Sep 6, 2013 ... Friday, September 6: Alaska Pacific University, Carr Gottstein Building. 1:00-‐4:
00. Optional Workshop 1. Lisa Cron. “What Your Reader.
Thursday, September 5: AT Publishing & Printing 2:00-‐4:00
Reception at AT Publishing & Printing, 1720 Abbott Road, Anchorage
Friday, September 6: Alaska Pacific University, Carr Gottstein Building 1:00-‐4:00
Optional Workshop 1 Lisa Cron “What Your Reader Really Wants: The 5 Steps to an Irresistible Novel”
Optional Workshop 2 Robert Masello “Help! I’m Trapped in the Wrong Body!”
Optional Workshop 3 East West Literary “Take the Lead with your Manuscript” SCBWI First Pages Workshop
Saturday, September 7: Crowne Plaza Hotel 8:00-‐9:00 9:00-‐9:20
Registration & Coffee / Breakfast Sponsored by: Anchorage Fracture & Orthopedic Clinic Welcome & Opening Remarks
9:20-‐10:20
Keynote Address: Lisa Cron, "What Your Reader's Brain Really Craves: The Real Story and How To Get it Onto the Page" 10:20-‐10:40 Break: Please Exit Ballroom for Setup 10:40-‐11:40 Breakout Session 1-‐A Doug Grad “Building Your World in Genre Fiction” 12:00-‐1:00 1:20-‐2:20
2:20-‐2:30 2:30-‐3:30
3:30-‐3:50 3:50-‐4:50 6:00-‐8:00
Breakout Session 1-‐B Breakout Session 1-‐C Jackie Ivie (SCBWI Track) “Platforms and Social East West Literary Networking, How to Build Agency: “Exploring Your Writing Career from Novel Territory” Middle the Ground Up” Grade and YA Lunch with Conference Faculty Sponsored by: Anchorage Fracture & Orthopedic Clinic Breakout Session 2-‐A Breakout Session 2-‐B Breakout Session 2-‐C Robert Masello Marc Cameron (SCBWI Track) “Weaving Fact into “Keeping Up with Your East West Literary Fiction, How to Characters: Making Your Agency: “Make It Incorporate Science and Book into a Series” Shine!” Picture Books History into Fictional Stories” Break Breakout Session 3-‐A “The Author-‐Editor Relationship” with Gary Goldstein, Marc Cameron, & Jackie Ivie
Breakout Session 3-‐B Lisa Cron "A Reader's Manifesto: 15 Hardwired Expectations Every Reader Has for Every Story" Break: Please Exit Rooms for Setup
Breakout Session 3-‐C (SCBWI Track) Deb Vanasse: “Windows on Your Characters, Strategies for Compelling Fiction”
Faculty Panel: Update on the Publishing Landscape With Gary Goldstein, Doug Grad, and East-‐West Literary Evening Award Reception with Faculty • Lynn Halterman Scholarship Winner • Doris Dearborn Scholarship Winners • AWG Writer of the Year • Most Promising Manuscripts • Founders Award
Sunday, September 8: Crowne Plaza Hotel 8:00-‐9:00 9:00-‐9:20
Registration & Coffee / Breakfast Sponsored by: Indigo Editing Welcome & Opening Remarks
9:20-‐10:20
Keynote Address: Robert Masello, “Thrills and Chills, My Rollercoaster Ride Through the Thriller and Paranormal Market” 10:20-‐10:40 Break: Please Exit Ballroom for Setup 11:00-‐12:00 Breakout Session 4-‐A Breakout Session 4-‐B Doug Grad Gary Goldstein “Why You Need an “Insights on Editing and Agent in the Changing the Publishing Industry” Landscape of Publishing” 12:20-‐1:00 Genre & Critique Group Lunch
Breakout Session 4-‐C Marc Cameron “Jet Setting Characters; How to Research Your Wheres, Whys, and Hows.”
1:20-‐2:20
Breakout Session 5-‐C Jackie Ivie “Time Management: How to Finally Get Those Stories in your Head into Words on Paper”
2:20-‐2:40
Breakout Session 5-‐A Breakout Session 5-‐B Lisa Cron Robert Masello "How to Hook the “To Outline or Not to Reader’s Brain on the Outline, the Virtues of Very First Page:” Bring Planning vs. the Glories 250 words of your of Serendipity” manuscript to workshop Break: Please Exit Rooms for Setup
2:40-‐3:40
Author Panel: with Lisa Cron, Jackie Ivie, Marc Cameron, & Robert Masello
3:40-‐4:00
Closing Remarks
PLEASE NOTE: Times, breakout sessions, and topics subject to change
