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7:30am EDT

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

9:00am EDT

Mid-Muse Keynote: Stacey D'Erasmo on Writing in a Time of Upheaval TBAStacey D'Erasmo

10:30am EDT

5A: Social Media Hack: Using Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter to Authentically Engage (and Not Annoy) ReadersFULL White Hill Room - 4th FloorJenna Blum • Sara DiVello 5B: Writing While Multilingual: How to Leverage Your Languages for Strong Fiction Gloucester Room - 4th FloorAnjali Duva 5C: Literary Idol: Nonfiction Focus Newbury Room - 4th FloorAshley Lopez • Steve Macone • Rakesh Satyal • Janet Silver • Mitchell Waters 5D: Demystifying Publishing DealsFULL Beacon Hill Room - 4th FloorMarisa Corvisiero 5E: "Dare I Disturb the Universe?" Writing Dangerous Nonfiction Stuart Room - 4th FloorAlex Marzano-Lesnevich 5F: From Your Room to Outer Space: World-Building in Young Adult FictionFULL Franklin Room - 4th FloorLilliam Rivera 5G: Writing as an Encore Career: Using What You Know for Greater Personal Meaning, Social Impact and Continued Income Cabot Room - 4th FloorDeborah Plummer 5H: Sex, Race, and Power: Writing About TaboosFULL Cambridge Room - 4th FloorMaurice Carlos Ruffin 5I: The Revisionist: Using Your Inner Editor as a Writer St. James Room - 4th FloorJennifer Baker 5J: Dare to Break the Ultimate Writing Rule: Why "Show Don't Tell" Is a CrockFULL Whittier Room - 4th FloorSteve Almond 5K: The Sentence: A Love StoryFULL Charles River Room - 4th FloorRob Cohen 5L: Essentials of StructureFULL Tremont Room - 4th FloorAdam Stumacher

11:45am EDT

Lunch Break TBA

1:00pm EDT

6A: First Page Clinic: Making the Most of It White Hill Room - 4th FloorChristopher Castellani • Michael Borum • Stephen McCauley • Mameve Medwed • Sebastian Stuart 6B: Lessons from the Novel IncubatorFULL Gloucester Room - 4th FloorMichelle Hoover 6C: You Need A Website! A Practical Guide to the What, Why, and How of Building Your First Author WebsiteFULL Franklin Room - 4th FloorLi Yun Alvarado 6D: All In: Raising the Stakes – and Making them Matter – in Fiction Beacon Hill Room - 4th FloorRon MacLean 6E: The Literary Page Turner: Learning to Write with Both PedalsFULL Stuart Room - 4th FloorKatie Bayerl 6F: The Big Q’s: What to Ask Prospective Agents Whittier Room - 4th FloorAmy Bishop 6G: Disentangling TimeFULL St. James Room - 4th FloorLynne Barrett 6H: How I Wrote This: Discussion of THE ANSWERS, by Catherine Lacey Exeter Room - Mezzanine LevelCatherine Lacey • Laura van den Berg 6I: What Booksellers Want Authors to KnowFULL Cabot Room - 4th FloorLeah DeCesare • Allison Hoch 6J: The Inside/Outside Story: Balancing Character Emotion & Story Action Tremont Room - 4th FloorLynne Griffin 6K: Agents & Editors of Color RoundtableFULL Newbury Room - 4th FloorJennifer Baker • Anuradha Bhagwati • Cherise Fisher • Emi Ikkanda • Rakesh Satyal • DongWon Song 6L: Image Systems Cambridge Room - 4th FloorTim Weed

2:30pm EDT

Break TBA

3:00pm EDT

7A: I Want You To Want Me: Using Desire to Create Complex CharactersFULL Stuart Room - 4th FloorHeather Abel 7B: Anatomy of a Query LetterFULL Whittier Room - 4th FloorAnnie Hwang 7D: Structuring a Novel with Good Bones Beacon Hill Room - 4th FloorRandy Susan Meyers 7F: It’s HOW You Say It: Exploring Voice in FictionFULL Cambridge Room - 4th FloorMira T. Lee • Val Wang 7H: Person and Place: Writing Effective SettingsFULL St. James Room - 4th FloorCaitlin Horrocks 7I: Elements of Nonfiction: Structure, Premise and StyleFULL Franklin Room - 4th FloorJabari Asim 7J: Writing Dark HumorFULL Charles River Room - 4th FloorNafissa Thompson-Spires 7K: Thrusting Swords and Quivering Orchids: How Not to Write Sex Scenes Newbury Room - 4th FloorChip Cheek • Whitney Scharer 7L: On Writing Epic Novels: A Conversation with Min Jin Lee White Hill Room - 4th FloorChristine Pride • Min Jin Lee 7M: The Perfect PitchFULL Cabot Room - 4th FloorMarie Myung-Ok Lee 7N: Blurred Boundaries: Blending Fiction & Non-FictionFULL Gloucester Room - 4th FloorTasneem Zehra Husain

4:30pm EDT

8A: Writing In the #MeToo Era Cabot Room - 4th FloorKrystal Sital 8B: Super-Powered Storytelling Tremont Room - 4th FloorBenjamin Percy 8C: Breaking The Rules: Writing Without an MFAFULL Cambridge Room - 4th FloorNeel Patel 8D: Reject Rejection: On Fueling Your Work Instead of Your DoubtsFULL St. James Room - 4th FloorNicole Blades 8E: Hybrid Publishing: How it Works and What it's Like Franklin Room - 4th FloorJeanne Blasberg 8F: Outlining: Charting Your Book to Reach Your Destination Beacon Hill Room - 4th FloorJenna Blum 8G: Publishing Young Adult, Middle Grade, and Children's Books: Ask a Rockstar Editor White Hill Room - 4th FloorRachel Barenbaum • Beverly Horowitz 8H: Blacks Writing Truth to Power: Narrative Choices for Fearless Nonfiction Stuart Room - 4th FloorE Dolores Johnson 8I: Me, Myself, and I: Establishing and Sustaining First Person POV in an Entire Novel Newbury Room - 4th FloorSusan Bernhard 8J: Twitter for (Writer) Dummies Charles River Room - 4th FloorMitali Perkins 8K: Not so dear Jenny: Collaborating with Existing TextsFULL Gloucester Room - 4th FloorJennifer Tseng 8L: Irresistable CharactersFULL Whittier Room - 4th FloorSteve Almond 8M: How I Wrote This: Discussion of THIS WILL BE MY UNDOING by Morgan Jerkins Exeter Room - Mezzanine LevelMorgan Jerkins • Kim McLarin

5:30pm EDT

Lit Lounge Cocktail Hour TBA Writers, Agents, and Editors of Color Meet-Up TBA

8:30pm EDT

All-Conference Party Democracy Brewing