8:30 a.m.
Registration

9:00 a.m.
Sarzin Lecture Hall
Welcome / The Gift
Michael Lister

9:30 a.m.
Sarzin Lecture Hall
Telling Details: How the right details tell your story and elevate your novel
Michael Lister

Room 16
An Advanced Seminar in Point of View: 3rd Person Limited, 1st Person Interior
Lynn Wallace

Room 17
Writers’ Guides
Jack Saunders

10:30 a.m.
Sarzin Lecture Hall
Committing Crime
Alafair Burke, Michael Lister, Terry Lewis

Room 16
How to Build a Human Being: Creating Characters Who Breathe
Douglas Wells, Ted Simmons, Janice Ryan Hall, Mike Brim

Room 17
How to Find and work successfully with a Literary Agent
Cricket Freeman (The August Agency)

11:30
Sarzin Lecture Hall
Narrative Techniques
Terry Lewis

Room 16
The Story in History: Researching and Writing Nonfiction that Dazzles
Bruce Gamble

Room 17
Welcoming a New Poem into the World
Lynn Wallace

12:20 p.m.
Luncheon
Keynote Address Alafair Burke

1:45 p.m.
Sarzin Lecture Hall
*Gulf Coast Idol (new)

3:00 p.m.
Sarzin Lecture Hall
Plausible Plots
Tony Simmons, Ted Simmons, Mike Brim, Janice Ryan Hall, Tony Buoni

Room 16
Environmental Writing
Virginia Dixon, Anne Ake

Room 17
The Art of Creative Nonfiction
Cricket Freeman

4:00 p.m.
Sarzin Lecture Hall
The Key to Being a Damn Fine Writer: You have it, but do you use it effectively?
Cricket Freeman

Room 16
What is Horror Anyway and Why Do We Write It?
Members of the Horror Writers Association

Room 17
Getting Inside Someone Else's Head: The Art of Biography
Bruce Gamble

4:45 p.m.
Sarzin Lecture Hall
Q&A Wrap Up: Any subject, Any question, Anybody

 

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