THURSDAY, MARCH 8
Patricia Spears Jones
12 P.M.: A Tribute to June Jordan
4 P.M. (Offsite): Black Earth Institute Reading
V.V. Ganeshananthan
1:30 P.M.: Broad Humor, FunnyGrrls, Excellent Women: Fiction Writers on Gender and Comedy
Raymond McDaniel, Lightsey Darst, Evelina Galang
1:30 P.M.: Complicating Florida
Allison Hedge Coke
1:30 P.M.: A Curated Obsession: The Persona Poetry Project
Dan Beachy-Quick
1:30 P.M.: Navigating Uncertain Terrain: Essayists of Milkweed Editions
David Mura, Alexs Pate
3 P.M.: Race in Contemporary Memoir and Creative Nonfiction
Nina McConigley
3 P.M.: Finding the Understory: What Connects a Collection
Danielle Evans
4:30 P.M.: Our Brilliant Friends: Women, Friendship, and Art
LeAnne Howe
6 P.M.: Indigenous-Aboriginal American Writers Caucus
Patricia Smith
6 P.M. (Offsite): University of Tampa Presents Lidia Yuknavitch and Patricia Smith: A Reading
Vi Khi Nao
7 P.M. (Offsite): Flash Reading
FRIDAY, MARCH 9
V.V. Ganeshananthan
9 A.M.: Should I Stay or Should I Go: Re-visioning the Tenure Track
Danielle Evans
9 A.M.: Beyond "Add one and stir": Negotiating Race, Gender, and Class as Female Faculty of Color
Julie Carr
9 A.M.: Apollinaire 100 Years On
Jennifer Kwon Dobbs
9 A.M.: Still in the Trenches: Gender, Race, and Class in Creative Writing
Hieu Minh Nguyen, Patricia Smith
12 P.M.: Transform Your Writing by Fusing Classic Poetry with Your Own Spoken Word!
Patricia Smith
1:30 P.M.: A Tribute to Patricia Smith
6:30 P.M. (Offsite): Poets of The Baffler Reading
Kao Kalia Yang
1:30 P.M.: Writing Place, People, and Culture: Nonfiction at its Finest
Elena Passarello
1:30 P.M.: The (Art) World Is Everywhere Whispering Essays
6:30 P.M. (Offsite): University of Iowa's NWP Reading
LeAnne Howe
1:30 P.M.: The Art of Politics, The Politics of Art: Writers, Gun Violence, and the Literature of Social Engagement
Vi Khi Nao
3 P.M.: Writing the Frail Essay
John Dermot Woods
3 P.M.: From Words to Images: Making Comics (for Writers)
Bao Phi
3 P.M.: A Question of Class: The Art of Writing from Below the Middle
Patricia Spears Jones
4:30 P.M.: A Reading by Rick Barot, LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs, and Patricia Spears Jones
Dan Beachy-Quick
4:30 P.M.: Pitching, Publishing, and Promoting Reviews: A How-To Conversation
Allison Hedge Coke
5:30 P.M.: Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology Book Launch & 10th Anniversary Celebration
Lincoln Michel
7:30 P.M.: Books & Brews (Alternating Current) Offsite Reading
SATURDAY, MARCH 10
M. Evelina Galang
9 A.M.: First Comes Love, Then Comes Marriage: When, Why, and How Short Stories Become Novels
Saeed Jones
10:30 A.M.: Only Connect: Building Literary Community Beyond the MFA
Elena Passarello
12 P.M.: Walking Across the Hall- The Writer in the Literature Classroom
Jennifer Kwon Dobbs
1:30 P.M.: Understanding the Boom
Ryan Van Meter
1:30 P.M.: This Is Not a Memoir: Thoughts on the Linked Essay Collection
Patricia Smith
3 P.M.: Women for Women- Building Community Through Mentorship
Allison Hedge Coke
3 P.M.: Migration, Labor, and Letters in Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera's Literary Contributions and Life.
David Mura
3 P.M.: The Real Mother of All Bombs: Reconsidering John Hersey's Hiroshima
Vi Khi Nao, Myriam Gurba
3 P.M.: Teaching / Sex / Writing
Karen Tei Yamashita
3 P.M.: In conversation with Jamie Quatro and Steph Opitz