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7:30am EDT

Registration, Hot Breakfast Buffet, Bookstore & Authors' Bazaar Browsing TBA

9:00am EDT

Welcoming Convocation + Keynote: Luis Alberto Urrea TBALuís Alberto Urrea • Sonya Larson

10:15am EDT

1A: Fund Your Writing Passion Stuart Room - 4th FloorVanessa Hua 1B: Narrative Unbound: Experimental Structures in Essays and StoriesFULL Cambridge Room - 4th FloorSari Boren • Ron MacLean 1C: Writing Suspense Franklin Room - 4th FloorMichael Blanding 1D: Researching and Choosing Agents to QueryFULL Tremont Room - 4th FloorLouise Miller 1E: Interiority in Fiction Beacon Hill Room - 4th FloorTim Weed 1F: Revealing ExpositionFULL Cabot Room - 4th FloorJon Pineda 1G: Object Lessons: An ExplorationFULL St. James Room - 4th FloorLaura van den Berg 1H: First Impressions: How to Hook an Agent or Editor with Your Opening Pages Whittier Room - 4th FloorAmaryah Orenstein 1I: A Collection, a Book, a Conundrum: How to Make Your Short Story Collection Cohere Charles River Room - 4th FloorSteve Woodward 1J: It's All in the DetailsFULL Newbury Room - 4th FloorMarjan Kamali 1K: Telling a Story with Your Nonfiction Book Proposal White Hill Room - 4th FloorTanya McKinnon • Michelle Seaton 1L: Lessons from the Memoir Incubator Gloucester Room - 4th FloorAlysia Abbott • Garrard Conley

11:45am EDT

2A: Talking to Others and to Yourself: Using Dialogue and InteriorityFULL Tremont Room - 4th FloorSumita Mukherji 2B: Writing a True Beginning, Middle, and End Beacon Hill Room - 4th FloorAlden Jones 2C: The Big Reveal, or Not: Sustaining Uncertainty in Fiction Cambridge Room - 4th FloorIdra Novey 2D: Greater Than the Sum of the Parts: Transforming Personal Essays into a BookFULL Stuart Room - 4th FloorPatrice Gopo 2E: Nonfiction Idea Clinic Cabot Room - 4th FloorEthan Gilsdorf • Lucy Cleland • Tanya McKinnon • Jessica Papin 2F: You've Been Acquired. Now What?FULL Newbury Room - 4th FloorLatoya Smith 2H: The Changing Face of Publishing: What All Authors Need to KnowFULL Whittier Room - 4th FloorApril Eberhardt 2I: Don't Throw the Book Out With the Bathwater: On Dramatically Reenvisioning Your Manuscript White Hill Room - 4th FloorMira Jacob • Celeste Ng 2J: Inventing the Real: Writing Fiction about Real People Franklin Room - 4th FloorChristopher Castellani 2K: Wired for Success: Neurodiversity in Writing and the Writing Life Gloucester Room - 4th FloorRobin Black • Denise Delgado 2L: Writing About Trauma Without Losing It Charles River Room - 4th FloorAnuradha Bhagwati 2M: Writing and Activism: A Crash-Course St. James Room - 4th FloorGarrard Conley

1:00pm EDT

Lunch Break TBA

2:15pm EDT

3A: Structure, Risk, and Meaning in Memoir Whittier Room - 4th FloorAlex Marzano-Lesnevich 3B: 10 Takeaways for Authors Writing Historical Fiction Stuart Room - 4th FloorCrystal King 3C: The Trouble with BackstoryFULL Beacon Hill Room - 4th FloorKatherine Sherbrooke 3D: Working With Book Publicists Cambridge Room - 4th FloorTaryn Roeder • Rachel Salzman 3E: Navel Gazing and Other Worthy Pursuits: A Character-Building GameFULL Cabot Room - 4th FloorAngie Chatman • Athena Dixon 3F: Queery-ing: How to Snag an Agent as a Queer Author St. James Room - 4th FloorMilo Todd 3G: Fellowships, Residencies, Contests, and Grants, Oh My! Franklin Room - 4th FloorAmina Gautier 3H: Writing the Action Set-Piece White Hill Room - 4th FloorBenjamin Percy 3I: Getting Noticed, Read and Understood on Sensitive Topics Charles River Room - 4th FloorMary C. Curtis 3J: A Nice Problem to Have: A Guide to Publishers and How to Compare ThemFULL Newbury Room - 4th FloorJonah Straus 3K: Essentials of Style Gloucester Room - 4th FloorTim Horvath 3L: Plot Engine Tricks Tremont Room - 4th FloorAnnie Hartnett

3:15pm EDT

Break TBA

3:45pm EDT

4A: Developing Your Nonfiction BookFULL Charles River Room - 4th FloorKatrin Schumann 4B: Going Global: Engaging with the World's Literatures Gloucester Room - 4th FloorStacy Mattingly • Dariel Suarez 4C: From Personal History to Social History: How To Get Beyond the ME in Memoir Cambridge Room - 4th FloorAlysia Abbott • Caitlin McGill 4D: The Oversight Draft: From Manuscript to Publishable Draft Whittier Room - 4th FloorAmina Gautier 4E: Establishing AuthorityFULL Beacon Hill Room - 4th FloorRob Spillman 4F: Don't Get Stuck in the Slush: 10 (MORE) Pitfalls to Avoid When Submitting to Literary MagazinesFULL St. James Room - 4th FloorNate Brown 4G: Writing on Race: Your Own Identity & the Identity of Others Franklin Room - 4th FloorDavid Mura 4H: Essentials of Humor Cabot Room - 4th FloorSteve Macone 4I: Small Gestures Make Big Characters Tremont Room - 4th FloorBecky Tuch 4J: Query Clinic: Live Feedback on Query Letters White Hill Room - 4th FloorSorche Fairbank • Ayesha Pande 4K: Rewind, Fast Forward, Pause, Play: Negotiating Time in Fiction Stuart Room - 4th FloorMaya Lang 4L: Hey! Help! What’s the Difference Between Middle-Grade, Young Adult, and Adult with a Young Protagonist? Newbury Room - 4th FloorKatie Grimm • Annie Hartnett

5:00pm EDT

Lit Lounge Cocktail Hour TBA

5:30pm EDT

The Aevitas Shop Talk Happy Hour TBA

6:45pm EDT

Spitballing...Returns! Berkeley/Clarendon - Mezzanine LevelMichelle Seaton • Sari Boren • Sean Van Deuren • Celeste Ng • Whitney Scharer • Ron MacLean