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Muse & the Marketplace 2018

10:15am EDT

1C: Navigating Your Novel’s Murky Middle Gloucester Room - 4th FloorLisa Borders 1G: Telling a Story with Your Book Proposal White Hill Room - 4th FloorTanya McKinnon • Michelle Seaton 1I: Voice in Nonfiction: What is Your Voice and How Can You Reclaim it?FULL Newbury Room - 4th FloorVanessa Martír 1L: Your Narrator's Time Signature: Finding the Right Tempo During Dialogue Franklin Room - 4th FloorRavi Howard

11:45am EDT

2C: Essentials of CharacterizationFULL Stuart Room - 4th FloorStacy Mattingly 2D: Get Your Essay Pitches Noticed Charles River Room - 4th FloorCandace McDuffie 2E: Getting Your Nonfiction Book Back on Track St. James Room - 4th FloorKatrin Schumann 2G: Politics and Prose: Tackling the Issues of Our Time Through Fiction and Narrative Nonfiction Newbury Room - 4th FloorAdam Stumacher 2L: The Dark Art of DescriptionFULL Gloucester Room - 4th FloorPatricia Hampl

2:15pm EDT

3D: Getting Noticed, Read and Understood on Sensitive TopicsFULL Newbury Room - 4th FloorMary C. Curtis 3F: Imagining the Gaps in Memoir: How to Write a Story When the Story Runs Out Stuart Room - 4th FloorAlex Marzano-Lesnevich • Caitlin McGill 3K: When the Universal is Just Mainstream: Writing Rules That Fail Queer Authors Winthrop Room - 4th FloorMilo Todd 3M: Writing the Past to Speak of the PresentFULL Charles River Room - 4th FloorGabrielle Lucille Fuentes

3:45pm EDT

4A: Essentials of Humor Stuart Room - 4th FloorSteve Macone 4B: Essentials of StyleFULL Gloucester Room - 4th FloorNicole Miller 4D: Geography, Climate, Interiors, & History: Creating Rich Worlds for Memoir & EssaysFULL Beacon Hill Room - 4th FloorAlysia Abbott 4F: How to Write Long—But Not Long-Winded—Sentences Cabot Room - 4th FloorTim Horvath 4I: Rebel, Rebel: Writing Rules that Can—and Sometimes Should—Be Broken Newbury Room - 4th FloorLisa Borders 4K: Who Am I Really: Reporting the Self in Writing Tremont Room - 4th FloorAlexander Chee

10:30am EDT

5J: The Fine Art of InvestigationFULL Tremont Room - 4th FloorMichael Blanding

12:45pm EDT

6C: Consider the Sentence: A Love Story Charles River Room - 4th FloorRobert Cohen 6E: How to Get *Really* Personal in Your Personal Essay St. James Room - 4th FloorEthan Gilsdorf 6K: The Nonfiction Narrator Tremont Room - 4th FloorAlex Marzano-Lesnevich 6M: Your Book Starts Here: Build a Successful Structure for Your Manuscript in Any GenreFULL Whittier Room - 4th FloorMary Carroll Moore

2:45pm EDT

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 7E: Non-Fiction Idea ClinicFULL St. James Room - 4th FloorJessica Papin • Neal Thompson • Jennifer Chen Tran • Steve Woodward 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

4:15pm EDT

8E: Experimental Writing for Non-Experimental Writers Beacon Hill Room - 4th FloorPorochista Khakpour 8G: Laughing at a Funeral: Mixing Emotional Tones in WritingFULL Back Bay Room - 4th FloorE. Thomas Finan 8I: Rage Is a Red Lesson: How to Turn Anger into Charged Prose Charles River Room - 4th FloorSteve Almond 8K: Social Justice Story TellingFULL Cabot Room - 4th FloorAlex Marzano-Lesnevich 8M: Writing a Winning Nonfiction Proposal Tremont Room - 4th FloorTanya McKinnon

10:00am EDT

9A: Establishing AuthorityFULL Charles River Room - 4th FloorRob Spillman 9G: Shaping Time in Fiction and Nonfiction Tremont Room - 4th FloorEthan Gilsdorf 9H: Structure, Risk, and Meaning in MemoirFULL Cambridge Room - 4th FloorAlex Marzano-Lesnevich 9K: Writing the City St. James Room - 4th FloorMira T. Lee • Val Wang 9L: Yes, You're an Expert: Op-ed Writing for Novelists and Nonfiction Writers Newbury Room - 4th FloorLinda K. Wertheimer

11:30am EDT

10F: Literary Idol: Non-Fiction Focus Stuart Room - 4th FloorSteve Macone • Rob Arnold • Lucy Cleland • Annie Hwang • Monica Odom 10G: Reading Across Time: Literature, Exile, Revolt Cabot Room - 4th FloorAzareen Van der Vliet Oloomi 10J: Writing and Selling the Money-Making Essay Tremont Room - 4th FloorCalvin 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 FloorTova Mirvis 10L: You Know More Than You Think: Writing Past the Rational Newbury Room - 4th FloorTasneem Zehra Husain