SCHEDULE 



Pre-Workshop Task

 

June 1, 2023          Participants submit their workshop submission. (See UPDATES page for details.)


NOTE: Participants who register shortly before or later than June 1 are NOT TOO LATE. Just submit your material for the Workshop Groups as soon as possible, and we'll connect you with the best workshop group for your genre. 



The Workshop Week

 

Lectures through the day serve different purposes:


Monday, June 19 at Calvin University

 

7:30 a.m.      Registration Opens/Covenant Fine Arts Center Lobby

  Sign up for scheduled time slots with editors


8:30 a.m.      Welcome & Overview with Gary Schmidt (CFAC Recital Hall)

  Morning Prayers with Aquinas College Faculty

                                            

 9:15 a.m.      Coffee Break/CFAC--Upstairs Beltline (East) Lobby

 

9:30 a.m.      Workshop 1: Peer Review Master Class/Participants attend assigned workshop class

        

11:00 a.m.    Coffee Break/CFAC--Upstairs Beltline (East) Lobby

 

11:30 a.m.     The Writing Life/Hugh Cook, Miss Morley’s Parrot: Mining Your Life for Writing Gold 

  (CFAC Recital Hall)

 

12:30 p.m.    Lunch Break

 

2:00 p.m.        Craft Applications with Linda Nemec Foster, “Prose or Poetry? The Unique World of the Prose Poem”

Craft Applications in Fiction with Vinita Hampton Wright, “Balance & Nuance: Taking the Basics Deeper

                    

3:00 p.m.      Coffee Break/CFAC--Upstairs Beltline Lobby

 

3:30 p.m.         Genre Focus in Poetry & Fiction with L.S. Klatt, Imagination as Place: What Wendell Berry and the    Settlers of the Local Leave Out  

                        Craft Applications in Fiction & Nonfiction with Michael Stevens, “Thoreau’s Attention to Detail: How

  America’s Greatest Nature Writer Saw & Described the Wonders of the Everyday World”   

 

4:30 p.m.         Time to Pause, to Write, to Reflect

Scheduled One-on-One meetings with editors begin

                      

5:30 p.m.      Dinner/Participants on own

 

7:15 p.m.         Readings and Reflection (Meeter Lecture Hall)/Dan Mancilla, Michael Stevens, & Leslie Leyland Fields


     


Tuesday, June 20 

 

8:30 a.m.      Morning Prayers with Cornerstone University Faculty (CFAC Recital Hall)


8:45 a.m. News & Updates

 

9:00 a.m.      Workshop 2: Peer Review Master Class (Upstairs classrooms)

                                            

11:00 a.m.    Coffee Break/CFAC - 2nd floor East Lobby

 

11:30 a.m.    The Writing Life with Vinita Hampton Wright, Spirit, Care, & Creative Work: Allowing Your Work to Be

 Spiritual (CFAC Recital Hall)


12:30 p.m.    Lunch Break

 

2:00 p.m.    Genre Focus in Nonfiction & Fiction with Elizabeth Vander Lei, “Mastering Metaphors”

  Genre Focus in Poetry with Linda Nemec Foster, Beyond the Straightjacket: Form as a Liberating Poetic Device”  

Genre Focus in Fiction with Michael Stevens, “Old Narrators Looking Back: Wendell Berry’s Revisionist

 Visionaries in the Novels Jayber Crow and Hannah Coulter 

  

3:00 p.m.      Coffee Break (Beltline Lobby)

 

3:30 p.m.         Genre Focus in Fiction with Jason Stevens,Books are Made Out of Books” 

  Editor's Chat with Andy Rogers, Developing Your Nonfiction Concept” 

          Genre Focus in Fiction & Nonfiction with Patrice Gopo, Exposing, Expanding, or Changing the Narrow

  Narrative: Honoring One Another as We Write across Culture and Race” 

