Saturday
May 21, 2005

8:00 to 9:15 a.m.

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

9:30 to 10:15 a.m.

• Mary Fears - The Author as Storyteller
• William Slaughter - Singing the Body Electric: Poetry on the World Wide Web
• S.V. Daté - Writing Satire
• David Zuckerman - Life’s a Pitch
• Stella Suberman - Art of the Memoir
  

10:30 to 11:45 a.m.

• Amy Gash and Andrei Codrescu - Developing Trust Between the Editor and Author
• Steve Berry - Struggling With the Craft and the Business
• Sophie Wadsworth - Poetry Workshop: Re-visioning Your Writing
• Katharine Sands - Why Have an Agent?
  

12:00 to 1:30 p.m.

• Awards Luncheon
  • Keynote Speaker: Past award winner Brian Jay Corrigan
  • Presentation for contest winners
  • Best poems, short stories, plays and novels

1:45 to 3:00 p.m.

• Howard Meibach - What Makes a Great Script?
• Sandra Kitt and Laura Parker - The ABCs of Commercial Fiction
• Teri Grimm - Hearing Voices: Discovering and Uncovering Poetic Voice
• Jim McCarthy and Victoria Laurie - The Agent and Author Relationship
• Travel Writing Panel: William Least Heat-Moon, Bob Morris, and others TBA “Digging Up the Gold from the Side of the Road”
  

3:15 to 4:30 p.m.

• Rita Rosenkrantz - What Your Agent Doesn’t Tell You
• Bob Mayer - Who Dares Wins: Special Operations Tactics for Successful Writing
• Gerald Hausman - Animal Stories that Don’t Die: How to Use Them in Your Writing
• David Hale Smith - Dealing with an Agent
• Linda Dockery - Writing for Television and Film
  

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