1. (Fri.) Opening Session
1. (Fri.) Opening Session
Your Writing Stimulus Package
Larry Kane is a journalist, commentator, news anchor and author of
three books, Ticket to Ride, Philadelphia, and most recently,
Lennon
Revealed, a New York Times and Los Angeles Times Bestseller.
2. (Sat.) Website I: Develop Your Own Website.
Tony Wootson has worked as a Computer Programmer for twenty years.
During the previous nine, he has designed and maintained websites.
3. (Sat.) Flash Fiction: Sudden. Flash. Fiction. For the Fearless.
Randall Brown directs and teaches at Rosemont College’s MFA in Creative
Writing program. He is the author of the award-winning collection
Mad
to Live and has been published widely.
4. (Sun.) Website II: Website trafficking, promotion and marketing.
Chris Goldberg has thirty years of experience writing sports and news
for daily newspapers in Philadelphia and the suburbs. He possesses
a doctorate in education and launched Phillylacrosse.com in January, 2008.
Walter Cherepinski created WalterFootball.com in 1999. His site generated
47.2 million page views in 2009 as of Nov. 20 and is one of the largest
independently-run football sites on the web.
5. (Sun.) Research for Writers: Get the most from your library’s
resources.
Alison McDonough, essayist and author of the middle-grade novel Do
the Hokey Pokey, has worked the reference desk at the Bucks County
Free Library for over ten years.
6. Literary Short Story
The essential skills of writing short fiction.
Randall Brown directs and teaches at Rosemont College’s MFA in Creative
Writing program. He is the author of the award-winning collection
Mad
to Live and has been published widely.
7. Contemporary Short Story
Discussion of plot, character, and submitting works for publication.
Marc Schuster, PhD, is the author of The Singular Exploits of Wonder
Mom and Party Girl, the Associate Fiction Editor of Philadelphia
Stories magazine, and the Acquisitions Editor for PS Books.
8. Magazine Writing
Finding good ideas and matching them to the right magazine.
JoAnn Greco writes on design, travel and cities for National Geographic
Traveler, Washington Post, Interiors, Globe and Mail, and Penn Gazette.
She is also founder and editor of thecitytraveler.com.
9. Poetry I
Echoes and reiterations: obsessing over sounds, patterning your passions.
Nathalie Anderson is the author of two award winning books of poetry,
Following
Fred Astaire and Crawlers. She directs the Creative Writing
Program at Swarthmore College.
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10. Mystery
Mood. Puzzle. Research. Clues. Characters .
. . and a twist.
Elena Santangelo is the author of The Possessed Mystery Series, including
Agatha Award finalist, By Blood Possessed. Her latest book
is Dame Agatha’s Shorts, An Agatha Christie Short Story Companion.
11. Playwriting/Screenwriting
Character. Dialogue. Conflict.
Bruce Graham’s credits include Films: Dunston Checks In, Anastasia,
and
Steal This Movie; Plays: Something Intangible, Coyote on a Fence;
Book: The Collaborative Playwright (with Michele Volansky).
12. Memoir
Emphasizes methodology, literary techniques and forms of narrative.
James J. Kirschke, Ph.D., Professor of English, Villanova University;
four books including Not Going Home Alone; two books in progress,
including Wheel to the Past, another memoir; nine years as editor.
13. Juvenile
Keep teens and young readers turning those pages.
Joyce McDonald is the author of six novels, including Swallowing
Stones, an ALA Top Ten Best Book for Young Adults. She teaches
in Spalding University’s brief-residency MFA in Writing program.
14. Novel: Setting and Place
Bring your fiction alive with believable setting and place.
Debbie Lee Wesselmann is the author of Captivity, Trutor and the
Balloonist, and The Earth and the Sky. She has taught
fiction writing at Fairleigh Dickinson University and Lehigh University.
15. Novel: Character
Creating believable characters; developing character motivation, realistic
situations, realistic dialogue.
Karen E. Quinones Miller, bestselling novelist and former reporter
with The Philadelphia Inquirer, has authored seven books.
She’s also a literary agent and nationally- known literary consultant.
16. Nonfiction Book
Applying the principles of momentum to nonfiction books and proposals.
Katherine Ramsland has published over 900 articles, 16 short stories
and 37 books, including Writing to Find Your True Self, The CSI Effect,
and The Forensic Psychology of Criminal Minds.
17. Poetry II
Thoughts on Form: exploiting inner structures, leaps and turns.
A.V. Christie’s first book, Nine Skies, won the National Poetry
Series; her second book, The Housing, won the McGovern Prize.
Her work has appeared in Poetry, Agni, Crazyhorse, Ploughshares
and elsewhere.
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