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The Muse & the Marketplace
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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
FULL
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
FULL
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
FULL
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
FULL
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
FULL
10:15am •
2L: Writing the Synopsis: Essentials, Tips, and Tricks For Crafting a Professional Synopsis
FULL
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
FILLING
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
FILLING
1:45pm •
7K: First Page Clinic
FULL
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
FULL
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
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