Saturday
May 21, 2005

8:00 to 9:15 a.m.

• Registration and Coffee
• Sign Up for One-on-One Sessions
  

9:30 to 10:15 a.m.

• Carol O’Dell and Paula Stahel - The Editor/Writer Relationship: Does Your Writing Need A Fitness Trainer?
• Mia Leonin - The Personal is Political: Writing About Culture from a Meaningful Place
• Ron Thomas - Collaborative Screenwriting
• Judy Gail - Storytelling: The Power of The Spoken Word
• David Poyer and Lenore Hart - Writing the Civil War
  

10:30 to 11:45 a.m.

• Robert Fulton - But You Know What I Mean! An Editor Looks at Writers and Writing
• Able Rae - Hard Wired for Story
• Carol Andrews-Ackerman and Steve Cozart - Getting Noticed: Promoting Yourself After Your Book Is Written
• Katharine Sands - Making the Perfect Pitch
• Rick Campbell - I See Where I Have Made Plenty of Poets/But Not So Much/Poetry: How To Avoid Writing Bad Poems
  

12:00 to 1:30 p.m.

• Awards Luncheon with Keynote Speaker Columnist/Humorist Gordon Kirkland - Write for Your Life
• Presentation for contest winners: Best poems, short stories, plays and novels
  

1:45 to 3:00 p.m.

• Marianne Berkes - Want to Write a Children’s Book? Do It!
• Michael Dobbs - How to Write a Nonfiction Book: From Pitching the Project to Researching it to Writing and Publishing it
• Mary Updike - Writing Your Memoirs
• Marcus Stevens and Antonia Fusco - What to Expect From an Editor: The Author/Editor Relationship
• Daniel Schafer - Researching and Writing Nonfiction: The Story of Anna Madgigine Jai Kingsley
  

3:15 to 4:30 p.m.

• Gordon Kirkland - Publicist? I Don’t Need No Stinking Publicist!
• D.A. Love - Writing the YA Novel: A Few Nuts and Bolts
• S.V. Daté - You Can’t Make This Up! Florida Fact and Florida Fiction
• Steve Berry - Somebody’s Name Is Going To Be On A Book Cover, It Might As Well Be Yours
• Paula Stahel - The Art of the Interview
  

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