Schedule subject to change.
4:00-6:00: Jump-Start Your Engines Poetry Workshop featuring Jericho Brown
4:00-6:00: Dying to Write featuring Nora McFarland
4:00-6:00: Extreme Makeover: Poetry Edition featuring Chelsea Rathburn
4:00-6:00: Writing Vivid Characters: Details, Dimension, and Drive featuring James Lough
4:00-6:00: Help For Writers featuring Roy Peter Clark
4:00-6:00: The Meat and Bones of Your Writing featuring Gregg Hurwitz
4:00-6:00: Synchronicity Theatre’s Playmaking Workshop-Discover the Spark! featuring Synchronicity Theatre
4:00-6:00: Comic Book Battles featuring Kyle Puttkammer
4:00-6:00: Writing with Duct Tape--Using Emotion to Create Characters That Stick With Your Reader featuring Karen White
3:00-4:00: Writers Conference Keynote featuring Nora McFarland
9:30-9:45: Skippyjon Jones Parade Lineup 9:45-10:00: Skippyjon Jones Parade 10:00-10:30: Skippyjon Jones, Class Action featuring Judy Schachner 10:30-11:00: The Wow Show featuring Vincenzo Tortorici 11:00-11:30: Say What? featuring Angela DiTerlizzi 12:00-12:30: The Gingerbread Man Escapes From the Bakery featuring Laura Murray, Leslie Muir 12:30-1:00: The Little House Songs featuring Caroline Herring 1:00-1:30: On the Same Page Announces This Year's Community Read 1:30-2:00: The Search for WondLa featuring Tony DiTerlizzi 2:30-3:00: Theodore Boone & the Thrill of Rights featuring The Story Pirates 3:00-3:30: A Tale Dark and Grimm featuring Adam Gidwitz 3:30-4:00: Adventures into the Unknown featuring Margaret Haddix and Lisa McMann 4:00-4:30: Ten (The Winnie Years) featuring Lauren Myracle 4:30-5:00: The 39 Clues: Cahills vs. Vespers Book 1: The Medusa Plot featuring Gordon Korman 5:00-5:30: City of Orphans featuring Avi 5:30-6:00: The Center for Puppetry Arts Presents the Ugly Duckling
10:00-10:45: Atlanta's Stone Mountain: A Multicultural History featuring Paul Hudson, Lora Mirza 11:15-12:00: A Dream Come True: My Very Good Life featuring Eva Galambos 12:30-1:15: Slow Light: Invisibility, Teleportation and Other Mysteries of Light featuring Sidney Perkowitz 1:45-2:30: The Book of Men, and Blue Rust featuring Dorianne Laux, Joseph Millar 3:00-3:45: The Sweetest Thing: A Boxer's Memoir featuring Mischa Merz 4:15-5:00: Images of America: Virginia-Highland featuring Karri Hobson-Pape, Lola Carlisle 5:30-6:15: One Soul featuring Ray Fawkes
11:00-12:00: Meat. Salt. Time featuring Tony Seichrist 1:00-2:00: Small Batch Baking for Chocolate Lovers featuring Debby Maugans 3:00-4:00: Southern Foodways Alliance featuring Angie Mosier
10:00-10:45: Glass Is Really A Liquid on Good Friday featuring Bruce Covey, Michelle Bitting 11:15-12:00: Healing Your Hungry Heart: Recovering From Your Eating Disorder featuring Joanna Poppink 12:30-1:15: Courage To Dissent featuring Tomiko Brown-Nagin 1:45-2:30: The American Essay in The American Century featuring Ned Stuckey-French 3:00-3:45: Aerotropolis featuring Greg Lindsay 4:15-5:00: Help! For Writers featuring Roy Peter Clark 5:30-6:15: SCAD Reads
10:00-10:45: The New Handshake featuring Barbara Giamanco 11:15-12:00: Faith & Submission featuring Jennifer Haigh, Amy Waldman 12:30-1:15: Making Self-Publishing Work For You featuring Ahmad Meradji 1:45-2:30: The Great Night featuring Chris Adrian 3:00-3:45: Go Fish: How to Win Contempt And Influence People featuring Mr. Fish 4:15-5:00: Reign of Madness featuring Lynn Cullen 5:30-6:15: Whodunit Blues featuring Persia Walker, Max Allan Collins
