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Advanced Track
Essentials of Writing & Publishing
Next Level Sh*t: Revising & Strengthening Your Work
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Friday
, April 6
7:30am EDT
Registration, Hot Breakfast Buffet, Bookstore & Authors' Bazaar Browsing
TBA
9:00am EDT
Welcoming Convocation + Keynote: "How to Stay a Writer"
Grand Ballroom - Mezzanine
Sonya Larson • Min Jin Lee
10:15am EDT
1A: Before You Query Agents: What Fiction Writers Should First Do Online & in Real Life
Whittier Room - 4th Floor
Katherine Fausset
1B: Essentials of the Young Adult Novel
FULL
Charles River Room - 4th Floor
Jennifer De Leon
1C: Navigating Your Novel’s Murky Middle
Gloucester Room - 4th Floor
Lisa Borders
1D: How to Get Media Attention for Your Book
Stuart Room - 4th Floor
Lynne Griffin • Katrin Schumann
1E: Making the Most of Your Writing Time
Winthrop Room - 4th Floor
Lori Goldstein
1F: Networking for Reticent Writers
Tremont Room - 4th Floor
Kelly J. Ford
1G: Telling a Story with Your Book Proposal
White Hill Room - 4th Floor
Tanya McKinnon • Michelle Seaton
1H: The Blazing Thing: On Imagination in Fiction
Beacon Hill Room - 4th Floor
Laura van den Berg
1I: Voice in Nonfiction: What is Your Voice and How Can You Reclaim it?
FULL
Newbury Room - 4th Floor
Vanessa Martír
1J: When Your Memoir Goes Public
St. James Room - 4th Floor
Garrard Conley
1K: Your First 100 Words: Grounding Readers in Your Fiction
Cambridge Room - 4th Floor
Ron MacLean
1L: Your Narrator's Time Signature: Finding the Right Tempo During Dialogue
Franklin Room - 4th Floor
Ravi Howard
11:45am EDT
2A: A Man Walks into a...: Writing Compelling Scenes in Fiction
Cambridge Room - 4th Floor
Blair Hurley
2B: All-Conference Read in Fiction: PRIVATE CITIZENS by Tony Tulathimutte
Emerson Room - 4th Floor
Hannah Tinti • Tony Tulathimutte
2C: Essentials of Characterization
FULL
Stuart Room - 4th Floor
Stacy Mattingly
2D: Get Your Essay Pitches Noticed
Charles River Room - 4th Floor
Candace McDuffie
2E: Getting Your Nonfiction Book Back on Track
St. James Room - 4th Floor
Katrin Schumann
2F: Novels: Writing the Opening Pages
Tremont Room - 4th Floor
Steve Yarbrough
2G: Politics and Prose: Tackling the Issues of Our Time Through Fiction and Narrative Nonfiction
Newbury Room - 4th Floor
Adam Stumacher
2H: Productive Revision, Or How to Stop Perfecting Paragraphs and Strengthen Your Story: Section A
Whittier Room - 4th Floor
Lynne Barrett
2I: Race, Identity & Craft in Fiction and Nonfiction
FULL
Franklin Room - 4th Floor
David Mura
2J: Shut Up and Listen: Crafting Literary Voice from Literal Voices
Cabot Room - 4th Floor
Xhenet Aliu
2K: Subversion: Writing YA Novels That Upend Expectations
Beacon Hill Room - 4th Floor
Kim Savage
2L: The Dark Art of Description
FULL
Gloucester Room - 4th Floor
Patricia Hampl
2M: The 3-Step Formula for Building an Author Platform
FULL
White Hill Room - 4th Floor
Fauzia Burke
1:00pm EDT
Lunch Break
TBA
2:15pm EDT
3A: A Rockstar Editor's Perspective on Revision
FULL
White Hill Room - 4th Floor
Pamela Dorman • Mira T. Lee • Louise Miller
3B: Dreams, Visions, and Hallucinations in Fiction
Tremont Room - 4th Floor
Tim Weed
3C: Essentials of Submitting Your Work
FULL
Beacon Hill Room - 4th Floor
Angie Chatman • Marjan Kamali
3D: Getting Noticed, Read and Understood on Sensitive Topics
FULL
Newbury Room - 4th Floor
Mary C. Curtis
3E: Hybrid Publishing: How It Works and What It's Like
FULL
Emerson Room - 4th Floor
Jeanne Blasberg
3F: Imagining the Gaps in Memoir: How to Write a Story When the Story Runs Out
Stuart Room - 4th Floor
Alex Marzano-Lesnevich • Caitlin McGill
3G: Query Letter 101
Whittier Room - 4th Floor
Allison Hunter • Eric Smith
3H: Keynote "Carryover" Conversation: On How to Stay a Writer
Franklin Room - 4th Floor
Eson Kim • Min Jin Lee
3I: Saying the Unsayable
FULL
Cabot Room - 4th Floor
Brendan Mathews
3J: Simultaneity (or Queering Time)
Gloucester Room - 4th Floor
Paul Lisicky
3K: When the Universal is Just Mainstream: Writing Rules That Fail Queer Authors
Winthrop Room - 4th Floor
Milo Todd
3L: Write in the Feels: Fictional Emotion
FULL
Cambridge Room - 4th Floor
Mia Alvar
3M: Writing the Past to Speak of the Present
