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The Muse & The Marketplace 2020

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

9:00am EDT

5A: Different Worlds and Different Bodies: the Disabled Figure in Literature Stuart Room - 4th FloorAmanda Leduc 5B: Perfecting Voice in Historical FictionFILLING Newbury Room - 4th FloorVirginia Pye 5D: When Revision Becomes Re-EnvisioningFULL White Hill Room - 4th FloorBrendan Mathews 5E: How to Save Your Character From a Drowning Story Charles River Room - 4th FloorNicole Blades 5G: Dialogue: Crafting Conversation in FictionFILLING Whittier Room - 4th FloorMitali Perkins 5I: Why YA: The Unique Power of Young Adult Literature to Engage Difficult Topics Hancock Room - Mezzanine LevelJoseph Moldover 5J: Balancing Act: The Writing Life, the Day Job, and Everything in Between Cambridge Room - 4th FloorMelissa Rivero

10:15am EDT

6B: Narrative Unbound: Experimental Structures in Essays and Stories Cambridge Room - 4th FloorRon MacLean • Sari Boren 6E: To Whom Are You Telling Your Tale? Race & the Question of Readership Hancock Room - Mezzanine LevelDavid Mura 6F: Last Evenings on Earth: Writing the Otherworldly Stuart Room - 4th FloorMichael Zapata 6G: Do Leave Them Hanging: Why Suspense is Critical in Any Fiction And How To Create ItFULL Statler Room - Mezzanine LevelAnna Solomon 6H: Stealth DescriptionFILLING Whittier Room - 4th FloorDaphne Kalotay

1:45pm EDT

7A: From Research to Narrative Newbury Room - 4th FloorJeffrey Colvin 7B: We the Narrators: Writing the Collective Experience Charles River Room - 4th FloorVal Wang 7E: Reclaiming Our Narrative: How Black Women Writers Showcase Versatility Through Storytelling Stuart Room - 4th FloorCandace McDuffie • Ashley-Rose Salomon 7F: Approaching Race as a White WriterFILLING Whittier Room - 4th FloorJess Row 7H: Writing Evil: How to Harness Lethal Characters in Stories of Tragedy and Trauma Tremont Room - 4th FloorSahar Mustafah 7K: First Page ClinicFILLING White Hill Room - 4th FloorMameve Medwed • Sebastian Stuart • Rishi Reddi 7M: The Revisionist: Utilizing Your Inner Editor as a Writer St. James Room - 4th FloorJennifer Baker

3:30pm EDT

8A: When Science is Your Main Character Stuart Room - 4th FloorJohn Farrell • Rebecca Bratten Weiss 8B: Productive Revision: How to Stop Perfecting Your Paragraphs and Think About the StoryFULL Whittier Room - 4th FloorLynne Barrett 8F: How to Create an Irresistible Narrator Statler Room - Mezzanine LevelSteve Almond 8H: More or Less: Maximalist and Minimalist Approaches to Telling Your Story Tremont Room - 4th FloorChristopher Castellani 8I: Joke’s on You: The Serious Work Of Using Humor in Your Writing Hancock Room - Mezzanine LevelStephen Macone

10:15am EDT

9C: Dramatis Personae, or, What Are All These Characters Doing in Your Story?FILLING Tremont Room - 4th FloorLynne Barrett 9D: Hero of Another Story: the Antagonist that Drives the Story Forward Hancock Room - Mezzanine LevelAnne Gaughen 9E: Scene CPR Beacon Hill Room - 4th FloorLisa Borders 9F: Character-Driven Plot Stuart Room - 4th FloorLauren Wilkinson 9G: Writing Transgender Characters Charles River Room - 4th FloorMilo Todd 9H: Don't Just Try to Please Me: On Incorporating Editorial Feedback (Or Not) Franklin Room - 4th FloorCherise Fisher 9I: Essentials of Voice Whittier Room - 4th FloorMona Awad

11:45am EDT

10B: Tell It From All Sides: Writing a Story with Multiple Points of ViewFILLING White Hill Room - 4th FloorAngie Kim • Mira T. Lee 10C: Writing Homelands: Place in Literature Tremont Room - 4th FloorKali Fajardo-Anstine 10D: Plotting, Pantsing and Everything in Between: How to Find Your Way Through That Messy First DraftFILLING Franklin Room - 4th FloorMichele Ferrari • Andrea Meyer 10E: The Things People Don't Say: Writing What Is Taboo Cabot Room - 4th FloorPooja Makhijani • Sejal Shah 10H: Micro-Level Revision: On Writer Tics, Filler Words, Grammatical Habits, and Other Sources of Slow ProseFILLING Beacon Hill Room - 4th FloorElizabeth Shelburne 10L: Literary Idol: Fiction FocusFILLING Boylston Room - Mezzanine LevelNeal Thompson • Steve Woodward • Cherise Fisher • Christina Morgan • Bibi Lewis