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Friday
, April 3
9:00am EDT
1B: Perfecting Page One
FULL
Boylston Room - Mezzanine Level
Hank Phillippi Ryan
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
1G: Bottling the Muse: The Not-So-Impossible Task of Writing on Command
Cambridge Room - 4th Floor
Emily Franklin • Maria Pinto
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
10:15am EDT
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
2G: It’s All in the Details
FILLING
Beacon Hill Room - 4th Floor
Marjan Kamali
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
2M: Writing the Literary Thriller
Gloucester Room - 4th Floor
Christopher Bollen
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
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
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
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
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
4M: History Walks With Us: Mythology, Memory, & Fantasy in the World and in Fiction
Gloucester Room - 4th Floor
Rion Scott • Daniel José Older
Saturday
, April 4
9:00am EDT
5A: Different Worlds and Different Bodies: the Disabled Figure in Literature
Stuart Room - 4th Floor
Amanda Leduc
5B: Perfecting Voice in Historical Fiction
FILLING
Newbury Room - 4th Floor
Virginia Pye
5D: When Revision Becomes Re-Envisioning
FULL
White Hill Room - 4th Floor
Brendan Mathews
5E: How to Save Your Character From a Drowning Story
Charles River Room - 4th Floor
Nicole Blades
5G: Dialogue: Crafting Conversation in Fiction
FILLING
Whittier Room - 4th Floor
Mitali Perkins
5I: Why YA: The Unique Power of Young Adult Literature to Engage Difficult Topics
Hancock Room - Mezzanine Level
Joseph Moldover
5J: Balancing Act: The Writing Life, the Day Job, and Everything in Between
Cambridge Room - 4th Floor
Melissa Rivero
10:15am EDT
6B: Narrative Unbound: Experimental Structures in Essays and Stories
Cambridge Room - 4th Floor
Ron MacLean • Sari Boren
6E: To Whom Are You Telling Your Tale? Race & the Question of Readership
Hancock Room - Mezzanine Level
David Mura
6F: Last Evenings on Earth: Writing the Otherworldly
Stuart Room - 4th Floor
Michael Zapata
6G: Do Leave Them Hanging: Why Suspense is Critical in Any Fiction And How To Create It
FULL
Statler Room - Mezzanine Level
Anna Solomon
6H: Stealth Description
FILLING
Whittier Room - 4th Floor
Daphne Kalotay
1:45pm EDT
7A: From Research to Narrative
Newbury Room - 4th Floor
Jeffrey Colvin
7B: We the Narrators: Writing the Collective Experience
Charles River Room - 4th Floor
Val Wang
7E: Reclaiming Our Narrative: How Black Women Writers Showcase Versatility Through Storytelling
Stuart Room - 4th Floor
Candace McDuffie • Ashley-Rose Salomon
7F: Approaching Race as a White Writer
FILLING
Whittier Room - 4th Floor
Jess Row
7H: Writing Evil: How to Harness Lethal Characters in Stories of Tragedy and Trauma
Tremont Room - 4th Floor
Sahar Mustafah
7K: First Page Clinic
FILLING
White Hill Room - 4th Floor
Mameve Medwed • Sebastian Stuart • Rishi Reddi
7M: The Revisionist: Utilizing Your Inner Editor as a Writer
St. James Room - 4th Floor
Jennifer Baker
3:30pm EDT
8A: When Science is Your Main Character
Stuart Room - 4th Floor
John Farrell • Rebecca Bratten Weiss
8B: Productive Revision: How to Stop Perfecting Your Paragraphs and Think About the Story
FULL
Whittier Room - 4th Floor
Lynne Barrett
8F: How to Create an Irresistible Narrator
Statler Room - Mezzanine Level
Steve Almond
8H: More or Less: Maximalist and Minimalist Approaches to Telling Your Story
Tremont Room - 4th Floor
Christopher Castellani
8I: Joke’s on You: The Serious Work Of Using Humor in Your Writing
Hancock Room - Mezzanine Level
Stephen Macone
Sunday
, April 5
10:15am EDT
9C: Dramatis Personae, or, What Are All These Characters Doing in Your Story?
FILLING
Tremont Room - 4th Floor
Lynne Barrett
9D: Hero of Another Story: the Antagonist that Drives the Story Forward
Hancock Room - Mezzanine Level
Anne Gaughen
9E: Scene CPR
Beacon Hill Room - 4th Floor
Lisa Borders
9F: Character-Driven Plot
Stuart Room - 4th Floor
Lauren Wilkinson
9G: Writing Transgender Characters
Charles River Room - 4th Floor
Milo Todd
9H: Don't Just Try to Please Me: On Incorporating Editorial Feedback (Or Not)
Franklin Room - 4th Floor
Cherise Fisher
9I: Essentials of Voice
Whittier Room - 4th Floor
Mona Awad
11:45am EDT
10B: Tell It From All Sides: Writing a Story with Multiple Points of View
FILLING
White Hill Room - 4th Floor
Angie Kim • Mira T. Lee
10C: Writing Homelands: Place in Literature
Tremont Room - 4th Floor
Kali Fajardo-Anstine
10D: Plotting, Pantsing and Everything in Between: How to Find Your Way Through That Messy First Draft
FILLING
Franklin Room - 4th Floor
Michele Ferrari • Andrea Meyer
10E: The Things People Don't Say: Writing What Is Taboo
Cabot Room - 4th Floor
Pooja Makhijani • Sejal Shah
10H: Micro-Level Revision: On Writer Tics, Filler Words, Grammatical Habits, and Other Sources of Slow Prose
FILLING
Beacon Hill Room - 4th Floor
Elizabeth Shelburne
10L: Literary Idol: Fiction Focus
FILLING
Boylston Room - Mezzanine Level
Neal Thompson • Steve Woodward • Cherise Fisher • Christina Morgan • Bibi Lewis
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