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Saturday
, May 6
7:30am EDT
Registration, Hot Breakfast Buffet, Bookstore and Authors’ Bazaar Browsing
TBA
9:00am EDT
Mid-Muse Keynote: Isabel Wilkerson
FILLING
Grand Ballroom
Isabel Wilkerson
10:15am EDT
5A: What Literary Magazine Are You? Get to Know 5 Literary Magazines Up Close and Personal
Stuart Room
Jenn Scheck-Kahn
5B: Query Lab
FILLING
Whittier Room
Sorche Fairbank • Ayesha Pande
5C: Disentangling Time
FILLING
Cambridge Room
Lynne Barrett
5D: Media Training: Represent Your Work With Style
Franklin Room
Lynne Reeves Griffin • Katrin Schumann
5E: 4 Lies People Will Tell You About Marketing Your Novel
Newbury Room
Barbara Ross
5F: Essentials of Suspense in Memoir
FULL
Tremont Room
Garrard Conley
5G: What She Writes and How She Publishes It
Constitution Room
Jeanne Blasberg • Nadine Johnstone • Cait Levin
5H: Agents and Editors of Color Roundtable
FULL
Charles River Room
Sonya Larson • Reiko Davis • Celeste Ng • Rakesh Satyal • Tracy Sherrod • Anjali Singh
5J: Action Talks: Revealing Character Through Behavior
FULL
Back Bay Room
Elizabeth Brundage
5K: Keep the Pages Turning: The Art of Pacing
FILLING
White Hill Room
Heather Webb
5L: Magic Carpet: Creating a Sense of Place in Fiction
Cabot Room
Mitali Perkins
5M: The Author is a Lonely Hunter: Finding Your Stories
Winthrop Room
Mitchell Zuckoff
5N: Write in the Feels: Fictional Emotion
Beacon Hill Room
Mia Alvar
5P: Essentials of Voice in Fiction
St. James Room
Tim Weed
11:45am EDT
6A: Getting Noticed, Read, and Understood on Sensitive Topics
FILLING
St. James Room
Mary C. Curtis
6B: From the O. Henry Files: Practical Advice for Writing and Submitting Short Stories
FULL
Cambridge Room
Kelly Luce
6C: The Relationship Between Bookstores & Authors: The Good, The Bad, The Wonderful
Beacon Hill Room
Mary Cotton • Katie Eelman • Randy Susan Meyers
6D: Sounds Like a Book: Voice, Rhythm, and the Music of Prose
FILLING
Constitution Room
Tim Horvath
6E: Tell It Slant : Cross-Genre Innovations
FULL
Winthrop Room
Lidia Yuknavitch
6F: The Art of Setting
Franklin Room
Carter Sickels
6G: All in the Details
Stuart Room
Mario Zambrano
6H: What's Your Creative Type?
FILLING
Cabot Room
Meta Wagner
6J: Stick Figure Structure: A Quick & Easy Way to Find Your Missing Plot Points (Section 1)
FULL
Whittier Room
Hannah Tinti
6K: In the Meantime: The Writer's Life While Waiting
Newbury Room
Jennifer Brown
6L: Essentials of Dialogue
FILLING
Back Bay Room
Grace Talusan
6M: Writing Suspense
FILLING
White Hill Room
Michael Blanding
6N: 'There’s No Market for That!' How to Make the Specific Universal
FILLING
Tremont Room
Katie Bannon
12:45pm EDT
Lunch Break
TBA
2:00pm EDT
7A: Writing Like an Editor
FILLING
Stuart Room
Rakesh Satyal
7B: 7 Key Questions You Need to Answer to Successfully Publish Your Nonfiction Book
FILLING
Cambridge Room
Katrin Schumann
7C: Rethinking Horror
FILLING
Winthrop Room
Paul La Farge
7D: The Sublime Possibilities of Historical Fiction
Newbury Room
Sabina
7E: How To Write A Kick-Ass Essay
FULL
Beacon Hill Room
Ann Hood
7F: The 3-Step Formula for Building an Author Platform
FULL
White Hill Room
Fauzia Burke
7G: Developing Your Memoir
FILLING
St. James Room
Paul Lisicky
7H: Navigating Book Publicity: From Galleys through Post-Publication
Franklin Room
Whitney Peeling • Michael Taeckens
7J: How I Write: Finding the Right Time, Place, Music and Drink
Cabot Room
Laura van den Berg • Neal Thompson • Mitchell Zuckoff
7K: Sell Your Story in a Single Sentence
FILLING
Whittier Room
Lane Shefter Bishop
7L: X-Ray Writing: Techniques for Getting Closer to Your Characters (Section 2)
FILLING
Tremont Room
Nathan Hill
7M: Structuring the Novel
FULL
Back Bay Room
Adam Stumacher
3:45pm EDT
8D: Publish. Promote. Profit. How Top Self-Published Authors Promote - and Sell - Their Books
Winthrop Room
Steven Spatz
8A: Me & I: Duality of the First Person Pronoun in Memoir and Personal Essay
Franklin Room
Natalie Serber
8B: Dialogue in Fiction: How Art Does Not Imitate Life
FILLING
Tremont Room
John Hough
8C: When Facts Fail Us: Nonfiction Writing Beyond the Limits of Fact
Cabot Room
Dawn Dorland
8E: You're the Boss: Taking Control of Your Book's Promotion Plan
Back Bay Room
Anjali Mitter Duva
8F: Layering: A Structured Approach to Revision (Section II)
FILLING
Whittier Room
Chaitali Sen
8G: Your First Page Workshop
FULL
White Hill Room
Ann Hood • Stephen McCauley • Mameve Medwed • Sebastian Stuart
8H: Going Public: An Honest Conversation About Publishing Memoir
FILLING
Cambridge Room
Alex Marzano-Lesnevich • Mike Scalise
8J: Two Brains Are Better: How to Write Collaboratively
Constitution Room
Ron MacLean • Michelle Seaton
8K: Non-Fiction Idea Clinic
Stuart Room
Caroline Eisenmann • Ethan Gilsdorf • Rachel Salzman • Mitchell Waters • Steve Woodward
8L: All-Conference Read in Fiction: Him Me Muhammad Ali by Randa Jarrar, In Conversation with Lidia Yuknavitch
FILLING
St. James Room
Randa Jarrar • Lidia Yuknavitch
8M: Let’s Hear It: Creating Memorable Voices in Fiction
FILLING
Beacon Hill Room
Mira T. Lee
8N: Right Place Right Time
Newbury Room
James Scott
5:00pm EDT
Lit Lounge
TBA
5:30pm EDT
Literary Walking Tour: Literary Beacon Hill: The 20th Century
TBA
6:30pm EDT
Dinner Break
TBA
8:00pm EDT
Grub Turns Twenty: Forever Young
TBA
Celeste Ng • Carter Sickels • Lidia Yuknavitch • Mario Zambrano
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