Spring Conference 2005 was held at Peace College in Raleigh, NC. The conference is over, but we have left this conference information on the site so that you can refer to it as a model of what our Spring Conference is like.

Schedule

Saturday, May 21
8:30 - 9:00am	Registration, open mic sign-up, Flowe Hall
9:00 - 11:00am	Session I, Flowe Hall When Your Characters Get Sick, with Tommy Hays Inspiration as a Poetic Art, with Lavonne Adams The Healing Power of Words, with Maureen Ryan Griffin Find Your Natural Style, with Carol Shumate Writing From Our Emotional Core, with Darnell Arnoult
11:15am - 12:00pm	Writing as Healing, A talk by Grey Brown, Belk Hall
12:00 - 1:45pm	Lunch, book signings and sales, and music by Someone's Sister, Belk Hall
2:00 - 4:00pm	Session II, Flowe Hall Make a Scene: Emotional Elements of Fiction, with Quinn Dalton Writing the Journey, with Jaki Shelton Green Generating Stories from Songs, with Charisse Coleman Creating from History: Researching in Three Dimensions, with Philip Gerard Roundtable: What You Should Know About Self-Publishing, with Edwina Woodbury, Patricia Perkins, and Louis Stannard
4:15 - 5:30pm	Open mic with Pam Saulsby, Jones Lecture Hall (in Flowe Hall)
4:15 - 6:15pm	Critiquing sessions, Flowe Hall