Craft Seminars
Friday, June 9th
Morning Session (9:00-11:00 AM)
Desire and Power with William Haywood Henderson
Rediscovering Our Forgotten Tongues (Virtual) with Oso Guardiola
Talismans: Using Objects to Convey Emotion with Paula Younger
The Emily Dickinson Experience with Lynn Wagner
The Stranger Self (Livestream) with Leslie Jamison
The Stranger Self with Leslie Jamison
Afternoon Session (1:30-3:30 PM)
Writing Detective Stories with Poupeh Missaghi
The Laundry Line (Virtual) with Natalie Hodges
The Poetry of Spirituality with Joy Roulier Sawyer
Genre Becoming Shape: Hybrid Forms in Creative Nonfiction with Hillary Leftwich
Ekphrastic Poetry with Carolina Ebeid
Early Evening Session (4:00-6:00 PM)
Poetic Revision and Praxis with Carmen Giménez
Letters as a Literary Form with Teow Lim Goh
Let’s Get Weird: Mining Your Obsessions for Fiction with Tiffany Quay Tyson
Saturday, June 10th
Morning Session (9:00-11:00 AM)
Picture Books: Keeping the Illustrator in Mind with Denise Vega
Acting for Writers (Virtual) with Raeann Giles
Making Words Flesh: How Objects Accumulate Meaning in Fiction (Virtual) with Oso Guardiola
Desire and Power with Dino Enrique Piacentini
Building Your Own Emotional Thesaurus with Jenny Shank
The Nonfiction Query Letter (Virtual) with Natalie Hodges
Afternoon Session (1:30-3:30 PM)
Rev Up for Revision: Strategies to Elevate Your Next Draft with Alexander Lumans
Queering Plot with Selah Saterstrom
Stepping Out of Self: Using Fiction as a Memoir-Writing Tool (Virtual) with Morgan Sjogren
Getting Published: Stories, Essays, Articles and Books with Jenny Shank
Writing Historical Fiction: Findings Gems to Enrich Your Story with Kase Johnstun
Cut-Up and Remix with Teow Lim Goh
Early Evening Session (4:00-6:00 PM)
Exploring the Various Schools of Prose Poetry (Virtual) with Jose Hernandez Diaz
The Language We Inherit with Suzi Q. Smith
Art of the Interview with Joe Fassler
Sunday, June 11th
Morning Session (9:00-11:00 AM)
What We Don't, What We Can't, What We Never, What Is Not with Peter Markus
The Poetic Line: From Breath to Lineation with Radha Marcum
Beating the Blank Screen: Strategies to get Unstuck with Joe Fassler
Intro to Screenwriting (Virtual) with Raeann Giles
Afternoon Session (1:30-3:30 PM)
Reading and Writing Displacement with Poupeh Missaghi
And Then I Woke Up: Writing Endings for Short Fiction & Nonfiction with Jenny Shank
Vulnerability, Voice, and Authenticity in Your Memoir's First Page with Kase Johnstun
Sounds + Visions: How We Work Together (Virtual) with Maw Shein Win
Let's Get Practical: How To Write (and Sell) a Book In Two Years with Simone Stolzoff
Openings and Omens (Virtual) with Oso Gaurdiola
Monday, June 12th
Afternoon Session (1:30-3:30 PM)
Getting it Done: 3 Hours Towards a Finished Draft with Sarah Elizabeth Schantz
Object Lessons with Jonathan Escoffery
Let’s Learn Writing from Translators with Poupeh Missaghi
The Monster’s Tail: Writing Nightmares, Demons, and Other Fiends with Alexander Lumans
Literary Archeology: Discovering Our Truth in Hybrid Memoir with Hillary Leftwich
Shame On Me with Michelle Tea
Ruining All the Fun We Can with Patricia Smith
The Pitch: Placing Your Nonfiction in Magazines and Online with Joe Fassler
In the World: Writing Parenthood Beyond the Domestic with Emily Perez
Early Evening Session (4:00-6:00 PM)
Living in the Layers: Mindfulness & Writing (Virtual) with Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Just Two Poems with Lynn Wagner
Reimagining "Truth" in Historical Fiction with Andrew Hernández
Seeing It Again: The Agonizing Necessity of Revision (Livestream) with Andre Dubus III
Birth of Style with John Cotter
Inspiration and Techniques for Older Writers with Cynthia Swanson
The Poetic Line with Suzi Q. Smith
Using Google Images to Enhance Your Nonfiction with Kase Johnstun
Seeing It Again: The Agonizing Necessity of Revision with Andre Dubus III
Tuesday, June 13th
Afternoon Session (1:30-3:30 PM)
