Friday
May 17, 2002

8:00 to 9:00 a.m.

• Registration and Coffee
• Sign Up for One-on-One Sessions
  

9:00 to 10:15 a.m.

• John Dufresne - Sitting Alone In A Quiet Room - The Process Of Fiction Writing
• Sheree Bykofsky - Ask The Agent: Everything You Need to Know To Get Published
• Lenore Hart and Lisa Carrier - Collaborating For Success: Writing A Children’s Book Together
• Mary Sue Koeppel - How Does A Poet Put A Book Together?
  

10:30 to 11:45 a.m.

• Kitty Oliver - Multicolored Memories of Race And Diversity
• Robert Bailey - Let’s Talk About YOUR First Novel
• Robert Inman - The Character-Driven Novel
• Richard Michaels Stefanik - Story Design: Story Structure In The Megahit Movies
  

12:00 to 1:30 p.m.

• Luncheon with Keynote Speaker Nancy Slonim Aronie - Writes Of Passage
  

1:45 to 3:00 p.m.

• Gail Galloway Adams - The Question Of Character
• Arthur Rosenfeld - Magical Realism: When Impossible Things HappenTo Ordinary Characters
• Sandra Kitt - Switching From Genre To Mainstream
• Frances and Hugh Keiser - Writing Children’s Books: Combining Fiction and Nonfiction
  

3:15 to 4:00 p.m.

• Shelley Mickle - Writing The Humorous Essay
• Tim Dorsey - It’s All In The Rewriting
• Elizabeth Lund - Sharpen Your Poetic Tools
• Kathy Poires - Inside The Publishing House: From The Editor’s Point Of View
  

6:30 p.m.

• Reception and Book Signings
  

7:30 p.m.

• Banquet with Keynote Speaker John Dufresne - Becoming A Writer
• Entertainment by writer and jazz singer Kitty Oliver
  

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