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Friday
, April 5
10:15am EDT
1B: Narrative Unbound: Experimental Structures in Essays and Stories
FULL
Cambridge Room - 4th Floor
Sari Boren • Ron MacLean
1C: Writing Suspense
Franklin Room - 4th Floor
Michael Blanding
1E: Interiority in Fiction
Beacon Hill Room - 4th Floor
Tim Weed
1F: Revealing Exposition
FULL
Cabot Room - 4th Floor
Jon Pineda
1G: Object Lessons: An Exploration
FULL
St. James Room - 4th Floor
Laura van den Berg
1I: A Collection, a Book, a Conundrum: How to Make Your Short Story Collection Cohere
Charles River Room - 4th Floor
Steve Woodward
11:45am EDT
2A: Talking to Others and to Yourself: Using Dialogue and Interiority
FULL
Tremont Room - 4th Floor
Sumita Mukherji
2B: Writing a True Beginning, Middle, and End
Beacon Hill Room - 4th Floor
Alden Jones
2C: The Big Reveal, or Not: Sustaining Uncertainty in Fiction
Cambridge Room - 4th Floor
Idra Novey
2I: Don't Throw the Book Out With the Bathwater: On Dramatically Reenvisioning Your Manuscript
White Hill Room - 4th Floor
Mira Jacob • Celeste Ng
2J: Inventing the Real: Writing Fiction about Real People
Franklin Room - 4th Floor
Christopher Castellani
2M: Writing and Activism: A Crash-Course
St. James Room - 4th Floor
Garrard Conley
2:15pm EDT
3B: 10 Takeaways for Authors Writing Historical Fiction
Stuart Room - 4th Floor
Crystal King
3C: The Trouble with Backstory
FULL
Beacon Hill Room - 4th Floor
Katherine Sherbrooke
3E: Navel Gazing and Other Worthy Pursuits: A Character-Building Game
FULL
Cabot Room - 4th Floor
Angie Chatman • Athena Dixon
3H: Writing the Action Set-Piece
White Hill Room - 4th Floor
Benjamin Percy
3L: Plot Engine Tricks
Tremont Room - 4th Floor
Annie Hartnett
3:45pm EDT
4B: Going Global: Engaging with the World's Literatures
Gloucester Room - 4th Floor
Stacy Mattingly • Dariel Suarez
4D: The Oversight Draft: From Manuscript to Publishable Draft
Whittier Room - 4th Floor
Amina Gautier
4E: Establishing Authority
FULL
Beacon Hill Room - 4th Floor
Rob Spillman
4G: Writing on Race: Your Own Identity & the Identity of Others
Franklin Room - 4th Floor
David Mura
4H: Essentials of Humor
Cabot Room - 4th Floor
Steve Macone
4I: Small Gestures Make Big Characters
Tremont Room - 4th Floor
Becky Tuch
4K: Rewind, Fast Forward, Pause, Play: Negotiating Time in Fiction
Stuart Room - 4th Floor
Maya Lang
Saturday
, April 6
10:30am EDT
5B: Writing While Multilingual: How to Leverage Your Languages for Strong Fiction
Gloucester Room - 4th Floor
Anjali Duva
5H: Sex, Race, and Power: Writing About Taboos
FULL
Cambridge Room - 4th Floor
Maurice Carlos Ruffin
5I: The Revisionist: Using Your Inner Editor as a Writer
St. James Room - 4th Floor
Jennifer Baker
5J: Dare to Break the Ultimate Writing Rule: Why "Show Don't Tell" Is a Crock
FULL
Whittier Room - 4th Floor
Steve Almond
5K: The Sentence: A Love Story
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Charles River Room - 4th Floor
Rob Cohen
5L: Essentials of Structure
FULL
Tremont Room - 4th Floor
Adam Stumacher
1:00pm EDT
6A: First Page Clinic: Making the Most of It
White Hill Room - 4th Floor
Christopher Castellani • Michael Borum • Stephen McCauley • Mameve Medwed • Sebastian Stuart
6B: Lessons from the Novel Incubator
FULL
Gloucester Room - 4th Floor
Michelle Hoover
6D: All In: Raising the Stakes – and Making them Matter – in Fiction
Beacon Hill Room - 4th Floor
Ron MacLean
