Schedule subject to change.
4:00-6:00: Breaking into the Big House: Advice on How to Move from the World of the Self-Published To A Major Publisher. featuring M. L. Malcolm
4:00-6:00: Joining the Conversation: Poets and Poems in Dialogue featuring Chelsea Rathburn and James May
4:00-6:00: The Relationship Between Performance and Writing featuring Kodac Harrison
4:00-6:00: Writing Past Grief featuring Jessica Handler
4:00-6:00: Writing Graphic Novels: What to Expect featuring Chris Schweizer
4:00-6:00: Writing as a Collaborative Art featuring Joshilyn Jackson
4:00-6:00: Saved by the Blog featuring Hollis Gillespie
4:00-6:00: Believable Character, Unbelievable Adventure: Psychological Profiling For Fun and Profit featuring Laurel Snyder
4:00-6:00: Getting Taken Seriously While You're Still Taking Chemistry-- A workshop on Writing and Publishing for the Younger Generation featuring Jackson Pearce
8:00-10:00: Upbeat Blues & Southern Fried Soul featuring Donna Hopkins and Geoff Achison
3:00-5:00: Writers Conference Keynote featuring Joshilyn Jackson
8:00-9:00: Keynote Address featuring Jonathan Franzen
10:00-10:30: We Llove Llama Llama featuring Anna Dewdney 11:00-11:30: Dinosaur Vs. Potty! featuring Bob Shea 11:30-12:00: Ferdinand por Farruca! featuring Julie Baggenstoss 12:30-1:00: N.E.R.D.S and Sisters Grimm featuring Michael Buckley 1:00-1:30: Making the Historical Magical featuring Shelia Moses and Deborah Wiles 1:30-2:00: Folk Tales Turned Fantastic featuring John Claude Bemis 2:00-2:30: Walk Like an Egyptian: Cleopatra Rules! featuring Vicky Alvear Shecter 2:30-3:00: You Won't Believe the Whole Nother Story featuring Dr. Cuthbert Soup 3:00-3:30: Peter Pan, Kingdom Keepers, and Other Cool Characters featuring Ridley Pearson 4:00-4:30: The Celestial Globe: The Kronos Chronicles: Book II featuring Marie Rutkoski 5:00-6:30: Teen Poetry Slam
10:00-10:45: Where Do I Go From Here? : Getting Your Book Noticed featuring Julie Schoerke, Rebecca Joines-Schinsky, Stephen Usery and Ron Hogan 12:30-1:15: Poetry Showcase featuring Alice Friman, Kurt Brown and Jim Murphy 1:45-2:30: Come Back, Como: Winning the Heart of a Reluctant Dog featuring Steven Winn 3:00-3:45: Unmasking my Gullah Heritage: A Sense of Self and Place featuring Emory Campbell 4:15-5:00: Last Dog On the Hill: The Extraordinary Life of Lou featuring Steve Duno
11:00-12:00: Recipes from the Root Cellar featuring Andrea Chesman 1:00-2:00: The World in Your Teacup: Celebrating Tea Traditions Near and Far featuring Lisa Richardson 3:00-4:00: Cooking with Kessler featuring John Kessler
10:00-10:45: The Art of Syntax featuring Ellen Bryant Voigt 11:15-12:00: Killing Time: An 18-year Odyssey from Death Row to Freedom featuring Ron Gauthier 12:30-1:15: Perfect Peace featuring Daniel Black 1:45-2:30: The Colony featuring Jillian Weise 3:00-3:45: Blue Boy featuring Rakesh Satyal 5:30-6:15: Making Self-Publishing Work For You featuring Ahmad Meradji
10:00-10:45: Of Mikes and Men: A Lifetime of Braves Baseball featuring Jack Wilkinson and Peter Van Wieren 11:15-12:00: The First Risk featuring Charles Jensen 12:30-1:15: Low Country Cookin' featuring Joseph E. Dabney 3:00-3:45: Tell It Again featuring Ian Bogost, Charlie Bates, Richard Nash and Lain Shakespeare
