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SLICE Literary Writers' Conference

10:00am EDT

Anywhere But Here: Building Worlds in Fiction Maroney TheaterDaniel Vazquez • Ayşe Papatya Bucak • Helen Phillips • Peng Shepherd • Mathangi Subramanian Off Campus: How to Work on Your Craft with Great Writers Without Getting a Degree 7213Ted Thompson • Julie Buntin • Timothy DuWhite • Jason Koo • Mona Washington Round Table Talk: The First Three Pages 6th Floor LoungeCherise Fisher • Kanishk Tharoor

11:30am EDT

Impossible to Forget: Authors on Creating Brilliant, Bold Characters Who Stay with You Long After the Final Page 6214A.X. Ahmad • Leland Cheuk • Marcy Dermansky • Tope Folarin • Stephanie Jimenez On Draft: Learn How to Revise Like Editors and Agents Maroney TheaterNorma Perez-Hernandez • Amy Bishop • Patrice Caldwell • Emily Griffin • Connor Goldsmith The Opposite Is Also True: Poets On Writing About Contradictions Within & Around Us 7213Ricardo Alberto Maldonado • Rosebud Ben-Oni • Andres Cerpa • Hafizah Geter • Marwa Helal • Yanyi Workshop: Novel Structure ($50) 6th Floor LoungeTed Thompson

3:00pm EDT

What We Read When We’re Stuck: Authors Share the Books that Help Them Out of Every Writing Impasse Maroney TheaterLoan Le • Caleb Crain • Robert Haller • Hannah Lillith Assadi • Monique Truong Workshop: Research for Writing ($50) 6th Floor LoungeTracy O'Neill You’re Invited: On Bringing Together a Group of Writers & Assembling an Anthology Founders HallCatherine Tung • Jennifer Baker • Mahogany Browne • Michele Filgate • Bushra Rehman

10:00am EDT

Listen Up!: Literary Innovators Discuss How to Build Community & Craft by Taking a Seat in the Audience Founders HallAndrea Kyung Oh • Lilly Dancyger • Stacy Parker Le Melle • Lily Philpott • Paul Morris Short-Form Structure, Style, and Syntax: How Crafting Short Stories Is a World All its Own 7213Noah Ballard • Rion Amilcar Scott • CJ Hauser • Ivelisse Rodriguez • Ruvanee Vilhauer Workshop: Depth and Drive: Breathing Life into Your Characters ($50) 6th Floor LoungeJudy Sternlight

11:30am EDT

A Second Set of Eyes: What to Do When You’ve Taken Your Manuscript as Far as You Can, But It Still Isn’t Ready to Send Out Maroney TheaterJamie Carr • Kimberly Brower • Alexandra Franklin • Christine Pride • Krystal Sital Getting Started, When You Just . . . Can’t . . . Even Founders HallAlison Kinney • Shani Raine Gilchrist • Vanessa Martír • Jodi M. Savage • Rafia Zakaria Round Table Talk: Writing Dialogue 6th Floor LoungeBrendan Kiely • Yoojin Grace Wuertz

3:00pm EDT

It's About You Just As Much As It's About Me: How to Write Nonfiction that Readers Will Connect With 7213Matt Ortile • Jaed Coffin • Tanisha Ford • T Kira Mahealani Madden • Mira Ptacin Round Table Talk: Character is Plot; Plot is Character 6th Floor LoungeChristine Pride • Paul Vidich

4:30pm EDT

Being Productive When It Is Impossible to Be Productive: Authors on How to Cut Through Life's Chaos and Get to Work Founders HallKrystal Sital • Gina Apostol • Briallen Hopper • Alex Tilney • De'Shawn Winslow Round Table Talk: Approaching Race as a White Writer 6th Floor LoungeBrendan Kiely • Jess Row • Rob Spillman