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:
The Writing Life: explore writing habits and strategies, creative care, or topical concerns
Editor’s Chat: conversations with editors about vital issues
Genre Focus: explanation, development, focus on particular genres
Craft Applications: examine a craft element with exercises
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)