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Friday
, May 5
10:30am EDT
1B: Essentials of Structure
FULL
Beacon Hill Room
Dorian Fox
1D: Layering: A Structured Approach to Revision (Section I)
FILLING
Cabot Room
Chaitali Sen
1M: Keep the Narrative Going: Effective Methods to Provide Context in Fiction
FULL
Back Bay Room
Dariel Suarez
12:00pm EDT
2F: We the Narrators
Cabot Room
Val Wang
2L: Spaces of Home and the Shape of the Story
Stuart Room
Denise Delgado
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
3E: Stealth Description
FILLING
Charles River Room
Daphne Kalotay
3K: The Clock
FULL
Back Bay Room
Laura van den Berg
4:00pm EDT
4E: Experimental Uses of Form in Fiction
Newbury Room
Idra Novey
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
4L: Essentials of Detail
Beacon Hill Room
Jane Dykema
4M: Let Me Clear My Throat: Voice in Narrative
FILLING
Tremont Room
Mike Scalise
Saturday
, May 6
10:15am EDT
5C: Disentangling Time
FILLING
Cambridge Room
Lynne Barrett
5K: Keep the Pages Turning: The Art of Pacing
FILLING
White Hill Room
Heather Webb
5N: Write in the Feels: Fictional Emotion
Beacon Hill Room
Mia Alvar
11:45am EDT
6B: From the O. Henry Files: Practical Advice for Writing and Submitting Short Stories
FULL
Cambridge Room
Kelly Luce
6D: Sounds Like a Book: Voice, Rhythm, and the Music of Prose
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Constitution Room
Tim Horvath
6F: The Art of Setting
Franklin Room
Carter Sickels
6J: Stick Figure Structure: A Quick & Easy Way to Find Your Missing Plot Points (Section 1)
FULL
Whittier Room
Hannah Tinti
2:00pm EDT
7A: Writing Like an Editor
FILLING
Stuart Room
Rakesh Satyal
7L: X-Ray Writing: Techniques for Getting Closer to Your Characters (Section 2)
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Tremont Room
Nathan Hill
7M: Structuring the Novel
FULL
Back Bay Room
Adam Stumacher
3:45pm EDT
8F: Layering: A Structured Approach to Revision (Section II)
FILLING
Whittier Room
Chaitali Sen
8L: All-Conference Read in Fiction: Him Me Muhammad Ali by Randa Jarrar, In Conversation with Lidia Yuknavitch
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St. James Room
Randa Jarrar • Lidia Yuknavitch
8M: Let’s Hear It: Creating Memorable Voices in Fiction
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Beacon Hill Room
Mira T. Lee
8N: Right Place Right Time
Newbury Room
James Scott
Sunday
, May 7
10:00am EDT
9A: Essentials of First Person Point of View
Cambridge Room
Stacy Mattingly
9E: How To Be Your Own Best Editor
FULL
Tremont Room
Ann Hood
9G: Talking to the Master: Writing Short Stories That Respond to Others
Winthrop Room
Laura Spence-Ash
9K: Stick Figure Structure: A Quick & Easy Way to Find Your Missing Plot Points (Section 2)
FILLING
Whittier Room
Hannah Tinti
9N: Unreliable Narrators
Charles River Room
Amity Gaige
11:30am EDT
10E: Research in Service to the Story— Story in Service to Research
Stuart Room
Peter Bebergal • Steven Beeber
10G: Dramatis Personae, or What Are All These Characters Doing in Your Story?
FULL
Tremont Room
Lynne Barrett
10M: Lessons from the Novel Incubator
FULL
Beacon Hill Room
Michelle Hoover
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