhouse" novels, the basis for the television series “True Blood

The Writer's Police Academy is perfection. It is as close as a writer can get to being in the skin of a police officer. They cover everything from forensics, to traffic stops, to clearing a room with your gun drawn. The instructors are all people with years of experience in the streets. You feel what it is really like to examine a crime scene or to deal with an active shooter. It will open your eyes to what a tough job law enforcement really is and save you from making cliched mistakes in your fiction. Highly recommended.

Phoef Sutton

Co-author of bestselling novels with Janet Evanovich, and Emmy, Peabody, and Television Academy Award winner for his work as executive producer and writer of the hit television series CHEERS and BOSTON LEGAL

The Writers’ Police Academy provides a treasure trove of information for the modern crime writer. The instructors are not only experts in their fields, but they’re also savvy readers and, in my cases, writers themselves. They’re able to strip down the technical information to what a writer really needs to advance story, character, and setting. It’s also a ton of fun. Highly recommended!

Alafair Burke

Current President of Mystery Writers of America, is the NY Times, Edgar Award nominated author of twenty crime novels published in more than twenty languages

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