18 th Annual Writing the Rockies Conference July 19-23, 2017 Master Schedule

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1 18 th Annual Writing the Rockies Conference July 19-23, 2017 Master Schedule Wednesday, July 19 Session Times Event 12:00 6:00 Registration in the Taylor Hall Welcome Center. Late arrivals call Facilities Services at or, after midnight, Security at :00 6:00 Book Fair, Taylor Hall 100 5:00 Welcome Reception (University Center Ballroom) 6:00 Welcome Banquet (University Center Ballroom) 6:45 Welcoming Remarks (University Center Ballroom) David J. Rothman, Director, Graduate Program in Creative Writing Gaye Jenkins, Dean, School of Graduate Studies Greg Salsbury, President 7:15 Conference Keynote: Duane L. Vandenbusche, An Introduction to the Gunnison Country (University Center Ballroom) 8:00 Poetry Keynote: Alice Quinn, The Pleasures, Rewards and Challenges of a Literary Life (University Center Theater) The Book Fair runs from 9:00 6:00 on Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday in Taylor 100. Continental Breakfast will be served each day from 7:30 9:00, and lunch from 12:00 1:00. Breakfast is served every day; lunch is served on Thursday, Saturday and Sunday (not on Friday). All meals take place in the University Center Ballroom. Coffee with Pros: Join an informal chat with guest professionals about writing, the industry, or whatever topics you want to raise. We will form clusters of discussion from 4:00 5:30 on Thursday and Saturday on the Mezzanine Level of the Taylor Hall Welcome Center. Pitch Sessions: 2:00 5:00, Saturday, July 23. Attendees can sign up for 20-minute pitch sessions with editors and agents. First come, first served. $50 registration. Please sign up at the conference registration table in the Taylor Hall Welcome Center. NB: TH is Taylor Hall

2 7:30 9:00 Breakfast (University Center Ballroom) Thursday, July 20 Time Creative Nonfiction Genre Fiction Poetry Publishing Screenwriting 8:30 10:00 Creative Nonfiction Panel #1: Reporting in Creative Nonfiction. Alissa Johnson and Brian Calvert, Co-Moderators; George Sibley, Mark Todd. (TH 226) Genre Fiction Panel #1: Epic Writing Fails. Russell Davis, Moderator; David Anthony Durham, Candace Nadon, Clay Reynolds, Michaela Roessner. (TH 200) Poetry Panel #1: A Confluence of Rivers: Poetry and Philosophy. Emily Grosholz, Moderator; Jan Schreiber, Frederick Turner. (TH 229) 10:15 12:15 Creative Nonfiction 3-Day Workshops: #1: Taking the Me Out of Memoir. Instructor: Kase Johnstun. (TH 201) #2: Writing the Environment. Instructor: Sean Prentiss. (TH 229) Genre Fiction 3-Day Workshop: The Long and Winding (and Frequently Bumpy and Terrifying) Path of a Writer. Instructor: David Anthony Durham. (TH 204) Genre Fiction 3-Day Critical Seminar: Crime and Mystery in the West. Leader: Clay Reynolds. (TH 226) Poetry 3-Day Workshops: #1: Say That Again? Writing Repeating Forms. Instructor: Bruce Bennett. (TH 200) #2: Making Memory Musical. Instructor: Jodie Hollander. (TH 119) Poetry 3-Day Critical Seminar The Prosody Seminar. Leaders: Tom Cable, Natalie Gerber. (TH??) Publishing 3-Day Workshop: How to Prepare Yourself to Compete in the Publishing Industry. Instructor: Sandra Bond. (TH??) Screenwriting 1-Day Workshop #1: What We Can Learn from Opening Scenes. Instructor: Bob Shayne. (TH 205) 12:15 1:00 Lunch (University Center Ballroom) 1:00 1:45 Publishing Keynote: Sandra Bond, What in the World Does an Agent Do? (TH Studio Theater) 2:00 4:00 Creative Nonfiction 1-Day Workshop #1: The Art of Biography. Instructor: Valerie Lester. (TH 204) Genre Fiction 1-Day Workshop #1: Dying Is Easy. Comedy is Hard. Instructor: Michaela Roessner. (TH 229) Publishing Panel #1: From the Hand of the Writer to the Eye of the Reader: The Independent Press Supply Chain. Caleb Seeling, Moderator; Kyle Harvery, Uche Ogbuje, Danny Rosen. (TH 200) Screenwriting 3-Day Workshop: Developing, Writing, and Launching Your Screenplay. Instructor: Trai Cartwright. (TH 205) 2:00 5:00 Poetry Symposium, Session 1 (TH 201) 1. Julie Kane, Words for Tunes: How the Italian Musical Villanella Changed the English Metrical Line. 2. Alice Quinn, The Thrill of an Archive: An Editor s Perspective on the Elizabeth Bishop Papers at Vassar College. 3. Jan Schreiber, Serpent in the Tree: Poetry in a Fallen World. 4:00 5:30 Coffee w/ Pros (TH Welcome Center Mezzanine Level) Coffee w/ Pros (TH Welcome Center Mezzanine Level) 5:30 7:30 Dinner: On your own 7:30 8:15 The 3 rd Annual Writing the Rockies Creative Writing Teaching Award Interview: (Taylor Hall Studio Theater) 8:30 9:30 Readings: Sean Prentiss, Alice Quinn, Tyson Hausdoerffer, David Anthony Durham (Taylor Hall Studio Theater) Screening #1: How to Sell a TV Pilot in Seven Easy Years, or The Return of The Return of Sherlock Holmes. Bob Shayne. (University Center Theater)

