Schedule at a Glance
Note: Schedule subject to change
Saturday, April 18
| 8 – 9:30 am | Check-In Sponsored by Biscuitville | MHRA Lobby |
| 8:30 am – 5 pm | Exhibits and Book Sales Open | MHRA Lobby |
9:30 – 11 am Session I
| Creative Nonfiction Master Class: The Relentless Possibilities with M. Randal O’Wain | 1304 |
| Fiction Master Class: True North: Finding Your Fiction’s Center with Travis Mulhauser | 1210 |
| Mary Belle Campbell Poetry Master Class: Thresholds with Sarah Rose Nordgren | 1206 |
| The Shape of Story with Drew Perry | 1215 |
| Beyond Recollection: A Poetics of Heart and Body with Ashley Lumpkin | 1209 |
| Once Again, with Feeling: Editing and Revising Your Work with Jamie Chambliss | 1214 |
| Happily Ever After: Writing Romance with Sarah Grunder Ruiz | 1211 |
| 11:15 am – 12:15 pm | Faculty Readings | 1214 |
| 12:15 – 1:30 pm | Lunch with an Author (or on your own) Sponsored by the NC Literary Map | MHRA Lobby |
| Cadeau: 1208; Grimm: 1214; Lumpkin: 1209; Maren: 1211; Mulhauser: 1210; Nordgren: 1206; O’Wain: 1304; Smith: 1213 | ||
| 1:30 – 2 pm | Keynote Address by Crystal Simone Smith | Curry Auditorium |
2:30 – 4:00 pm Session II
| Creative Nonfiction Master Class with M. Randal O’Wain (cont.) | 1304 |
| Fiction Master Class with Travis Mulhauser (cont.) | 1210 |
| Mary Belle Campbell Poetry Master Class with Sarah Rose Nordgren | 1206 |
| Fact to Fiction: Using Elements of Real Life to Write Fiction with Tita Ramirez | 1215 |
| Fault Lines: Poetry and Fragments with Charmaine Cadeau | 1209 |
| Ask an Agent Anything with Katie Grimm | 1214 |
| An Algorithm Could Never with Mesha Maren | 1211 |
| 4:15 – 5:15 pm | Open Mic Readings I Open Mic Readings II Sign up at the registration table Sponsored by the Weymouth Center Writers-in-Residence Program | 1214 1215 |
| 5:30 – 6:30 pm | Slush Pile Live! Sponsored by Into the Night Woods by Davis Enloe | 1214 |