Meet the world-class faculty during the 2013 Writers’ Conference.
Please click on any name for photos, bios, and workshop descriptions.
Bea Aaronson: Daily Workshops: Beyond Boundaries: weird and wonderful writing and Rabelais’s Gargantua Pantagruel: the subversive power of laughter
Merridith Allen: Daily Workshop: Defining Moments: the playwright’s foundation and Writing Intensive: The Playwright’s Toolbox
Nina Amir: Daily Workshop: How to Blog Your Way to a Book Deal and Writing Intensive: How to Successfully Tackle Social Media (Even When You’d Really Rather Be Writing)
Araceli Ardón: Daily Workshop: Poesía mexicana del siglo XXBeatriz Badikian-Gartler, Ph.D: Daily Workshop: Crafting Stories from Real Life
Rosa Beltrán: Daily Workshop: Efectos Secundarios: escribir y leer novela
Susan Sutliff Brown: Daily Workshop: The Art of the Double Perspective in Fiction and Writing Intensive: Stealing from the Masters: beyond the basics—improve your writing by pilfering from the experts. Moderator, Panel of Agents
Yvonne Daley: Daily Workshops: Place is More than Locale and Grace Paley: Writer, mother, activist, mentor, and her works
Laura Davis: Daily Workshop: Five Secrets to Successfully Writing about Things That You Don’t Remember and Writing Intensive: From Memory to Memoir: crafting personal stories that are vivid, compelling, and true
Hollye Dexter: Panel: Women Write Their Lives
Samantha Dunn: Panel: Women Write Their Lives
April Eberhardt: Panel: Literary Agents
Amy Ferris: Panel: Women Write Their Lives
Kate Fowler: Daily Workshop: Ninja Marketing for Writers: create your own video book trailer
Aysha Griffin: Daily Workshop: Market Your Book With Love
Sandra Gulland: Daily Workshop: Internet Book Promotion for Luddites
Jorge F. Hernández: Daily Workshop: Taller intensivo: Puro Cuento
Judyth Hill: Daily Workshops: Wild Writing: The dharma of poetry and Dancing In, Drinking in, Drenched In–Poetry!
Lawrence Hill: Keynote Speaker: The Merging of Fiction
Miranda Hill: Daily Workshop: Imaginary Intersections: building Canada’s national literature with Project Bookmark Canada
Monica Holloway: Panel: Women Write Their Lives
Kathleen Hudson: Daily Workshop: Creativity and The Power of Stories
Claire Joysmith: Daily Workshop: Unexpected Transcultural Writing Strategies: to translate or not to translate
Martin Keogh: Daily Workshop: Visceral Words: writing from the body
E. E. King: Daily Workshop: Improvisational Writing: techniques to break writer’s block
Jeff Kleinman: Panel: Literary Agents
Eva Langston: Daily Workshop: Getting Published by Literary Magazines
Suzanne Braun Levine: Panel: Women Write Their Lives
Robert Levine: Daily Workshop: The E-Book Revolution and How E-Publishing Affects You
Donna Masini: Daily Workshop: Breaking Lines/Breaking Habits and Writing Intensive: Poems: draft by draft and Keynote Speaker: Reading New Poems, Old Poems, and Paragraphs
Fabrizio Mejía Madrid: Daily Workshop: Crónica: El arte de los hechos
Lucinda McDermott: Daily Workshop: From Page to Stage: adapting your writing for the stage and Live Performance: Georgia O’Keefe; Live Performance of O’Keeffe!
Dinty Moore: Daily Workshop: Finding Your True Voice and Writing Intensive: Creative Nonfiction: compelling writing about people and places and Featured Speaker: Conference Wrap-Up
Mary Morris: Featured Speaker: Something to Declare
Penny Nelson: Panel: Literary Agents
Guadalupe Nettel: Daily Workshop: Autobiografía
ZZ Packer: Daily Workshop: Voice in Fiction: how do words leap off the page and become sound? and Writing Intensive: What Does Your Reader Want? and Featured Speaker: Writing and Consciousness
Leslie Hall Pinder: Daily Workshop: Can a Writer Have Friends?
Pit Pinegar: Daily Workshop: Energy and Words
Susan Piver: When You Fear What You Love: The Dharma of the Writing Life
Elizabeth Powell: Daily Workshop: Assembling Your Poetry Manuscript
Guillermo Quijas-Corzo: Daily Workshop: Charla con la Editorial Almadía
Irene Rawlings: Daily Workshop: Book Marketing Strategies
Ray Rhamey: Daily Workshop: Crafting Killer Description and Dialogue Scenes
Carmen Rioja: Daily Workshop: El fundamento esencial de la literatura: El planteamiento del conflict
Carmen Rodríguez : Daily Workshop: Echo Writing: from emulation to creation
Elizabeth Rosner: Daily Workshop: Writing Your Way Home: how to discover your material and how your material discovers you
Andy Ross: Panel: Literary Agents
Wyman Rousseau: Daily Workshop: Haiku Mindfulness
Mark Saunders: Daily Workshop: Oedipus and Hamlet Walk Into a Bar: punch up your writing with humor
Michael K. Schuessler: Daily Workshop: Subject as Archive and Archive as Subject: writing biography in Mexico
Jacqueline Sheehan: Daily Workshop: The Psychology of Strong Characters
Merilyn Simonds: Daily Workshop: The Guilty Pleasures of Reading
Sharon Solwitz: Daily Workshop: Voice in Fiction
Teresa Stack: Panel: Women Write Their Lives
Cheryl Strayed: Keynote Speaker: Writing From the Wild Place
Marly Swick: Daily Workshop: Going Into Detail: how to get going and keep going
Tracy J. Thomas: Daily Workshop: Dominating Social Media: how to market yourself to the masses
Duncan Tonatiuh: Daily Workshop: Writing for Children: the picture book
Luis Alberto Urrea: Keynote Speaker: Universal Borders: from Tijuana to the world
Juan Villoro: Keynote Speaker: Apocalypse Later: living and writing in Mexico City
Stephanie Bennett Vogt: Daily Workshop: From Rejection to Redemption: build a platform that will get you noticed and open doors
Mary Katherine Wainwright: Daily Workshops: Reading Like a Writer and Mark Twain and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Brooke Warner: Daily Workshop: Your Outline: the gift that keeps on giving
Tawni Waters: Travel Writing (Travel Writing that Takes you Places)
