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Muse & the Marketplace 2018

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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 - MezzanineCeleste Ng • Peter Ho Davies

10:30am EDT

5A: 7 Key Questions to Answer to Successfully Publish Your Nonfiction Book Beacon Hill Room - 4th FloorKatrin Schumann 5B: The Motivated Writer: Using Athletes' Techniques to Keep Yourself Going: Section A Charles River Room - 4th FloorHenriette Lazaridis 5C: Conjuring Mystery in FictionFULL Whittier Room - 4th FloorMaud Casey 5D: Don't Get Stuck in the Slush! 10 Pitfalls to Avoid When Submitting to Literary MagazinesFULL Franklin Room - 4th FloorNate Brown 5E: Essentials of Dialogue Newbury Room - 4th FloorGrace Talusan 5F: Keynote "Carryover" Conversation on Cultural AppropriationFULL Cabot Room - 4th FloorPeter Ho Davies • Celeste Ng 5G: Multilingual Writing: Code Switching and Language Games St. James Room - 4th FloorDenise Delgado 5H: Problem Solving for Novels-in-Progress Cambridge Room - 4th FloorCrystal King 5I: Query Clinic: Live Feedback on Query Letters White Hill Room - 4th FloorSorche Fairbank • Steve Macone • Ayesha Pande 5J: The Fine Art of InvestigationFULL Tremont Room - 4th FloorMichael Blanding 5K: Working with a Publicist: Understanding the Relationship and Getting the Most Out of ItFULL Stuart Room - 4th FloorSharon Bially • Taryn Roeder 5L: Writing Like a Parent, Parenting Like a Writer Winthrop Room - 4th FloorAllison Hoch 5M: Stick Figure Structure: A Quick & Easy Way to Finding Your Missing Plot Points Gloucester Room - 4th FloorHannah Tinti

11:45am EDT

Lunch Break TBA

12:45pm EDT

6A: "But You're So Inspirational!" Writing Authentically About Disability Winthrop Room - 4th FloorLydia X. Z. Brown 6B: Agents and Editors of Color Roundtable Stuart Room - 4th FloorJennifer De Leon • Patricia Engel • Christine Pride • Asata Radcliffe • Eric Smith • Jennifer Chen Tran 6C: Consider the Sentence: A Love Story Charles River Room - 4th FloorRobert Cohen 6D: First Page Clinic: Making the Most of It White Hill Room - 4th FloorMichael Borum • Elinor Lipman • Stephen McCauley • Mameve Medwed • Sebastian Stuart 6E: How to Get *Really* Personal in Your Personal Essay St. James Room - 4th FloorEthan Gilsdorf 6F: Lessons from the Novel Incubator Cambridge Room - 4th FloorMichelle Hoover 6G: Matching Your Work to Literary Magazines: What Do They *Really* Want? Franklin Room - 4th FloorJenn Scheck-Kahn 6H: Productive Revision, Or How to Stop Perfecting Paragraphs and Strengthen Your Story: Section B Newbury Room - 4th FloorLynne Barrett 6H: Productive Revision, Or How to Stop Perfecting Paragraphs and Strengthen Your Story: Section BFULL Newbury Room - 4th FloorLynne Barrett 6I: Reppin': Minority Writers on Responsibility, Hypocrisy & the Voices in Our Heads Emerson Room - 4th FloorJoe Costal 6J: Social Media Hack: Utilizing Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter to Authentically Engage (But Not Annoy) Readers Beacon Hill Room - 4th FloorJenna Blum • Sara DiVello 6K: The Nonfiction Narrator Tremont Room - 4th FloorAlex Marzano-Lesnevich 6L: The Novelist as Dramatist: Action in FictionFULL Cabot Room - 4th FloorStuart Spencer 6M: Your Book Starts Here: Build a Successful Structure for Your Manuscript in Any GenreFULL Whittier Room - 4th FloorMary 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 FloorPagan Kennedy • Elena Passarello 7B: Dare to Break the Ultimate Writing Rule: Why "Show Don't Tell" Is a CrockFULL Whittier Room - 4th FloorSteve Almond 7C: Editing: Love It, Hate It, Just Delete It White Hill Room - 4th FloorEve Attermann • Rachel Barenbaum 7D: Learning From the (Very) Old-Timers: Modern Uses of Pre-Modern FictionFULL Winthrop Room - 4th FloorKanishk Tharoor 7E: Non-Fiction Idea ClinicFULL St. James Room - 4th FloorJessica Papin • Neal Thompson • Jennifer Chen Tran • Steve Woodward 7F: Outsider as Insider: Subverting and Resisting Cultural Expectations in Fiction Cabot Room - 4th FloorPatricia Engel 7G: The Art of Perspective Beacon Hill Room - 4th FloorChristopher Castellani 7H: The Motivated Writer: Using Athletes' Techniques to Keep Yourself Going: Section BFULL Franklin Room - 4th FloorHenriette Lazaridis 7I: The People-Pleaser's Guide to PlotFULL Newbury Room - 4th FloorDiana Renn 7J: Violent Delights & Violent Ends: What to Consider When Writing Violence in Fiction and Nonfiction Stuart Room - 4th FloorKelly J. Ford • Stephanie Gayle • Emily Ross 7K: When Do I Need An Author Website and What Belongs On It?FULL Cambridge Room - 4th FloorJen Malone 7L: Word by Word: An Exercise in Close ReadingFULL Charles River Room - 4th FloorJim Shepard • Karen Shepard

4:15pm EDT

8A: A Vampire of Your Own: Using the Personal To Write the Fantastic St. James Room - 4th FloorJohn Langan 8B: Avoiding the Common Pitfalls of Writing About Black Life Newbury Room - 4th FloorNicole Blades 8C: Beyond Conflict: Sources of Narrative Drive in Fiction White Hill Room - 4th FloorTim Weed 8D: Creating Pictures with Words: How and Why Visual Writing WorksFULL Whittier Room - 4th FloorAnnie Weatherwax 8E: Experimental Writing for Non-Experimental Writers Beacon Hill Room - 4th FloorPorochista Khakpour 8F: Indie Publishing: A Viable Path to A Full-Time Career in Writing FictionFULL Franklin Room - 4th FloorCecelia Mecca 8G: Laughing at a Funeral: Mixing Emotional Tones in WritingFULL Back Bay Room - 4th FloorE. Thomas Finan 8H: New Digital Tools for 2018: Make Your Social Media Marketing Easier and More Effective Cambridge Room - 4th FloorFauzia Burke 8I: Rage Is a Red Lesson: How to Turn Anger into Charged Prose Charles River Room - 4th FloorSteve Almond 8J: Should I Do an MFA? Winthrop Room - 4th FloorDouglas Trevor 8K: Social Justice Story TellingFULL Cabot Room - 4th FloorAlex Marzano-Lesnevich 8L: Suspense, Stakes, & Whimsy: Borrowing from Genre for Your Fiction Stuart Room - 4th FloorMichelle Hoover 8M: Writing a Winning Nonfiction Proposal Tremont Room - 4th FloorTanya McKinnon

5:15pm EDT

5:30pm EDT

Writers of Color Meet-Up Boylston Room - Mezzanine Level

7:00pm EDT

Spitballing...Returns! Boylston Room - Mezzanine LevelSari Boren • Sean Van Deuren • Ron MacLean • Quressa Robinson • Michelle Seaton • Rob Spillman