Sched.com Conference Mobile Apps
The Muse & The Marketplace 2020
has ended
Create Your Own Event
The Muse & The Marketplace 2020
-
Saved To
My Schedule
Schedule
Simple
Expanded
Grid
By Venue
Speakers
Attendees
Search
or browse by date + venue
Block 1
All
Discussion Class
Guided Writing
Lecture
Lecture with Q&A
Block 10
All
Discussion Class
Guided Writing
Lecture
Lecture with Q&A
Block 2
All
Discussion Class
Guided Writing
Lecture
Lecture with Q&A
Block 3
All
Discussion Class
Guided Writing
Lecture
Lecture with Q&A
Block 4
All
Discussion Class
Guided Writing
Lecture
Lecture with Q&A
Block 5
All
Discussion Class
Guided Writing
Lecture
Lecture with Q&A
Block 6
All
Discussion Class
Guided Writing
Lecture
Lecture with Q&A
Block 7
All
Discussion Class
Guided Writing
Lecture
Lecture with Q&A
Block 8
All
Discussion Class
Guided Writing
Lecture
Lecture with Q&A
Block 9
All
Discussion Class
Guided Writing
Lecture
Lecture with Q&A
The Muse & the Marketplace
Session Track
Essentials
Fiction
Nonfiction
Open to the Public
Perspective + Art
Poetry
Publishing & Promotion
The Writer's Life
Young Adult
Log in
to bookmark your favorites and sync them to your phone or calendar.
menu
Menu
Log in
Schedule
Speakers
Attendees
Search
tune
Filter sessions
Friday
, April 3
Avenue 34 - Lobby Level
4:45pm •
Lit Lounge Cocktail Hour
6:45pm •
Spitballing... Or Is It?
Beacon Hill Room - 4th Floor
9:00am •
1I: Moral Villains and Sinning Heroes: Creating Complex Characters
FULL
10:15am •
2G: It’s All in the Details
FILLING
1:45pm •
3B: The Conversation Without Answers: Writing Better Dialogue
FULL
3:30pm •
4F: The Oversight Draft: From Manuscript to Publishable Draft
FILLING
Boylston Room - Mezzanine Level
9:00am •
1B: Perfecting Page One
FULL
10:15am •
2I: The Art of Perspective in Young Adult Fiction
1:45pm •
3K: Nonfiction Idea Clinic
3:30pm •
4B: How I Wrote This: Discussion of CONFESSIONS OF THE FOX by Jordy Rosenberg, with Andrea Lawlor
4:45pm •
LGBTQ+ Writers, Agents, and Editors Meet-Up
Cabot Room - 4th Floor
9:00am •
1K: Self-Translation: Writing from a Non-English Perspective
10:15am •
2H: Uninformed: Creating New Forms in Poetry
1:45pm •
3H: Writing While Multilingual: How to Leverage Your Languages for Strong Fiction
3:30pm •
4H: A Tale of Two Narrative Modes: Linear vs. Atmospheric Storytelling
FULL
Cambridge Room - 4th Floor
9:00am •
1G: Bottling the Muse: The Not-So-Impossible Task of Writing on Command
10:15am •
2J: Desires, Fears, Urges, & Inhibitions: Narrating Your Characters’ Fantasy Lives
1:45pm •
3G: Place as Character: Bringing the World to Life on the Page
FULL
3:30pm •
4J: Show Me the Money: The (Surprisingly Lucrative) World of Freelance Writing
FULL
Charles River Room - 4th Floor
9:00am •
1H: Self-Portraits as Self-Transformation: Poetry Workshop
10:15am •
2B: Forming and Publishing an Essay Collection
1:45pm •
3I: Art of the Book of Poems: Structure and Surprise
3:30pm •
4K: The Poet's Marketplace
Franklin Room - 4th Floor
9:00am •
1L: Building & Layering Tension
FILLING
10:15am •
2K: Intuitive Timing: Using Patterns of Music for Strong Narrative Structure
1:45pm •
3D: Polished to Published: Placing Your Short Fiction in Literary Magazines and Small Presses
FILLING
3:30pm •
4I: Addressing Race and Racial Identity as Writers and Readers
Gloucester Room - 4th Floor
9:00am •
1M: Paths to Publishing: Where Do I Start?
