Saturday
April 1, 2006

8:00 to 9:15 a.m.

• Registration and Coffee
  

9:30 to 10:15 a.m.

• Steve Berry - Writers’ Potpourri: What’s on Your Mind? Ask Away!
• Anne Haw Holt - Clean Up Your Writing
• Anne Petty - The Use of Frame Devices in Fiction
• Bill Slaughter - Singing the Body Electric: Poetry on the World Wide Web
  

10:30 to 11:45 a.m.

• Rick Reichman - Acting Out: How the Three Act Structure and Eight Major Turning Points are Critical to Creating the Great Script
• John Henry Fleming - Making Sympathetic Characters
• Ginny Stibolt - How to Make your Website Sticky
• Sophie Wadsworth - The Poet’s Workshop
  

12:00 to 1:30 p.m.

• Awards Luncheon with Keynote Speaker: Poet, Lola Haskins
• Presentations to contest winners for best poems, short stories, plays, and novels
  

1:45 to 3:00 p.m.

• Bill Belleville - Creative Non-fiction: Using Fictional Devices to Tell your Non-fiction Story
• Joan Hecht - Promoting your Non-fiction
• John Byram and Diane Higgins- Dealing with Rejection
• Andra Olenik and Cynthia Thayer - From Editorial Letter to Bound Book: The Editor/Author Relationship
  

3:15 to 4:30 p.m.

• Rick Campbell and Jeanne Leiby - Rules of Good Writing: Know Them. Obey Them, Flaunt Them, Make Your Own
• Gary Mormino - Sunbelt Florida: Dixie to Dreamland
• Reginald Shepherd - Using Dramatic Monologue
• Jackie Estrada - Are Graphic Novels for You?
  

7:00 to 10:00 p.m.

• Riverboat Cruise with Dinner and DJ
  

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