Schedule at-a-Glance
Schedules subject to change
ON-SITE CONFERENCE
| Saturday, April 23 | |
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| 8:00 – 9:00 am | Registration Open (MHRA Lobby) |
| 8:30 am – 5:00 pm | Exhibit Tables and Book Sales Open (MHRA Lobby) |
| 9:00 – 10:00 am | Keynote Address by Carole Boston Weatherford (Curry Auditorium) |
| 10:30 am – 12:00 pm | Session I Query an Agent About Querying Agents with Jamie Chambliss Public, Private, & Poetic Place with Charmaine Cadeau The Speaking Words: On Writing Dialogue in Fiction with Travis Mulhauser Look Closer: Writing About Objects (all genres) with Julia Ridley Smith Crafting Characters Round and Flat for the Screen with Mary M. Dalton |
| 12:00 – 1:00 pm | Lunch Under UNCG’s current COVID-19 guidelines, we will not be able to offer Lunch with an Author or any food or beverage at the on-site Spring Conference. If their guidelines change in time, we will give registrants an opportunity to order some sort of on-site lunch. Either way, we will provide all registrants with a list of quick and convenient lunch options within walking distance of the MHRA Building. |
| 1:15 – 2:15 pm | Faculty Readings |
| 2:30 – 4:00 pm | Session II Presenting Your Book with Charlie Lovett Talking the Talk (poetry) with Stuart Dischell Manifesting Thisness in Fiction with Caleb Johnson The Group: How to Form Your Own Thriving Writing Workshop with Duncan Murrell Is This Idea a Screenplay? with Joy Goodwin |
| 4:30 – 5:30 pm | Open Mic Readings – Sign up at registration table |
| 5:30 – 6:30 pm | Slush Pile Live! |
ONLINE CONFERENCE
| Saturday, April 23 | |
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| 9:00 – 10:00 am | Keynote Address by Carole Boston Weatherford (Livestreamed from UNCG) |
| 10:30 am – 12:00 pm | Session I In Flux(us) (all genres) with Steven Sherrill—Online Only Hitting a Home Run: Pitching to & Getting Published in Magazines with Rachel Priest—Online Only |
| 12:00 – 1:00 pm | Online Picnic hosted by Michele T. Berger—Online Only |
| 1:15 – 2:15 pm | Faculty Readings (Livestreamed from UNCG) |
| 2:30 – 4:00 pm | Session II The Sound of Prose with Maegan Poland—Online Only What Publishers Really Want from Authors: Building an Audience Before Your First Book Comes Out with Meg Reid—Online Only |
| 4:30 – 5:30pm | Online Open Mic I—Online Only Online Open Mic II—Online Only |
| 5:30 – 6:30pm | Slush Pile Live! |