• Registration

    8:00 am at Great Room

  • Opening Remarks

    8:45 am at Great Room

  • LECTURE: (Don't) Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter Here - Alexandra Grana (50 minutes)

    9:00 am at Great Room

  • CLASS: Indie 101 - S. S. Rich (50 minutes)

    10:00 am at Classroom

  • PANEL: Genre Blend it Good, Blend it Real Good - Emily Smiley, Alexandra Grana, Trae Hawkins, Inez Ray, & Brianne Shiraki (50 minutes)

    10:00 am at Great Room

  • WORKSHOP: Hook 'Em — (Re)Writing Your First Five Pages - Brittany Yost (90 minutes)

    10:00 am at Writers Studio

  • CLASS: Genre Blends — Write it Good - Alexandra Grana (50 minutes)

    11:00 am at Classroom

  • PANEL: Road to Trad - Inez Ray, Neena Viel, Fitz Cyr, Luciano Marano, Kendare Blake, & Brianne Shiraki (50 minutes)

    11:00 am at Great Room

  • Lunch Sponsor Presentation: Chanticleer (15 minutes)

    12:00 pm at Great Room

  • LUNCH & LEARN: Support for Writers — Grants, Fellowships, Classes and Workshops - K.G. Anderson, Trae Hawkins, & Alec Marsh (45 minutes)

    12:15 pm at Great Room

  • CLASS: The Art of Brevity, Part I: Writing Short (Spec) Fiction - Rio Lombana (50 minutes)

    1:00 pm at Classroom

  • LECTURE: Setting as Character / World Building - Kendare Blake (50 minutes)

    1:00 pm at Great Room

  • WORKSHOP: Building a Brand That's as Unique (and unstoppable) as You Are - Fitz Cyr (90 minutes)

    1:00 pm at Writers Studio

  • CLASS: Genre Blends — How to Sell it Good (Agent Perspective: Query Letter + Pitch) - Alexandra Grana (50 minutes)

    2:00 pm at Classroom

  • PANEL: Successful Indie Publishing - Serena Bell, Jen Pitts, Dana Sweeney, Brittany Yost, & Josh Sutphin (50 minutes)

    2:00 pm at Great Room

  • CLASS: Political Systems as World Building & Plot - Trae Hawkins (50 minutes)

    3:00 pm at Classroom

  • LECTURE: Just Add Spice - Emily Rath (50 minutes)

    3:00 pm at Great Room

  • WORKSHOP: Write a Query Letter - Alexandra Grana (90 minutes)

    3:00 pm at Writers Studio

  • CLASS: Muddy Middles - Emily Rath (50 minutes)

    4:00 pm at Classroom

  • LECTURE: Scenes - A Deep Dive - Elsie Raymond (50 minutes)

    4:00 pm at Great Room

  • Break / Free Time

    5:00 pm at BARN

  • Available for Quiet Space

    6:00 pm at Classroom

  • SOCIAL: Pizza Party Write-In

    6:00 pm at Great Room