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Conference 2024 Schedule
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2024 Schedule
June 16-22

Subject to Change

Sunday, June 16

TIME

LOCATION

DESCRIPTION

2:00 - 5:00 PM

Daugherty-Palmer Commons

Check-in

6:00 - 7:00 PM

Daugherty-Palmer Commons

Dinner with workshop participants
and faculty mentors

7:00 - 7:45 PM

Daugherty-Palmer Commons

Welcome & Keynote Address, Crystal Oliver
“On Literary Citizenship”

In these opening remarks, we will explore the concept of literary citizenship and discuss ways to become more engaged in the literary community. We will define literary citizenship, discuss the benefits of being a literary citizen, and provide tips on how to get involved.

8:00 - 10:00 PM

River Center

Social Time


Monday, June 17

TIME

LOCATION

DESCRIPTION

7:30 - 9:00 AM

Great Room

Breakfast

8:30 - 9:30 AM

Campus Center 205

Teachers’ Pedagogy Session
(Teachers only, or by permission)

9:45 - 10:45 AM

Blackistone Room,
Anne Arundel Hall

Craft Talk, Crystal Oliver

“How It Felt to Me: On Journaling”

In her essential essay, “On Keeping a Notebook,” Joan Didion reflects on how record-keeping helps us “keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be.” This lecture explores Didion’s premise, along with the art and act of journaling and how it can serve our creative output. By the end of this session, you'll be inspired to keep ‘some kind of record’ to serve as a portkey to the memories of who and what you never imagined you could forget.

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Blackistone Room,
Anne Arundel Hall

Craft Talk: Heather Green

“Literary Translation and New Relations”

Essayist and translator Kate Briggs defines the role of translator as “writer of new sentences on the close basis of others, producer of relations.” In this talk, we’ll consider some of the joys and possibilities of literary translation, read several translations of a text and experiment with the creation of a new version, and discuss English-to-English translation as a possible revision strategy for one’s “original” work.

11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

Great Room

Lunch

1:15 PM

VARIOUS LOCATIONS
(see below to find your workshop)

Workshops Begin

1:15 - 4:15 PM

Kent Hall, 212

Fiction Workshop with Nadeem Zaman

Building the Story

In this workshop we will engage in immersive and intensive work with one to two elements of storytelling each day. Through daily writing exercises, group discussions, we will uncover, discover, and understand the needs of a story and what makes them work for each writer's specific goals.

1:15 - 4:15 PM

River Center
Seminar Room

Creative Nonfiction Workshop with
Melissa Scholes Young
Beyond the Story: Honing Your Craft

In this workshop, participants’ writing will be supported, nurtured, and challenged. We’ll talk more about craft than content. We’ll practice building layered scenes with dialogue, gesture, sensory descriptions, formal elements, and telling details. By closely reading creative nonfiction, we’ll figure out how authors do what they do so we can do it too.

1:15 - 4:15 PM

Anne Arundel, W115

Poetry Workshop with Heather Green

Crystal Vision

In this intensive poetry workshop, we’ll consider notions of “vision” as related to perception, image and description, and the imagined shape of a text. We’ll collaboratively read and discuss participants’ poems, as well as model poems related to participants’ poems, in search of a deeper understanding of poetic possibility, both within the poems at hand, and in a broader sense. Students will also respond to generative prompts to write several new poems, which we’ll share near the end of the week.

1:15 - 4:15 PM

Kent Hall, 317

Youth Workshop with Eva Freeman
Sailing From This to That:
A Youth Writing Workshop

In this workshop, high school-aged conference attendees will explore the craft of the personal essay, short story, and poem. Participants will develop the intimate tone that is the hallmark of good nonfiction and its interplay of summary, musing, and scene. We will also explore the building blocks of a solid short story: plot, characterization, setting, and dialogue. There will be several writing prompts and exercises to practice developing these elements. While we will also generate new material, participants are encouraged to bring poems, essays, or short stories to be workshopped.

5:00 - 6:30 PM

Great Room

Dinner

7:00 - 8:30 PM

Blackistone Room,
Anne Arundel Hall

Faculty Reading

Melissa Scholes-Young
Nadeem Zaman

8:30 - 10:00 PM

River Center

Social Time


Tuesday, June 18

TIME

LOCATION

DESCRIPTION

7:30 - 9:00 AM

Great Room

Breakfast

8:30 - 9:30 AM

Campus Center 205

Teachers’ Pedagogy Session

9:45 - 10:45 AM

Blackistone Room,
Anne Arundel Hall

Craft Talk, Melissa Scholes-Young

“Architect of Your World: Build Strong Stories with Structure & Revision”

This talk will consider craft approaches to structure in stories and the role of revision. From beat sheets to heroine journey models to world building, we’ll discuss creating our own maps for the stories we most want to tell.

