Schedule of Events / June 27, 28, 29, 2008

New Letters Weekend Writers Conference

Except for Abreakout sessions,@ all students attend all events.

Friday, June 27 B Evening at Diastole House

  5:30 - 8:00 p.m.  Registration, Orientation and Reception:  Staff

    Introductions: Robert Stewart, Conference Director

    Welcoming Remarks: Dr. Thomas Stroik, Associate Dean, College of Arts & Sciences

                            Keynote Lecture:  Barbara Robinette Moss, “Breaking Through in Your

            Creative Life”

Saturday, June 28 B Diastole House (in the Kiva unless otherwise noted)

   8:00 - 8:50 a.m.     Light breakfast option, with coffee & juice (Sun Room).

   9:00 - 9:45 a.m.     Robert Stewart, “Why and How to Revise, Revise.”

   9:45 - 10:30 a.m.   Trish Reeves, “Imagery and Movement, Lift Off From the Field of White.”

* short break *

   10:40 - 12:00 p.m.  Catherine Browder, “Plot and the ‘Dynamics of Desire’”; and

        Christie Hodgen, “The Best of Times: Writing an Effective Opening.”

12:00 - 12:45  p.m., Lunch provided, and conversation.

   1:00 - 2:20 p.m.    Loring Leifer, “Software Secrets Can Make You a Better Writer”; and

                  Debra Di Blasi, “Nonfiction Factions: Essays & Memoirs, Histories of 21st Century.”

   2:30 - 3:10 p.m.   Stanley E. Banks, “Dysfunctioning in the World as a Poet.”                  

   3:20 - 4:10 p.m.   Stage & Screen Writing: Frank Higgins & Mitch Brian, “No Structure, No Story.”

   4:15 - 5:15 p.m.   Breakout Sessions:  “Making the Work” –

Fiction:  Browder & Hodgen (Khayyam Room)

Poetry:  Banks & Reeves (Captain’s Room)

Nonfiction:  Di Blasi & Leifer (Upstairs Library)

Stage/Screen:  Brian & Higgins (Kiva)

   5:15 - 5:45 p.m.    Manuscript conferences & conversation.

Sunday, June 29 B Diastole House (in the Kiva unless otherwise noted)

   9:00 - 9:50 a.m.     Light breakfast option, with coffee & juice (Sun Room).

  10:00 - 10:45 a.m.  Steve Paul, “Late and Soon: Notes on Journalism, Nonfiction, Writing and

                                                Transformation.”

   11:00 - 12:00 a.m.  Faculty Group, “Habits of Mind: Tactics for Facing Fears, Making Work.”

12:00 - 1:00 p.m., Luncheon provided, conversation and conferences.

   1:10 - 2:00 p.m.     Donna Martin, “Publishing: a Drama in 3 Acts and Several Unnecessary Scenes.”

   2:10 - 2:45 p.m.     The Entire Faculty: “The Writer/Editor Connection -- Placing Your

Work for Publication: Advice and Answers.”

* short break *

   3:00 - 3:50 p.m.     Mitch Brian & Frank Higgins, “Word & Image for the Stage and Screen.”

   4:00 - 5:00 p.m.        Workshop Sessions: 

            Stage/Screen:  Higgins & Brian (Kiva);

            Fiction:  Browder & Hodgen (the Khayyam Room);

            Poetry:  Banks & Reeves (Captain’s Room);

            Nonfiction:  Leifer & Di Blasi (Upstairs Library).

   5:00 - 5:30 p.m.     Consultations and conversations.

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