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Charles River Room - 4th Floor
Gabrielle Lucille Fuentes
3:15pm EDT
Break
TBA
3:45pm EDT
4A: Essentials of Humor
Stuart Room - 4th Floor
Steve Macone
4B: Essentials of Style
FULL
Gloucester Room - 4th Floor
Nicole Miller
4C: Find the Skeleton of Your Story: Using Structure to Gain Propulsion
Cambridge Room - 4th Floor
Emily X.R. Pan
4D: Geography, Climate, Interiors, & History: Creating Rich Worlds for Memoir & Essays
FULL
Beacon Hill Room - 4th Floor
Alysia Abbott
4E: How to Pitch Young Adult Novels to Agents & Publishers
FULL
Charles River Room - 4th Floor
Regina Brooks
4F: How to Write Long—But Not Long-Winded—Sentences
Cabot Room - 4th Floor
Tim Horvath
4G: Introducing Unforgettable Characters
FULL
White Hill Room - 4th Floor
Ursula DeYoung
4H: Queerer Than Fiction: The Importance of Realistic, Integral LGBT Characters
Winthrop Room - 4th Floor
Karina van Berkum • Lisa Rosinsky
4I: Rebel, Rebel: Writing Rules that Can—and Sometimes Should—Be Broken
Newbury Room - 4th Floor
Lisa Borders
4J: The Changing Face of Publishing: What All Authors Need to Know
Whittier Room - 4th Floor
April Eberhardt
4K: Who Am I Really: Reporting the Self in Writing
Tremont Room - 4th Floor
Alexander Chee
4L: World Building in Historical Fiction
Franklin Room - 4th Floor
Kim van Alkemade
4M: Writing Great Artist Statements for Fellowships, Residencies, MFA programs, & More
St. James Room - 4th Floor
Jonathan Escoffery • Shubha Sunder
5:00pm EDT
Lit Lounge
TBA
5:30pm EDT
Shop Talk Happy Hour
TBA
6:45pm EDT
Dinner Break
TBA
7:00pm EDT
Spotlight: Race and Power in Boston
Arlington Room - Park Plaza Hotel, Mezzanine Level
Latoyia Edwards • Andrew Ryan • Adrian Walker • Patricia Wen
Saturday
, April 7
7:30am EDT
Registration, Hot Breakfast Buffet, Bookstore & Authors' Bazaar Browsing
TBA
9:00am EDT
Mid-Muse Keynote: "Appropriation: Uh-oh, No-no, or #Appropro?"
Grand Ballroom - Mezzanine
Celeste Ng • Peter Ho Davies
10:30am EDT
5A: 7 Key Questions to Answer to Successfully Publish Your Nonfiction Book
Beacon Hill Room - 4th Floor
Katrin Schumann
5B: The Motivated Writer: Using Athletes' Techniques to Keep Yourself Going: Section A
Charles River Room - 4th Floor
Henriette Lazaridis
5C: Conjuring Mystery in Fiction
FULL
Whittier Room - 4th Floor
Maud Casey
5D: Don't Get Stuck in the Slush! 10 Pitfalls to Avoid When Submitting to Literary Magazines
FULL
Franklin Room - 4th Floor
Nate Brown
5E: Essentials of Dialogue
Newbury Room - 4th Floor
Grace Talusan
5F: Keynote "Carryover" Conversation on Cultural Appropriation
FULL
Cabot Room - 4th Floor
Peter Ho Davies • Celeste Ng
5G: Multilingual Writing: Code Switching and Language Games
St. James Room - 4th Floor
Denise Delgado
5H: Problem Solving for Novels-in-Progress
Cambridge Room - 4th Floor
Crystal King
5I: Query Clinic: Live Feedback on Query Letters
White Hill Room - 4th Floor
Sorche Fairbank • Steve Macone • Ayesha Pande
5J: The Fine Art of Investigation
FULL
Tremont Room - 4th Floor
Michael Blanding
5K: Working with a Publicist: Understanding the Relationship and Getting the Most Out of It
FULL
Stuart Room - 4th Floor
Sharon Bially • Taryn Roeder
5L: Writing Like a Parent, Parenting Like a Writer
Winthrop Room - 4th Floor
Allison Hoch
5M: Stick Figure Structure: A Quick & Easy Way to Finding Your Missing Plot Points
Gloucester Room - 4th Floor
Hannah Tinti
11:45am EDT
Lunch Break
TBA
12:45pm EDT
6A: "But You're So Inspirational!" Writing Authentically About Disability
Winthrop Room - 4th Floor
Lydia X. Z. Brown
6B: Agents and Editors of Color Roundtable
Stuart Room - 4th Floor
Jennifer De Leon • Patricia Engel • Christine Pride • Asata Radcliffe • Eric Smith • Jennifer Chen Tran
6C: Consider the Sentence: A Love Story
Charles River Room - 4th Floor
Robert Cohen
6D: First Page Clinic: Making the Most of It
White Hill Room - 4th Floor
Michael Borum • Elinor Lipman • Stephen McCauley • Mameve Medwed • Sebastian Stuart
6E: How to Get *Really* Personal in Your Personal Essay
St. James Room - 4th Floor
Ethan Gilsdorf
6F: Lessons from the Novel Incubator
Cambridge Room - 4th Floor
Michelle Hoover
6G: Matching Your Work to Literary Magazines: What Do They *Really* Want?