6E: The Literary Page Turner: Learning to Write with Both Pedals
FULL
Stuart Room - 4th Floor
Katie Bayerl
6G: Disentangling Time
FULL
St. James Room - 4th Floor
Lynne Barrett
6H: How I Wrote This: Discussion of THE ANSWERS, by Catherine Lacey
Exeter Room - Mezzanine Level
Catherine Lacey • Laura van den Berg
6J: The Inside/Outside Story: Balancing Character Emotion & Story Action
Tremont Room - 4th Floor
Lynne Griffin
6L: Image Systems
Cambridge Room - 4th Floor
Tim Weed
3:00pm EDT
7A: I Want You To Want Me: Using Desire to Create Complex Characters
FULL
Stuart Room - 4th Floor
Heather Abel
7D: Structuring a Novel with Good Bones
Beacon Hill Room - 4th Floor
Randy Susan Meyers
7F: It’s HOW You Say It: Exploring Voice in Fiction
FULL
Cambridge Room - 4th Floor
Mira T. Lee • Val Wang
7H: Person and Place: Writing Effective Settings
FULL
St. James Room - 4th Floor
Caitlin Horrocks
7J: Writing Dark Humor
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Charles River Room - 4th Floor
Nafissa Thompson-Spires
7K: Thrusting Swords and Quivering Orchids: How Not to Write Sex Scenes
Newbury Room - 4th Floor
Chip Cheek • Whitney Scharer
7L: On Writing Epic Novels: A Conversation with Min Jin Lee
White Hill Room - 4th Floor
Christine Pride • Min Jin Lee
7N: Blurred Boundaries: Blending Fiction & Non-Fiction
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Gloucester Room - 4th Floor
Tasneem Zehra Husain
4:30pm EDT
8A: Writing In the #MeToo Era
Cabot Room - 4th Floor
Krystal Sital
8B: Super-Powered Storytelling
Tremont Room - 4th Floor
Benjamin Percy
8F: Outlining: Charting Your Book to Reach Your Destination
Beacon Hill Room - 4th Floor
Jenna Blum
8I: Me, Myself, and I: Establishing and Sustaining First Person POV in an Entire Novel
Newbury Room - 4th Floor
Susan Bernhard
8K: Not so dear Jenny: Collaborating with Existing Texts
FULL
Gloucester Room - 4th Floor
Jennifer Tseng
8L: Irresistable Characters
FULL
Whittier Room - 4th Floor
Steve Almond
Sunday
, April 7
10:00am EDT
9A: Yeah You're Working, Building a Mystery
FULL
Beacon Hill Room - 4th Floor
Rebecca Makkai
9B: Crossing Paths: The Map of Opportunity in Story
Stuart Room - 4th Floor
Lynne Barrett
9E: Perfecting Voice in Historical Fiction
Franklin Room - 4th Floor
Virginia Pye
9H: She's Terrible, and I Love Her: On "Unlikable" Female Characters
White Hill Room - 4th Floor
Kelly J. Ford • Michelle Hoover
9I: Essentials of Flash Fiction and Nonfiction
Charles River Room - 4th Floor
Tyrese Coleman
9K: History Walks With Us: Mythology, Memory, & Fantasy in the World and in Fiction
Newbury Room - 4th Floor
Leslie Shipman
9L: Do Not Think: On Creating and Sustaining the Narrative "Dream"
Whittier Room - 4th Floor
Andre Dubus III
11:30am EDT
10A: The Textures and Music of Language: Learning from Poets
Tremont Room - 4th Floor
Ben Berman
10C: Literary Idol: Fiction Focus
White Hill Room - 4th Floor
Sorche Fairbank • Serene Hakim • Steve Macone • Kiana Nguyen • Steve Woodward
10F: Op-ed Writing for Novelists and Nonfiction Writers: Making Your Voice Heard in Polarizing Times
Newbury Room - 4th Floor
Linda K. Wertheimer
10H: Scene CPR
Cambridge Room - 4th Floor
Lisa Borders
10I: Killer First Sentences
St. James Room - 4th Floor
Spencer Wise
10E: Magic Carpet: Creating a Sense of Place in Fiction
Stuart Room - 4th Floor
Mitali Perkins
10L: Researching Into the Void
Beacon Hill Room - 4th Floor
Rebecca Makkai
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