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Scene-Building Craft Intensive
Track: CREATE: Writing Craft & Technique
Speaking for Writers: Readings, Presentations, Teaching, Story Slams & More
Track: LIVE: The Writing Life
Survival Handbooks for Creative Writers
Track: LIVE: The Writing Life
Writing the Memoir Proposal
Track: SHARE: Querying/Publishing/Marketing
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Opening Program: Welcome, Orientation & Reception
Heritage C (The Big Room)
- Conference Information
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Night of Nonfiction: Debut Author Readings & Discussion
Heritage C (The Big Room)
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Greg Mania Author
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Jeannine Ouellette Artistic Director, Elephant Rock
- Author Readings
- Memoir
- Publishing Options
- Research & Process
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Lancaster Story Slam: HippoCamp Edition
Heritage D
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Carla Wilson Co-Founder & Producer, Lancaster Story Slam
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JJ Sheffer Director, enroot
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Vicki Gabow Lancaster Story Slam
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Beyond the Binary: Writing Gender-Diverse Characters
Track: Special Topics & Issues in CNF/Literary Community
- Ethics & Inclusion
- Writing Technique & Craft
Kill Your Darlings, Marie Kondo, and Other Revision Strategies
Track: CREATE: Writing Craft & Technique
- Editing & Revision
- Writing Technique & Craft
Let's Talk About It: Writing About Mental Illness with Accuracy and Empathy
Track: CREATE: Writing Craft & Technique
- Editing & Revision
- Ethics & Inclusion
- Writing Technique & Craft
What Happens to Your Book Inside a Newsroom
Track: SHARE: Querying/Publishing/Marketing
- Memoir
- Narrative Nonfiction
- Platform/Social Media
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Break the Blocks, Find the Brilliance and Get Back to Writing
Track: LIVE: The Writing Life
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Karen Carnabucci Founder and primary faculty, Lancaster School of Psychodrama and Experiential Psychotherapies
- Research & Process
- Writing Technique & Craft
Memory and Memoir: The Science of Memory in First Person Storytelling
Track: Special Topics & Issues in CNF/Literary Community
- Memoir
- Structure & Form
Write, Work, Live: Balancing a Day Job, Writing, and Trying to Do What You Love
Track: LIVE: The Writing Life
- Research & Process
- Work-Life Balance
If I Want Your Opinion, I'll Pay You For It: Expressing Yourself Through Op-Eds
Track: SHARE: Querying/Publishing/Marketing
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Kelly Caldwell Dean of Faculty, Gotham Writers
- Freelance Writing
- Journalism
- Publishing Options
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Find Your Focus: Exploring the Why/What/How of Your Writing Process
Track: CREATE: Writing Craft & Technique
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Leanne Sowul Educator/Writer
- Research & Process
If Memoir is a Slice of Life, How Many Pieces Do You Get?
Track: CREATE: Writing Craft & Technique
- Essays
- Memoir
- Publishing Options
It's a Marathon, Not a Sprint: How to Keep Your Book Going After the First Year
Track: SHARE: Querying/Publishing/Marketing
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Lisa Kohn Principal, Chatsworth Consulting Group
- Memoir
- Platform/Social Media
Using Journalism Skills to Master Your Manuscript
Track: CREATE: Writing Craft & Technique
- Essays
- Freelance Writing
- Structure & Form
- Writing Technique & Craft
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Creative Mapping: A Tool to Help You Build a Solid Draft
Track: CREATE: Writing Craft & Technique
- Research & Process
- Structure & Form
How to Write What You Don't Know
Track: CREATE: Writing Craft & Technique
- Ethics & Inclusion
- Writing Technique & Craft
In Their Words: Lessons in Telling True Stories from the Best of The Creative Nonfiction Podcast
Track: CREATE: Writing Craft & Technique
- Platform/Social Media
- Publishing Options
- Structure & Form
- Writing Technique & Craft
Powering Through the Post-Publication Doldrums
Track: Special Topics & Issues in CNF/Literary Community
- Essays
- Memoir
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A Sacred Trust: Getting it Right When Writing About Religion (cancelled)
Track: Special Topics & Issues in CNF/Literary Community
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Ruth Nasrullah Freelance journalist
- Ethics & Inclusion
- Writing Technique & Craft
Beyond Touchdowns, Homeruns and Heroes: Writing About Sports And Athletes
Track: Special Topics & Issues in CNF/Literary Community
- Journalism
- Narrative Nonfiction
- Research & Process
Creating a Birds-Eye View of Your Book: The Chapter Summary Project
Track: SHARE: Querying/Publishing/Marketing
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Lisa Cooper Ellison Founder, Lisa Cooper Ellison Consulting and Media LLC
- Editing & Revision
- Research & Process
- Structure & Form
- Writing Technique & Craft
Using Your Fifth Sense for Scent-sational Writing
Track: CREATE: Writing Craft & Technique
- Writing Technique & Craft
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The Writers Bridge LIVE: Ask Us Anything! (Special Late-Night Event)
Track: SHARE: Querying/Publishing/Marketing
- Literary Citizenship & Events
- Platform/Social Media
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Queries, Pages and Getting an Agent
Track: SHARE: Querying/Publishing/Marketing
Tending the Fallow: Navigating the Pause Between the Book and What's Next
Track: LIVE: The Writing Life
- Essays
- Memoir
- Research & Process
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Surviving the Slush Pile: The Dos and Don'ts of Submitting to Literary Magazines
Track: SHARE: Querying/Publishing/Marketing
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Janna Marlies Maron Editor & Publisher, Under the Gum Tree
- Essays
- Publishing Options
Three Ways to Use Research in Personal Narratives
Track: CREATE: Writing Craft & Technique
- Essays
- Memoir
- Narrative Nonfiction
- Research & Process
Unleashing Your Hardest Truths & Most Striking Images Through Constraints, Juxtaposition & Play
Track: CREATE: Writing Craft & Technique
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Jeannine Ouellette Artistic Director, Elephant Rock
- Essays
- Memoir
- Structure & Form
- Writing Technique & Craft
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Panel: Motivation & the (Post-)Pandemic Writing Life
Track: LIVE: The Writing Life
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Donna Talarico Founder & Publisher, Hippocampus Magazine and Books
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Erin Dorney Co-founder, Fear No Lit
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Dinty W. Moore Founding Editor, Brevity
- Literary Citizenship & Events
- Narrative Nonfiction
- Platform/Social Media
- Publishing Options
- Research & Process
- Structure & Form
- Writing Technique & Craft