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Friday
, May 5
7:30am EDT
Registration, Hot Breakfast Buffet, Bookstore and Authors’ Bazaar Browsing
TBA
9:00am EDT
Welcoming Convocation & Opening Keynote
Grand Ballroom
Christopher Castellani • John Freeman • Aleksandar Hemon • Claire Messud
10:30am EDT
1A: Public Speaking for the Painfully Shy Author
Charles River Room
Victoria Noe
1B: Essentials of Structure
FULL
Beacon Hill Room
Dorian Fox
1C: Outsourcing for Writers: When Does It Make Sense, What You Need to Know.
St. James Room
Sharon Bially • Nicola Kraus
1D: Layering: A Structured Approach to Revision (Section I)
FILLING
Cabot Room
Chaitali Sen
1E: Essentials of the Young Adult Novel
FILLING
Franklin Room
Katie Bayerl • Jennifer De Leon
1F: Write What You Don't Know: How to Trust Your Imagination to Create Fictional Worlds
FILLING
Cambridge Room
Virginia Pye
1G: Race and the Situation of the Writer in 2017
Stuart Room
David Mura
1H: Craft Compelling Prose and Increase Suspense Using Mystery and Thriller Writing Techniques
FILLING
Whittier Room
Stephanie Gayle • Emily Ross
1J: From Q to S to P (to R): A Big Q&A Focusing on Querying, Submitting, Publishing, (and Rejection)
FULL
White Hill Room
Emily Franklin • Maria Pinto
1K: How to Talk and Work With Editors
FILLING
Tremont Room
Adam McGee
1L: Microhistories: Writing Deeply about Narrow Subjects
Newbury Room
Kim Adrian
1M: Keep the Narrative Going: Effective Methods to Provide Context in Fiction
FULL
Back Bay Room
Dariel Suarez
12:00pm EDT
2A: The Writing Life
Charles River Room
Jabari Asim
2B: Essentials of Humor
Newbury Room
Steve Macone
2C: Writing Without Fear: How to Break Through Your Own Barriers and Be a Literary Badass
FILLING
Back Bay Room
Annie Hartnett
2D: All-Conference Read in NonFiction: Cinderland by Amy Jo Burns
White Hill Room
Amy Jo Burns • Richard Russo
2E: Beyond Almond Eyes and Chocolate Skin: Indicating Racial and Ethnic Identity
FILLING
Franklin Room
Sonya Larson • Cynthia Gunadi
2F: We the Narrators
Cabot Room
Val Wang
2G: A Publicity Primer for the Newly Published Author
FULL
Tremont Room
Taryn Roeder • Rachel Salzman
2H: 10 Rules for Writing Historical Fiction
Cambridge Room
Crystal King
2J: Making a Scene: Practical Tools to Analyze What's Working and What's Not
FILLING
Whittier Room
Julie Himes
2K: Writing the Marvelous
FILLING
St. James Room
Gabrielle Lucille Fuentes
2L: Spaces of Home and the Shape of the Story
Stuart Room
Denise Delgado
2M: How to Write a Mystery Novel
FULL
Beacon Hill Room
Hallie Ephron
1:00pm EDT
Lunch Break
TBA
2:15pm EDT
3A: Mix and Match: Image and Imitation
St. James Room
Abigail Maxwell
3B: Essentials of Point of View
FILLING
Tremont Room
Cynthia Gunadi
3C: Writing a Nonfiction Book Proposal
FILLING
Newbury Room
Jessica Papin
3D: Considerations for Writing LGBTQ Characters and Content
Franklin Room
Kelly J. Ford • Chris Goodwin • Jennie Wood
3E: Stealth Description
FILLING
Charles River Room
Daphne Kalotay
3F: The Perfect Pitch: Getting Media Attention for Your Book
FILLING
White Hill Room
Lynne Reeves Griffin • Katrin Schumann
3G: There Are Too Many Feelings! How to Write About the World When It Feels Like It's Moving Too Fast.
Cabot Room
Wendy S. Walters
3H: Half the Story: Writing for the Picture Book Market
Stuart Room
Holly Thompson
3J: The Changing Face of Publishing: What All Authors Need to Know
FULL
Whittier Room
April Eberhardt
3K: The Clock
FULL
Back Bay Room
Laura van den Berg
3L: Life Isn’t A Book Structure: Strategies for Shaping Memoir
FILLING
Beacon Hill Room
Alex Marzano-Lesnevich
3M: Do I Need to Explain That? On Cultural & Linguistic Translation
Cambridge Room
Sonya Larson • Jennifer De Leon • Celeste Ng
4:00pm EDT
4A: A Marketplace Primer for the Aspiring Writer of Literary Fiction
FILLING
White Hill Room
Peter Blackstock • Soumeya Roberts
4B: Race & Identity in Fiction & Nonfiction
FILLING
Stuart Room
David Mura
4C: Method Writing
Winthrop Room
Brunonia Barry
4D: Lessons from the Road: What Does It Really Take to Launch Your Novel?
FULL
Back Bay Room
Katherine Sherbrooke
4E: Experimental Uses of Form in Fiction
Newbury Room
Idra Novey
4F: How to be Interesting to Kids
St. James Room
Daniel Nayeri
4G: Finding and Writing the Story Worth Telling
FILLING
Whittier Room
Michelle Hoover
4H: Everybody’s Talking at Me: How Eliminating Multiple Points of View Might Save Your Novel (and Your Sanity)
Cabot Room
Lisa Borders
4J: X-Ray Writing: Techniques for Getting Closer to Your Characters (Section 1)
FILLING
Cambridge Room
Nathan Hill
4K: Understanding Amazon's Place in Writers' Lives
Franklin Room
Neal Thompson
4L: Essentials of Detail
Beacon Hill Room
Jane Dykema
4M: Let Me Clear My Throat: Voice in Narrative
FILLING
Tremont Room
Mike Scalise
4N: Setting Fiction in Other Cultures
Charles River Room
Marjan Kamali
5:15pm EDT
Lit Lounge
TBA
5:30pm EDT
Literary Walking Tour: The Hub of Literary America
TBA
Shop Talk Happy Hour
TBA
6:30pm EDT
Dinner Break
TBA
7:00pm EDT
Who Are We When We’re At Home: the Black Experience in Boston
TBA
Charles Coe • Renee Graham • Dr. Kerri Greenidge • Dr. S. Atyia Martin
7:30pm EDT
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Statler Room
Lynne Barrett • Sari Boren • Sean Van Deuren • Ron MacLean • Whitney Scharer • Michelle Seaton • Val Wang
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