4:30 p.m.         Scheduled One-on-One meetings with editors 


5:30 p.m.         Time to Pause, to Write, to Reflect

                        Dinner/Participants on own

 

7:15 p.m.      Readings and Reflections (Meeter Lecture Hall)/Patrice Gopo, Jason Stevens, & Linda Nemec Foster

                         Open Mic 

 

Wednesday, June 21 

 


8:30 a.m.      Morning Prayers with Calvin University Faculty/CFAC Recital Hall

 

8:45 a.m. News & Updates


9:00 a.m.      Workshop 3: Peer Review Master Class in assigned classrooms

 

11:00 a.m.    Coffee Break/CFAC - 2nd floor East Lobby

 

11:30 a.m.    The Writing Life with Jon Sweeney, “You Can Be a Part of the ‘Greatest Conversation’” (CFAC Recital Hall)

Genre Focus in Nonfiction with Patrice Gopo “Elevating Your Essay 


12:30 p.m.    Lunch Break 

 

2:00 p.m.         Craft Applications with Hugh Cook, “Point of View in Fiction” 

                     Genre Focus in Poetry with L.S. Klatt

                 

3:00 p.m.      Coffee Break (Beltline Lobby)

 

3:15 p.m.         Writing Recess (Find nooks on campus; wander the Calvin Ecosystem Preserve)

   Time to Pause, to Write, to Reflect


4:00- 6:00 p.m.  Scheduled One-on-One chats with editors         

  Optional Creative Arts session with artist Anna Greidanus (Spoelhof  Center Room 120)          


6:00 p.m.      Dinner (Dinner outside Prince Conference Center)

7:15 p.m.      Reading and Reflection (Meeter Lecture Hall)/Jon Sweeney, Vinita Hampton Wright, & Gary Schmidt

                         Open Mic 

                                            


Thursday, June 22 

 

8:30 a.m.      Morning Prayers with Cornerstone University Faculty/CFAC Recital Hall

  

8:45 a.m. News & Updates

                             

9:00 a.m.      Workshop 4: Peer Review Master Class (Upstairs Classrooms)

 

11:00 a.m.    Coffee Break (Beltline Lobby)

 

11:30 a.m.    The Writing Life/Panel Discussion with Gary Schmidt: “On Faith & Writing” (CFAC Recital Hall)

                                

12:30 p.m.    Lunch Break

 

2:00 p.m.         Genre Focus in Nonfiction with Terri DeBoer, “About Devotionals”

  Craft Applications with Leslie Leyland Fields,Inside the Outer Story: Discovering the Heart of  Your

  Memoir” 

Craft Applications/Elizabeth Vander Lei, “Capturing and Keeping Your Reader’s Attention with Sentence Slots”


     

3:00 p.m.      Coffee Break (Beltline Lobby) 

 

3:30 p.m.      Editor's Chat with Jon Sweeney, “Twenty Mistakes Authors Make Again and Again” 

Genre Focus in Nonfiction with Leslie Leyland Fields, Losing and Finding Your Voice” 

Craft Application in Fiction & Poetry with Jason Stevens, Writing and Place and the Place of Writing

                

4:30 p.m.         Scheduled One-on-Ones 


5:30 p.m. Time to Pause, to Write, to Reflect    

Dinner/Participants on own

 

7:15 p.m.      Reading and Reflection (Meeter Lecture Hall)/Cynthia Beach, L.S. Klatt, & Hugh Cook                      

  Open Mic 

                                


Friday, June 23

 

8:30 a.m.      Morning Prayers with Aquinas College Faculty/CFAC Recital Hall      


8:45 a.m. News & Updates                    

 

9:00 a.m.      Workshop 5: Final Peer Review Master Class

                                            

11:00 a.m.    Coffee Break (Beltline Lobby)

 

11:30 a.m.    The Writing Life with Gary Schmidt (CFAC Recital Hall)

         

       Writing and the Great Commission: Final Words 

  Scriptoria Awards announced 


Lunch Together (Commons Area, outside)