Muse & the Marketplace 2019

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Muse & the Marketplace 2019

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10:15am

1B: Narrative Unbound: Experimental Structures in Essays and Stories TBASari Boren • Ron MacLean 1C: Writing Suspense TBAMichael Blanding 1J: It's All in the Details TBAMarjan Kamali 1K: Telling a Story with Your Nonfiction Book Proposal TBATanya McKinnon • Michelle Seaton

11:45am

2A: Talking to Others and to Yourself: Using Dialogue and Interiority TBASumita Mukherji 2B: Writing a True Beginning, Middle, and End TBAAlden Jones 2D: Greater Than the Sum of the Parts: Transforming Personal Essays into a Book TBAPatrice Gopo 2E: Nonfiction Idea Clinic TBALucy Cleland • Tanya McKinnon • Jessica Papin 2L: Writing About Trauma Without Losing It TBAAnuradha Bhagwati

2:15pm

3A: Structure, Risk, and Meaning in Memoir TBAFILLINGAlex Marzano-Lesnevich 3C: The Trouble with Backstory TBAKatherine Sherbrooke 3H: Writing the Action Set-Piece TBABenjamin Percy 3I: Getting Noticed, Read and Understood on Sensitive Topics TBAMary C. Curtis

3:45pm

4A: Developing Your Nonfiction Book TBAKatrin Schumann 4B: Going Global: Engaging with the World's Literatures TBAStacy Mattingly • Dariel Suarez 4C: From Personal History to Social History: How To Get Beyond the ME in Memoir TBAAlysia Abbott • Caitlin McGill 4D: The Oversight Draft: From Manuscript to Publishable Draft TBAFILLINGAmina Gautier 4E: Establishing Authority TBARob Spillman 4H: Essentials of Humor TBASteve Macone 4I: Small Gestures Make Big Characters TBABecky Tuch

10:30am

5C: Literary Idol: Nonfiction Focus TBAAshley Lopez • Rakesh Satyal • Janet Silver • Mitchell Waters 5E: "Dare I Disturb the Universe?" Writing Dangerous Nonfiction TBAAlex Marzano-Lesnevich 5H: Sex, Race, and Power: Writing About Taboos TBAMaurice Ruffin 5I: The Revisionist: Using Your Inner Editor as a Writer TBAJennifer Baker 5J: Dare to Break the Ultimate Writing Rule: Why "Show Don't Tell" Is a Crock TBAFILLINGSteve Almond 5K: The Sentence: A Love Story TBARob Cohen 5L: Essentials of Structure TBAAdam Stumacher

1:00pm

6A: First Page Clinic: Making the Most of It TBAElinor Lipman • Stephen McCauley • Mameve Medwed • Sebastian Stuart 6G: Disentangling Time TBALynne Barrett 6J: The Inside/Outside Story: Balancing Character Emotion & Story Action TBALynne Griffin 6L: Image Systems TBATim Weed

3:00pm

7C: Writing on Race: Your Own Identity & the Identity of Others TBADavid Mura 7H: Person and Place: Writing Effective Settings TBACaitlin Horrocks 7I: Elements of Nonfiction: Structure, Premise and Style TBAJabari Asim 7M: The Perfect Pitch TBAMarie Myung-Ok Lee 7N: Blurred Boundaries: Blending Fiction & Non-Fiction TBATasneem Zehra Husain

4:30pm

8H: Writing Truth to Power: Effective Techniques for Bold and Fearless Nonfiction TBAE Dolores Johnson 8K: Not so dear Jenny: Collaborating with Existing Texts TBAJennifer Tseng 8L: Irresistable Characters TBASteve Almond

10:00am

9A: Yeah You're Working, Building a Mystery TBARebecca Makkai 9I: Essentials of Flash Fiction and Nonfiction TBATyrese Coleman 9L: Do Not Think: On Creating and Sustaining the Narrative "Dream" TBAFULLAndre Dubus III 9M: Let Me Tell You a Story About My Kids (GROAN!!!) TBACalvin Hennick

11:30am

10A: The Textures and Music of Language: Learning from Poets TBABen Berman 10F: Op-ed Writing for Novelists and Nonfiction Writers: Making Your Voice Heard in Polarizing Times TBALinda K. Wertheimer 10G: Improve Your Freelance Game TBAWillona Sloan 10H: Scene CPR TBALisa Borders 10I: Killer First Sentences TBASpencer Wise 10K: How to Sell a Memoir If You Aren’t a Celebrity or a Politician TBACatherine Guthrie 10L: Researching Into the Void TBARebecca Makkai