Faculty & Sessions

Click the links for details.

Keynote Address

• Lisa Black

Workshops 

• Lisa Black, What Mystery Writers Need to Know About Forensics (2 hrs.)
• Ginnye L. Cubel, Beyond the Newsletter: Advanced Email Marketing Strategies for Writers (2 hrs.)
• Christina Farley, The Different Paths to Publishing (2 hrs.)
• Mary Flynn, The Writer as Presenter (2 hrs.)
• Franklin Ritch, Writing for Film (2 hrs.)
• Scott Tilley, Writing with AI (3 hrs.)

Publishing

• Christina Farley, The Different Paths to Publishing
• Tara Lynn Masih & Kim Bradley, Short Story How To: Creating, Compiling, and Marketing Short Story Collections
• Nancy J. Cohen, Self-Publishing Made Simple
• Arielle Haughee, Your Publishing Timeline: Stay on Track and Don't Miss a Beat
• Elle E. Ire, Query Letters Done Right

Marketing

• Nancy J. Cohen, Book Marketing on a Budget
• Ginnye L. Cubel, Beyond the Newsletter: Advanced Email Marketing Strategies for Writers
• Ginnye L. Cubel, Don't Follow Me: How to Create Impactful Marketing Without Social Media
• Mary Flynn, The Writer as Presenter
• Tara Lynn Masih & Kim Bradley, Short Story How To: Creating, Compiling, and Marketing Short Story Collections
• Elle E. Ire & José Pablo Iriarte, Networking for Writers
• José Pablo Iriarte, How to Write and Sell Short Fiction

Writing: Business & Law

• Anne Dalton, Secrets of Publishing Contracts: 10 Tips to Protect Your Writing and Yourself'
• Anne Dalton, What's So Fair About Fair Use?
• Vic DiGenti,The Not-So-Secret Life of a Ghostwriter
• Joni M. Fisher, Writing for Magazines or Paid Blogs
• Sarah Hendess, Breaking into Book Reviewing
• Ken Pelham, Economical Graphics for Writers: Finding and Using Images Without Breaking the Law Or the Bank

AI & the Future of Writing

• Scott Tilley, Writing with AI
• Scott Tilley, ChatGPT and the Future of Writing
• Sylvia Whitman, Voice: The Secret Sauce that Endears Your Characters and Defies AI
• Noel Zamot, Storytelling in the Time of Robots, or How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love ChatGPT
• Panel: AI: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Craft

• Marty Ambrose, From Planning to Product Using the Notebook Method
• Jaimie Engle, Beyond the Borders
• Jaimie Engle, Character Groups to Sustain Series
• Christina Farley & Janice Hardy & Sarah McGuire, The Heartstrings Method: Techniques for Creating Emotional Impact in Your Writing
• Joni M. Fisher, Writing Quotable Dialogue
• Janice Hardy, Avoiding the Info Dump in Created Worlds
• Arielle Haughee, Crisp Up That Prose!
• Fred Koehler & Sarah McGuire, Sprinting Toward Failure: A Fail-Fast Method for Character & Story
• Tara Lynn Masih & Kim Bradley, Short Story How To: Creating, Compiling, and Marketing Short Story Collections
• Sarah McGuire, Step Away from the Sledgehammer: Using the Overlooked Tools in Your Writer's Toolbox
• Ben A. Sharpton, Thoughts from Wizened Veteran Writers
• Sylvia Whitman, Voice: The Secret Sauce that Endears Your Characters and Defies AI

Genre

• Lisa Black, What Mystery Writers Need to Know About Forensics
• Shutta Crum, Pump Up the Muscle in Your Poems
• Shutta Crum, That's A Poem? The Crazy World of Poetry Today
• Vic DiGenti, How To Create a Literary Legacy: Writing Your Life
• Sarah Hendess, What's Hot, What's Not: Current Trends in Historical Fiction
• José Pablo Iriarte, How to Write and Sell Short Fiction
• Wyne Karnath, Emerging Technology in Sci Fi
• Fred Koehler, Writing Between the Lines: How an Illustrator Thinks About Your Picture Book Manuscript
• Franklin Ritch, Writing for Film

For More Information...