10:00-10:45: Hellhole featuring Kevin J. Anderson 11:15-12:00: Praying For Strangers featuring River Jordan 12:30-1:15: Back to the (Fictional) Future featuring Thomas Mullen, Jeffrey Small 1:45-2:30: Bloodwork featuring Holly Tucker 3:00-3:45: The End of Energy: The Unmaking of America's Environment, Security, and Independence featuring Michael Graetz 4:15-5:00: Celebrating The 65th Anniversary of the Georgia Review featuring Stephen Corey, George Singleton and Robert Olen Butler 5:30-6:15: Drifting into Darien: A Personal and Natural History of the Altamaha River featuring Janisse Ray
10:00-10:45: Not Your Father's Fiction featuring Blake Butler, Adam Ross, Jesse Ball 11:15-12:00: My Week at the Blue Angel featuring Matthew O'Brien 12:30-1:15: A Small Hotel featuring Robert Olen Butler 1:45-2:30: The Fund featuring H.T. Narea 3:00-4:30: The Importance of THE GREEN BOOK featuring Tom Key, Mary Rolinson and Calvin Alexander Ramsey 5:00-6:15: WRITE CLUB featuring Daniel Black, Man Martin, Jessica Handler, Patti Callahan Henry, Ian Belknap, Andisheh Nouraee and Susan White
10:00-10:45: Damn Good Dogs featuring Sonny Seiler, Kent Hannon 11:15-12:00: Bloody Crimes featuring James Swanson 12:30-1:15: Conquistadora featuring Esmeralda Santiago 1:45-2:30: SEAL Team Six: Memoirs of an Elite Navy SEAL Sniper featuring Howard Wasdin 3:00-3:45: The Families You Make featuring Melissa Fay Greene, Vanessa Diffenbaugh 4:15-5:00: Pairs with Pens featuring Jeff VanderMeer, Angela DiTerlizzi, Tony DiTerlizzi, Elizabeth Stuckey-French, Ned Stuckey-French, Ann VanderMeer 5:30-6:15: Making A Great Murder Mystery featuring Amanda Kyle Williams, Louise Penny
11:15-12:00: Sad Friends and Pretty Little Rooms featuring Katie Chaple, Chard deNiord 12:30-1:15: Boundaries featuring Elizabeth Nunez 1:45-2:30: The 21st Century South featuring Charles Reagan Wilson, Allen Tullos, Jake Adam York 3:00-3:45: Please: Poetry featuring Jericho Brown 4:15-5:00: Searching Around Scotland (and Ireland too) featuring William Starr, Signe Pike 5:30-6:15: The Swimming Pool featuring Holly LeCraw 8:00-9:00: The Optimist's Daughter featuring Tom Key, Kate Campbell and Caroline Herring
10:00-10:45: Backseat Saints featuring Joshilyn Jackson 11:15-12:00: The Lengths People Go To featuring Gregg Hurwitz, George Pelecanos 12:30-1:15: A Simple Book of Financial Wisdom featuring Danny Kofke 1:45-2:30: Swamplandia! featuring Karen Russell 3:00-3:45: The Leftovers featuring Tom Perrotta 4:15-5:00: Stuntman!: My Car-Crashing, Plane-Jumping, Bone-Breaking, Death-Defying Hollywood Life featuring Hal Needham 5:30-6:15: Tiger in the Kitchen featuring Cheryl Tan
10:00-10:15: Anne Webster 10:15-10:30: Pamela Best 10:30-10:45: David Ryback 10:45-11:00: Chadwick Hagan 11:00-11:15: Sylvia Cross 11:15-11:30: Kodac Harrison 11:30-11:45: Lee Furey 11:45-12:00: Maurice Turcotte 12:00-12:15: Dan Veach 12:15-12:30: Lynn Alexander 12:30-12:45: Ginger Murchison 12:45-1:00: Lee Passarella 1:00-1:15: Megan Sexton 1:15-1:30: Rebecca Baggett 1:30-1:45: Memye Tucker 1:45-2:00: Karen Holmes 2:00-2:15: Samuel Eddie 2:15-2:30: Gregg Murray 2:30-2:45: Chezon Jackson 2:45-3:00: Nagueyalti Warren 3:00-3:15: Elizabeth Garcia 3:15-3:30: Michele Rozga 3:30-3:45: Jason Myers 3:45-4:00: Hillary Watson Kobernick 4:00-4:15: Opal Moore 4:15-4:30: Michael Diebert 4:30-4:45: Marissa McNamara 4:45-5:00: Rupert Fike 5:00-5:15: Gabe Moses 5:15-5:30: Quez Brown 5:30-5:45: Marshall Gillson 5:45-6:00: Theresa Davis 8:00-9:00: Invitational Poetry Slam and Reading
