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Writer's Block Festival Schedule
November 12, 2022
Ivy Tech Community College
8:00 AM-3:00 PM
REGISTRATION
Entry Hallway - First Floor
10:00 AM-4:00 PM
EXHIBITOR FAIR
9:00 AM-10:00 AM
Opening Session & Keynote:
Claudia Love Mair
Entry Hallway - First Floor
Auditorium - First Floor
10:15 AM-11:15 AM
WORKSHOPS
Creating Your Author Brand - Tanya White
Finding Affrilachia: Writing about Place, Lineage, and Identity - Bernard Clay
Second Floor
Room 246
Room 231
11:30 AM-12:30 PM
WORKSHOPS
Navigating Your Writing Journey: Working Through Writer’s Block - Eugenia Johnson-Smith
Romance Writing 101 - Jessica Minyard
Second Floor
Room 246
Room 231
12:30 PM-1:30 PM
LUNCH
Community Room - First Floor
1:45 PM-2:45 PM
WORKSHOPS
Writing Comedy for the Stage and Page - Teri Foltz, Tim Smith, Tony Acree, & Jenn Wagley (Facilitator)
Submit, Submit, Submit: The Literary Submission Process From The Ground Up - Tyrel Kessinger
Romance Writing 101 - Jessica Minyard
Auditorium - First Floor
Room 246 - Second Floor
3:00 PM-4:00 PM
WORKSHOPS
Creating Vivid Characters - Ellen Birkett Morris
Writing Young Adult Fiction 101 - Lynn Slaughter
Second Floor
Room 246
Room 231
4:00 PM-5:00 PM
CLOSING SESSION
Auditorium - First Floor
10:00 AM-2:00 PM
NaNoWriMo: Come Write In!
Library, Third Floor
10:45-12:00 PM
READING: Regional & Local Writers
Huff Art Gallery, Library Basement
Featuring readings from: Tim Heerdink, Jake DH, Matt Hart, Megan Pillow, & Tytianna Wells
Local and regional authors read from their recent publications.