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Friday
, April 3
7:00am EDT
Friday Registration & Bookstore
Mezzanine Level
9:00am EDT
1A: Social Media Tough Love: Ten Tips for Authors
FILLING
Tremont Room - 4th Floor
Crystal King
1B: Perfecting Page One
FULL
Boylston Room - Mezzanine Level
Hank Phillippi Ryan
1C: How to Pitch
FILLING
Whittier Room - 4th Floor
Sandy Lu
1D: Creating Graphic Novels, Memoirs, and Comics
Stuart Room - 4th Floor
Anjali Singh • Tito James
1E: Dangerous Satires
St. James Room - 4th Floor
Rion Scott
1F: Imagining the Gap: How to Write a Story When the Story Runs Out
FILLING
White Hill Room - 4th Floor
Caitlin McGill • Alex Marzano-Lesnevich
1G: Bottling the Muse: The Not-So-Impossible Task of Writing on Command
Cambridge Room - 4th Floor
Emily Franklin • Maria Pinto
1H: Self-Portraits as Self-Transformation: Poetry Workshop
Charles River Room - 4th Floor
Chen Chen
1I: Moral Villains and Sinning Heroes: Creating Complex Characters
FULL
Beacon Hill Room - 4th Floor
Wayétu Moore
1J: But How Do I Begin? Taking the First Steps to Writing a Book
Newbury Room - 4th Floor
Cherise Fisher
1K: Self-Translation: Writing from a Non-English Perspective
Cabot Room - 4th Floor
Melody Moezzi • Marcelo Hernandez Castillo
1L: Building & Layering Tension
FILLING
Franklin Room - 4th Floor
Manuel Gonzales
1M: Paths to Publishing: Where Do I Start?
Gloucester Room - 4th Floor
Annalisa Parent
10:15am EDT
2A: From "Writer" to "Author": Navigating Your Debut Year(s)
FILLING
White Hill Room - 4th Floor
Whitney Scharer • Angie Kim
2B: Forming and Publishing an Essay Collection
Charles River Room - 4th Floor
Artress Bethany White
2C: Writing the Climate Crisis
Stuart Room - 4th Floor
Tim Weed • Julie Carrick Dalton
2D: A Collection, a Book, a Conundrum: How to Make Your Short Story Collection Cohere
Newbury Room - 4th Floor
Steve Woodward
2E: At the Beginning of the World: Writing Historical Fiction
FILLING
St. James Room - 4th Floor
Michael Zapata
2F: From Personal History to Social History: How to Get Beyond the ME in Memoir
FILLING
Tremont Room - 4th Floor
Alysia Abbott
2G: It’s All in the Details
FILLING
Beacon Hill Room - 4th Floor
Marjan Kamali
2H: Uninformed: Creating New Forms in Poetry
Cabot Room - 4th Floor
Porsha Olayiwola
2I: The Art of Perspective in Young Adult Fiction
Boylston Room - Mezzanine Level
Jennifer De Leon • Desmond Hall
2J: Desires, Fears, Urges, & Inhibitions: Narrating Your Characters’ Fantasy Lives
Cambridge Room - 4th Floor
Erin Almond
2K: Intuitive Timing: Using Patterns of Music for Strong Narrative Structure
Franklin Room - 4th Floor
Henriette Lazaridis
2L: Writing the Synopsis: Essentials, Tips, and Tricks For Crafting a Professional Synopsis
FILLING
Whittier Room - 4th Floor
Kaitlyn Johnson
2M: Writing the Literary Thriller
Gloucester Room - 4th Floor
Christopher Bollen
11:30am EDT
Friday Lunch
Grand Ballroom - Mezzanine Level
12:30pm EDT
Muse Keynote: Viet Thanh Nguyen
Grand Ballroom - Mezzanine Level
Viet Thanh Nguyen
1:45pm EDT
3A: Literary Horror: What Is It and How Do You Write It?
FILLING
St. James Room - 4th Floor
John Langan
3B: The Conversation Without Answers: Writing Better Dialogue
FULL
Beacon Hill Room - 4th Floor
K Chess
3C: The Big Q's: What to Ask Prospective Agents
FILLING
White Hill Room - 4th Floor
Amy Elizabeth Bishop
3D: Polished to Published: Placing Your Short Fiction in Literary Magazines and Small Presses
FILLING
Franklin Room - 4th Floor
Dariel Suarez • Joy Baglio
3E: Please Sir, I Want Some More: How to Construct a Story with Multiple Timelines or Protagonists
FULL
Whittier Room - 4th Floor
Michelle Hoover
3F: Get Out of Your Head: For Writers Considering Self-Publishing
Stuart Room - 4th Floor
Nakia Hill
3G: Place as Character: Bringing the World to Life on the Page
FULL
Cambridge Room - 4th Floor
Maria Pinto • Paloma Valenzuela
3H: Writing While Multilingual: How to Leverage Your Languages for Strong Fiction
Cabot Room - 4th Floor
Anjali Duva
3I: Art of the Book of Poems: Structure and Surprise
Charles River Room - 4th Floor
Oliver de la Paz
3J: When the Protagonist is You: Using Novelists' Techniques for Your Memoir
FILLING
Tremont Room - 4th Floor
Reyna Grande
3K: Nonfiction Idea Clinic
Boylston Room - Mezzanine Level
Jessica Papin • Linda K. Wertheimer • Jonah Straus • Annie Hwang
3L: Adapting Books for Film and TV
Newbury Room - 4th Floor
Celeste Ng • Phil Cohen
3:00pm EDT
Friday Afternoon Break
3:30pm EDT
4A: Realism with a Twist: Bending the Truth to Get Closer to It
FILLING
St. James Room - 4th Floor
Heather Abel
4B: How I Wrote This: Discussion of CONFESSIONS OF THE FOX by Jordy Rosenberg, with Andrea Lawlor
Boylston Room - Mezzanine Level
Andrea Lawlor • Jordy Rosenberg
4C: Writing Sentences that Sing
FILLING
White Hill Room - 4th Floor
Colwill Brown • Jonathan Escoffery
4D: Negotiating Time in Memoir and Novels
FULL
Tremont Room - 4th Floor
Maya Lang
4E: Researching and Choosing Agents to Query
FILLING
Whittier Room - 4th Floor
Louise Miller
4F: The Oversight Draft: From Manuscript to Publishable Draft
FILLING
Beacon Hill Room - 4th Floor
Amina Gautier
4G: Omniscience
Newbury Room - 4th Floor
Tim Weed
4H: A Tale of Two Narrative Modes: Linear vs. Atmospheric Storytelling
FULL
Cabot Room - 4th Floor
Shuchi Saraswat • Stacy Mattingly
4I: Addressing Race and Racial Identity as Writers and Readers
Franklin Room - 4th Floor
Molly Howes • Deborah Plummer
4J: Show Me the Money: The (Surprisingly Lucrative) World of Freelance Writing
FULL
Cambridge Room - 4th Floor
Calvin Hennick
4K: The Poet's Marketplace
Charles River Room - 4th Floor
Erica 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 Floor
Nina McConigley • Ron MacLean • Nathan Rostron
4M: History Walks With Us: Mythology, Memory, & Fantasy in the World and in Fiction
Gloucester Room - 4th Floor
Rion 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 Level
Sari Boren • Ron MacLean • Michelle Seaton • Whitney Scharer • Celeste Ng • Manuel Gonzales
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