Franklin Room - 4th Floor
Jenn Scheck-Kahn
6H: Productive Revision, Or How to Stop Perfecting Paragraphs and Strengthen Your Story: Section B
Newbury Room - 4th Floor
Lynne Barrett
6H: Productive Revision, Or How to Stop Perfecting Paragraphs and Strengthen Your Story: Section B
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Newbury Room - 4th Floor
Lynne Barrett
6I: Reppin': Minority Writers on Responsibility, Hypocrisy & the Voices in Our Heads
Emerson Room - 4th Floor
Joe Costal
6J: Social Media Hack: Utilizing Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter to Authentically Engage (But Not Annoy) Readers
Beacon Hill Room - 4th Floor
Jenna Blum • Sara DiVello
6K: The Nonfiction Narrator
Tremont Room - 4th Floor
Alex Marzano-Lesnevich
6L: The Novelist as Dramatist: Action in Fiction
FULL
Cabot Room - 4th Floor
Stuart Spencer
6M: Your Book Starts Here: Build a Successful Structure for Your Manuscript in Any Genre
FULL
Whittier Room - 4th Floor
Mary Carroll Moore
2:15pm EDT
Break
TBA
2:45pm EDT
7A: All-Conference Read in Non-Fiction: ANIMALS STRIKE CURIOUS POSES by Elena Passarello
Emerson Room - 4th Floor
Pagan Kennedy • Elena Passarello
7B: Dare to Break the Ultimate Writing Rule: Why "Show Don't Tell" Is a Crock
FULL
Whittier Room - 4th Floor
Steve Almond
7C: Editing: Love It, Hate It, Just Delete It
White Hill Room - 4th Floor
Eve Attermann • Rachel Barenbaum
7D: Learning From the (Very) Old-Timers: Modern Uses of Pre-Modern Fiction
FULL
Winthrop Room - 4th Floor
Kanishk Tharoor
7E: Non-Fiction Idea Clinic
FULL
St. James Room - 4th Floor
Jessica Papin • Neal Thompson • Jennifer Chen Tran • Steve Woodward
7F: Outsider as Insider: Subverting and Resisting Cultural Expectations in Fiction
Cabot Room - 4th Floor
Patricia Engel
7G: The Art of Perspective
Beacon Hill Room - 4th Floor
Christopher Castellani
7H: The Motivated Writer: Using Athletes' Techniques to Keep Yourself Going: Section B
FULL
Franklin Room - 4th Floor
Henriette Lazaridis
7I: The People-Pleaser's Guide to Plot
FULL
Newbury Room - 4th Floor
Diana Renn
7J: Violent Delights & Violent Ends: What to Consider When Writing Violence in Fiction and Nonfiction
Stuart Room - 4th Floor
Kelly J. Ford • Stephanie Gayle • Emily Ross
7K: When Do I Need An Author Website and What Belongs On It?
FULL
Cambridge Room - 4th Floor
Jen Malone
7L: Word by Word: An Exercise in Close Reading
FULL
Charles River Room - 4th Floor
Jim Shepard • Karen Shepard
4:15pm EDT
8A: A Vampire of Your Own: Using the Personal To Write the Fantastic
St. James Room - 4th Floor
John Langan
8B: Avoiding the Common Pitfalls of Writing About Black Life
Newbury Room - 4th Floor
Nicole Blades
8C: Beyond Conflict: Sources of Narrative Drive in Fiction
White Hill Room - 4th Floor
Tim Weed
8D: Creating Pictures with Words: How and Why Visual Writing Works
FULL
Whittier Room - 4th Floor
Annie Weatherwax
8E: Experimental Writing for Non-Experimental Writers
Beacon Hill Room - 4th Floor
Porochista Khakpour
8F: Indie Publishing: A Viable Path to A Full-Time Career in Writing Fiction
FULL
Franklin Room - 4th Floor
Cecelia Mecca
8G: Laughing at a Funeral: Mixing Emotional Tones in Writing
FULL
Back Bay Room - 4th Floor
E. Thomas Finan
8H: New Digital Tools for 2018: Make Your Social Media Marketing Easier and More Effective
Cambridge Room - 4th Floor
Fauzia Burke
8I: Rage Is a Red Lesson: How to Turn Anger into Charged Prose
Charles River Room - 4th Floor
Steve Almond
8J: Should I Do an MFA?