10:15am •
2M: Writing the Literary Thriller
3:30pm •
4M: History Walks With Us: Mythology, Memory, & Fantasy in the World and in Fiction
Grand Ballroom - Mezzanine Level
11:30am •
Friday Lunch
12:30pm •
Muse Keynote: Viet Thanh Nguyen
Maggiano's
5:30pm •
Aevitas Shop Talk Happy Hour
Mezzanine Level
7:00am •
Friday Registration & Bookstore
Newbury Room - 4th Floor
9:00am •
1J: But How Do I Begin? Taking the First Steps to Writing a Book
10:15am •
2D: A Collection, a Book, a Conundrum: How to Make Your Short Story Collection Cohere
1:45pm •
3L: Adapting Books for Film and TV
3:30pm •
4G: Omniscience
St. James Room - 4th Floor
9:00am •
1E: Dangerous Satires
10:15am •
2E: At the Beginning of the World: Writing Historical Fiction
FILLING
1:45pm •
3A: Literary Horror: What Is It and How Do You Write It?
FILLING
3:30pm •
4A: Realism with a Twist: Bending the Truth to Get Closer to It
FILLING
Stuart Room - 4th Floor
9:00am •
1D: Creating Graphic Novels, Memoirs, and Comics
10:15am •
2C: Writing the Climate Crisis
1:45pm •
3F: Get Out of Your Head: For Writers Considering Self-Publishing
3:30pm •
4L: When Small Presses Take You Big Places: Maximizing the Impact of Small Press Book
Tremont Room - 4th Floor
9:00am •
1A: Social Media Tough Love: Ten Tips for Authors
FILLING
10:15am •
2F: From Personal History to Social History: How to Get Beyond the ME in Memoir
FILLING
1:45pm •
3J: When the Protagonist is You: Using Novelists' Techniques for Your Memoir
FILLING
3:30pm •
4D: Negotiating Time in Memoir and Novels
FULL
White Hill Room - 4th Floor
9:00am •
1F: Imagining the Gap: How to Write a Story When the Story Runs Out
FILLING
10:15am •
2A: From "Writer" to "Author": Navigating Your Debut Year(s)
FILLING
1:45pm •
3C: The Big Q's: What to Ask Prospective Agents
FILLING
3:30pm •
4C: Writing Sentences that Sing
FILLING
Whittier Room - 4th Floor
9:00am •
1C: How to Pitch
FILLING
10:15am •
2L: Writing the Synopsis: Essentials, Tips, and Tricks For Crafting a Professional Synopsis
FILLING
1:45pm •
3E: Please Sir, I Want Some More: How to Construct a Story with Multiple Timelines or Protagonists
FULL
3:30pm •
4E: Researching and Choosing Agents to Query
FILLING
Saturday
, April 4
Beacon Hill Room - 4th Floor
9:00am •
5F: Getting Read, Noticed, and Understood on Sensitive Topics in Impossibly Polarized Times
10:15am •
6L: A Nice Problem to Have: A Guide to Types of Publishers and How to Choose Between Them
1:45pm •
7C: Structure, Risk, and Meaning in Memoir
FULL
3:30pm •
8L: Essentials of Pitching
FILLING
Boylston Room - Mezzanine Level
9:00am •
5H: How to Think About Comparison & Competing Titles
10:15am •
6A: Query Clinic: Live Feedback on Query Letters
FULL
1:45pm •
7J: How I Wrote This: Discussion of THE COLLECTED SCHIZOPHRENIAS with Esmé Weijun Wang
3:30pm •
8J: Agents and Editors of Color Roundtable
4:45pm •
Writers, Agents, and Editors of Color Meet-Up
Cabot Room - 4th Floor
9:00am •
5L: From Page to Stage: Writing for the Moth, Story Slams, and Live Storytelling Events
3:30pm •
8M: Diversifying Your Income as a Writer
Cambridge Room - 4th Floor
9:00am •
5J: Balancing Act: The Writing Life, the Day Job, and Everything in Between
10:15am •
6B: Narrative Unbound: Experimental Structures in Essays and Stories
1:45pm •
7G: Building Your Communities: How to Make the Most of Residencies, Conferences, Awards, and Writing Programs
FILLING
3:30pm •
8E: Writing Great Artist Statements for Fellowships, Residencies, MFA programs, & More
Charles River Room - 4th Floor
9:00am •
5E: How to Save Your Character From a Drowning Story
10:15am •
6K: Essentials of Structure
1:45pm •
7B: We the Narrators: Writing the Collective Experience
3:30pm •
8K: Lessons from the Essay & Memoir Incubators
Franklin Room - 4th Floor
9:00am •
5M: Sell Your Story in a Single Sentence: Writing Your Logline
10:15am •
6C: Social Media Hack: Utilizing Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter to Authentically Engage (and Not Annoy) Readers
FILLING
1:45pm •
7I: Public Speaking for Writers
3:30pm •
8C: Writing the Extremely Personal: Sex, Health, Family
FILLING
Grand Ballroom - Mezzanine Level
11:30am •
Saturday Lunch
12:30pm •
Mid-Muse Keynote: Reyna Grande
Hancock Room - Mezzanine Level
9:00am •
5I: Why YA: The Unique Power of Young Adult Literature to Engage Difficult Topics
10:15am •