3 9:45 11:00 Open Mic (Taylor Hall Studio Theater) Friday, July 21 The freedom of the hills 7:30 9:00 Breakfast University Center Ballroom All day Lunch Walks and hikes will be available in various parts of the valley, with scheduled van transportation, or participants are free to spend the day as they please. On your own. 4:00 3 rd Annual New Opera Workshop World Premiere: The Price of Pomegranates by Jerome W. Malek, with libretto by Susan Spear (MFA 12). John and Georgie Kincaid Concert Hall, Quigley Hall Note: All general conference registrations include admission for one person to the New Opera Workshop performance; individual tickets will also be sold at the door on a first-come, first-served basis (no reservations) to the general public for $20/person, $10/student. 5:30 Creative Nonfiction Keynote: Sean Prentiss, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind: A New Philosophy for Understanding Truth and Creative Nonfiction. Taylor Hall Studio Theater Dinner On your own.

4 7:30 9:00 Breakfast (University Center Ballroom) Saturday, July 22 Time Creative Nonfiction Genre Fiction Poetry Publishing Screenwriting 8:30 10:00 Poetry Panel #2: Why Homer and Virgil Still Matter. Tyson Hausdoerffer, Moderator; (TH 229) Publishing 1-Day Workshop #1: The Challenges of Marketing. Instructors: Caleb Seeling and Sandra Bond. (TH 200) Screenwriting 1-Day Workshop #2: Surprise Me on the Page. Instructor: J S Mayank. (TH 201) 10:15 12:15 Creative Nonfiction 3-Day Workshops: #1: Taking the Me Out of Memoir. Instructor: Kase Johnstun. (TH 201) #2: Writing the Environment. Instructor: Sean Prentiss. (TH 229) Genre Fiction 3-Day Workshop: The Long and Winding (and Frequently Bumpy and Terrifying) Path of a Writer. Instructor: David Anthony Durham. (TH 204) Genre Fiction 3-Day Critical Seminar: Crime and Mystery in the West. Leader: Clay Reynolds. (TH 226) Poetry 3-Day Workshops: #1: Say That Again? Writing Repeating Forms. Instructor: Bruce Bennett. (TH 200) #2: Making Memory Musical. Instructor: Jodie Hollander. (TH 119) Poetry 3-Day Critical Seminar The Prosody Seminar. Leaders: Tom Cable, Natalie Gerber. (TH??) Publishing 3-Day Workshop: How to Prepare Yourself to Compete in the Publishing Industry. Instructor: Sandra Bond. (TH??) Screenwriting 3-Day Workshop: Developing, Writing, and Launching Your Screenplay. Instructor: Trai Cartwright. (TH 205) 12:15 1:00 Lunch (University Center Ballroom) 1:00 1:45 Genre Fiction Keynote: David Anthony Durham, The Virtues of the Multi-Genre Toolbox. (TH Studio Theater) 2:00 4:00 Creative Nonfiction Panel #2: The Art of the Fact: Is There a Canon of Creative Nonfiction? Kelsey L. Bennett, Moderator; Kase Johnstun, Valerie Lester, Sean Prentiss. (TH 229) Genre Fiction 1-Day Workshop #2: Winter Is Coming : What Fiction Writers Can Learn about Plotting from HBO s Game of Thrones. Instructor: Candace Nadon. (TH 200) Screenwriting Panel #1: Networking. J S Mayank, Moderator; Trai Cartwright, Mike Reiss, Bob Shayne. (TH 205) 2:00 5:00 Poetry Symposium, Session 2 (TH 201) 1. William Tyson Hausdoerffer, Homer s Precious Stones : Culling as Creative Translation. 2. Emily Grosholz, Cosmology as the Middle Term between Poetry and Philosophy. 3. Frederick Turner: "On Beauty: Evolution, Chaos, and the Anima Mundi." 4:00 5:30 Coffee w/ Pros (TH Welcome Center, Mezzanine Level) Coffee w/ Pros (TH Welcome Center, Mezzanine Level) 5:30 7:00 Dinner: On your own 7:30 9:00 Through the Lookiung Glass Darkly, or Lewis Carroll and the Pursuit of Innocence. Written and Performed by Andrew Sellon. (Taylor Hall Studio Theater) 9:30 11:00 Open Mic (Taylor Hall Studio Theater) Screening #2: Secrets of The Simpsons. Mike Reiss. (University Center Theater)

