2022 Schedule
THURSDAY EVENING, September 22, 2022, CHECK-IN @ 6:30 PM
7:00 – 9:00 Point of View and Voice—David B. Coe Salon C
7:00 – 9:00 I Finished the Book! Now What?—John G. Hartness Salon I
7:00 – 9:00 How to Pitch Agents, Editors, and Publishers—M.M. Finck Salon L
7:00 – 9:00 Using Archetypes to Create Characters and V is for Villain—Cate Hart Salon P
9:00 – 10:00 Meet and Greet Happy Hour in Blue Bar
FRIDAY, September 23, 2022
7:30 – 8:30 AM Check-in/Continental Breakfast
8:30 – 9:45 Welcome/First 10 lines critique session Salons F/G/H
9:45 – 10:15 Keynote Address by Edmund R. Schubert Salons F/G/H
10:15 – 10:30 Contest Awards Salons F/G/H
10:45 – 12:15 Character Development and Arc—David B. Coe Salon C
10:45 – 12:15 How to Perfect Your Query—M.M. Finck Salon I
10:45 – 12:15 Big, Medium, Small, or Self: What’s the Right Publishing Option for You?—Edmund R. Schubert Salon J
10:45 – 12:15 From Query to Contract: Becoming a Paid Magazine Writer—Ann Eichenmuller Salons D/E
10:45 – 12:15 CANCELED Salon L
10:45 – 12:15 (Poetry) Page to Stage—Jorge Mendez Salon P
12:15 – 1:15 Lunch Buffet Salons F/G/H
1:25 – 2:25 Publishing – 10 Things I Hate About You(r Book)—John G. Hartness Salon C
1:25 – 2:25 How to Eliminate Distant Characters and Talking Heads Syndrome from Your Writing—Kelly Thomas Salon I
1:25 – 2:25 Who Needs an Editor?—John Robert Mack Salon J
1:25 – 2:25 CANCELED Salons D/E
1:25 – 2:25 Where to Begin: How to Write Your Memoir—Ann Eichenmuller Salon L
1:25 – 2:25 (Poetry) Small but Mighty: Using Caesura, or Silence in Your Work—Kelly Morse Salon P
2:35 – 3:35 Making Book Marketing Fun—Wendy H. Jones Salon C
2:35 – 3:35 TROPE TALK: How to Use - and Not Use - Tropes—M. M. Finck Salon I
2:35 – 3:35 Harness Your Muse—John Robert Mack Salon J
2:35 – 3:35 Thin Line Between Fact & Fantasy: Differences & Similarities Between Historical Fiction and Historical Fantasy—Nicole Glover Salons D/E
2:35 – 3:35 Building Big from Small: A View of Novellas-In-Flash, Flash Novels, and Micro Novels—Ran Walker Salon L
2:35 – 3:35 The Poetic Form of the Ghazal—Jorge Mendez Salon P
3:45 – 4:45 Notes from Behind the Editor’s Desk—Edmund R. Schubert Salon C
3:45 – 4:45 Talk to Me: Lessons from a Playwright on How to Create Dialog that Works—John Robert Mack Salon I
3:45 – 4:45 Effective Public Speaking for Writers—Wendy H. Jones Salon J
3:45 – 4:45 Holding Up a Microscope to Your Fiction: Microfiction and the 100-Word Story—Ran Walker Salons D/E
3:45 – 4:45 Realism in My Fantasy Novel: What Are We Saying When We Want SFF Stories to be Realistic—Nicole Glover Salon L
3:45 – 4:45 Unwritten Contract: Structuring Poems So That They Elicit Trust and Intrigue in a Reader—Kelly Morse Salon P
5 – 6:30 Networking Social/Silent Auction Fundraiser; heavy hors d'oeuvres served Salons G/H
7 – 9:00 PM Open Mic
SATURDAY, September 24, 2022
7:30 – 8:30 AM Check-in/Continental Breakfast
8:30 – 9:45 Welcome/First 10 lines critique session Salons F/G/H
9:45 – 10:15 Keynote Address by Wendy H. Jones Salons F/G/H
10:15 – 10:30 Readings of first pages of first place winners Salons F/G/H
10:45 – 11:45 How to Create an Effective One-Page Synopsis—Kelly Thomas Salon C
10:45 – 11:45 How to Hook and Hold a Reader—John G. Hartness Salon I
10:45 – 11:45 Business Terms Every Writer Should Know—Edmund R. Schubert Salon J
10:45 – 11:45 Using Old Stories to Create New Stories (Mining the Public Domain…and Beyond)—Ran Walker Salons/D/E
10:45 – 11:45 I Wrote It. Now What Did I Write?—M. M. Finck Salon L
10:45 – 11:45 One Man Band: Using the Five Principles of Music in Poetry—Kelly Morse Salon P
11:45 – 12:45 Lunch Buffet Salons F/G/H
12:55 – 1:55 Loglines, Hook Lines, and Pitches, Oh My!—M.M. Finck Salon C
12:55 – 1:55 Tips for Bettering Your Chances of Winning a Writing Contest—Ran Walker Salon I
12:55 – 1:55 Having Fun With Research—Wendy H. Jones Salon J
12:55 – 1:55 Retold Over and Over: The Appeal of Retelling Old Stories with a Twist—Nicole Glover Salons D/E
12:55 – 1:55 Eliminating the Excuses—John Robert Mack Salon L
12:55 – 1:55 Poetry is a Defense Mechanism—Jorge Mendez Salon P
2:05 – 3:05 Showing, Not Telling: How to Move Your Narrative Forward Without Putting Your Reader to Sleep—Ann Eichenmuller Salon C
2:05 – 3:05 Three Acts, Saving Cats, Chekhov’s Rifle, and How to Build a Novel from Scratch—John G. Hartness Salon I
2:05 – 3:05 What’s My Genre?—Cate Hart Salon J
2:05 – 3:05 The Essentials of World Building—David B. Coe Salons D/E
2:05 – 3:05 CANCELED Salon L
2:05 – 3:05 Little Rooms: How to Make the Most of Stanzas—Kelly Morse Salon P
3:15 – 4:15 The Neuroscience of Story—Edmund R. Schubert Salon C
3:15 – 4:15 First Pages Pitfalls—Cate Hart Salon I
3:15 – 4:15 Putting Hollywood into Your Stories: How Analyzing Movies Can Help Your Writing—Jonathan Rosen Salon J
3:15 – 4:15 Creating the Fictional Dream—John Robert Mack Salons D/E
3:15 – 4:15 You Have to Outline and Other Hard Truths about Writing—Nicole Glover Salon L
3:15 – 4:15 Horror in “Poe”try—Jorge Mendez Salon P
4:25 – 5:25 Pacing and Narrative Arc—David B. Coe Salon C
4:25 – 5:25 Philosophy and Story—Edmund R. Schubert Salon I
4:25 – 5:25 Creating Dynamic Characters—Ann Eichenmuller Salon J
4:25 – 5:25 So, You Want to Write Nonfiction?—Wendy H. Jones Salons D/E
4:25 – 5:25 Maintaining the Fictional Dream—John Robert Mack Salon L
4:25 – 5:25 The Poetry of Rap Music—Jorge Mendez Salon P