The agenda pages are under construction. We will link the speaker names to a page where their session topics are detailed. Keep coming back.
7:50-9:00 a.m. Speaker Intros: One-minute highlight of what our speakers learned yesterday and their session/panel topic for the day: Nicole Baart, Rekha Basu, Perry Beeman, Laura Belim, Doug Burns, Rachelle Chase, Courtney Crowder, John Dinges, Todd Dorman, Allison Engel, Margaret Engel, Deb Engle, Randy Evans, Arnold Garson, Scott Garson, Ann Garvin, Nik Heftman, Beth Hoffman, Jean Logan, Leigh Michaels, Carol Montag, Kyle Munson, Caleb Rainey, Lee Rood, Andrew Ross, Ty Rushing, Larry Stone, Phoebe Wall Howard.
Break
9:15-10:45 a.m. PANELS
- Memoir/Story Telling: Deb Engle, Courtney Crowder, Lee Rood: Mahan Hall (between the dining hall and MAHON HALL administration building.
- Nonfiction Writing. Finding secrets. Reporting basics: Phoebe Wall Howard, Randy Evans, Laura Belin, John Dinges, Ty Rushing, Perry Beeman, DINING HALL
- Fiction Writing, Ann Garvin, Scott Garson, Nicolle Baart, WAITT
- Basics of Story Telling: Kyle Munson, Rachelle Chase, Allison Engel, SHIMEK
[Private sessions with Literary Agent Andy Ross, Library]
Break
11-12:30 p.m. COACHING SESSION 1 (limit 10 per session)
SHIMEK (two) Kyle Munson …………Margaret Engel
WAITT (three) Heftman, Baart, SGarson,
MAIN COTTAGE (two) Rekha Basu, John Dinges
LIBRARY (one) Andy Ross
MAIN TENT (five) Todd Dorman, Ty Rushing, Phoebe Wall Howard, Carol Montag,
DINING HALL (four) Crowder, Rushing, Deb Engle, Rood
MAHAN HALL (two) Hoffman, Chase, Offenburger
LUNCH, DINING HALL
Grab and go sack lunch or soup and salad bar
1:15-2:45 p.m. Panel (unlimited): Marketing and promotion: Garvin, Rushing, Beaverdale Books, Michaels MAHAN HALL
Coaching Session 2 (up to 10 participants per session)
SHIMEK: Burns, Dorman
WAITT: Leigh Michaels, Rachelle Chase, Nik Heftman
MAIN COTTAGE: Garvin, Basu
LIBRARY Andy Ross
MAIN TENT Caleb Rainey, Pat Tyrer, Deb Engle, Courtney Crowder
DINING HALL, Beth Hoffman, Lee Rood, Beeman, A. Garson
Coaching Session 3
3:00-4:45 p.m. Panel, MAHAN: Book Publishing for fun and profit: Baart, Garvin, Ross, Michaels, Logan, Hoffman, Beeman,
SHIMEK: Logan, Michaels
WAITT: Rainey, Allison, and Peggy Engel,
MAIN COTTAGE: Munson, Phoebe Wall Howard
DINING HALL Stone, Beeman
WRAP UP: MAIN TENT
4:45-5:15 P.M. What’s your takeaway from today?
6:00/6:10/6:20 BARGE SUNSET TOUR OF THE LAKE (three barges reserved). Compliments of the Okoboji Writers’ Retreat. Cash bar. Weather permitting.
Dinner on your own.