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Thursday
, May 21
Grace Atrium
5:30pm •
Festival Kick-Off Party!
Steddy Theater
6:30pm •
Come See Me in the Good Light (Documentary Screening)
Friday
, May 22
Bruhaus
4:00pm •
Crested Butte Magazine Release Party
Gunnison Branch Library
6:00pm •
Community Read @Gunnison Branch Library w/David Baron - American Eclipse
Hawk Studio
9:00am •
The Secret Magic of the Soulful Poem with Wendy Videlock
2:45pm •
Michael Hettich Poetry Workshop: Techniques for Discovery
4:00pm •
Writing Poems of Imagination and Resistance with Karen Terrey
Jones Performance Hall
9:00am •
Creativity with Mashuq Mushtaq Deen: Mapping the Inner Landscape of Your Work
10:15am •
Rajiv Mohabir Poetry Workshop
2:45pm •
Writing Immersive Fiction
4:00pm •
How to Be a Good Ancestor with John Hausdoerffer
King Room
9:00am •
Claire Boyles Fiction Workshop: Beyond the Forest and the Trees: Layers of Landscape and Place
10:15am •
Instant Story Map Part 1
1:30pm •
Instant Story Map Part 2
2:45pm •
Zooming In and Out in Memoir with River Selby
4:00pm •
Drafting the Novel Discussion with Nina McConigley and Claire Boyles
Steddy Theater
11:30am •
Mitzi Rapkin First Draft Podcast Live Recording with Emily Rapp Black
7:00pm •
Myth Understandings: An Evening of Comedy with Shane Mauss
Saturday
, May 23
Grace Atrium
2:45pm •
Book Signing in the Atrium #1
4:00pm •
Book Signing in the Atrium #2
Hawk Studio
9:00am •
Poets In-Conversation with Michael Hettich and Erica Reid
10:15am •
The Science of Funny: A Comedy Writing Deep Dive with Shane Mauss
11:30am •
Generative Poetry Session with Tiana Clark
Jones Performance Hall
10:15am •
World-building and Setting Through Rap Lyrics
11:30am •
ON COMICS with Benjamin Percy and Dan McClellan
2:45pm •
It’s a Partnership: The Author/Editor Relationship
4:00pm •
Publishing Panel Discussion with Karen Terrey, Terri Lewis, Dane Bahr, Phil Coleman
King Room
9:00am •
The Editor is In! Conversation with Rakesh Satyal
10:15am •
NEW Inside the Author-Agent Relationship
11:30am •
Megan-Kate Nelson and Garrett Peck on Researching History
2:45pm •
Terry Tempest in Convo with Nina McConigley on Art and Life
4:00pm •
Benjamin Percy Fiction THRILL ME
OUTDOOR (Near Center for the Arts)
9:00pm •
Stargazing with Garrett Peck
Rumors Coffee and Tea House/ Townie Books
9:00am •
Re-Enchantment, a Walk with Brooke Williams and Nancy Gex Jones
Steddy Theater
9:00am •
In-Conversation Megan-Kate Nelson with Ryan Warner Colorado Public Radio
10:15am •
Martians! The True Story of an Alien Craze that Captured Turn-of-the-Century America with David Baron and Laura Krantz
11:30am •
A GUARDIAN AND A THIEF: In-Conversation- Megha Majumdar and Nina McConigley
1:30pm •
Terry Tempest Williams with Ben Goldfarb
2:45pm •
In-Conversation Hillary Rosner and Ben Goldfarb
4:00pm •
Poet Tiana Clark in Conversation with Rajiv Mohabir
Sunday
, May 24
Grace Atrium
10:15am •
Four Poets Read
Hawk Studio
9:00am •
Poetry with Suzi Q Smith
10:15am •
Building a Sustainable Writing and Editing Group
11:30am •
Poetry with Erica Reid: Plains Poems & Prairie Tarot
1:30pm •
What Kind of Essay Are You? With River Selby
Jones Performance Hall
10:15am •
Novel Conversation-How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder with Nina McConigley and Megha Majumdar
2:45pm •
Fiction with Shelley Read
King Room
9:00am •
Map Your Memoir Part 1 - Orientation
10:15am •
Map Your Memoir Part 2 - Implementation
11:30am •
Ramona Ausubel UNSTUCK! A Writer's Guide
1:30pm •
Fiction workshop with Nina McConigley
Steddy Theater
9:00am •
Novel Conversation- Skylark with Paula McLain and Shelley Read
10:15am •
The Bible Says So with Dan McClellan and Ian Wrisley with special Music Performance
11:45am •
River Selby in Conversation with Laura Krantz HOTSHOT: A Life On Fire
1:30pm •
On Fire for God: Fear, Shame, Poverty, and the Making of the Christian Right – a Personal History with Josiah Hesse and Ian Wrisley
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