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 |
7:00 - 7:45 PM | Daugherty-Palmer Commons | Welcome & Keynote Address, Crystal Oliver 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 |
9:45 - 10:45 AM | Blackistone Room, | 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, | 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 | 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 | Creative Nonfiction Workshop with 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 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, | Faculty Reading Melissa Scholes-Young |
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, | 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, | Guest Reader, Wayne Karlin 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 Kent Hall, 212 Anne Arundel, W115 Kent Hall, 317 | Creative Nonfiction, 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 | Faculty Reading Heather Green |
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 Kent Hall, 212 Anne Arundel, W115 | Creative Nonfiction, 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 |
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 Kent Hall, 212 Anne Arundel, W115 Kent Hall, 317 | Creative Nonfiction, 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 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). |
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, | 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 Kent Hall, 212 Anne Arundel, W115 Kent Hall, 317 | Creative Nonfiction, Fiction, Nadeem Zaman Poetry, Heather Green Youth Workshop, Eva Freeman | |
4:30 - 5:00 PM | Blackistone Room, | Closing Remarks, Crystal Oliver |
5:00 - 6:30 PM | Great Room | Dinner |
7:00 - 9:00 PM | Lawn in front of | |
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 |
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