1:00-1:40: Philip Nutman 1:40-2:00: H.W Bernard 2:00-2:20: Anne B. Jones 2:20-2:40: Miranda Parker 2:40-3:00: Melody Scott 3:00-3:20: Mark All 3:20-3:40: J. E. Cammon 3:40-4:00: A. Shane Etter 4:00-4:20: Lee Gimenez 4:20-4:40: Kane 4:40-5:00: Julius Thompson
11:00-11:45: Past and Future Loves featuring Beth Revis, Myra McEntire 12:00-12:45: Cryer's Cross and the WAKE Trilogy featuring Lisa McMann 1:00-1:45: Beauty Queens featuring Libba Bray 2:00-2:45: Shine featuring Lauren Myracle 3:00-3:45: Perfect Chemistry featuring Simone Elkeles 4:00-4:45: Plagues, Apocalypses, and Zombies: Oh My! featuring Jonathan Maberry, Jeff Hirsch 5:00-5:45: Break In Case Of Emergency: This Book May Save Your Life featuring Meg Howrey, Thomas Mullen, Mr. Fish
10:00-10:45: On the Cusp of Rainy Country: Two Poets featuring Jennifer Grotz, Linda Pastan 11:15-12:00: Voices From The Underground: Speckled Birds and Smoking Typewriters featuring John McMillian, Bob Goodman, Krista Brewer, Steve Wise 12:30-1:15: The Real James Bond Was a Woman featuring M.L Malcolm 1:45-2:30: The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities: Exhibits, Oddities, Images, and Stories from Top Authors and Artists featuring Ann VanderMeer 3:00-3:45: The Bible Now featuring Richard Friedman 4:15-5:00: Dangerous Pleasures featuring Fiona Zedde 5:30-6:15: Poets In Conversation featuring Thomas Lux, Chard deNiord,
11:30-11:45: Pete The Cat Parade Lineup 11:45-12:00: Pete The Cat Parade 12:00-12:30: Pete The Cat: Rocking In My School Shoes featuring James Dean and Eric Litwin 12:30-1:00: Poetry with Pa Goose featuring Charles Ghigna 1:00-1:30: Galaxy Man featuring Kyle Puttkammer 1:30-2:00: Aliens On Vacation featuring Clete Barrett Smith 2:00-2:30: The Dagger Quick featuring Brian Eames 2:30-3:00: The Absolute Value of Mike featuring Kathryn Erskine 3:30-4:00: Deep Zone featuring Tim Green 4:00-4:30: Zora & Me featuring T. R. Simon and Victoria Bond 4:30-5:00: Ellie vs. Frankie: Draw-Off! featuring Eric Wight, Ruth McNally Barshaw 6:00-7:00: Grand Finale: ConunDRUMS! featuring ConunDRUMS .
12:00-12:45: The House that Ruth Built: A New Stadium, the First Yankees Championship, and the Redemption of 1923 featuring Robert Weintraub 1:15-2:00: Sugar In My Bowl: Real Women Write About Real Sex featuring Rosemary Daniell 2:30-3:15: The Big Book of Christian Mysticism: The Essential Guide to Contemplative Spirituality featuring Carl McColman 3:45-4:30: Red Summer: The Summer of 1919 and the Awakening of Black America featuring Cameron McWhirter 5:00-5:45: Everyday Dharma: Seven Weeks to Finding the Buddha in You featuring Lama Willa Miller
12:00-1:00: Southern Biscuits featuring Cynthia Graubart and Nathalie Dupree 2:00-3:00: Spoon Fed featuring Kim Severson 4:00-5:00: Quick Fix Southern featuring Rebecca Lang
1:15-2:00: Revenge of the Radioactive Lady featuring Elizabeth Stuckey-French 2:30-3:15: Language Out Loud featuring Sharon Sanders, Franklin Abbott 3:45-4:30: The Memory Of All That featuring Katharine Weber 5:00-5:45: Literary Improv!