6E: To Whom Are You Telling Your Tale? Race & the Question of Readership
1:45pm •
7L: Place: From Where to Why
3:30pm •
8I: Joke’s on You: The Serious Work Of Using Humor in Your Writing
Mezzanine Level
7:00am •
Saturday Registration & Bookstore
Newbury Room - 4th Floor
9:00am •
5B: Perfecting Voice in Historical Fiction
FILLING
10:15am •
6D: Your Nonfiction Book Proposal: Key Questions to Answer
1:45pm •
7A: From Research to Narrative
3:30pm •
8G: Plot Engine Tricks: Getting a Novel Started and Keeping it Moving
FILLING
St. James Room - 4th Floor
1:45pm •
7M: The Revisionist: Utilizing Your Inner Editor as a Writer
Statler Room - Mezzanine Level
9:00am •
5C: #QueryTips: Demystifying the Query Process
FILLING
10:15am •
6G: Do Leave Them Hanging: Why Suspense is Critical in Any Fiction And How To Create It
FULL
1:45pm •
7D: How to Publish (and Promote) Your Book on Your Terms
FULL
3:30pm •
8F: How to Create an Irresistible Narrator
Stuart Room - 4th Floor
9:00am •
5A: Different Worlds and Different Bodies: the Disabled Figure in Literature
10:15am •
6F: Last Evenings on Earth: Writing the Otherworldly
1:45pm •
7E: Reclaiming Our Narrative: How Black Women Writers Showcase Versatility Through Storytelling
3:30pm •
8A: When Science is Your Main Character
The Brahmin
6:00pm •
All-Conference Party
Tremont Room - 4th Floor
9:00am •
5K: Hybrid Publishing: How It Works and What It's Like
10:15am •
6I: The Rhythm and Structure of Memoir
FILLING
1:45pm •
7H: Writing Evil: How to Harness Lethal Characters in Stories of Tragedy and Trauma
3:30pm •
8H: More or Less: Maximalist and Minimalist Approaches to Telling Your Story
White Hill Room - 4th Floor
9:00am •
5D: When Revision Becomes Re-Envisioning
FULL
10:15am •
6J: How to Be a Great Publishing Partner: The Author’s Job as Industry Insiders See It
1:45pm •
7K: First Page Clinic
FILLING
3:30pm •
8D: Don’t Send Your Query Letter in a Box of Doughnuts, and Other Stories: How NOT to Become an Anecdote When Submitting Your Work to Agents
FILLING
Whittier Room - 4th Floor
9:00am •
5G: Dialogue: Crafting Conversation in Fiction
FILLING
10:15am •
6H: Stealth Description
FILLING
1:45pm •
7F: Approaching Race as a White Writer
FILLING
3:30pm •
8B: Productive Revision: How to Stop Perfecting Your Paragraphs and Think About the Story
FULL
Sunday
, April 5
Beacon Hill Room - 4th Floor
10:15am •
9E: Scene CPR
11:45am •
10H: Micro-Level Revision: On Writer Tics, Filler Words, Grammatical Habits, and Other Sources of Slow Prose
FILLING
Boylston Room - Mezzanine Level
10:15am •
9K: Literary Idol: Nonfiction Focus
11:45am •
10L: Literary Idol: Fiction Focus
FILLING
Cabot Room - 4th Floor
10:15am •
9M: Working Backwards: Understanding & Leveraging How Readers Think
11:45am •
10E: The Things People Don't Say: Writing What Is Taboo
Cambridge Room - 4th Floor
10:15am •
9A: What Booksellers Want Writers to Know
FILLING
11:45am •
10A: Media Training: Being Your Best at Readings, On Radio, and On Television
FILLING
Charles River Room - 4th Floor
10:15am •
9G: Writing Transgender Characters
11:45am •
10F: Back to School with Our Books: Finishing the Manuscripts We've Started
Franklin Room - 4th Floor
10:15am •
9H: Don't Just Try to Please Me: On Incorporating Editorial Feedback (Or Not)
11:45am •
10D: Plotting, Pantsing and Everything in Between: How to Find Your Way Through That Messy First Draft
FILLING
Grand Ballroom - Mezzanine Level
1:00pm •
Marketplace Keynote | What I Never Saw Coming: Imagination & Reality in Publishing and More
Hancock Room - Mezzanine Level
10:15am •
9D: Hero of Another Story: the Antagonist that Drives the Story Forward
Mezzanine Level
8:00am •
Sunday Registration & Bookstore
Newbury Room - 4th Floor
10:15am •
9J: Yes, You Can Write That in Your Memoir: On Line-Crossing, Competing Memories, and Giving Yourself Permission
FILLING
11:45am •
10I: Resilience on the Winding Road to Book Publication
St. James Room - 4th Floor
10:15am •
9L: Workshopping the First Page
11:45am •
10K: Genre-Curious? Becoming a Successful Multi-Genre Writer
Stuart Room - 4th Floor
10:15am •
9F: Character-Driven Plot
11:45am •
10J: Writing on Your Own Terms: How to Start, Promote, and Maintain a Compelling Blog
FILLING
Tremont Room - 4th Floor
10:15am •
9C: Dramatis Personae, or, What Are All These Characters Doing in Your Story?
