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The Muse & The Marketplace 2020

9:00am EDT

1B: Perfecting Page One Boylston Room - Mezzanine LevelFULLHank Phillippi Ryan 1D: Creating Graphic Novels, Memoirs, and Comics Stuart Room - 4th FloorAnjali Singh • Tito James 1F: Imagining the Gap: How to Write a Story When the Story Runs Out White Hill Room - 4th FloorFILLINGCaitlin McGill • Alex Marzano-Lesnevich 1G: Bottling the Muse: The Not-So-Impossible Task of Writing on Command Cambridge Room - 4th FloorEmily Franklin • Maria Pinto 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 Tension Franklin Room - 4th FloorFULLManuel Gonzales

10:15am EDT

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 2F: From Personal History to Social History: How to Get Beyond the ME in Memoir Tremont Room - 4th FloorFILLINGAlysia Abbott 2G: It’s All in the Details Beacon Hill Room - 4th FloorFILLINGMarjan Kamali 2K: Intuitive Timing: Using Patterns of Music for Strong Narrative Structure Franklin Room - 4th FloorHenriette Lazaridis

1:45pm EDT

3B: The Conversation Without Answers: Writing Better Dialogue Beacon Hill Room - 4th FloorFULLK Chess 3G: Place as Character: Bringing the World to Life on the Page Cambridge Room - 4th FloorFULLMaria Pinto • Paloma Valenzuela 3J: When the Protagonist is You: Using Novelists' Techniques for Your Memoir Tremont Room - 4th FloorFILLINGReyna Grande 3K: Nonfiction Idea Clinic Boylston Room - Mezzanine LevelJessica Papin • Linda K. Wertheimer • Jonah Straus • Annie Hwang

3:30pm EDT

4C: Writing Sentences that Sing White Hill Room - 4th FloorFILLINGColwill Brown • Jonathan Escoffery 4D: Negotiating Time in Memoir and Novels Tremont Room - 4th FloorFULLMaya Lang 4F: The Oversight Draft: From Manuscript to Publishable Draft Beacon Hill Room - 4th FloorFILLINGAmina Gautier 4H: A Tale of Two Narrative Modes: Linear vs. Atmospheric Storytelling Cabot Room - 4th FloorFULLShuchi 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 Writing Cambridge Room - 4th FloorFULLCalvin Hennick

9:00am EDT

5A: Different Worlds and Different Bodies: the Disabled Figure in Literature Stuart Room - 4th FloorAmanda Leduc 5D: When Revision Becomes Re-Envisioning White Hill Room - 4th FloorFULLBrendan Mathews 5F: Getting Read, Noticed, and Understood on Sensitive Topics in Impossibly Polarized Times Beacon Hill Room - 4th FloorMary C. Curtis

10:15am EDT

6B: Narrative Unbound: Experimental Structures in Essays and Stories Cambridge Room - 4th FloorRon MacLean • Sari Boren 6D: Your Nonfiction Book Proposal: Key Questions to Answer Newbury Room - 4th FloorMichelle Seaton • Paul Levine 6E: To Whom Are You Telling Your Tale? Race & the Question of Readership Hancock Room - Mezzanine LevelDavid Mura 6H: Stealth Description Whittier Room - 4th FloorFILLINGDaphne Kalotay 6I: The Rhythm and Structure of Memoir Tremont Room - 4th FloorFILLINGJane Roper

1:45pm EDT

7A: From Research to Narrative Newbury Room - 4th FloorJeffrey Colvin 7C: Structure, Risk, and Meaning in Memoir Beacon Hill Room - 4th FloorFULLAlex Marzano-Lesnevich 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 Writer Whittier Room - 4th FloorFILLINGJess Row 7H: Writing Evil: How to Harness Lethal Characters in Stories of Tragedy and Trauma Tremont Room - 4th FloorSahar Mustafah 7J: How I Wrote This: Discussion of THE COLLECTED SCHIZOPHRENIAS with Esmé Weijun Wang Boylston Room - Mezzanine LevelEsmé Weijun Wang 7K: First Page Clinic White Hill Room - 4th FloorFILLINGMameve 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 Story Whittier Room - 4th FloorFULLLynne Barrett 8C: Writing the Extremely Personal: Sex, Health, Family Franklin Room - 4th FloorFILLINGCourtney Sender • Christine Gross-Loh 8F: How to Create an Irresistible Narrator Statler Room - Mezzanine LevelSteve Almond 8I: Joke’s on You: The Serious Work Of Using Humor in Your Writing Hancock Room - Mezzanine LevelStephen Macone 8K: Lessons from the Essay & Memoir Incubators Charles River Room - 4th FloorAlysia Abbott • Ethan Gilsdorf

10:15am EDT

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 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 9J: Yes, You Can Write That in Your Memoir: On Line-Crossing, Competing Memories, and Giving Yourself Permission Newbury Room - 4th FloorFILLINGDaphne Santana-Strassmann 9K: Literary Idol: Nonfiction Focus Boylston Room - Mezzanine LevelLauren Scovel • E. Dolores Johnson • Helene Atwan • Sonali Chanchani • Ashley Lopez

11:45am EDT

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 Draft Franklin Room - 4th FloorFILLINGMichele Ferrari • Andrea Meyer 10E: The Things People Don't Say: Writing What Is Taboo Cabot Room - 4th FloorPooja Makhijani • Sejal Shah 10G: How to Sell a Memoir If You Aren’t a Celebrity or a Politician Whittier Room - 4th FloorFILLINGCatherine Guthrie 10H: Micro-Level Revision: On Writer Tics, Filler Words, Grammatical Habits, and Other Sources of Slow Prose Beacon Hill Room - 4th FloorFILLINGElizabeth Shelburne 10J: Writing on Your Own Terms: How to Start, Promote, and Maintain a Compelling Blog Stuart Room - 4th FloorFILLINGSerina Gousby