Friday
March 31, 2006

8:00 to 9:00 a.m.

• Registration
• First Timers’ Session
  

9:00 to 10:15 a.m.

• Anne Petty - Worldbuilding in Fantasy Fiction
• Anne Haw Holt - Writing, Publishing and Promoting Fiction
• Gary Mormino - Sunbelt Florida: Dixie to Dreamland
• Ginny Stibolt - Putting Together an Effective Writer’s Website
  

10:30 to 11:45 a.m.

• Kelle Groom and Lola Haskins - Poetry Master Class
• Joan Hecht - Self-Publishing The Journey of the Lost Boys
• Jackie Estrada - What the Heck is a Graphic Novel?
• Rick Reichman - Making the Scene: The Importance of Scene Structure in Writing your Screenplay
  

12:00 to 1:30 p.m.

• Luncheon with Keynote Address by John Moran - Journal of Light: A Photographer’s Search for the Soul of Florida
  

1:45 to 3:00 p.m.

• Bill Belleville - Defining a Sense of Place
• Vic DiGenti - Flights of Fantasy: Tapping Into the Hero’s Journey
• Lenore Hart and David Poyer - How to Win the Novel Contest: What We Look for in Winning Manuscripts
• Cynthia Thayer - Dialogue is Not Conversation
  

3:15 to 4:00 p.m.

• Steve Berry - The Necessary Evil of Self-Editing
• Sorche Fairbank - The Elusive Art of the Query Letter
• Sophie Wadsworth - The Poet’s Workshop
• Jane Wood - Researching the Background and Writing Children’s Stories
  

5:30 to 6:30 p.m.

• Reception and Entertainment: Hope Clayton, jazz singer, and accompanist, John Thomas
  

6:30 to 9:00 p.m.

• Readers’ Dinner Theater of 2005 Prize Winning Play “Changing Places”

“Changing Places,” award-winning play from last year’s Festival, was written by Ruth Coe Chambers. It opens on the day of a funeral and traces the twists and turns in the lives of the deceased, his sister and his widow. Set in the mid-1960’s South, Changing Places is gripping in its sensitive subject matter and its revelations of the human foibles of each of the protagonists, with surprising moments of pure Southern humor skillfully woven into the plot.

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