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9:00am EDT

1B: Perfecting Page OneFULL Boylston Room - Mezzanine LevelHank Phillippi Ryan 1D: Creating Graphic Novels, Memoirs, and Comics Stuart Room - 4th FloorAnjali Singh • Tito James 1E: Dangerous Satires St. James Room - 4th FloorRion Scott 1G: Bottling the Muse: The Not-So-Impossible Task of Writing on Command Cambridge Room - 4th FloorEmily Franklin • Maria Pinto 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

10:15am EDT

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 2G: It’s All in the DetailsFILLING Beacon Hill Room - 4th FloorMarjan Kamali 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 2M: Writing the Literary Thriller Gloucester Room - 4th FloorChristopher Bollen

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 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 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

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 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 4M: History Walks With Us: Mythology, Memory, & Fantasy in the World and in Fiction Gloucester Room - 4th FloorRion Scott • Daniel José Older