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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
Spitballing Event
Statler Room
Lynne Barrett • Sari Boren • Sean Van Deuren • Ron MacLean • Whitney Scharer • Michelle Seaton • Val Wang
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
Sunday
, May 7
8:30am EDT
Breakfast, Bookstore and Authors’ Bazaar Browsing
TBA
10:00am EDT
9A: Essentials of First Person Point of View
Cambridge Room
Stacy Mattingly
9B: Literary Idol: Fiction Focus
FILLING
White Hill Room
Miriam Altshuler • Sorche Fairbank • Erin Harris • Rachel Letofsky
9C: You Know More Than You Think
Stuart Room
Tasneem Zehra Husain
9D: The Art of the Promotional Elevator Pitch
Back Bay Room
Sharon Bially
9E: How To Be Your Own Best Editor
FULL
Tremont Room
Ann Hood
9F: New Digital Tools: Make Your Social Media Marketing Easier and More Effective
FILLING
Franklin Room
Fauzia Burke
9G: Talking to the Master: Writing Short Stories That Respond to Others
Winthrop Room
Laura Spence-Ash
9H: Five Pillars of Place: Setting in Memoir
Beacon Hill Room
Amy Jo Burns
9J: Writing Through Your Blocks
Cabot Room
Nadia Colburn
9K: Stick Figure Structure: A Quick & Easy Way to Find Your Missing Plot Points (Section 2)
FILLING
Whittier Room
Hannah Tinti
9L: Tackling Tragedy in Young Adult With Different Mediums
St. James Room
Lilliam Rivera
9M: The Motivated Writer
Newbury Room
Henriette Lazaridis
9N: Unreliable Narrators
Charles River Room
Amity Gaige
11:30am EDT
10A: More Than 'Making It Work': How to Make Real Money Writing
FILLING
Cambridge Room
Calvin Hennick
10B: Literary Idol: Non-Fiction Focus
White Hill Room
Lisa Grubka • Steve Macone • Monica Odom • Amaryah Orenstein • Anjali Singh
10C: Demystifying Publishing Deals
FULL
Whittier Room
Marisa Corvisiero
10D: Many Paths to Publishing: On the Democratization of Literary Publishing & Finding YOUR Best Path
Franklin Room
Sonya Chung
10E: Research in Service to the Story— Story in Service to Research
Stuart Room
Peter Bebergal • Steven Beeber
10F: Telling a Story with Your Book Proposal
Back Bay Room
Michelle Seaton
10G: Dramatis Personae, or What Are All These Characters Doing in Your Story?
FULL
Tremont Room
Lynne Barrett
10H: Stalking the Self: Developing a Point of View in Memoir
Cabot Room
Janet Pocorobba
10J: Truth and Taboo: Writing Past Shame
St. James Room
Dawn Dorland
10K: Essaying Identity: Finding Voice in Hybrid and Mixed Genre Forms
Charles River Room
Jericho Parms
10L: Creative Problem Solving for Novelists in Progress
Newbury Room
Crystal King
10M: Lessons from the Novel Incubator
FULL
Beacon Hill Room
Michelle Hoover
1:00pm EDT
Marketplace Keynote: 'The Strategic Writer'
FILLING
Grand Ballroom
Porter Anderson • Michael Bible • Christopher Castellani • Robin Cutler • Lynne Reeves Griffin • Mira T. Lee • Whitney Peeling • Deborah Plummer • Katrin Schumann • Michael Taeckens • Michelle Toth
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