10:00-10:45: Persistent Voices: An Anthology of Poets Lost to AIDS featuring David Groff 11:15-12:00: Making Social Networking Work featuring Jef Blocker, Collin Kelley, Laurel Snyder, Jessica Handler and Karen Head 12:30-1:15: The Influence of Flannery O'Connor and other Insights featuring George Dawes Green 1:45-2:30: Breakthrough: Elizabeth Hughes, the Discovery of Insulin, and the Making of a Medical Miracle featuring Arthur Ainsberg 3:00-3:45: Storey's Guide to Keeping Honey Bees: Honey Production, Pollination, Health featuring Malcolm Sanford 4:15-5:00: What I Learned about Writing from Listening to Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis: an Interactive Adventure in Language, Music, and Dance featuring Alison Hastings, Deb Davis and Roy Peter Clark 5:30-6:15: The Chet and Bernie Mysteries featuring Spencer Quinn
10:00-10:45: Fiction From the Hip featuring John Brandon and Preston Allen 11:15-12:00: The Good Daughters featuring Joyce Maynard 12:30-1:15: Influenced by Dunces (How The Confederacy of Dunces Affected Writing) featuring Doug Crandell and Bill Cotter 1:45-2:45: Adapting the Dunces featuring Richard Garner, Agnes Harty, Aaron Munoz, Kathleen McManus, Enoch King, E. Roger Mitchell, Marianne Fraulo, William Murphey, Mark Kincaid, Tom Key and Scott Warren 3:15-4:30: Poets in Conversation featuring Thomas Lux, Ellen Bryant Voigt and David Bottoms
10:00-10:45: Crime and Punishment featuring Thomas Mullen and Batt Humphreys 11:15-12:00: Creating Mandalas featuring Susanne Fincher 12:30-1:15: The Double Victory of the Tuskegee Airmen featuring Todd Moye 1:45-2:30: Books for Gentlemen (and Dudes too) featuring Michael Knight and Josh Russell 5:30-6:15: 5 Years From Katrina: Revisiting the Gulf Coast featuring Dorothy Moye and Kathleen Koch
10:00-10:45: Four Word Self Help featuring Patti Digh 11:15-12:00: The Backyard Homestead featuring Carleen Madigan 1:45-2:30: A Storytelling Conversation featuring Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 3:00-3:45: All Things Outlander featuring Diana Gabaldon
10:00-10:45: Beneath the Sands of Egypt featuring Donald P. Ryan 11:15-12:00: Poetry Showcase featuring Deborah Ager, Sabrina Orah Mark and Ron Egatz 12:30-1:15: Knitting Socks TWO at a Time! featuring Melissa Morgan-Oakes 1:45-2:30: Curveball: The Remarkable Story of Toni Stone, the First Woman to Play Professional Baseball in the Negro League featuring Martha Ackmann 3:00-3:45: The Perfect Love Song: A Holiday Story featuring Patti Callahan Henry and Jack RIggs 4:15-5:45: The Moth featuring George Dawes Green , Hollis Gillespie, Randy Osborne and Shannon McNeal 8:00-10:00: Celebrating Eudora featuring Claire Holley, Caroline Herring and Kate Campbell
10:00-10:45: The Allure of Historical Fiction featuring M. L. Malcolm and Lynn Cullen 12:30-1:15: Walk the Walk: The #1 Rule for Real Leaders featuring Alan Deutschman 1:45-2:30: When Death Does Us Part featuring Kevin Young and Valerie Wages 3:00-3:45: This Is Thriller featuring Michael Koryta and Dan Wells 5:30-7:00: Seriously Funny featuring David Kirby, Barbara Hamby, Thomas Lux, Kevin Young and David Bottoms
