2021 Schedule
THURSDAY ADD-ON classes, September 23, 2021, CHECK-IN @ 10:45 AM
11 AM – 4 PM FICTION BOOTCAMP: The A to Zs of Storytelling—Edmund Schubert
THURSDAY EVENING, September 23, 2021, CHECK-IN @ 6:30 PM
7:00 – 9:00 How to Get an Agent in 10 Minutes: Real Time Pitch Practice with Tips and Tricks for Securing Your Dream Agent—Kristina Slater
7:00 – 9:00 Scrivener Crash Course—Chris De Matteo
7:00 – 9:00 Screenplay Workshop—Matt Friedman
7:00 – 9:00 Journaling as a Path Toward Healing, Personal Growth, and Creativity—Sandra Johnson
7:00 – 9:00 I Have a Nonfiction Manuscript: Constructing Nonfiction Proposals—Terry Cox-Joseph
9:00 – 10:00 Optional Meet and Greet happy hour in Blue Bar
FRIDAY, September 24, 2021
7:30 – 8:30 AM Check-in/Continental Breakfast
8:30 – 9:45 Welcome/First 10 lines critique session
9:45 – 10:15 Keynote Address by Leslye Penelope
10:15 – 10:30 Contest Awards
10:45 – 12:15 Great Expectations: The Importance of Wanting in Fiction—Edmund Schubert
10:45 – 12:15 So You Think You Can Dialogue—Kristina Slater
10:45 – 12:15 Basics of Screenwriting Software and Formatting—Matt Friedman
10:45 – 12:15 Shape Shifting: Persona Poems and the Shifting Voice—Kindra McDonald
12:15 – 1:15 Lunch Buffet
1:25 – 2:25 I Wrote the Book, Now What? A Strategic Approach to Finding an Agent—Matt Belford
1:25 – 2:25 Memoir Writing—David Cariens
1:25 – 2:25 Writing a Killer Marketing Plan—Leslye Penelope
1:25 – 2:25 Building Better Worlds—Chris Matteo
1:25 – 2:25 How to Show, Not Tell—Sandra Johnson
1:25 – 2:25 Small but Mighty: Using Caesura, or Silence in Your Work—Kelly Morse
2:35 – 3:35 Making Your Synopsis Stand Out—Jessica Errera
2:35 – 3:35 Writing Sci-Fi and Fantasy—Edmund Schubert
2:35 – 3:35 Writing for Magazines: Avenues for publishing short nonfiction pieces—articles, essays, and more—Bill Glose
2:35 – 3:35 How to Create Time to Write—Sandra Johnson
2:35 – 3:35 Finders Keepers - The Art of Found Poetry—Kindra McDonald
3:45 – 4:45 Understanding and Using Non-Linear Narrative Structures and Techniques—Edmund Schubert
3:45 – 4:45 Spy Stories and Novels: Getting the Details Right—David Cariens
3:45 – 4:45 Public Speaking for Writers—Leslye Penelope
3:45 – 4:45 Overcoming Writer’s Block—Lauren Bieker
3:45 – 4:45 Eleven Steps to Getting Your Book Successfully Published—Sandra Johnson
3:45 – 4:45 One Man Band: Using the Five Principles of Music in Poetry—Kelly Morse
5 – 6:30 Optional Social with hors d'oeuvres
7 – 9:00 PM Optional Open Mic
SATURDAY, September 25, 2021
7:30 – 8:30 AM Check-in/Continental Breakfast
8:30 – 9:45 Welcome/First 10 lines critique session
9:45 – 10:15 Keynote Address by Andrew Bertaina
10:15 – 10:30 Readings of first pages of first place winners
10:45 – 11:45 Point of View: Understanding and Using POV to Your Best Advantage—Edmund Schubert
10:45 – 11:45 Denial and Deception: A Critical Part of Crime and Espionage Writing—David Cariens
10:45 – 11:45 Podcasting for Writers—Leslye Penelope
10:45 – 11:45 What's in an Agent's Wish List?—Jessica Errera
10:45 – 11:45 Story Elements and Structure for Screenplays—Matt Friedman
10:45 – 11:45 Hearing the Wind Speak - Eco-poetics and Nature as Poetic Muse—Kindra McDonald
11:45 – 12:45 Lunch Buffet
12:55 – 1:55 Fabulist and Surrealist Flash Fiction—Andrew Bertaina
12:55 – 1:55 Just Say No...to Wikipedia: Historical Research Skills for Historical Fiction—Chris De Matteo
12:55 – 1:55 Characterization is Key—Jessica Errera
12:55 – 1:55 Techniques for Rendering Horror in Fantasy Fiction—Jason Carney
12:55 – 1:55 Unwritten Contract: Structuring Poems So That They Elicit Trust and Intrigue in a Reader—Kelly Morse
2:05 – 3:05 Adversarial Dialogue: Writing Dialogue That Works—Edmund Schubert
2:05 – 3:05 Feature Articles: Creating Fact-Based Journalistic Pieces—Bill Glose
2:05 – 3:05 Organizing Your Writing Life—Leslye Penelope
2:05 – 3:05 The Importance of Voice—Lauren Bieker
2:05 – 3:05 How to Pitch a Graphic Novel: Building a Graphic Novel Submission Beyond Finished Artwork—Matt Belford
2:05 – 3:05 Around the World in One Hour: Discovering International Poets—Kindra McDonald
3:15 – 4:15 The Art of the Personal Essay—Andrew Bertaina
3:15 – 4:15 So You Got an Agent, Now What? : What to Expect When You're Expecting a Book Deal—Lauren Bieker
3:15 – 4:15 Creating Quality Scenes and Characters for Screenplays—Matt Friedman
3:15 – 4:15 Blog Basics: Everything you need to know to create and launch a blog—Terry Cox-Joseph
3:15 – 4:15 Sword and Sorcery: A Literary History for Writers—Jason Carney
3:15 – 4:15 Little Rooms: How to Make the Most of Stanzas—Kelly Morse
4:25 – 5:25 Short Story: The First 150 Words—Edmund Schubert
4:25 – 5:25 Editing, not Correcting—David Cariens
4:25 – 5:25 The Five Things an Agent Needs to Represent a Manuscript—Matt Belford
4:25 – 5:25 Beyond Ray Guns and Elves: Dismantling the negative stereotypes of SF&F—Chris De Matteo
4:25 – 5:25 Poetry as a Personal Odyssey—Bill Glose