Conference Schedule

This schedule is likely to be updated from time to time.

Breakfast and lunch are provided each day in a setting where participants and presenters mix.

Friday November 9th, 2018

Time	Kauai Ballroom 1	Kauai Ballroom 2	Puna classroom 1	Puna classroom 2
7:30 – 9:00	– BREAKFAST –
9:00 – 9:30	WELCOME AND BLESSING Kumu Sabra Kauka and her hula halau
9:30 – 10:15	Scott Turow Sources of Inspiration
10:30 – 11:45		Writing the truly memorable memoir: a workshop. Josh Mohr, Amy Ferris, Linda Schreyer	The many paths to publication. April Eberhardt, Brooke Warner	Jon Fine The Elephant in the Room (Amazon)
12:00 – 1:00	– LUNCH –
11:45 – 12:30	Kaui Hart Hemmings: Creating A Sense of Place
1:15 – 2:00	Jane Smiley Writers’ journeys. Forging careers through changing lives and changing times
2:15 – 3:30	Kristin Hannah, Christina Baker Kline, Alice Hoffman: Conveying emotion in fiction	Ellen Bass The power of metaphor
3:45 – 5:00		Garth Stein The Art of Never Giving Up	Nicholas Delbanco, Jane Smiley, Kristin Hannah What makes great literature great?	Sara Gruen Emma Sweeney agent and author conversation: How we work together.
6:00 – 9:30	– LUAU – Dinner followed by Punua Family performance	LOCATION: Luau Gardens by the beach. (Ballroom 1 in case of rain)

Time	Kauai Ballroom 1	Kauai Ballroom 2	Puna classroom 1	Puna classroom 2
7:30 – 9:00	– BREAKFAST –
9:00 – 9:45	Sara Gruen and Garth Stein: Writing about animals	Jon Fine, Bronwen Hruska Today’s New Publishing Landscape. A blessing and a curse.
10:00 – 11:15		The sound on the page: making prose sing Scott Turow, Christina Baker Kline, Priya Parmar	2nd workshop on memoir Amy Ferris, Linda Schreyer, Joshua Mohr	how editors think: Jamie Raab, Andy Ross, Bronwen Hruska
11:30 – 12:15	Alice Hoffman Creating a fictional world
12:15 – 1:15	– LUNCH –
1:30 – 2:15	Jeff Arch, Scott Turow, Kaui Hemmings, Sara Gruen, Alice Hoffman, Steve Fisher The Winding Road from Book to Film
2:30 – 3:45	Christina Baker Kline multi media presentation on creativity	Nicholas Delbanco The Importance of Point of View	Joshua Mohr Plaracterization The kiss between plot and character
4:00 – 5:15	All agents in a panel discussion on how they work. Participants submit first paragraphs to be quickly critiqued.	Jeff Arch How a school teacher wrote Sleepless in Seattle without losing too much sleep.
8:00 – 9:30	– CONCERT – Makana, master of Hawaiian slack key guitar	LOCATION: Kauai Ballroom 1

Time	Kilohana Restaurant	KCC Fine Arts Auditorium	KCC OCET 105	KCC OCET 106	KCC OCET 106c
9:00 – 10:30	Brunch at Kilohana group 1	Pitchapalooza Group 2 David Henry Sterry Arielle Eckstut
11:00 – 12:30	Brunch at Kilohana group 2	Pitchapalooza Group 1 David Henry Sterry Arielle Eckstut
1:00 – 2:00			Kaui Hart Hemmings Priya Parmar Workshop on making characters live and breathe on the page.	Jane Smiley Molly Friedrich the author/agent dynamic	Scott Turow Joshua Mohr Workshop on the intersection of character and plot
2:10 – 3:10			Kaui Hart Hemmings Priya Parmar Workshop on making characters live and breathe on the page.	Jane Smiley Molly Friedrich the author/agent dynamic	Scott Turow Joshua Mohr Workshop on the intersection of character and plot
3:20 – 4:20			Nicholas Delbanco Elena Delbanco Lastingness: Writing in our latter decades	Ellen Bass Roxan McDonald metaphor in prose and poetry	Jeff Kleinman Garth Stein the author/agent dynamic
4:30 – 5:30			Nicholas Delbanco Elena Delbanco Lastingness: Writing in our latter decades	Ellen Bass Roxan McDonald metaphor in prose and poetry	Jeff Kleinman Garth Stein the author/agent dynamic