12:00-12:45: That Perfect Moment featuring Carmen Green 1:15-2:00: School for Startups: The Breakthrough Course for Guaranteeing Small Business Success in 90 Days or Less featuring Christopher C. Hanks, Jim Beach, David Beasley 2:30-3:15: From Page to Pub to Podcast: Science Writers Address New Venues and New Media featuring Holly Tucker, Maryn McKenna, Anthony Martin 3:45-4:30: The Indignant Generation: A Narrative History of African American Writers and Critics, 1934-1960 featuring Lawrence P. Jackson 5:00-5:45: Incognito featuring David Eagleman
12:00-12:45: Silver Sparrow featuring Tayari Jones 1:15-2:00: Murder Is The Pits: Mysteries from Sassy Southerners featuring Michael Lee West, Nora McFarland 2:30-3:15: Struggles For Freedom featuring Kevin Young, David Eltis, Michael Thurmond, Douglas A. Blackmon 3:45-4:30: Don't Kill The Birthday Girl: Tales From An Allergic Life featuring Sandra Beasley 5:00-5:45: This Won't Hurt a Bit: (And Other White Lies): My Education in Medicine and Motherhood featuring Michelle Au
12:00-12:45: Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind featuring Ellen Brown 1:15-2:00: 100 Things Braves Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die featuring Jack Wilkinson 2:30-3:15: From the Briar Patch to the Big Stage: Adapting Brer Rabbit for Opera featuring Madeleine St. Romain, Nicole Chamberlain, Park Cofield 3:45-4:30: Taking Your Breath (and Your Blood) Away featuring Tananarive Due, Alma Katsu 5:00-5:45: What Lies in Shadow featuring Christopher Buehlman, Philip Nutman
1:15-2:00: Creating the Magic: Kids' Author-Illustrators Discuss Their Craft featuring Andy Runton, Susan Stockdale, Judy Sierra 2:30-3:15: ... Sitting in A Tree K-I-S-S-I-N-G featuring Karen White, Jeffrey Stepakoff 3:45-4:30: Best American Poetry 2011 Showcase featuring Kevin Young, Natasha Trethewey and David Lehman 5:00-5:45: Fallen featuring Karin Slaughter
12:00-12:45: Transcendence: Healing and Transformation Through Transcendental Meditation featuring Dr. Norman Rosenthal 1:15-2:00: Cool Limbo featuring Michael Montlack, Collin Kelley 2:30-3:15: Sandstorm featuring Christopher Rowe 3:45-4:30: Killing on the Edge: Thrillers with Literary Heft featuring John Milliken Thompson, Joshua Corin, Grant Jerkins 5:00-5:45: Persistence of Memory: Stories of Renewal from 9/11 featuring Randy Osborne 8:00-9:00: Marshall Chapman
1:15-2:00: Burial for a King featuring Rebecca Burns 2:30-3:15: The Strawberry Letter: Real Talk, Real Advice, Because Bitterness Isn't Sexy featuring Shirley Strawberry 3:45-4:30: The Night Train featuring Clyde Edgerton 5:00-5:45: Summer Loving: Books for Your Beach Bag featuring Mary Kay Andrews, Wendy Wax
12:00-12:15: Shawn Delgado 12:15-12:30: Amy Benson Brown 12:30-12:45: John Stephens 12:45-1:00: Andrea O'Roarke 1:00-1:15: Robert Lee Brewer 1:15-1:30: Tami Foster Brewer 1:30-1:45: Max Carl Grimm 1:45-2:00: J.C Reilly 2:00-2:15: Mike Dockins 2:15-2:30: Christine Swint 2:30-2:45: Blake Leland 2:45-3:00: Julie Bloemeke 3:00-3:15: Robert E. Wood 3:15-3:30: David Matthew Barnes 3:30-3:45: Franklin Abbott 3:45-4:00: Karen Head 4:00-4:15: Eve Hoffman 4:15-4:30: Lisa Allender 4:30-4:45: Dustin Brookshire 4:45-5:00: Liz Jester 5:00-5:15: Michael Montlack 5:15-5:30: Brent Calderwood 5:30-5:45: Collin Kelley 5:45-6:00: Ayodele Heath 8:00-9:00: Java Monkey Speaks Poetry Anthology and Reading
1:40-2:00: Kenneth Allen 2:00-2:20: Jennie Helderman 2:20-2:40: Britt Menzies 2:40-3:00: Mike James 3:00-3:20: Rebecca Patton Falco 3:20-3:40: Eva Friedlander and Mickey Goodman 3:20-3:40: Eva Friedlander and Mickey Goodman 3:40-4:00: D.K. Garrison 4:00-4:20: Adam Lazarus 4:20-4:40: Brian Settles 4:40-5:00: Aerle Taree
12:00-12:45: Americapedia! featuring Andisheh Nouraee 1:00-1:45: Not Your Mother's Vampire Novel featuring R. A. Nelson 2:00-2:45: A Bunch of Real (Cool) Witches featuring Victoria Schwab, Rachel Hawkins, Jackson Pearce 3:00-3:45: Cleopatra's Moon featuring Vicky Alvear Shecter 4:00-4:45: A Real Girl Conversation About Writing Real Girl Books featuring Elizabeth Eulberg, Stephanie Perkins, Jennifer Jabaley and Terra McVoy 5:00-5:45: Teen Poetry Slam Showcase
12:00-12:45: How Writing Heals: The Power of Words at Work in Your Life featuring Brenda Stockdale 1:15-2:00: Teen Protagonists in Grown Up Fiction featuring Meg Howrey, Jesmyn Ward 2:30-3:15: Lillian Smith Award 3:45-4:30: Southern Family Drama featuring Patricia Sprinkle, Anna Jean Mayhew 5:00-5:45: Is There a Queer Eye? featuring Robert Sherer, Lynne Huffer, Jericho Brown,
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