FILLING
11:45am •
10C: Writing Homelands: Place in Literature
White Hill Room - 4th Floor
10:15am •
9B: Query Letter Skills
FILLING
11:45am •
10B: Tell It From All Sides: Writing a Story with Multiple Points of View
FILLING
Whittier Room - 4th Floor
10:15am •
9I: Essentials of Voice
11:45am •
10G: How to Sell a Memoir If You Aren’t a Celebrity or a Politician
FILLING
Timezone
The Muse & The Marketplace 2020
America/New York
Filter By Date
The Muse & The Marketplace 2020
Apr 3
-
5, 2020
Friday
, April 3
Saturday
, April 4
Sunday
, April 5
Filter By Venue
Park Plaza, Boston, MA, USA
Sort schedule by Venue
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
Mezzanine Level
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
Filter By Type
Block 1
All
Discussion Class
Guided Writing
Lecture
Lecture with Q&A
Block 10
All
Discussion Class
Guided Writing
Lecture
Lecture with Q&A
Block 2
All
Discussion Class
Guided Writing
Lecture
Lecture with Q&A
Block 3
All
Discussion Class
Guided Writing
Lecture
Lecture with Q&A
Block 4
All
Discussion Class
Guided Writing
Lecture
Lecture with Q&A
Block 5
All
Discussion Class
Guided Writing
Lecture
Lecture with Q&A
Block 6
All
Discussion Class
Guided Writing
Lecture
Lecture with Q&A
Block 7
All
Discussion Class
Guided Writing
Lecture
Lecture with Q&A
Block 8
All
Discussion Class
Guided Writing
Lecture
Lecture with Q&A
Block 9
All
Discussion Class
Guided Writing
Lecture
Lecture with Q&A
The Muse & the Marketplace
Session Track
Essentials
Fiction
Nonfiction
Open to the Public
Perspective + Art
Poetry
Publishing & Promotion
The Writer's Life
Young Adult
Recently Active Attendees
Rick Claypool
Doris Mahaffey
Nadia Colburn
Mindy Haskins Rogers
LB
Liz bedell
JR
Johanna Ralston
Maria Vetrano
DJ
Diana Jeffrey
More →
Filter sessions
Apply filters to sessions.
close
Dates
Friday
, April 3
Saturday
, April 4
Sunday
, April 5
Types
Block 1
All
Discussion Class
Guided Writing
Lecture
Lecture with Q&A
Block 10
All
Discussion Class
Guided Writing
Lecture
Lecture with Q&A
Block 2
All
Discussion Class
Guided Writing
Lecture
Lecture with Q&A
Block 3
All
Discussion Class
Guided Writing
Lecture
Lecture with Q&A
Block 4
All
Discussion Class
Guided Writing
Lecture
Lecture with Q&A
Block 5
All
Discussion Class
Guided Writing
Lecture
Lecture with Q&A
Block 6
All
Discussion Class
Guided Writing
Lecture
Lecture with Q&A
Block 7
All
Discussion Class
Guided Writing
Lecture
Lecture with Q&A
Block 8
All
Discussion Class
Guided Writing
Lecture
Lecture with Q&A
Block 9
All
Discussion Class
Guided Writing
Lecture
Lecture with Q&A
The Muse & the Marketplace
Venues
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
Mezzanine Level
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
