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Sunday, JUNE 1
10:00-10:45 am
Craft Talk: Olivia Clare Friedman
Re-Seeing Your Manuscript: Notes on Revision
What to do with all the feedback you received at The Yokshop? This craft talk will help you strategize and plan for revision (perhaps the most important part of the writing process).
11:30-2:30 pm
Kent Wascom workshop
*please eat hearty breakfast as workshop goes through lunch hour*
2:30 pm
Conference Over! Futures Bright!
Saturday, MAY 31
10:00-10:45 am
Craft Talk: Snowden Wright
Presented in CinemaScope!
What Fiction Writers Can Learn from Movies
For years, writers have taken the wrong lessons from film, conflating the term “cinematic” with “visual.” Every second of a movie contains 24 frames, and every frame of a movie is the result of dozens of crafts: directing, acting, editing, music, photography, costumes, set design, hair and makeup, special effects, choreography, and, of course, writing. In this craft talk, we’ll study the practical lessons fiction writers can learn from an artistic medium that combines all other artistic mediums.
11:00-11:45 am
Craft Talk: Anne Giselson
What Was That All About?
The notorious Poor Boys bar in New Orleans once posted @jonny on its equally notorious Instagram account: broooo last night was a creative nonfiction personal essay.
Wow– what gave @jonny’s night such shape and texture and import? Though sometimes life does hand us a creative nonfiction personal essay, ready to be transcribed, more often than not we’re given a stray encounter or incident that leaves us wondering “what was that all about?”
Bring an experience that you want to write about but you’re not sure why or what it means, and we’ll talk and write towards articulating significance. Whether it’s adding research, mining your past, or connecting to larger cultural and social contexts, we’ll attempt to capture a moment from the chaotic stream of life and make it legible to others while honoring the complexity of experience.
1:30-4:00
Kent Wascom Workshop
4:30-6:30 pm
*DINNER at TAYLOR CATFISH, Taylor, MS
Meet bus at Inn at Ole Miss at 4:30 pm
7:00-7:45 pm
Featured Faculty Reading & Book Signing*
at Off Square Books
Kent Wascom and Anne Giselson
8:00 pm
Spooky Excursion & Open Mic at Faulkner's Grave
(weather permitting)
9 pm til--Pondering the universe on your own, or, with other people. Your preference
Small town Oxford, MS is a writer's paradise with book stores and drinking establishments all in walking distance of the conference.
Dress for all events is casual. Come as you are!
All events unless * are at The Inn at Ole Miss in Griffin Boardroom on 2nd floor
FRIDAY, May 30
10:00-10:45 am
Workshop Introduction and Welcome
Hosted by M.O. Walsh
12:30-3:30
Kent Wascom Workshop
4:15-4:45
Reading: Snowden Wright
5:00-6:30 pm
*Cocktail Hour at City Grocery Bar
6:30- 8:15 pm
*DINNER on your own
8:30-9:00 pm
Keynote Speech by Scott Morris
Great Writing as Antidote to the Age of Distraction
9:00 pm til:
Back porch at the Inn or sleep
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