The Poetics and Meanderings of Travel Writing with Juan J. Morales
How to Write Riveting Scenes with Steve Almond
The Anatomy of a Standout Poetry Manuscript with Radha Marcum
The Poetics of Childhood with Peter Markus
Working with Beta Readers with Cynthia Swanson
Picture Book Endings: Wow Your Readers with Denise Vega
The Familiar Stories: Using Myths, Legends, and Fairy Tales to Inspire Your Fiction with Tiffany Quay
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Persona and the Poem (Virtual) with Elizabeth Robinson
Contemporary Ekphrasis with Forrest Gander
Early Evening Session (4:00-6:00 PM)
Free Indirect: A Notorious P.O.V with John Cotter
The Origins of the Original (Livestream) with Rebecca Makkai
The Origins of the Original with Rebecca Makkai
Poetry is For the Birds (Virtual) with Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Exploring Surreal Prose Poetry Through Generative Prompts (Virtual) with Jose Hernandez Diaz
Love Your Villains, Hate Your Heroes with Andrew Hernández
Temporal Mechanics: What Speculative Fiction Can Teach Us about Writing Time with Ted McCombs
What To Do When You Don't Know What To Do with Akhil Sharma
Wednesday, June 14th
Afternoon Session (1:30-3:30 PM)
Your Visual Poetics (Virtual) with Cindy Juyoung Ok
Crappy Jobs and Weird Food: Creating Your Setting and Culture with Erika Krouse
Interiority Complex with Rebecca Makkai
Interiority Complex (Livestream) with Rebecca Makkai
Minding the Gap: On Memory, Bias, and the Blind Spot (Virtual) with Angelique Stevens
Spoiler Alert with Paula Younger
Using Epistolary Form to Jump Start a Poem with Emily Perez
A Whole Vibe: Mood, Tone, and Atmosphere in Fiction with Andrea Bobotis
Early Evening Session (4:00-6:00 PM)
Creating a Fiasco with Paula Younger
The Rancidity of the Butter: Big Ideas and Actual Writing with Amitava Kumar
Imagination Station with Erika Krouse
Insects and Poetic Inspiration (Virtual) with Jodie Hollander
When News Breaks in Your Backyard: How to Craft and Pitch a Timely Essay with Jenny Shank
Ask Me Anything: Sheila Heti and Rachel Kushner in Conversation with Rachel Kushner and Sheila Heti
Ask Me Anything: Sheila Heti and Rachel Kushner in Conversation (Livestream) with Rachel Kushner and Sheila Heti
Ekphrastic Writing (Virtual) with Chip Livingston
Telling Time with Sarah Elizabeth Schantz
Thursday, June 15th
Morning Session ( 9:00-11:00 AM)
Get Out Of Your Own Way (Virtual) with Alyse Knorr
Afternoon Session (1:30-3:30 PM)
How to Write a Tragicomic Memoir with Elissa Bassist
Writing Your Obsessions with Steve Almond
Writing the Workplace with Katie Kitamura
Writing the Workplace (Livestream) with Katie Kitamura
Seeing the Big Picture: Techniques for Revising Books with Jenny Shank
The Sequence Poem with Sawnie Morris
Writing Place (Virtual) with Ellen Blum Barish
Writing About Race and Identity in Children's/YA (Virtual) with Rachel Werner
Crash Course to Hybrid Writing (Virtual) with Alyse Knorr
Early Evening Session (4:00-6:00 PM)
Fate and Chance with Sheila Heti
Hermit Crabbing the Essay (Virtual) with Chip Livingston
Writing in Response (Virtual) with Cindy Juyoung Ok
Casting Characters with Sarah Elizabeth Schantz
Outsmarting Your Outlines with R. Alan Brooks
Creatures of Impulse with Dean Bakopoulos
The Personal and Political in Nonfiction with Nadia Owusu
Mining Memories (Virtual) with Alyse Knorr
Friday, June 16th
Afternoon Session (1:30-3:30 PM)
Creating Character Through Voice with William Haywood Hendserson
Poetry and Punctuation with Sawnie Morris
Travel Writing with Poupeh Missaghi
Significant Detail: Making Meaning with Claire Messud
Significant Detail: Making Meaning (Livestream) with Claire Messud
Failure Is an Option with Steve Almond
Creating Art in Dark Times with R. Alan Brooks
The Essay In Ten Types (Virtual) with Ellen Blum Barish
List Poems (Virtual) with Elizabeth Robinson
Found Poetry: Creating the New from the Now with Grace Wagner