11:00 - 11:45 AM

Blackistone Room,
Anne Arundel Hall

Guest Reader, Wayne Karlin
The Genizah

Wayne Karlin will read from his forthcoming novel, The Genizah, out in September 2024. Karlin enters its pages as a character in his own novel, reimagining his family’s lives—and fate—if they had not come to America but stayed in his mother’s village in Poland where the rest of her extended family were murdered by the Nazis in 1941.

11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

Great Room

Lunch

1:15 - 4:15 PM

VARIOUS LOCATIONS

Workshops Continue

River Center
Seminar Room

Kent Hall, 212

Anne Arundel, W115

Kent Hall, 317

Creative Nonfiction,
Melissa Scholes Young

Fiction, Nadeem Zaman

Poetry, Heather Green

Youth Workshop, Eva Freeman

5:00 - 6:30 PM

Great Room

Dinner

7:00 - 8:30 PM

Blackistone Room
Anne Arundel Hall

Faculty Reading

Heather Green
Eva Freeman

8:30 - 10:00 PM

River Center

Social Time


Wednesday, June 19

TIME

LOCATION

DESCRIPTION

7:30 - 9:00 AM

Great Room

Breakfast

8:00 - 9:00 AM

Campus Center 205

Teachers’ Pedagogy Session

9:15 AM - 12:15 PM

VARIOUS LOCATIONS

Workshops Continue

River Center
Seminar Room

Kent Hall, 212

Anne Arundel, W115

Creative Nonfiction,
Melissa Scholes Young

Fiction, Nadeem Zaman

Poetry, Heather Green

11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

Great Room

Lunch

1:15 - 4:15 PM

Kent Hall, 317

Youth Workshop Continues
Eva Freeman

1:00 - 5:00 PM

Free Time/Excursions

4:30 - 5:30 PM

Campus Store

Book Signing Event

5:00 - 6:30 PM

Great Room

Dinner

7:00 - 8:30 PM

Blackistone Room,

Anne Arundel Hall

Participant Reading

8:30 - 10:00 PM

River Center

Social Time


Thursday, June 20

TIME

LOCATION

DESCRIPTION

7:30 - 9:00 AM

Great Room

Breakfast

8:45 -10:15 AM

Cole Cinema

Publishing Panel Discussion with Q&A

10:30 AM - 12:30 PM

Aldoum Lounge

Individual Publishing Meetings

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Campus Center 205

Teachers’ Pedagogy Session

11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

Great Room

Lunch

1:15 - 4:15 PM

VARIOUS LOCATIONS

Workshops Continue

River Center
Seminar Room

Kent Hall, 212

Anne Arundel, W115

Kent Hall, 317

Creative Nonfiction,
Melissa Scholes Young

Fiction, Nadeem Zaman

Poetry, Heather Green

Youth Workshop, Eva Freeman

5:00 - 6:30 PM

Great Room

Dinner

7:00 - 7:45 PM

Blackistone Room,

Anne Arundel Hall

Guest Reader, Merideth Taylor
Making a Way Out of No Way

Merideth Taylor will present her new release (June 2024), the richly imagined, photo illustrated narrative of 150 years of life in slavery on tobacco plantations in Southern Maryland titled Making a Way Out of No Way: Lives of Labor, Love, and Resistance (linked).

 
Click here to view the trailer for this release.

8:00 -10:00 PM

River Center

Social Time


Friday, June 21

TIME

LOCATION

DESCRIPTION

7:30 - 9:00 AM

Great Room

Breakfast

8:30 - 9:30 AM

Campus Center 226

Teachers’ Pedagogy Session

9:15 - 10:15 AM

Blackistone Room,
Anne Arundel Hall

Lecture, Nadeem Zaman

“History and Fiction”

There's historical fiction and then there's fiction that's in conversation with history, or involves history as its backdrop. I will share my methods of doing research, writing fiction against historical events, and remaining true to facts while creating a story entirely of my own making.

10:15 - 11:00 AM

Blackistone Room,

Anne Arundel Hall

Faculty Panel Discussion with Q&A

Crystal Oliver,

Heather Green,

Melissa Scholes Young,

Nadeem Zaman

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM

Campus Store

Book Sale & Signing Event

11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

Great Room

Lunch

1:15 - 4:15 PM

VARIOUS LOCATIONS

Workshops Continue and Conclude

River Center
Seminar Room

Kent Hall, 212

Anne Arundel, W115

Kent Hall, 317

Creative Nonfiction,
Melissa Scholes Young

Fiction, Nadeem Zaman

Poetry, Heather Green

Youth Workshop, Eva Freeman

4:30 - 5:00 PM

Blackistone Room,
Anne Arundel Hall

Closing Remarks, Crystal Oliver

5:00 - 6:30 PM

Great Room

Dinner

7:00 - 9:00 PM

Lawn in front of
Townhouse Greens

River Concert Series: Bach and Buds!

8:00 - 10:00 PM

River Center

Social Time

Saturday, June 22

TIME

LOCATION

DESCRIPTION

7:30 - 10:00 AM

Daugherty-Palmer Commons

Continental Breakfast
and Goodbyes

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