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2010 Conference Highlights
October 15-17, 2010
Friday |
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3-5 |
Check in, register, receive packets |
5:15 |
Dinner, introductions, contest announcement |
7:30-8:15 |
Readings: Jack, Sheila, Meg |
8:30-9:30 |
Teach-in: quick exercises to get you writing: Jack, Sheila, Meg |
Saturday |
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9-9:45 |
Lecture: Sheila: "Building Your Creative Writing Muscle" |
10-11:15 |
Exercise: Jack: "The Value of Quantity: How to Get a Lot of Ideas" |
11:30-Noon |
Manuscript workshops: Sheila, Jack, Meg |
1:30-2:15 |
Lecture: Meg: "Saying the Unsayable: Deepening Your Stories" |
2:30-3:15 |
Exercise: Sheila: "Artifacts" |
3:30-5 |
Manuscript workshops: Sheila, Jack, Meg |
5:15 |
Dinner |
7:30-9:30 |
Participant readings |
Sunday |
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8:45-9:30 |
Lecture: Jack: "Dramatic Storytelling—Ten Truths and Two Lies" |
9:45-10:30 |
Exercise: Meg: "To Call By Name: The Devil, Love, and the Power of Details" |
10:45-Noon |
Manuscript workshops: Sheila, Jack, Meg |
Noon |
Lunch in small groups for discussions on craft and publishing |
1:30-2:15 |
Panel: Sheila, Jack, Meg: "Where We Go From Here: On Keeping the Spirit, Continuing to Learn, and More on Publishing |
2:15-2:30 |
Class photo and contest winners announced |
Of Note:
Manuscript Workshops
- Manuscript small-group workshops focus 15 to 20 minutes on each attendee's pages. Attendees will email up to 8 double-spaced pages or four poems two weeks prior to the conference to their faculty workshop leader and workshop group, so everyone can read ahead of time. The email will be marked "For the Workshop" and the pages will include the participants name and the title of the work. Writing It Real will provide the email addresses for each attendee's group. Each attendee will bring hard copy of their own and their group mates' work to the conference. In this way, we will all have the pages we need to discuss everyone's work.
- Workshop members will all receive review guidelines (a set of questions) to help in response preparation.
One-on-one Consultations
- Each attendee will be assigned an instructor for a 15-minute one-on-one conference. Each attendee will have emailed 10 pages or 5 poems ahead of time (or have decided to use the time to discuss writing and publishing questions) and will sign up for a consultation slot at the start of the conference. The slots will be tucked into the schedule early before lectures, after lunch and after dinner and also Friday and Saturday evenings after our evening activities have ended.
We'll be running our quick-to-write writing contest with the goofy prizes we are noted for awarding!
The Holy Wisdom Monestery invites those who wish to attend prayer services to do so. The 8 am services on Saturday and Sunday are before our classes start. If you arrive in time on Friday, there is a 4:30 service. |
