April 8-10, 2011
Sheraton Westport Plaza Hotel
St. Louis, Missouri
Friday, April 8
Noon Registration opens
1:30 PM Book room opens
1:15 PM Welcome/Announcements
1:30 PM – 3:00 PM Early-Arrival Seminar with Funds for Writers’ C. Hope Clark
Funding Streams for Your Writing Career
3:15 PM – 4:00 PM Missouri Writers’ Guild Business Meeting
4:00 PM – 4:45 PM Missouri Writers’ Guild Members’ and Non-Members’ Book signing Event
5:00 PM – 6:00 PM Agent/Editor Panel
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM Dinner Break Superb selection of restaurants at Westport Plaza!
7:30 PM – 8:30 PM Other Than Books: Publishing in Places You Can’t Afford to Miss
Panel I: Literary Fiction and Literary Journals
Panel II: Periodicals, Newsletters, Ezines and More
8:30 PM – 10:00 PM Nightcaps Buzz Sessions & Open Mic
Saturday, April 9
7:30 AM – 9:00 AM Registration opens
8:30 AM Faculty Introductions/Announcements
9:00 AM – Noon Pitch Sessions
9:00 AM – 9:50 AM Breakout Sessions – I
How Grants Work for a Children’s Author – C. Hope Clark
Writing the Personal Essay – Regina Williams
Dialect: The Poetry of Place – Joanna Beth Tweedy
Signing with a Literary Agent:
Facts and Myth – Sandra Carrington-Smith
10:00 AM – 10:50 AM Breakout Sessions – II
Jump-Starting Your Short Story – Elaine Viets
Using Feedback and Critiques – Catherine Rankovic
Selling the Hard Sell – Jeannie Lin
11:00 – 11:50 AM Breakout Sessions – III
Creating an Attention-Getting Platform – Krista Goering
Writing the Short Script – p. b. smith
Writing True Crime with Humor: An Oxymoron? – Morley Swingle
“Get Your Facts First…” – Cindy Lovell
Noon – 1:15 PM Lunch Keynote: Mary Troy
1:30 PM – 5:00 PM Pitch Sessions
1:30 PM – 2:20 PM Breakout Sessions – IV
Rewriting to Make Every Scene Come Alive – Nancy Pickard
Writers, Get Ready for April 15th! – Faye Adams
The Rarest Kind of Best:
Writing for Children with Cricket Magazine Group – Margaret Mincks
An Agent Reads the Slush Pile -- Kristin Nelson
2:30 PM – 3:20 PM Breakout Sessions – V
My Recipe for Chicken Soup for the Soul – Linda Apple
As Seen Through the Eyes of an Editor – Regina Williams
How to Use Blogging and Social Networking to Sell a Book and
Increase Your Book Sales – p. b. smith
How One Book Morphed into Four:
Writing Pictorial Histories – Don and Dianna Graveman
3:30 PM – 4:20 PM Breakout Sessions – VI
What Should I Write and When:
Finding Subjects that Sell and the Time to Pursue Them – Margo Dill
Have Laptop Will Travel:
Secrets to Getting Your Travel Stories Published – Deborah Reinhardt
Riding the Firebird: Exploring the Vertical Image – Kelli Allen
4:30 PM – 6:00 PM Speakers’ Book signing Event
6:00 PM Doors open for Banquet
6:30 PM – 10:00 PM Show-Me Spotlight Awards Banquet
Keynote: Elaine Viets
Sunday, April 10
9 AM – NOON Master Classes