5 7:30 9:00 Breakfast (University Center Ballroom) Sunday, July 23 Time Creative Nonfiction Genre Fiction Poetry Publishing Screenwriting 8:30 10:00 Poetry Panel #3: So, these four poets walk into a bar and start talking about jokes Julie Kane, Moderator; Bruce Bennett, David J. Rothman, Marilyn Taylor. (TH 229) 10:15 12:15 Creative Nonfiction 3-Day Workshops: #1: Taking the Me Out of Memoir. Instructor: Kase Johnstun. (TH 201) #2: Writing the Environment. Instructor: Sean Prentiss. (TH 229) Genre Fiction 3-Day Workshop: The Long and Winding (and Frequently Bumpy and Terrifying) Path of a Writer. Instructor: David Anthony Durham. (TH 204) Genre Fiction 3-Day Critical Seminar: Crime and Mystery in the West. Leader: Clay Reynolds. (TH 226) Poetry 3-Day Workshops: #1: Say That Again? Writing Repeating Forms. Instructor: Bruce Bennett. (TH 200) #2: Making Memory Musical. Instructor: Jodie Hollander. (TH 119) Poetry 3-Day Critical Seminar The Prosody Seminar. Leaders: Tom Cable, Natalie Gerber. (TH??) Publishing 3-Day Workshop: How to Prepare Yourself to Compete in the Publishing Industry. Instructor: Sandra Bond. (TH??) Screenwriting 3-Day Workshop: Developing, Writing, and Launching Your Screenplay. Instructor: Trai Cartwright. (TH 205) 12:15 1:00 Lunch (University Center Ballroom) 1:00 1:45 Screenwriting Keynote: Mike Reiss, Writing for The Simpsons, the Minions, Joan Rivers, and Other Cartoon Characters. (University Center Theater) 2:00 4:00 Creative Nonfiction 1-Day Workshop #2: Pitching the Rockies: How To Sell a Story that Sings. Instructor: Brian Calvert. (TH 200) Genre Fiction 1-Day Workshop #3: Write What You Know. Instructor: Russell Davis. (TH 204) Publishing Panel #1: From the Hand of the Writer to the Eye of the Reader: The Independent Press Supply Chain. Caleb Seeling, Moderator; Kyle Harvey, Uche Ogbuje, Danny Rosen. (TH 205) 2:00 5:00 Pitches and Critiques (Locations TBA in Taylor Hall) Poetry Symposium, Session 3 (TH 201) 1. David J. Rothman, Harmonious Madness. 2. Marilyn Taylor, The Golden Shovel and the Lipogram: Two Groundbreaking Spinoffs in Contemporary Formal Poetry. 3. Natalie Gerber, Rhyme in the Movement: The Prosody of Hamilton. 4:00 5:30 Screening #3: Highlights from the 2016 Crested Butte Film Festival. Michael Brody. (University Center Theater) 5:30 7:30 Dinner: On your own

6 7:30 8:45 Readings: Brian Calvert, Jodie Hollander, Valerie Lester, Mike Reiss (Taylor Hall Studio Theater) 9:00 Whenever Closing Bash: El Paraiso, 112 South Main Street, Gunnison. Vans to and from campus available.