11:15-12:00: The Heart of the Matter featuring Emily Giffin 12:30-1:15: In Harm's Way and Other Adventures featuring Ridley Pearson 3:00-3:45: The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive) featuring Brandon Sanderson 4:15-5:00: Managing Brand You featuring Jerry Wilson
10:00-10:15: Alice L. Teeter 10:15-10:30: Shawn Delgado 10:30-10:45: Jason Myers 10:45-11:00: Brent Taylor 11:00-11:15: Sylvia Cross 11:15-11:30: Kodac Harrison 11:30-11:45: Julia Ewen 11:45-12:00: Lori Guarisco 12:00-12:15: Memye Curtis Tucker 12:15-12:30: Ginger Murchison 12:30-12:45: Lee Passarella 12:45-1:00: Lynn Alexander 1:00-1:15: Megan Sexton 1:15-1:30: Maudelle Driskell 1:30-1:45: Dan Veach 1:45-2:00: Debbie Hiers 2:00-2:15: Megan Volpert 2:15-2:30: James Sanders 2:30-2:45: Jessica Hand 2:45-3:00: Heather Christle 3:00-3:15: Bruce Covey 3:15-3:30: Maurice Turcotte 3:30-3:45: Michelle Rozga 3:45-4:00: Alita Terry 4:00-4:15: Marissa McNamara 4:15-4:30: Michael Diebert 4:30-4:45: Amena Brown 4:45-5:00: Rupert Fike 5:00-5:15: Karen G 5:15-5:30: Malika 5:30-5:45: Darnell 5:45-6:00: AP & Theresa Davis
12:00-12:15: Jenny Helderman 12:15-12:30: Mark All 12:30-12:45: Linda Miller 12:45-1:00: Steven Beeber 1:00-1:15: Peggy Allen 1:15-1:30: David Barnes 1:30-1:45: Elliot Mackle 1:45-2:00: Dana Kuebler 2:00-2:15: Linda Niemann 2:15-2:30: Jean Alexander 2:30-2:45: Nora McFarland 2:45-3:00: Brenda Stockdale 3:00-3:15: Mary Jane Mahan 3:15-3:30: Ed Gandia 3:30-3:45: Nefertari Baraka 3:45-4:00: Stacey Covington-Lee 4:00-4:15: Tracy Nicole 4:15-4:30: Donna Ball 4:30-4:45: Frank Cox 4:45-5:00: Jan Durham 5:00-5:15: Jennifer Bouani 5:15-5:30: Isaac Baroi 5:30-5:45: Nancy Floyd 5:45-6:00: Erika Tracy
9:00-9:30: Parade Lineup
9:30-10:00: Pajama Parade with Llama Llama
11:00-12:00: KIPP Strive Book Release Party 1:00-3:00: Ralphie Auditions
11:00-11:45: Pity the Poor Reader! (Working on Your Writing) featuring Charles Haddad 12:00-12:45: A Visit to Echo Falls featuring Peter Abrahams 1:00-1:45: Romantic Realism, Realistic Romance featuring David Levithan and Terra Elan McVoy 2:00-2:45: Method Behind the Magic: How to Create a Fantastical World featuring Cinda Williams Chima, Kathleen Duey, Saundra Mitchell and Jessica Verday 3:00-3:45: Zombies v. Vampires Smackdown featuring Alyxandra Harvey and Carrie Ryan 4:00-4:45: Real Issues in an Unreal World featuring Nancy Werlin and Rachel Hawkins 5:00-5:45: Break in Case of Emergency: This Book Could Save Your Life featuring Diana Gabaldon, Susan Rebecca White and Brandon Sanderson
12:00-12:30: Ladybug Girl! 12:30-1:00: Charlotte's Web: A Puppet Presentation 1:00-1:30: The World of Emily Winsnap featuring Liz Kessler 1:30-2:00: A Place Where Hurricanes Happen featuring Renee Watson 2:00-2:30: Star Wars Extravaganza featuring Tom Angleberger and Chris Reiff 3:00-3:30: Loud Boy, Frankie Pickle, and Super Chicken Nugget Boy featuring Josh Lewis, Eric Wight and DJ Steinberg 3:30-4:00: Overcoming the Fear of the Baseball featuring Brian Jordan 4:00-4:30: Scumble and Savvy featuring Ingrid Law 4:30-5:00: Realistically Magical, Magically Realistic featuring Laurel Snyder and Jeanne Birdsall
