September 20 - 22, 2012
Doubletree Hotel, 1900 Pavilion Drive
(8 blocks from the Virginia Beach, VA oceanfront)
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1 evening plus 2 full days of workshops, 2 best-selling keynoters, 2 first ten-lines critique sessions, 29 workshops/breakout sessions, ten-minute agent pitches, and cash prize contests for short fiction, non-fiction, and poetry
Workshops will cover fiction, screenplay writing, juvenile fiction,journalism/freelancing, humor writing, poetry, and the business of getting published. There will be a book shop and signings and many networking opportunities.
Keynoters are award-winning authors, thriller writer Rick Mofina and juvenile fiction writer, Patricia Hermes; other presenters include fiction writers C.L. Bevill, Alma Katsu, John DeDakis, journalists Kerry Dougherty, Dr. Bill Ruehlmann, agents Molly Jaffa, Rachael Dugas, Brooks Sherman, poets Shonda Buchanan, Annmarie Lockhart and Professor of Screenwriting Dr. Dennis Bounds.
Early bird tuition (until July 27) $130 for HRW members, $170.00 for non-members
After July 27, $150 HRW members, $190 non-members
Includes two lunches
Student rates available
Contest deadline July 27
Email HRW with questions or contact Stephanie at (757) 589-0796.
THURSDAY
EVENING
6:15 – 6:30 PM
Check in
6:30 – 8 PM
3 Breakout sessions
(1)
Crafting a Gripping Opening—Brooks Sherman
(2)Mastering
the 10-minute agent pitch—Molly Jaffa
(3) What to Do When
a Poem Doesn’t Sound Right—Annemarie
Lockhart
FRIDAY
7:30 – 8 AM
check in
8 – 9
Intro remarks/keynote—Rick
Mofina
9 – 9:10
Break
9:10
– 10:25 First Ten Lines Critique Session—Molly
Jaffa, Rachael Dugas, Brooks Sherman, Rick Mofina, Patricia Hermes
10:25 – 10:35 Break
10:35 – 11:35
FIRST BREAK OUT SESSIONS
(4) Finding
and Writing the Poem of Faith—Shonda
Buchanan
(5)
The Unstoppable Story—Rick Mofina
(6)
How to Write a Best Seller That Will Win All the Important Awards - Newbery,
National Book Award, Nobel Peace Prize, etc. (Juvenile
Fiction)—Patricia Hermes
(7)
Query Letter DOs and DON’Ts—Rachael
Dugas
11:35 – 11:45
Break
11:45
– 12:45
SECOND BREAK OUT SESSIONS
(8)
The Value of Editing your poem—Annemarie
Lockhart
(9)
Upping the Ante—Alma Katsu
(10)
The Art of the Interview—Dr.
William Ruehlmann
12:45 – 1:45
Lunch
1:50 – 2:50
THIRD BREAK OUT SESSIONS
(11)
Humor Writing: No Laughing Matter—Kerry
Dougherty
(12)
The
Inside Game of Screenwriting: Dialogue, Subtext, and Story Promise—Dr.
Dennis Bounds
(13)
How to E-publish Your Work and Make Money—C.L. Bevill
2:50 – 3:00
Break
3:00 – 4:00
FOURTH BREAK OUT SESSIONS
(14)
A Day in the Life of a Literary Agent: What They
Do, and How You Can Use it to Your Advantage—Molly
Jaffa
(15)
Telling True Lies—Rick Mofina
(16)
Make Your Characters Come to Life Through Authentic Dialogue (Juvenile
Fiction)—Patricia Hermes
4:30 – 6 PM
OPTIONAL
(cash bar) Mix and Mingle SOCIAL—($12.50 member/$15 non-member prepaid at time of registration)
SATURDAY
7:45 – 8 AM
check in
8 – 9
Intro remarks/keynote—Patricia Hermes
9 – 9:10
Break
9:10
– 10:25 First Ten Lines Critique Session—Molly
Jaffa, Rachael Dugas, Brooks Sherman, Rick Mofina, Patricia Hermes
10:25 – 10:35 Break
10:35 – 11:35
FIRST BREAK OUT SESSIONS
(17)
Getting Published ... and Maybe Even Paid
(for your poetry)—Annemarie
Lockhart
(18)
Crafting a Story-Worthy Screenplay—Dr. Dennis Bounds
(19)
Maintaining and Sustaining Authentic and Appropriate Voice—C.L. Bevill
(20)
How to write a novel—John DeDakis
11:35 – 11:45
Break
11:45 – 12:45
SECOND BREAK OUT SESSIONS
(21)
Writing the Social, Cultural, Political Event Litany (in the tradition of
Allen Ginsberg's "Howl")—Shonda Buchanan
(22)
What To Expect When You're Expecting (A Book)—Alma Katsu (and maybe C.L.
Bevill with Alma)
(23)
Journalism PANEL—John DeDakis, Rick Mofina, Dr. William Ruehlmann, Kerry
Dougherty
12:45 – 1:45
Lunch
1:50 – 2:50
THIRD BREAK OUT SESSIONS
(24)
Plot—What it is and How it Differs from a Series of Scenes—Patricia
Hermes
(25)
Nonfiction Writing . . . With Attitude—Kerry Dougherty
(26)
Buffing and Polishing—John DeDakis
2:50 – 3:00
Break
3:00 – 4:00
FOURTH BREAK OUT SESSIONS
(27)
Storytelling in Nonfiction—Dr.
William Ruehlmann
(28)
Getting an agent, getting noticed—John
DeDakis
(29)
Women Writers Panel—Alma Katsu,
Patricia Hermes, Shonda Buchanan, Annemarie Lockhart, C. L. Bevill, Kerry
Dougherty
4:00 – 4:10
Break
4:10 – 4:45
CONTEST Awards ceremony
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