Friday, January 24, 2020
6:30 p.m.
Registration :: Lobby, Dana Science Building
[#12 on the campus map]
7 – 8:15 p.m.
Introductions, Welcome, Scholarship Announcement
Keynote :: Diane Fanning, “How to Succeed When You Don’t Know What You Are Doing”
8:15 – 9 p.m.
Panel
Saturday, January 25, 2020
All classes will be held in the Dana Science Building
[#12 on the campus map]
8:30 a.m.
Registration :: Lobby, Dana Science Building
9:00 – 10:00 a.m.
Diane Fanning:: “Trouble’s Brewing” :: Babcock Auditorium
Jeanne Larsen :: “Truth, Lies, & Poetry: Saying Stuff Without Shouting It” :: Room 102
Angie Smibert :: “Newbie’s Guide to Writing for the Children’s Market” :: Room 142
10:15 – 11:15 a.m.
Heath Lee :: “The League of Wives: How Unlikely Activists Brought their POW Husbands Home and Changed Military Culture” :: Babcock Auditorium
Liz Long :: “Writing for Magazines” :: Room 102
Ran Henry :: “Discovering the Theme of Your Story” :: Room 142
11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Mike Allen :: “Never Pay for an Editor Again.” :: Babcock Auditorium
Grant Kittrell :: “Roaming from Room to Room, Art to Art” :: Room 102
Melody Warnick :: “100 Good Ideas: Tips and Tricks for Coming up with Story Ideas That Editors Want to Assign” :: Room 142
12:30 – 1:30 p.m.
Lunch, Hollins Dining Hall, Moody Center [#24 on the campus map]
Please remember to bring your meal ticket.
1:30 – 2:30 p.m.
Jane Fenton :: “Down the Rabbit Hole: Facebook Ads” :: Babcock Auditorium
Christina Nifong :: “So You Think You’re Not a Journalist?” :: Room 102
Tom Field :: “Eight Reasons Why I Don’t Want To Hear Your Story” :: Room 142
2:45 – 3:45 p.m.
Bruce Ingram :: “Write about What You Know: Ask for Help about What You Don’t Know” :: Babcock Auditorium
Zoe McCarthy :: “Make a Scene of Your Scene: Four Improvements to Make Your Scene Stand Out ” :: Room 102
Betsy Ashton :: “Putting the Social in Social Media” :: Room 142
4:00 – 5:00 p.m.
Open Forum :: Babcock Auditorium
Amy Gerber-Stroh :: “Getting Your Story In Motion: Adapting Work into a Screenplay” :: Room 102
Valerie Nieman :: “All into the Pool: Writing Mashups and Genre Crossovers” :: Room 142
For more information, please contact the conference organizer, Liz Long, at roanokewriters@gmail.com.