Winthrop Room - 4th Floor
Douglas Trevor
8K: Social Justice Story Telling
FULL
Cabot Room - 4th Floor
Alex Marzano-Lesnevich
8L: Suspense, Stakes, & Whimsy: Borrowing from Genre for Your Fiction
Stuart Room - 4th Floor
Michelle Hoover
8M: Writing a Winning Nonfiction Proposal
Tremont Room - 4th Floor
Tanya McKinnon
5:15pm EDT
Lit Lounge
TBA
5:30pm EDT
Writers of Color Meet-Up
Boylston Room - Mezzanine Level
7:00pm EDT
Spitballing...Returns!
Boylston Room - Mezzanine Level
Sari Boren • Sean Van Deuren • Ron MacLean • Quressa Robinson • Michelle Seaton • Rob Spillman
Sunday
, April 8
8:30am EDT
Breakfast, Bookstore and Authors' Bazaar Browsing
TBA
10:00am EDT
9A: Establishing Authority
FULL
Charles River Room - 4th Floor
Rob Spillman
9B: Fantastic Extremes: The Environments of Speculative Fiction
Winthrop Room - 4th Floor
Sara Rivera
9C: Literary Idol: Fiction Focus
White Hill Room - 4th Floor
Steve Macone • Sorche Fairbank • Kaitlyn Johnson • Rayhané Sanders • Anjali Singh
9D: Researching and Choosing Agents to Query
FULL
Whittier Room - 4th Floor
Louise Miller
9E: Resuscitating Your Darlings
Cabot Room - 4th Floor
Steven Beeber
9F: Secrets and Lies
Back Bay Room - 4th Floor
Lynne Barrett
9G: Shaping Time in Fiction and Nonfiction
Tremont Room - 4th Floor
Ethan Gilsdorf
9H: Structure, Risk, and Meaning in Memoir
FULL
Cambridge Room - 4th Floor
Alex Marzano-Lesnevich
9I: The 2nd Draft: Radically Re-Imagining Your Novel
Beacon Hill Room - 4th Floor
Marjan Kamali
9J: Writing (and Publishing) While Jewish: The Situation in 2018
Stuart Room - 4th Floor
Erika Dreifus • Rachel Kadish
9K: Writing the City
St. James Room - 4th Floor
Mira T. Lee • Val Wang
9L: Yes, You're an Expert: Op-ed Writing for Novelists and Nonfiction Writers
Newbury Room - 4th Floor
Linda K. Wertheimer
11:30am EDT
10A: A Trip to the Playground: How to Make Writing Fun Again
Franklin Room - 4th Floor
Annie Hartnett
10B: Demystifying Publishing Deals
Whittier Room - 4th Floor
Marisa Corvisiero
10C: Essentials of Backstory and Flashback in Fiction
FULL
White Hill Room - 4th Floor
Tim Weed
10D: How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
FULL
Charles River Room - 4th Floor
Alexander Chee
10E: I'll Build Me a World
St. James Room - 4th Floor
Rion Amilcar Scott
10F: Literary Idol: Non-Fiction Focus
Stuart Room - 4th Floor
Steve Macone • Rob Arnold • Lucy Cleland • Annie Hwang • Monica Odom
10G: Reading Across Time: Literature, Exile, Revolt
Cabot Room - 4th Floor
Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi
10H: The Psychology of Character: Digging to the Heart of Motivation
Cambridge Room - 4th Floor
Lynne Griffin
10I: The Whole Story
Winthrop Room - 4th Floor
Michael Lowenthal
10J: Writing and Selling the Money-Making Essay
Tremont Room - 4th Floor
Calvin Hennick
10K: Writing Memoir: Or, How to Take Your Most Private, Painful Story, Shape it into a Cohesive Narrative and Send it out into the World
Beacon Hill Room - 4th Floor
Tova Mirvis
10L: You Know More Than You Think: Writing Past the Rational
Newbury Room - 4th Floor
Tasneem Zehra Husain
1:00pm EDT
Marketplace Keynote: “Selling Out Without Selling Out”
Grand Ballroom - Mezzanine
Sorche Fairbank • Steve Almond • Jenna Blum • Alexander Chee • Mitchell Zuckoff
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