WV Writers Conference Schedule

The following is the current schedule for the WV Writers Summer Conference

 

Friday, June 13, 2014

 

2:00-3:00 p.m.

 

1)     Renee Nicholson - Break Dance: Discovery How Line Break Works (or Doesn’t) in Your Poems –

2)     Rhonda Browning White – Short Stories: She May be Little, but She’s Tough;

3)     Marilyn Shank – Kids, Tweens, and Teens: Developmental Stages;

4)     Michael Knost – Flashbacks and Backstory;

5)     Kambri Crews – Publicity & Marketing: Sell Yourself .

 

  

3:15-4:45 p.m. (90 minute session)

 

1)     Kirk Judd – Journey to the Center of Your Mind;

2)     Laura Bentley – Writing Your First Novel: The Journey of a Hybrid Writer;

3)     Danny Boyd – Building Blocks (of good stories for screen and graphic novels);

4)     Sam Holdren – Screenwriting;

5)     Andrew Wheeler – False Memories/Confessions Created by Erroneous Forensic Analysis (60 min)

 

  

6:00-7:00 p.m.

 

1)     People’s Choice – Prose competition;

2)     Dave McCormick – Songwriting;

3)     Belinda Anderson – The Wounded Hero and Other Archetypes: Writing Middle-Grade Characters with Depth;

4)     Joey Madia – Selecting and Reading Your Work;

5)     Sandy Tritt – Writing the Story Only You Can Tell (Memoir)

 

 

 

7:15-8:15 p.m.

 

1)     People’s Choice - Poetry competition;

2)     Pam Hanson – Writing for the Inspirational Market;

3)     Dave McCormick – Creative Writing Basics;

4)     Natalie Sypolt – Whose Story is it?: Exploring Perspective and Narrative Distance in Fiction;

5)     Author Readings: Laura Treacy Bentley, Daleen Berry, Geoff Fuller

 

 

 

8:30 p.m.

 

Entertainment – Kambri Crews; The Fearless Fools

Bonfire (weather permitting)

 

 

Saturday, June 14, 2014 

 

8:30-9:30 a.m.

 

1)   Maggie Anderson – Writing Groups of Related Poems

2)    Natalie Sypolt – It’s Not Your Grandpa’s Mountain Story: What is Today’s Appalachian Literature?

3)    Belinda Anderson – Manuscript Checklist

4)    Patricia Wiles – Awaken the Child Within

5)    Naomi Sloan – Memoir and Imagination: Creative Non-fiction from Blog Posts to Personal Essays

 

 

 

9:45-10:45 a.m.

 

1)     People’s Choice – Prose competition;

2)     Maggie Anderson – Gathering the Storm: Putting Together a Poetry Manuscript;

3)     David and Naomi Sloan – How to Write with a Significant Other (and Survive);

4)     Sandy Tritt – Pass the Tissues;

5)     Rhonda Browning White – Beginnings and Endings: Hit ‘Em Coming and Going;

 

 

 

11:00-12:00 noon

 

1)     People’s Choice – Poetry competition;

2)     Pam Hanson – How to Write a Romance Novel

3)     Joey Madia – The Art of the Knights and Dragons Style Fantasy Genre

4)     Marilyn Shank – Coping with Grief and Trauma: It’s Not the Same for Children and Adolescents

5)     Kambri Crews - Publicity & Marketing: Sell Yourself (Repeat)

6)     People’s Choice – Youth competition

 

 

 

1:15-2:45 p.m. (90 minute session)

 

1)     Laura Treacy Bentley – Writing Your First Novel: The Journey of a Hybrid Writer (Repeat)

2)     Steve Goff – Improv Your Creativity, Improv Your Writing

3)     David Sloan –How to Deal with Complexity in Plots

4)     Andrew Wheeler – Crime Scene Reconstruction and the Investigative Process

5)     Kambri Crews – Non-Fiction Book Proposal (60 min)

 

 

 

3:00-4:00 p.m.

 

1)     Renee Nicholson – From Your Page to Their Page: Publishing Your Poems

2)     Daleen Berry & Geoff Fuller – Panel Discussion: Their book The Savage Murder of Skylar Neese: The Truth Behind the Headlines

3)     Mountain State Press Reception: New publications by Belinda Anderson & Kirk Judd

4)     Patricia Wiles – Children’s Writer’s Journey

5)     Rhonda Browning White – Cut It, Cut It, Cut It! Self-Editing for Writers

 

 

 

4:10-5:00 p.m.

Authors reading/signing - various presenters

Natalie Sypolt – Learn to do book reviews (tentative)

 

 

 

6:15 p.m.

Banquet with keynote speaker, Marilyn Shank, winner of the 2013 Christy Award

Presentation of contest awards

 

 

 

8:30 p.m.

 

Entertainment by:

Maggie Anderson and Renee Nicholson, poetry presentations

Music by singer/songwriter Dave McCormick

Bonfire (weather permitting)

 

  

 

 Sunday, June 15, 2014

 

9:00-10:00 a.m.

 

1)     Andrew Wheeler – Trial Review: A WV Murder Trial in Review

2)     Belinda Anderson – The Wounded Hero and Other Archetypes: Writing Middle-Grade Characters with Depth (Repeat)

3)     Podcasting Panel with Natalie Sypolt, Renee Nicholson, Eric Fritizus

4)     Michael Knost – Outlining Your Novel

 

 

 

10:15-11:15 a.m.

 

1)     Kirk Judd – Spoken Word Spoken Here

2)     Sam Holdren – Advanced Screenwriting

3)     Danny Boyd – Graphic Novels

4)     Joey Madia – Creating Strong Character to Tell Your Story (a subset of his broader workshops on playwriting)

 

 

 

11:30-11:50 a.m.

 

Farewell, drawings, conference feedback

 

1:15 – Board Meeting – All members welcome!