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7:00am EDT

Friday Registration & Bookstore Mezzanine Level

9:00am EDT

1A: Social Media Tough Love: Ten Tips for AuthorsFILLING Tremont Room - 4th FloorCrystal King 1B: Perfecting Page OneFULL Boylston Room - Mezzanine LevelHank Phillippi Ryan 1C: How to PitchFILLING Whittier Room - 4th FloorSandy Lu 1D: Creating Graphic Novels, Memoirs, and Comics Stuart Room - 4th FloorAnjali Singh • Tito James 1E: Dangerous Satires St. James Room - 4th FloorRion Scott 1F: Imagining the Gap: How to Write a Story When the Story Runs OutFILLING White Hill Room - 4th FloorCaitlin McGill • Alex Marzano-Lesnevich 1G: Bottling the Muse: The Not-So-Impossible Task of Writing on Command Cambridge Room - 4th FloorEmily Franklin • Maria Pinto 1H: Self-Portraits as Self-Transformation: Poetry Workshop Charles River Room - 4th FloorChen Chen 1I: Moral Villains and Sinning Heroes: Creating Complex CharactersFULL Beacon Hill Room - 4th FloorWayétu Moore 1J: But How Do I Begin? Taking the First Steps to Writing a Book Newbury Room - 4th FloorCherise Fisher 1K: Self-Translation: Writing from a Non-English Perspective Cabot Room - 4th FloorMelody Moezzi • Marcelo Hernandez Castillo 1L: Building & Layering TensionFILLING Franklin Room - 4th FloorManuel Gonzales 1M: Paths to Publishing: Where Do I Start? Gloucester Room - 4th FloorAnnalisa Parent

10:15am EDT

2A: From "Writer" to "Author": Navigating Your Debut Year(s)FILLING White Hill Room - 4th FloorWhitney Scharer • Angie Kim 2B: Forming and Publishing an Essay Collection Charles River Room - 4th FloorArtress Bethany White 2C: Writing the Climate Crisis Stuart Room - 4th FloorTim Weed • Julie Carrick Dalton 2D: A Collection, a Book, a Conundrum: How to Make Your Short Story Collection Cohere Newbury Room - 4th FloorSteve Woodward 2E: At the Beginning of the World: Writing Historical FictionFILLING St. James Room - 4th FloorMichael Zapata 2F: From Personal History to Social History: How to Get Beyond the ME in MemoirFILLING Tremont Room - 4th FloorAlysia Abbott 2G: It’s All in the DetailsFILLING Beacon Hill Room - 4th FloorMarjan Kamali 2H: Uninformed: Creating New Forms in Poetry Cabot Room - 4th FloorPorsha Olayiwola 2I: The Art of Perspective in Young Adult Fiction Boylston Room - Mezzanine LevelJennifer De Leon • Desmond Hall 2J: Desires, Fears, Urges, & Inhibitions: Narrating Your Characters’ Fantasy Lives Cambridge Room - 4th FloorErin Almond 2K: Intuitive Timing: Using Patterns of Music for Strong Narrative Structure Franklin Room - 4th FloorHenriette Lazaridis 2L: Writing the Synopsis: Essentials, Tips, and Tricks For Crafting a Professional SynopsisFILLING Whittier Room - 4th FloorKaitlyn Johnson 2M: Writing the Literary Thriller Gloucester Room - 4th FloorChristopher Bollen

11:30am EDT

Friday Lunch Grand Ballroom - Mezzanine Level

12:30pm EDT

Muse Keynote: Viet Thanh Nguyen Grand Ballroom - Mezzanine LevelViet Thanh Nguyen

1:45pm EDT

3A: Literary Horror: What Is It and How Do You Write It?FILLING St. James Room - 4th FloorJohn Langan 3B: The Conversation Without Answers: Writing Better DialogueFULL Beacon Hill Room - 4th FloorK Chess 3C: The Big Q's: What to Ask Prospective AgentsFILLING White Hill Room - 4th FloorAmy Elizabeth Bishop 3D: Polished to Published: Placing Your Short Fiction in Literary Magazines and Small PressesFILLING Franklin Room - 4th FloorDariel Suarez • Joy Baglio 3E: Please Sir, I Want Some More: How to Construct a Story with Multiple Timelines or ProtagonistsFULL Whittier Room - 4th FloorMichelle Hoover 3F: Get Out of Your Head: For Writers Considering Self-Publishing Stuart Room - 4th FloorNakia Hill 3G: Place as Character: Bringing the World to Life on the PageFULL Cambridge Room - 4th FloorMaria Pinto • Paloma Valenzuela 3H: Writing While Multilingual: How to Leverage Your Languages for Strong Fiction Cabot Room - 4th FloorAnjali Duva 3I: Art of the Book of Poems: Structure and Surprise Charles River Room - 4th FloorOliver de la Paz 3J: When the Protagonist is You: Using Novelists' Techniques for Your MemoirFILLING Tremont Room - 4th FloorReyna Grande 3K: Nonfiction Idea Clinic Boylston Room - Mezzanine LevelJessica Papin • Linda K. Wertheimer • Jonah Straus • Annie Hwang 3L: Adapting Books for Film and TV Newbury Room - 4th FloorCeleste Ng • Phil Cohen

3:00pm EDT

Friday Afternoon Break

3:30pm EDT

4A: Realism with a Twist: Bending the Truth to Get Closer to ItFILLING St. James Room - 4th FloorHeather Abel 4B: How I Wrote This: Discussion of CONFESSIONS OF THE FOX by Jordy Rosenberg, with Andrea Lawlor Boylston Room - Mezzanine LevelAndrea Lawlor • Jordy Rosenberg 4C: Writing Sentences that SingFILLING White Hill Room - 4th FloorColwill Brown • Jonathan Escoffery 4D: Negotiating Time in Memoir and NovelsFULL Tremont Room - 4th FloorMaya Lang 4E: Researching and Choosing Agents to QueryFILLING Whittier Room - 4th FloorLouise Miller 4F: The Oversight Draft: From Manuscript to Publishable DraftFILLING Beacon Hill Room - 4th FloorAmina Gautier 4G: Omniscience Newbury Room - 4th FloorTim Weed 4H: A Tale of Two Narrative Modes: Linear vs. Atmospheric StorytellingFULL Cabot Room - 4th FloorShuchi Saraswat • Stacy Mattingly 4I: Addressing Race and Racial Identity as Writers and Readers Franklin Room - 4th FloorMolly Howes • Deborah Plummer 4J: Show Me the Money: The (Surprisingly Lucrative) World of Freelance WritingFULL Cambridge Room - 4th FloorCalvin Hennick 4K: The Poet's Marketplace Charles River Room - 4th FloorErica Charis-Molling • Kristina Darling • Martha Rhodes • Regie Gibson • Frances Donovan 4L: When Small Presses Take You Big Places: Maximizing the Impact of Small Press Book Stuart Room - 4th FloorNina McConigley • Ron MacLean • Nathan Rostron 4M: History Walks With Us: Mythology, Memory, & Fantasy in the World and in Fiction Gloucester Room - 4th FloorRion Scott • Daniel José Older

4:45pm EDT

LGBTQ+ Writers, Agents, and Editors Meet-Up Boylston Room - Mezzanine Level Lit Lounge Cocktail Hour Avenue 34 - Lobby Level

5:30pm EDT

Aevitas Shop Talk Happy Hour Maggiano's

6:45pm EDT

Spitballing... Or Is It? Avenue 34 - Lobby LevelSari Boren • Ron MacLean • Michelle Seaton • Whitney Scharer • Celeste Ng • Manuel Gonzales