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Muse & the Marketplace 2018

Christopher Ryba-Tures

Memoirist, Copywriter, Short Fictioneer
Saint Paul, Minnesota

Let's talk family stories, memoir, death/grief/healing, creative nonfiction, research, travelogue, writing around day jobs, world building, rituals and process & whatever else comes up. Pessimist by nature, optimist by choice. 36.

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 - MezzanineSonya Larson • Min Jin Lee

10:15am EDT

1L: Your Narrator's Time Signature: Finding the Right Tempo During Dialogue Franklin Room - 4th FloorRavi Howard

11:45am EDT

2L: The Dark Art of Description Gloucester Room - 4th FloorFULLPatricia Hampl

1:00pm EDT

Lunch Break TBA

2:15pm EDT

3M: Writing the Past to Speak of the Present Charles River Room - 4th FloorFULLGabrielle Lucille Fuentes

3:15pm EDT

Break TBA

3:45pm EDT

4I: Rebel, Rebel: Writing Rules that Can—and Sometimes Should—Be Broken Newbury Room - 4th FloorLisa Borders

5:00pm EDT

6:45pm EDT

Dinner Break TBA

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

5J: The Fine Art of Investigation Tremont Room - 4th FloorFULLMichael Blanding

11:45am EDT

Lunch Break TBA

12:45pm EDT

6C: Consider the Sentence: A Love Story Charles River Room - 4th FloorRobert Cohen

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

4:15pm EDT

8G: Laughing at a Funeral: Mixing Emotional Tones in Writing Back Bay Room - 4th FloorFULLE. Thomas Finan

5:15pm EDT

7:00pm EDT

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

8:30am EDT

Breakfast, Bookstore and Authors' Bazaar Browsing TBA

10:00am EDT

9G: Shaping Time in Fiction and Nonfiction Tremont Room - 4th FloorEthan Gilsdorf

11:30am EDT

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 FloorTova Mirvis

1:00pm EDT

Marketplace Keynote: “Selling Out Without Selling Out” Grand Ballroom - MezzanineSorche Fairbank • Steve Almond • Jenna Blum • Alexander Chee • Mitchell Zuckoff