12:00-12:45: On Folly Beach featuring Karen White 1:15-2:00: The Substance of Hope: Barack Obama and the Paradox of Progress featuring William Jelani Cobb 2:30-3:15: The Ghost of Milagro Creek featuring Melanie Sumner 3:45-4:30: Bible Babel: Making Sense of the Most Talked-about Book of All Time featuring Kristin Swenson 5:00-5:45: The Evolution of Childhood featuring Mel Konner
12:00-1:00: Cornbread Nation 5 featuring Alan Deutschman, Angie Mosier and Tore Olsson 2:00-3:00: Canning for a New Generation featuring Liana Krissoff
1:15-2:00: Preaching with Sacred Fire: An Anthology of African American Sermons featuring Martha Simmons 2:30-3:15: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Low-Cost Start-Ups featuring Gail Margolies Reid
12:00-12:45: The Truth is in the Telling featuring Tom Junod and Charles McNair 1:15-2:00: The Last Lecture/ Girls from. Ames/Highest Duty featuring Jeff Zaslow 2:30-3:15: Camino del Sol: Fifteen Years of Latina and Latino Writing featuring Rigoberto Gonzalez 3:45-4:30: Enchanted Evening Barbie and the Second Coming featuring Rheta Grimsley Johnson
12:00-12:45: The Sicilian Judge: Anthony Alaimo, an American Hero featuring Vince Coppola 1:15-2:00: Atlanta Then and Now featuring Rebecca Burns and Marc Wortman 2:30-3:15: Bartram's Living Legacy featuring John Lane and Philip Lee Williams 3:45-4:30: Millionaire Moms featuring Joyce Bone 5:00-5:45: Exposing the Black Mafia Family featuring Mara Shalhoup
1:15-2:00: Superbug: The Fatal Menace of MRSA featuring Maryn McKenna 2:30-3:15: Poetry in the Afternoon featuring Evie Shockley, Chad Faries and Kimiko Hahn 3:45-4:30: History and the Middle East featuring Jonathan Schneer 5:00-5:45: For Decades I Was Silent: A Holocaust Survivor's Journey Back to Faith featuring Baruch Goldstein
12:00-12:45: Dairy Queen featuring Susan Gregg Gilmore 1:15-2:00: Settling Into Your Setting: Place and Fiction featuring Joshilyn Jackson and Susan Rebecca White 2:30-3:15: Inside the Outbreaks: The Elite Medical Detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence Service featuring Mark Pendergrast
12:00-12:45: Pairing Up: One Book, Two Authors featuring Dana Johnson and Alison Umminger 1:15-2:00: Crossing With the Virgin: Stories from the Migrant Trail featuring Norma Price 2:30-3:15: Lillian Smith Awards 5:00-5:45: Short Fiction Sensations featuring M.O. Walsh and Alex Taylor
12:00-12:45: Blood Dazzler featuring Patricia Smith 1:15-2:00: Infernal Devices & Mortal Instruments featuring Cassandra Clare 3:45-4:30: The Wages of War: Fiction in Wartime Settings featuring Mark Mustian and Joseph Skibell
12:00-12:45: Ten Hills Farm: The Forgotten History of Slavery in the North featuring C.S. Manegold 2:30-3:15: Edgar Allen Poe: A Puppet Presentation 3:45-4:30: They Came to Nashville featuring Marshall Chapman 5:00-5:45: POE Slam featuring Theresa Davis 8:00-10:00: The Triumph of Rock n' Roll Over Good Breeding featuring Marshall Chapman
12:00-12:05: Michael W. Hinkle 12:10-12:15: Julie K. Hersh 12:20-12:25: Robert G. Folsom 12:30-12:35: Stephen Bradshaw 12:40-12:45: Joyce Ann Whitlock 12:50-12:55: Harold B. Goldhagen 1:00-1:05: Leslie E. Stern 1:10-1:15: Ralphena Dodson 1:20-1:25: Kia Morgan Smith 1:30-1:35: Derek Hill 1:40-1:45: Carol Galusha 1:50-1:55: Mike Guardia 2:00-2:05: Heath Gibson 2:10-2:15: Terence Hawkins 2:20-2:25: J. L. King 2:40-2:45: Maureen Hinton 2:50-2:55: Rachel J. Rahman 3:00-3:05: Ramona Bridges 3:10-3:15: Jon Pendergrass 3:20-3:25: Robert T. Nowak 3:30-3:35: Grant Garris 3:40-3:45: Ravry Sloan
