Schedule with Room Assignments
Schedules subject to change
Saturday, April 22
| 8 – 9 AM | Registration Open | MHRA Lobby |
| 8:30 AM -5 PM | Exhibits and Book Sales Open | MHRA Lobby |
| 9 – 10 AM | Keynote Address by Michael Parker | Curry Auditorium |
10:30 AM – 12:00 PM Session I
| Creative Nonfiction Master Class: Shaping Life Into Art with James Tate Hill | Room 1304 |
| Fiction Master Class: Radical Revision . . . with Xhenet Aliu | Room 1207 |
| Poetry Master Class: Writing by Ear (Beyond Rhyme) with Timothy O’Keefe | Room 1206 |
| The Business of Books with Abby Freeland | Room 1215 |
| Formal or Free? (poetry) with Jefferson Holdridge | Room 1211 |
| Writing Dialogue that Snaps, Crackles & POPS! with Leslie Pietrzyk | Room 1214 |
| The Spirit of Place . . . (CNF) with Phoebe Zerwick | Room 1204 |
| Adapting Other Genres into Film with Nathan Ross Freeman | Room 1208 |
| 12 – 1 PM | Lunch with an Author (or on your own) Sponsored by Blair | Lunch with an Author Registrants: See author meeting place assigned to you on your personalized schedule. |
| 1:15 – 2:15 PM | Faculty Readings I & II Sponsored by Regal House Publishing | Rooms 1214 & 1215 See below for reader locations. |
| Faculty Reading I (Room 1214) | Xhenet Aliu Nathan Ross Freeman James Tate Hill Jefferson Holdridge Zelda Lockhart |
| Faculty Reading II (Room 1215) | Timothy O’Keefe M. Randal O’Wain Jacob Paul Leslie Pietrzyk Phoebe Zerwick |
2:30 AM – 4:00 PM Session II
| Creative Nonfiction Master Class with James Tate Hill (cont.) | Room 1304 |
| Fiction Master Class with Xhenet Aliu (cont.) | Room 1207 |
| Poetry Master Class with Timothy O’Keefe (cont.) | Room 1206 |
| Before You Publish That Book: The Key to Pre-Sales with Zelda Lockhart | Room 1215 |
| Writing the Ancestors (all-genre) with Jacinta V. White | Room 1211 |
| Bringing Conflict to the Frame: Managing Multiple Timelines (prose) with Jacob Paul | Room 1214 |
| The Fantastical Fact. . . in Memoir with M. Randal O’Wain | Room 1204 |
| Ten Reasons Why Screenplays Fail . . . with Dana Coen | Room 1208 |
| 4:30 – 5:30 PM | Open Mic Readings I Open Mic Readings II Sponsored by Written Word Media Sign up at the registration table | Rooms 1214 & 1215 |
| 5:45 – 6:45 PM | Slush Pile Live! Sponsored by Katie Winkler and Teach. Write. | Rooms 1214 ONLY |