2018 Conference Schedule

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

Friday November 9th, 2018

Time	Kauai Ballroom 3	Kauai Ballroom 1	Puna Ballroom
7:00 – 9:00	– BREAKFAST – (Registration table open 7:30 by Puna Ballroom)
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	Jon Fine The Elephant in the Room (Amazon)	April Eberhardt Brooke Warner The many paths to publication.
12:00 – 1:15	– LUNCH –
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 Roxan McDonald Diving into the Unknown (Poetry and Prose)
3:45 – 5:00	Garth Stein The Art of Never Giving Up	Jane Smiley, Kristin Hannah, Kaui Hemmings, Nicholas Delbanco The importance of place.	Sara Gruen Emma Sweeney Agent and author conversation: How we work together.
6:00 – 9:30	– LUAU – Dinner followed by Punua Family performance At the Luau Gardens by the beach. (Ballroom 2 in case of rain)

Time	Kauai Ballroom 3	Kauai Ballroom 1	Puna Ballroom
7:00 – 9:00	– BREAKFAST –
9:00 – 9:50	Sara Gruen Garth Stein Writing about animals	Jamie Raab, Jon Fine, Bronwen Hruska Today’s New Publishing Landscape. A blessing and a curse.	Debbie Augenthaler Workshop: Writing Our Grief Stories
10:00 – 11:15	Josh Mohr, Amy Ferris, Linda Schreyer Writing the truly memorable memoir: a workshop.	Scott Turow, Christina Baker Kline, Priya Parmar The sound on the page: making prose sing	Andy Ross, Bronwen Hruska How editors and publishers think
11:30 – 12:15	Alice Hoffman Creating a fictional world
12:15 – 1:30	– LUNCH –
1:30 – 2:30	Jeff Arch, Scott Turow, Kaui Hemmings, Sara Gruen, Steve Fisher The Winding Road from Book to Film		Arielle Eckstut, David Sterry Marketing your book after publication
2:45 – 3:45	Nicholas Delbanco The Importance of Voice and Point of View	Christina Baker Kline Finding your Subject: A case study. (multimedia presentation)	Joshua Mohr Plaracterization: The kiss between plot and character
4:00 – 5:15	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.	Laura Lentz Story Quest: making your book a Hero’s Journey
8:00 – 9:30	– CONCERT – Makana: Master of Hawaiian slack key guitar Kauai Ballroom 2

Time	Kilohana Restaurant	Marriott Ballroom 1	Marriott Ballroom 3
8:40 – 10:30	BRUNCH at KILOHANA *Group 1 (last names beginning with A-L)* Three buses depart from Marriott main entrance at 8:40, 8:50, and 9:00 and return at about 10:30	9:00 – 10:30 PITCHAPALOOZA *Group 2* David Henry Sterry, Arielle Eckstut
10:30 – 12:30	BRUNCH at KILOHANA Group 2 (last names beginning with M-Z) Three buses depart from Marriott main entrance at 10:30, 10:40, and 10:50 and return at about 12:30	11:00 – 12:30 PITCHAPALOOZA *Group 1* David Henry Sterry, Arielle Eckstut
1:00 – 1:50		Scott Turow, Joshua Mohr Workshop on the intersection of character and plot	Mindy Pennybacker, Honolulu Star-Advertiser Don Wallace, Honolulu Magazine Hawaii Journalism
2:00 – 2:50		Jane Smiley, Molly Friedrich The secrets of prolific authors	Andy Ross, Alia Habib, Emma Sweeney How agents evaluate your work
3:00 – 3:50		Alice Hoffman, Christina Baker Kline, Kaui Hart Hemmings, The importance of place	Ellen Bass, Roxan McDonald Discovery: Diving into the Unknown (Poetry and Prose)
4:00 – 4:50		Nicholas Delbanco Elena Delbanco Lastingness: Writing in our latter decades	Sara Gruen, Garth Stein, Jeff Kleinman, Workshop on character
5:30 – 6:00	– FAREWELL – Marriott luau gardens (Ballroom 1 in case of rain)