Saturday

Master Classes
Friday
Saturday
Sunday

Conference Day 2 – Saturday, October 21, 2017

8:30 am – 9:00 am

Registration in Main Foyer

8:30 am – 4:00 pm

Trade Show: Guildford and Fraser Room Foyers

9:00 am – 9:45 am

Opening Session in Guildford Ballroom. Keynote address by DongWon Song.

10:00 am – 5:00 pm

Pitch Sessions Appointments: Fraser Room, Main Floor

10:00 am – 11:15 am Workshops

Writing the Wave

Hallie Ephron
Tynehead #1

Romance

Panel
Tynehead #2

Uncovering Your Characters’ Emotional Wound

Angela Ackerman
Tynehead #3

Self-Publishing Virgins

kc dyer, Meg Tilly
Green Timbers #1

The World Around Us

Eileen Cook
Green Timbers #2

Outlining

Anne Perry
Green Timbers #3

The Whirlwind Researcher

Susanna Kearsley
Green Timbers #4

Epic Electric

Tetsuro Shigematsu
Dogwood

Poetry Open Mic

Renée Saklikar
Trillium

11:30 am – 12:45 pm Workshops

The Sagging Middle

Juliet Blackwell
Tynehead #1

The Editor/Author Relationship

Susanna Kearsley, Deb Werksman
Tynehead #2

“Write the Good Fight” or: Why should the boys have all the fun?

Chris Humphreys
Tynehead #3

Writing the Body: How to Use Physicality and Sex in Fiction

Jen Sookfong Lee
Green Timbers #1

Crime Fiction: The Elements of Suspense and How to Baffle and Chill the Reader

Michael Slade
Green Timbers #2

Playing with Time and Structure

Zsuzsi Gartner
Green Timbers #3

Middle Grade: Beyond the Formula

Greg Van Eekhout
Green Timbers #4

Rejected But Not Denied

Robert Mackwood
Dogwood

Unconference

Sean Cranbury
Trillium

12:45 pm – 2:00 pm

This Day We Write Mystery Lunch, Guildford Ballroom (Full Conference and Day pass attendees)

2:15 pm – 3:30 pm Workshops

SiWC Idol

Panel
Tynehead #1

Short Stories: A Proportional Understanding of Pacing

Mary Robinette Kowal
Tynehead #3

Secrets of a Successful Nonfiction Book Proposal

Sharon Pelletier
Green Timbers #1

Accountability: Owning Your Deadlines

Elena Aitken
Green Timbers #2

Point of View

Rhys Bowen
Green Timbers #3

Chemistry: How to create the sizzle that will keep your readers glued to the page

Sherry Thomas
Green Timbers #4

From Inspiration to Poetry

Juliane Okot Bitek
Dogwood

Unconference

Sean Cranbury
Trillium

3:45 pm – 5:00 pm Workshops

Making a Living Indie Publishing

Panel
Tynehead #1

Crafting Believable Villains

Panel
Tynehead #2

Decolonizing Your Fiction

Dong Won Song
Tynehead #3

Things That Really Happened: Using Your Own Real Life Memories in YA and MG Fiction

Karen Rivers
Green Timbers #1

Plot Twists & Secrets

Kim Foster
Green Timbers #2

Cross-Genre Writing

Jane Eaton Hamilton
Green Timbers #3

Writer’s Toolkit: Free and Inexpensive Apps to Keep You on Track

Gwen Hernandez
Green Timbers #4

What Screenwriting Taught Me About Writing Novels

Robyn Harding
Dogwood

Poetry as a Tool for Writing Fiction

Amal El-Mohtar
Trillium

5:30 pm – 7:00 pm

Author Signing, Fraser Room

7:15 pm

Banquet, Keynote Speaker: Amal El-Mohtar, Guildford Ballroom

9:30 pm

SFU-sponsored Open Mic Event, Guildford Ballroom