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Tuesday
, June 16
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
1:00pm •
Two-Day Intensive: Finish the Nonfiction Book—Everything but the Pages
1:30pm •
Survey of Interiority
1:30pm •
I Hate You, Too: Writing Antagonistic Relationships
1:30pm •
Advanced Structure Lab: Break the Story Free with Dean Bakopoulos
1:30pm •
Where the Deer and the Antelope (and the Poets) Play: On the Page
1:30pm •
Reader in the Room
1:30pm •
They Can’t Be All Bad, Right?
1:30pm •
The Cutting Room Floor: Late-Stage Revision
1:30pm •
Information Underload: What Each Precious Paragraph Communicates to a Reader
4:00pm •
Write Stronger Scenes: A Checklist
4:00pm •
A Wrinkle in Time: How to Manage Chronology and Structure
4:00pm •
Symbolism and Metaphor: They Aren’t Just for Fiction
4:00pm •
Hook, Line, and Sinker: Exploring Form Via Ruben Ostlund’s Triangle of Sadness
4:00pm •
Black Doubt, Revision, and Faith
4:00pm •
Forms and Functions: Poetic and Otherwise
4:00pm •
Two-Day Intensive: Emotional Truth—Using Fiction to Tell the Whole Truth and Nothing But the Truth
4:30pm •
Lit Fest Fellows Showcase and Reading
7:00pm •
Visiting Authors Reading: Emily Rapp Black, Mat Johnson, Rebecca Makkai, and Beth Nguyen
TBA
9:00am •
Advanced Weeklong Nonfiction Workshop: Mapping the Memoir with Emily Rapp Black
9:00am •
No Genre/All Genre Generative Lab with Eileen Myles
9:00am •
Advanced Weeklong Fiction Workshop: The BS Detector with Steve Almond
9:00am •
Advanced Weeklong Fiction Workshop: Finding the Subterranean Story with Danielle Evans
9:00am •
Advanced Weeklong Nonfiction Workshop: Shadow Narratives with Rachel Louise Snyder
9:00am •
Advanced Weeklong Nonfiction Workshop: Find Your Focus with Beth Nguyen
9:00am •
Advanced Weeklong Generative Fiction Workshop: Starting, or Starting Over with Rebecca Makkai
9:00am •
Advanced Weeklong Fiction Workshop: Intimate Distance with Mat Johnson
9:00am •
Advanced Weeklong Fiction Workshop: Situation and Event with Brandon Taylor
9:00am •
Advanced Weeklong Nonfiction Workshop: Excavation with Andre Dubus III
9:00am •
Advanced Weeklong Fiction Workshop: Who's Telling Your Story? with Christopher Castellani
9:00am •
Advanced Weeklong Poetry Workshop: Draft Exclusion with Paul Muldoon
12:00pm •
Lunchtime Business Panel: After the Debut—Life as a Working Writer
Virtual
9:00am •
Literary Lightning: Finding the Poetry in Your Prose (V)
12:00pm •
Lunchtime Business Panel: After the Debut—Life as a Working Writer (Livestream)
1:30pm •
Survey of Interiority (Livestream)
1:30pm •
Finding the Heart and Body of Your Memoir (V)
4:00pm •
Black Doubt, Revision, and Faith (Livestream)
4:00pm •
ChatGPT Is My Secretary (V)
4:00pm •
Two-Day Intensive: Being a Romantic Poet in the 21st Century
4:30pm •
Lit Fest Fellows Showcase and Reading (Livestream)
7:00pm •
Visiting Authors Reading: Emily Rapp Black, Mat Johnson, Rebecca Makkai, and Beth Nguyen (Livestream)
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