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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
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
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
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
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
2K: Intuitive Timing: Using Patterns of Music for Strong Narrative Structure
Franklin Room - 4th Floor
Henriette Lazaridis
1:45pm EDT
3B: The Conversation Without Answers: Writing Better Dialogue
FULL
Beacon Hill Room - 4th Floor
K Chess
3G: Place as Character: Bringing the World to Life on the Page
FULL
Cambridge Room - 4th Floor
Maria Pinto • Paloma Valenzuela
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
3:30pm EDT
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
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
Saturday
, April 4
9:00am EDT
5A: Different Worlds and Different Bodies: the Disabled Figure in Literature
Stuart Room - 4th Floor
Amanda Leduc
5D: When Revision Becomes Re-Envisioning
FULL
White Hill Room - 4th Floor
Brendan Mathews
5F: Getting Read, Noticed, and Understood on Sensitive Topics in Impossibly Polarized Times
Beacon Hill Room - 4th Floor
Mary C. Curtis
10:15am EDT
6B: Narrative Unbound: Experimental Structures in Essays and Stories
Cambridge Room - 4th Floor
Ron MacLean • Sari Boren
6D: Your Nonfiction Book Proposal: Key Questions to Answer
Newbury Room - 4th Floor
Michelle Seaton • Paul Levine
6E: To Whom Are You Telling Your Tale? Race & the Question of Readership
Hancock Room - Mezzanine Level
David Mura
6H: Stealth Description
FILLING
Whittier Room - 4th Floor
Daphne Kalotay
6I: The Rhythm and Structure of Memoir
FILLING
Tremont Room - 4th Floor
Jane Roper
1:45pm EDT
7A: From Research to Narrative
Newbury Room - 4th Floor
Jeffrey Colvin
7C: Structure, Risk, and Meaning in Memoir
FULL
Beacon Hill Room - 4th Floor
Alex Marzano-Lesnevich
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
7J: How I Wrote This: Discussion of THE COLLECTED SCHIZOPHRENIAS with Esmé Weijun Wang
Boylston Room - Mezzanine Level
Esmé Weijun Wang
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
8C: Writing the Extremely Personal: Sex, Health, Family
FILLING
Franklin Room - 4th Floor
Courtney Sender • Christine Gross-Loh
8F: How to Create an Irresistible Narrator
Statler Room - Mezzanine Level
Steve Almond
8I: Joke’s on You: The Serious Work Of Using Humor in Your Writing
Hancock Room - Mezzanine Level
Stephen Macone
8K: Lessons from the Essay & Memoir Incubators
Charles River Room - 4th Floor
Alysia Abbott • Ethan Gilsdorf
Sunday
, April 5
10:15am EDT
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
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
9J: Yes, You Can Write That in Your Memoir: On Line-Crossing, Competing Memories, and Giving Yourself Permission
FILLING
Newbury Room - 4th Floor
Daphne Santana-Strassmann
9K: Literary Idol: Nonfiction Focus
Boylston Room - Mezzanine Level
Lauren Scovel • E. Dolores Johnson • Helene Atwan • Sonali Chanchani • Ashley Lopez
11:45am EDT
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
10G: How to Sell a Memoir If You Aren’t a Celebrity or a Politician
FILLING
Whittier Room - 4th Floor
Catherine Guthrie
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
10J: Writing on Your Own Terms: How to Start, Promote, and Maintain a Compelling Blog
FILLING
Stuart Room - 4th Floor
Serina Gousby
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Avenue 34 - Lobby Level
Beacon Hill Room - 4th Floor
Boylston Room - Mezzanine Level
Cabot Room - 4th Floor
Cambridge Room - 4th Floor
Charles River Room - 4th Floor
Franklin Room - 4th Floor
Gloucester Room - 4th Floor
Grand Ballroom - Mezzanine Level
Hancock Room - Mezzanine Level
Maggiano's
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Newbury Room - 4th Floor
St. James Room - 4th Floor
Statler Room - Mezzanine Level
Stuart Room - 4th Floor
The Brahmin
Tremont Room - 4th Floor
White Hill Room - 4th Floor
Whittier Room - 4th Floor