12:10-12:20: Michael W. Hinkle signing 12:20-12:30: Julie K. Hersh signing 12:30-12:40: Robert G. Folsom signing 12:40-12:50: Stephen Bradshaw signing 12:50-1:00: Joyce Ann Whitlock signing 1:00-1:10: Harold B. Goldhagen signing 1:10-1:20: Leslie E. Stern signing 1:20-1:30: Ralphena Dodson signing 1:30-1:40: Kia Morgan Smith signing 1:40-1:50: Derek Hill signing 1:50-2:00: Carol Galusha signing 2:00-2:10: Mike Guardia signing 2:10-2:20: Heath Gibson signing 2:20-2:30: Terence Hawkins signing 2:40-2:50: J. L. King signing 2:50-3:00: Maureen Hinton signing 3:00-3:10: Rachel J. Rahman signing 3:10-3:20: Ramona Bridges signing 3:30-3:40: Jon Pendergrass signing 3:30-3:40: Robert T. Nowak signing 3:40-3:50: Grant Garris signing 3:50-4:00: Ravry Sloan signing
1:15-2:00: Beyond Katrina: A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast featuring Natasha Trethewey 2:30-3:15: The Sweetness (And Sassiness) of Southern Fiction featuring Amanda Gable and Olivia deBelle Byrd 3:45-4:30: More than the Mason-Dixon: Writing Honest Southern Works featuring Raymond Atkins and Wayne Caldwell 5:00-5:45: One More Theory About Happiness featuring Paul Guest
1:15-2:00: The Good Soldiers featuring David Finkel 2:30-3:15: The Magicians featuring Lev Grossman
12:00-12:15: Travis Denton 12:15-12:30: Katie Chaple 12:30-12:45: Tammy Foster Brewer 12:45-1:00: Andrea O'Rourke 1:00-1:15: Robin Kemp 1:15-1:30: Karen Holmes 1:30-1:45: Ron Self 1:45-2:00: Robert Simon 2:00-2:15: JC Reilly 2:15-2:30: Blake Leland 2:30-2:45: Christine Swint 2:45-3:00: Franklin Abbott 3:00-3:15: Julie Bloemeke 3:15-3:30: David-Matthew Barnes 3:30-3:45: Bob Wood 3:45-4:00: Karen Head 4:00-4:15: Anne Webster 4:15-4:30: Lisa Allender 4:30-4:45: Mike Dockins 4:45-5:00: Eve Hoffman 5:00-5:15: Dustin Brookshire 5:15-5:30: Cleo Creech 5:30-5:45: Charles Jensen 5:45-6:00: Gypsee Yo 8:00-10:00: Java Monkey Speaks Open Mic
12:00-12:15: Brian Settles 12:15-12:30: Lisa Armorer 12:30-12:45: David Cohen 12:45-1:00: Ron Gauthier 1:00-1:15: Kim Dickerson 1:15-1:30: Julius Thompson 1:30-1:45: Jedwin Smith 1:45-2:00: Lynda Fitzgerald 2:00-2:15: Evan Guilford-Blake 2:15-2:30: Lee Gimenez 2:30-2:45: Robin Ader 2:45-3:00: Patti Chiappa 3:00-3:15: Jonathan Maxwell 3:15-3:30: Bill York 3:30-3:45: Beverly Taylor 3:45-4:00: Joe D'Agnese 4:00-4:15: Joe Gatins 4:15-4:30: Carmen Green 4:30-4:45: Gladys Nyagus 4:45-5:00: Karen Ervin 5:00-5:15: Mike Buchanan 5:15-5:30: Calvin Ramsey 5:30-5:45: Neon Seon 5:45-6:00: Dianne Glave
11:00-11:30: Second Parade Lineup
11:30-12:00: Ladybug Parade with Ladybug Girl
2:00-4:00: Launch Party for The Bard and the Muckraker
12:00-12:45: Eternal Ones and Kiki Strike featuring Kirsten Miller 1:00-1:45: Lady Macbeth's Daughter and Other Tragic Girls featuring Lisa Klein 2:00-2:45: Saving Maddie featuring Varian Johnson 3:00-3:45: Finding Yourself In a Land Where You're Lost featuring Christina Gonzalez and Noni Carter 4:00-4:45: Sibling Rivalry of the Worst and Best Kind featuring Jackson Pearce, Michelle Zink and Robin Benway 5:00-5:30: D.U.C.K Improv
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