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Join us this June in beautiful historic Skagway, the heart of the Klondike Gold Rush. Learn from our diverse faculty.

Schedule

Participants can book the entire Symposium or only book individual sessions.

2011 North Words Writers Symposium Registration - $350

To register please use the Google Checkout button. For individual panel session select one below.

 

North Words Writers Symposium

Skagway 2011

"Exploring the Frontiers of Language"

Wednesday, June 1
6:00-7:30 pm
Symposium Taco Bar Reception-upstairs Red Onion Saloon
Thursday, June 2
7:30 am

Meet at White Pass & Yukon RR station
Break-out Leaders:
Personal Memoir-Heather Lende, Kim Heacox
Cultural Memoir- Lynn Schooler, Seth Kantner
Poetry-Peggy Shumaker
Children’s Literature-Deb Vanasse
Writing process/Intercultural- Terrance Reilly
Theatre/Film- David Hunsaker

 

12:00
Lunch and break-outs at Lake Bennett
4:00
Return to Skagway
5:30
Dinner at Stowaway
7:00-9:00
Faculty Readings-NPS auditorium
Friday, June 3
7:30
Continental Breakfast-AB hall
8:45

Plenary Session- AB Hall
Author Book Signings All Day at Skaguay News Depot & Books
(schedule available at conference)

 

9:15-11:15

Panel Discussion- AB Hall

Pathways to the Answer: What was the Question?
Discussion Focus: How do you contain the trajectory of a storyline? What to include or leave out?
How do diversions hurt or help? Where does the beginning begin and the ending end?
Peggy Shumaker, host
Kim Heacox
Heather Lende
Jeff Brady
Lynn Schooler
David Hunsaker

 

 

Panel Discussion-Presbyterian Church

Dressing for Success: Pimping the Perfect Proposal
So you have a manuscript—then what? In an age of sweeping transformation,
how do you attract the attentions of overworked agents and publishers?
Daniel Henry, host
Tim Woody
Seth Kantner
Deb Vanasse
Terrance Reilly

 

1:15-3:15

Panel Discussion- AB Hall

Woven Storylines: Managing Intersecting Lives
Discussion Focus: How do you treat the people you create to move the story from A to B?
How do they treat each other? What does real conversation sound like?
Daniel Henry, Host
Howard Blum
Heather Lende
Kim Heacox
Seth Kantner
David Hunsaker

 

3:30-5:30

Panel Discussion- AB Hall

Writing Readable History
Discussion Focus: More than spew dates and dead people, history writing requires a writer to
convey a human story so readers will care. Where in the dusty annals does essential humanity reside?
Jeff Brady, host
Howard Blum
Daniel Henry
Kim Heacox
Lynn Schooler

 

 
Dinner on your own!
7-9:00
Participant readings-NPS Auditorium
Saturday, June 4
7:30am
Continental Breakfast-AB hall
8:45

Plenary Session- AB Hall

 

9:00
AB Hall- Panel Discussion
Breath on the Mirror: The Life in Character Details
Discussion Focus: If you possess the audacity to reconstruct human lives on paper,
pay attention to details. Appearances, behaviors, relationships show volumes.
Peggy Shumaker, host
Heather Lende
Seth Kantner
Terrance Reilly
David Hunsaker

 

Panel Discussion- Presbyterian Church

Funny or Not, Here I Come
Discussion Focus: You may write to humor yourself, but are readers getting the joke?
Share the secrets of chuckle-headed composition.
Kim Heacox, host
Daniel Henry
Deb Vanasse
Tim Woody

 

11:15
Box lunch excursions to Burro Creek or Dyea—you choose
4:00
Return to Skagway
6:00
Banquet at Poppies (Jewell Gardens)
Howard Blum Keynote
8:00
Continue the good times


Please, only registered participants at workshops and field trips.

 

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