Friday
May 20, 2005

8:00 to 9:00 a.m.

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

9:00 to 10:15 a.m.

• Sandra Kitt - Writer’s Block: What to Do When Your Mind Goes Blank
• Victor DiGenti and Jane Wood - Writing for Children and Young Adults
• Bob Mayer - Novel Writer’s Toolkit
• Ian Mairs - On Playwrights and Playwriting
  

10:30 to 11:45 a.m.

• Gerald Hausman - How Personal History and Family Folklore Can Brighten Your Children’s Book
• Carol O’Dell - Narrative Nonfiction: What Is It? How To Write It. How to Sell It!
• Laura Parker Castoro - Surviving Rejection and Thriving as a Writer
• Mary Fears - The Service of “People of Color” in the Civil War
  

12:00 to 1:30 p.m.

• Luncheon: Keynote Address by S. V. Daté
  

1:45 to 3:00 p.m.

• Ian Mairs - Writing Plays
• Lenore Hart and David Poyer - What Writers Can Do to Help Save Reading
• Bob Morris - Beautiful Places to Die: Writing Mysteries in Exotic Locales
• Sophie Wadsworth - Poetry Workshop: New Seeds for Writing
  

3:15 to 4:00 p.m.

• Brian Jay Corrigan - The Autobiography of a Novel
• Linda Dockery - The Top Five Mistakes New Writers Make In Fiction
• Mark Ari - Write as You Like and Die Happy
  

6:30 p.m.

• Reception and Book Signings
  

7:30 p.m.

• Banquet with Keynote Speakers:
  • Gerald Hausman - The Oral History of the World
  • William Least Heat-Moon - The Secret of Good Writing

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