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7:30am EDT

Registration & Hot BreakfastLIMITED Grand Ballroom

9:00am EDT

5A: Media Training: How to Put Your Best Foot ForwardLIMITED Back Bay RoomLynne Reeves Griffin • Katrin Schumann 5B: Writing on the Hyphen: Capturing the Authentic and Avoiding the StereotypeLIMITED Beacon Hill RoomMarjan Kamali • Henriette Lazaridis • Jennie Wood 5C: How to Bust Through Blocks and Boost CreativityLIMITED Cabot RoomSara DiVello 5D: Writers of a Certain Age: A Survivor's Guide To Starting 'Late'FILLING Cambridge RoomRobin Black 5E: Co-Operative-Style Self-Publishing & Marketing For Independent AuthorsLIMITED Charles River RoomJane Karker 5F: How To Use Social Media for Self Promotion And Not Be AnnoyingLIMITED Franklin RoomCrystal King 5G: Reconstructing Childhood in MemoirLIMITED Newbury RoomGarrard Conley 5H: Fiction's Inner LandscapeFILLING Stuart RoomTim Weed 5J: All-Conference Read in Fiction: There's Something I Want You To Do by Charles BaxterFILLING Terrace RoomCharles Baxter • Christopher Lydon 5K: Sell Your Story in a Single SentenceFILLING Tremont RoomLane Shefter Bishop 5L: Ready for Representation?FILLING White Hill RoomRebecca Heyman • Carrie Howland

10:45am EDT

6A: Writing the Group: How to Tackle Multiple POV's in FictionFILLING Back Bay RoomAngela Flournoy 6B: Non-Fiction Idea ClinicLIMITED Beacon Hill RoomEthan Gilsdorf • Daniel Loedel • Leah Miller • Ayesha Pande • Jessica Papin 6C: Taming the Unruly First DraftLIMITED Cabot RoomLisa Borders 6D: Is Your Agent Right For You?FILLING Cambridge RoomGail Hochman 6E: What Sex Can DoLIMITED Charles River RoomGarth Greenwell 6F: Ask AmazonLIMITED Franklin RoomNeal Thompson 6G: The Three Layers of CharacterFILLING Newbury RoomKristopher Jansma 6H: How to Build a Successful Social Media StrategyLIMITED Stuart RoomFauzia Burke 6J: Where I'm Calling From--Narrative Voice in MemoirLIMITED Tremont RoomHoward Axelrod 6K: Those Scaffolds Aren't for the Hanging: Using Dramatic Structure in FictionFILLING White Hill RoomSunil Yapa 6L: Transforming Real Life Stories into FictionFILLING Whittier RoomMichelle Hoover • Dawn Tripp 6M: Keep the Narrative Going: Effective Methods to Provide Context in Fiction [SECTION II]LIMITED Winthrop RoomDariel Suarez

12:00pm EDT

Lunch BreakLIMITED On Your Own

1:15pm EDT

7A: Novel Plot and Structure: In Search of the Inciting IncidentFILLING Back Bay RoomMatthew Salesses 7B: Star Literary IdolFILLING Beacon Hill RoomStephen McCauley • Mameve Medwed • Anita Shreve • Sebastian Stuart 7C: Lessons from the Memoir IncubatorLIMITED Cambridge RoomAlex Marzano-Lesnevich 7D: Seven Key Questions You Need to Answer to Successfully Publish Your Nonfiction BookLIMITED Charles River RoomKatrin Schumann 7E: Living History: Waking the DeadLIMITED Franklin RoomAlexander Chee 7F: Rewind, Fast Forward, Pause, Play: Negotiating Time in FictionFILLING Newbury RoomMaya Lang 7G: Finding Your Form: Exploring Storytelling through Fiction and MemoirLIMITED St. James RoomMolly Antopol 7H: Mapping Your Story: Place, Movement, and TerritoryLIMITED Tremont RoomLynne Barrett 7J: Query LabFULL White Hill RoomSorche Fairbank • Rachel Letofsky 7K: How To Be Your Own Best EditorFILLING Whittier RoomAnn Hood

2:45pm EDT

8A: A Map in the Wilderness: Unsticking Your Plot Using Cinematic StructureFULL Back Bay RoomRay Daniel 8B: You're the Boss! Taking Control of your Book's Promotion PlanFILLING Beacon Hill RoomAnjali Mitter Duva 8C: Essentials of the SentenceFILLING Cambridge RoomAlysia Abbott 8D: Politics and ProseLIMITED Charles River RoomMarjan Kamali 8E: Eavesdrop Like You Mean ItLIMITED Franklin RoomWilliam Belcher 8F: The Right To Write: Who Owns the Story?LIMITED Newbury RoomRoxana Robinson 8G: 'But That Really Happened': Avoid the Pitfalls of Fictionalizing Your LifeLIMITED St. James RoomDawn Dorland 8H: Essentials of PlaceLIMITED Tremont RoomDariel Suarez 8J: Making Things HappenFILLING White Hill RoomMira Jacob 8K: How NOT to Sabotage Your Chances With an AgentFILLING Whittier RoomRebecca Heyman

4:00pm EDT

Keynote Tea with Colum McCannLIMITED Grand BallroomColum McCann

5:30pm EDT

Lit LoungeLIMITED Statler Room

6:30pm EDT

Dinner BreakLIMITED On Your Own

8:00pm EDT

Grub Gone...Drag ***SOLD OUT!***LIMITED Villa Victoria Center for the ArtsMartha Graham Cracker • Kaitlyn Greenidge • Colum McCann