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Barbara Dumas
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
1H: Craft Compelling Prose and Increase Suspense Using Mystery and Thriller Writing Techniques
FILLING
Whittier Room
Stephanie Gayle • Emily Ross
12:00pm EDT
2A: The Writing Life
Charles River Room
Jabari Asim
2D: All-Conference Read in NonFiction: Cinderland by Amy Jo Burns
White Hill Room
Amy Jo Burns • Richard Russo
2:15pm EDT
3K: The Clock
FULL
Back Bay Room
Laura van den Berg
4:00pm EDT
4J: X-Ray Writing: Techniques for Getting Closer to Your Characters (Section 1)
FILLING
Cambridge Room
Nathan Hill
5:15pm EDT
Lit Lounge
TBA
6:30pm EDT
Dinner Break
TBA
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
9:00am EDT
Mid-Muse Keynote: Isabel Wilkerson
FILLING
Grand Ballroom
Isabel Wilkerson
10:15am EDT
5L: Magic Carpet: Creating a Sense of Place in Fiction
Cabot Room
Mitali Perkins
11:45am EDT
6F: The Art of Setting
Franklin Room
Carter Sickels
12:45pm EDT
Lunch Break
TBA
2:00pm EDT
7L: X-Ray Writing: Techniques for Getting Closer to Your Characters (Section 2)
FILLING
Tremont Room
Nathan Hill
3:45pm EDT
8G: Your First Page Workshop
FULL
White Hill Room
Ann Hood • Stephen McCauley • Mameve Medwed • Sebastian Stuart
5:00pm EDT
Lit Lounge
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
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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Bridging the Literary-Commercial Divide
Children & Young Adult Writing and Publishing
Fundamentals of Fiction & NonFiction
Literary Fiction Track
Living Like a Writer Track
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Publicity & Promotion Track
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