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Welcoming Convocation + Keynote: Luis Alberto Urrea

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

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

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

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Marketplace Keynote: “Writing While Working”

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Lunch Break

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Lit Lounge Cocktail Hour

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All-Conference Party

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Breakfast, Bookstore & Authors' Bazaar Browsing

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Lit Lounge Cocktail Hour

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Spitballing...Returns!

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The Aevitas Shop Talk Happy Hour

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7B: Anatomy of a Query Letter

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1H: First Impressions: How to Hook an Agent or Editor with Your Opening Pages

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7L: On Writing Epic Novels: A Conversation with Min Jin Lee

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8L: Irresistable Characters

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2H: The Changing Face of Publishing: What All Authors Need to Know

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2I: Don't Throw the Book Out With the Bathwater: On Dramatically Reenvisioning Your Manuscript

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3A: Structure, Risk, and Meaning in Memoir

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4D: The Oversight Draft: From Manuscript to Publishable Draft

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4J: Query Clinic: Live Feedback on Query Letters

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5A: Social Media Hack: Using Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter to Authentically Engage (and Not Annoy) Readers

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5J: Dare to Break the Ultimate Writing Rule: Why "Show Don't Tell" Is a Crock

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6F: The Big Q’s: What to Ask Prospective Agents

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9L: Do Not Think: On Creating and Sustaining the Narrative "Dream"

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10C: Literary Idol: Fiction Focus

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6A: First Page Clinic: Making the Most of It

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3H: Writing the Action Set-Piece

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10K: How to Sell a Memoir If You Aren’t a Celebrity or a Politician

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6J: The Inside/Outside Story: Balancing Character Emotion & Story Action

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8B: Super-Powered Storytelling

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8C: Breaking The Rules: Writing Without an MFA

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4E: Establishing Authority

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5D: Demystifying Publishing Deals

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6D: All In: Raising the Stakes – and Making them Matter – in Fiction

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1B: Narrative Unbound: Experimental Structures in Essays and Stories

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1D: Researching and Choosing Agents to Query

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1E: Interiority in Fiction

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2A: Talking to Others and to Yourself: Using Dialogue and Interiority

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2B: Writing a True Beginning, Middle, and End

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2C: The Big Reveal, or Not: Sustaining Uncertainty in Fiction

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3C: The Trouble with Backstory

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3L: Plot Engine Tricks

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8F: Outlining: Charting Your Book to Reach Your Destination

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8G: Publishing Young Adult, Middle Grade, and Children's Books: Ask a Rockstar Editor

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9A: Yeah You're Working, Building a Mystery

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10L: Researching Into the Void