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Advanced Track
Essentials of Writing & Publishing
Next Level Sh*t: Revising & Strengthening Your Work
Publishing & Promotion
The Craft of Fiction
The Craft of Non-Fiction
The Writer's Life; Guidance & Tips
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Friday
, April 6
10:15am EDT
1C: Navigating Your Novel’s Murky Middle
Gloucester Room - 4th Floor
Lisa Borders
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
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
2C: Essentials of Characterization
FULL
Stuart Room - 4th Floor
Stacy Mattingly
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
FULL
Newbury Room - 4th Floor
Adam Stumacher
2J: Shut Up and Listen: Crafting Literary Voice from Literal Voices
Cabot Room - 4th Floor
Xhenet Aliu
2:15pm EDT
3B: Dreams, Visions, and Hallucinations in Fiction
Tremont Room - 4th Floor
Tim Weed
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
FULL
Charles River Room - 4th Floor
Gabrielle Lucille Fuentes
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
FULL
Cambridge Room - 4th Floor
Emily X.R. Pan
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
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
Saturday
, April 7
10:30am EDT
5A: 7 Key Questions to Answer to Successfully Publish Your Nonfiction Book
Beacon Hill Room - 4th Floor
Katrin Schumann
5C: Conjuring Mystery in Fiction
FULL
Whittier Room - 4th Floor
Maud Casey
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
5M: Stick Figure Structure: A Quick & Easy Way to Finding Your Missing Plot Points
Gloucester Room - 4th Floor
Hannah Tinti
12:45pm EDT
6C: Consider the Sentence: A Love Story
Charles River Room - 4th Floor
Robert Cohen
6F: Lessons from the Novel Incubator
Cambridge Room - 4th Floor
Michelle Hoover
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
2:45pm EDT
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
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
7I: The People-Pleaser's Guide to Plot
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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
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
8E: Experimental Writing for Non-Experimental Writers
Beacon Hill Room - 4th Floor
Porochista Khakpour
8G: Laughing at a Funeral: Mixing Emotional Tones in Writing
FULL
Back Bay Room - 4th Floor
E. Thomas Finan
8I: Rage Is a Red Lesson: How to Turn Anger into Charged Prose
Charles River Room - 4th Floor
Steve Almond
8K: Social Justice Story Telling
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Cabot Room - 4th Floor
Alex Marzano-Lesnevich
8L: Suspense, Stakes, & Whimsy: Borrowing from Genre for Your Fiction
Stuart Room - 4th Floor
Michelle Hoover
Sunday
, April 8
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
9G: Shaping Time in Fiction and Nonfiction
Tremont Room - 4th Floor
Ethan Gilsdorf
9I: The 2nd Draft: Radically Re-Imagining Your Novel
Beacon Hill Room - 4th Floor
Marjan Kamali
9K: Writing the City
St. James Room - 4th Floor
Mira T. Lee • Val Wang
11:30am EDT
10C: Essentials of Backstory and Flashback in Fiction
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White Hill Room - 4th Floor
Tim Weed
10D: How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
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Charles River Room - 4th Floor
Alexander Chee
10E: I'll Build Me a World
St. James Room - 4th Floor
Rion Amilcar Scott
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
10L: You Know More Than You Think: Writing Past the Rational
Newbury Room - 4th Floor
Tasneem Zehra Husain
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Arlington Room - Park Plaza Hotel, Mezzanine Level
Back Bay Room - 4th Floor
Beacon Hill Room - 4th Floor
Boylston Room - Mezzanine Level
Cabot Room - 4th Floor
Cambridge Room - 4th Floor
Charles River Room - 4th Floor
Emerson Room - 4th Floor
Franklin Room - 4th Floor
Gloucester Room - 4th Floor
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Newbury Room - 4th Floor
St. James Room - 4th Floor
Stuart Room - 4th Floor
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White Hill Room - 4th Floor
Whittier Room - 4th Floor
Winthrop Room - 4th Floor