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Click here to view our full conference program (PDF File)

NOTE: If you have difficulty with the full conference program, you may download another version (smaller file size) of our itinerary here.

Click here to view an interactive map of Conference Venues (This links outside of the Conference website, to Google Maps)

Thursday, September 11, 6:00 - 10:00 p.m., Gypsy Poetry Slam

 

Friday-Central Library

Saturday-Carnegie Center

8:30-9:00 a.m.

registration & continental breakfast

registration & continental breakfast

 

9:00-10:15 a.m.

  • Trethewey-poetry Q & A
  • Strand and Marquart workshops - full
  • Oates & Williams-Poem or Story? Finding Your Subject's Form
  • Strand and Marquart workshops - full

 

10:30-11:45 a.m.

  • Strand-Reading: Inventing Niagara
  • Williams and Benedict workshops - full
  • Alegria-Lessons from the School of Hard Knocks: Writing, Publishing, & Promoting Your Book
  • Williams and Benedict workshops - full

12:00-1:30 p.m.

lunch-4 parties

lunch-on your own

 

1:30-2:45 p.m.

  • Marquart, Sahn, Strand-Exchange: the New Environmental Writing
  • Thornhill-poetry reading
  • Osorio-Exchange: journalism & activism
  • Williams-poetry reading
  • Alegria-fiction reading @ Village Branch Library
  3:00-4:00 p.m. 3:00-3:30 p.m.

 

  • Gabehart winners-readings in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction
  • Thornhill & Alegria-Exchange: Young Adult Fiction
  • Tea Time / sign-ups for 90 Seconds Open-Mic / journaling
  4:30-5:45 p.m. 3:30-4:45 p.m.

 

  • Trethewey-poetry reading @ Young Library
  • Marquart-Reading: The Horizontal World
  • Carnegie Center's "Young Women Writers"-readings

 

5:30-7:30 p.m.

dinner-on your own

  • 90 Seconds Open Mic @ Natasha's Restaurant

7:30-9:00 p.m.
free lectures

  • Oates & Benedict @ UK's Memorial Hall
  • Osorio reading @ Transylvania

 

 

 


Come to a place where the skylines move like creek-beds, where people understand craft as a way of life. One weekend the best women artists from around the world venture to this place to exchange ideas, process, performance—calling us to newly imagine what it means to be a writer.

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