Friday, March 16, 2012
* Note: All events will take place in Cleghorn (second floor of McGreer) unless otherwise noted. All lectures, readings, and talks are free and open to the public
8 pm Opening remarks: Principal Goldbloom
Keynote Reading by Anne Michaels
9 pm Reception and book signing
Saturday, March 17, 2012
8.30 – 9.30 am Registration (for Workshop attendees only) and Coffee
9.30 – 10.30 am Open lecture: “So You Want to be a Writer…”
Lori Schubert (Executive Director, QWF) and Elise Moser (President, QWF)
10.30 – 10.45 am Coffee break
11.00 – 12 pm Open reading/lecture: “Don’t Be Afraid of a Good Murder”
John Moss, mystery writer
12.00 – 1.30 pm Lunch (for workshop attendees only)
1.30 – 4.30 pm Closed Workshop, “Kill Your Character, Not Your Story”
John Moss, mystery writer (in Preston, Divinity Hall)
1.30 – 4.30 pm Closed Workshop, “Poetry Bootcamp”
Jeramy Dodds, poet (in The Loft, Student Union Building)
5 pm – 8.30 pm Public readings by John Moss, Jeffrey Moore,
Donna Morrissey and Kaie Kellough
Sunday, March 18, 2012
9.30 am – 10.30 am Registration (for workshop attendees only) and coffee
10.30 – 4.30 pm Closed Workshop, “Write Here, Write Now”
Donna Morrissey, fiction writer (in Morris House Seminar Room)
12.00 – 1.30 pm Lunch (for workshop attendees only)
2.00 – 3. 00 pm Open Talk: “The Blogger’s Survival Guide”
Alison Garwood-Jones, blogger and former editor at Elle magazine
3.00 – 3.30 pm Coffee break
3.30 – 4. 30 pm Open Talk: “The World of the Graphic Novelist”
Pascal Girard, graphic novelist
4.30 – 5.30 pm Open Talk, “Criticize That”
John Griffin, former rock and film critic for The Gazette
5.30 pm Concluding reception and public readings by Bishop’s student writers
