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Monday
, June 15
9:00am
MDT
Advanced Weeklong Fiction Workshop: Finding the Subterranean Story with Danielle Evans
TBA
Danielle Evans
Advanced Weeklong Fiction Workshop: Intimate Distance with Mat Johnson
TBA
Mat Johnson
Advanced Weeklong Fiction Workshop: Situation and Event with Brandon Taylor
TBA
Brandon Taylor
Advanced Weeklong Fiction Workshop: The BS Detector with Steve Almond
TBA
Steve Almond
Advanced Weeklong Fiction Workshop: Who's Telling Your Story? with Christopher Castellani
TBA
Chris Castellani
Advanced Weeklong Generative Fiction Workshop: Starting, or Starting Over with Rebecca Makkai
TBA
Rebecca Makkai
Advanced Weeklong Nonfiction Workshop: Excavation with Andre Dubus III
TBA
Andre Dubus III
Advanced Weeklong Nonfiction Workshop: Find Your Focus with Beth Nguyen
TBA
Beth Nguyen
Advanced Weeklong Nonfiction Workshop: Mapping the Memoir with Emily Rapp Black
TBA
Emily Rapp Black
Advanced Weeklong Nonfiction Workshop: Shadow Narratives with Rachel Louise Snyder
TBA
Rachel Louise Snyder
Advanced Weeklong Poetry Workshop: Draft Exclusion with Paul Muldoon
TBA
Paul Muldoon
No Genre/All Genre Generative Lab with Eileen Myles
TBA
Eileen Myles
Writing for Young Adults
Virtual
Kelsey Day
12:00pm
MDT
Lunchtime Business Panel: Through the Fire—Debut Writers on Their First Books
TBA
Susan Golomb • Lior Torenberg • Kathleen Boland • Pardeep Toor • Amanda McCracken
Lunchtime Business Panel: Through the Fire—Debut Writers on Their First Books (Livestream)
Virtual
Susan Golomb • Lior Torenberg • Kathleen Boland • Pardeep Toor • Amanda McCracken
1:00pm
MDT
Two-Day Intensive: Finish the Nonfiction Book—Everything but the Pages
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
Simone Stolzoff
1:30pm
MDT
Advanced Structure Lab: Break the Story Free with Dean Bakopoulos
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
Dean Bakopoulos
Bait the Hook: Your First Few Pages
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
Erika Krouse
Bait the Hook: Your First Few Pages (Livestream)
Virtual
Erika Krouse
Every Sentence an Ocean: Concision and Compression in Flash-Fiction
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
Chris Vanjonack
From Morally Gray to Black: Creating Flawed and Unscrupulous Protagonists
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
Jon Bassoff
Novel Whispering
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
Mat Johnson
Novel Whispering (Livestream)
Virtual
Mat Johnson
From Patient to Protagonist: Claiming Agency in Your Own Story
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
Rachel Weaver
Squash For Golfers: Line Movement in Prose and Poetry
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
Paul Muldoon
Author Branding for Introverts and Impostors (V)
Virtual
Henry Lien
4:00pm
MDT
Creatures of Impulse: What Fictions Writers Can Learn From TV
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
Dean Bakopoulos
How to Stop Worldbuilding and Start Worldconjuring
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
Alexander Lumans
How to Write Sex Scenes without Shame
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
Steve Almond
To Flash Back or Not to Flash Back
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
Jenny Shank
Collage as Poetic Practice
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
Andrea Rexilius
Letting the I Ching Help You Write Your Story (V)
Virtual
Henry Lien
Two-Day Intensive: Emotional Truth—Using Fiction to Tell the Whole Truth and Nothing But the Truth
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
Sarah Elizabeth Schantz
4:30pm
MDT
Book Project Showcase: Stolzoff, Torenberg, Yun, Lennon, and Leotaud
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
Simone Stolzoff • Lior Torenberg • Jihyun Yun • John J. Lennon • and Marissa Leotaud
Book Project Showcase: Stolzoff, Torenberg, Yun, Lennon, and Leotaud (Livestream)
Virtual
Simone Stolzoff • Lior Torenberg • Jihyun Yun • John J. Lennon • and Marissa Leotaud
7:00pm
MDT
Visiting Authors Reading: Steve Almond, Danielle Evans, Eileen Myles, and Brandon Taylor
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
Visiting Authors Reading: Steve Almond, Danielle Evans, Eileen Myles, and Brandon Taylor (Livestream)
Virtual
8:30pm
MDT
Lit Fest Faculty Reading at Fort Greene Bar
Fort Greene Bar
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