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Muse & the Marketplace 2019

10:15am

1B: Narrative Unbound: Experimental Structures in Essays and Stories Cambridge Room - 4th FloorFULLSari Boren • Ron MacLean 1C: Writing Suspense Franklin Room - 4th FloorMichael Blanding 1J: It's All in the Details Newbury Room - 4th FloorFULLMarjan 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

2A: Talking to Others and to Yourself: Using Dialogue and Interiority Tremont Room - 4th FloorFULLSumita Mukherji 2B: Writing a True Beginning, Middle, and End Beacon Hill Room - 4th FloorAlden Jones 2D: Greater Than the Sum of the Parts: Transforming Personal Essays into a Book Stuart Room - 4th FloorFULLPatrice Gopo 2E: Nonfiction Idea Clinic Cabot Room - 4th FloorEthan Gilsdorf • Lucy Cleland • Tanya McKinnon • Jessica Papin 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

2:15pm

3A: Structure, Risk, and Meaning in Memoir Whittier Room - 4th FloorFULLAlex Marzano-Lesnevich 3C: The Trouble with Backstory Beacon Hill Room - 4th FloorFULLKatherine Sherbrooke 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

3:45pm

4A: Developing Your Nonfiction Book Charles River Room - 4th FloorFULLKatrin 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 FloorFULLAlysia Abbott • Caitlin McGill 4D: The Oversight Draft: From Manuscript to Publishable Draft Whittier Room - 4th FloorFULLAmina Gautier 4E: Establishing Authority Beacon Hill Room - 4th FloorFULLRob Spillman 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

10:30am

5C: Literary Idol: Nonfiction Focus Newbury Room - 4th FloorAshley Lopez • Steve Macone • Rakesh Satyal • Janet Silver • Mitchell Waters 5E: "Dare I Disturb the Universe?" Writing Dangerous Nonfiction Stuart Room - 4th FloorAlex Marzano-Lesnevich 5H: Sex, Race, and Power: Writing About Taboos Cambridge Room - 4th FloorFULLMaurice Carlos Ruffin 5I: The Revisionist: Using Your Inner Editor as a Writer St. James Room - 4th FloorFULLJennifer Baker 5J: Dare to Break the Ultimate Writing Rule: Why "Show Don't Tell" Is a Crock Whittier Room - 4th FloorFULLSteve Almond 5K: The Sentence: A Love Story Charles River Room - 4th FloorFULLRob Cohen 5L: Essentials of Structure Tremont Room - 4th FloorFULLAdam Stumacher

1:00pm

6A: First Page Clinic: Making the Most of It White Hill Room - 4th FloorChristopher Castellani • Michael Borum • Stephen McCauley • Mameve Medwed • Sebastian Stuart 6G: Disentangling Time St. James Room - 4th FloorFULLLynne Barrett 6J: The Inside/Outside Story: Balancing Character Emotion & Story Action Tremont Room - 4th FloorLynne Griffin 6L: Image Systems Cambridge Room - 4th FloorTim Weed

3:00pm

7H: Person and Place: Writing Effective Settings St. James Room - 4th FloorFULLCaitlin Horrocks 7I: Elements of Nonfiction: Structure, Premise and Style Franklin Room - 4th FloorFULLJabari Asim 7M: The Perfect Pitch Cabot Room - 4th FloorFULLMarie Myung-Ok Lee 7N: Blurred Boundaries: Blending Fiction & Non-Fiction Gloucester Room - 4th FloorFULLTasneem Zehra Husain

4:30pm

8H: Blacks Writing Truth to Power: Narrative Choices for Fearless Nonfiction Stuart Room - 4th FloorE Dolores Johnson 8K: Not so dear Jenny: Collaborating with Existing Texts Gloucester Room - 4th FloorFULLJennifer Tseng 8L: Irresistable Characters Whittier Room - 4th FloorFULLSteve Almond 8M: How I Wrote This: Discussion of THIS WILL BE MY UNDOING by Morgan Jerkins Exeter Room - Mezzanine LevelMorgan Jerkins • Kim McLarin

10:00am

9A: Yeah You're Working, Building a Mystery Beacon Hill Room - 4th FloorFULLRebecca Makkai 9I: Essentials of Flash Fiction and Nonfiction Charles River Room - 4th FloorTyrese Coleman 9L: Do Not Think: On Creating and Sustaining the Narrative "Dream" Whittier Room - 4th FloorAndre Dubus III 9M: Let Me Tell You a Story About My Kids (GROAN!!!) Gloucester Room - 4th FloorJane Roper • Calvin Hennick

11:30am

10A: The Textures and Music of Language: Learning from Poets Tremont Room - 4th FloorBen Berman 10F: Op-ed Writing for Novelists and Nonfiction Writers: Making Your Voice Heard in Polarizing Times Newbury Room - 4th FloorLinda K. Wertheimer 10G: Improve Your Freelance Game Cabot Room - 4th FloorWillona Sloan 10H: Scene CPR Cambridge Room - 4th FloorLisa Borders 10I: Killer First Sentences St. James Room - 4th FloorSpencer Wise 10K: How to Sell a Memoir If You Aren’t a Celebrity or a Politician Whittier Room - 4th FloorCatherine Guthrie 10L: Researching Into the Void Beacon Hill Room - 4th FloorFULLRebecca Makkai