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 in Nonfiction with Leslie Leyland Fields, “Losing and Finding Your Voice”
Craft Application in Fiction with Vinita Hampton Wright
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, “Henry David 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. Reading and Reflection at Calvin's Bunker Interpretive Center
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 (CFAC Recital Hall)
12:30 p.m. Lunch Break
2:00 p.m. Craft Applications with Cynthia Beach, “Crafting Dazzling Dialogue”
Genre Focus in Poetry with Linda Nemec Foster, “Beyond the Straightjacket: Form as a Liberating Poetic Device”
Craft Applications with Dan Mancilla, “I Can Do That? Enlivening Nonfiction with Story Elements”
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 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 (Bunker Interpretive Center) Open Mic for Readings
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)
12:30 p.m. Lunch Break
2:00 p.m. Genre Focus in Nonfiction with Patrice Gopo “Elevating Your Essay”
Genre Focus in Poetry with L.S. Klatt
Craft Applications with Hugh Cook, “Point of View in Fiction”
3:00 p.m. Coffee Break (Beltline Lobby)
3:15 p.m. Writing Recess (Bunker Center)
Time to Pause, to Write, to Reflect
4:00- 6:00 p.m.
Optional Creative Arts session with artist Anna Greidanus (details to follow)
Scheduled One-on-One chats with editors
6:00 p.m. Dinner & Readings (Bunker Center)
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”
Genre Focus in Fiction with Michael Stevens, “Old Narrators Looking Back Across a Lifetime: Wendell Berry’s Revisionist Visionaries in the Novels Jayber Crow and Hannah Coulter”
Craft Applications with Dan Mancilla, “Show Their Thoughts: Unlocking Your Character’s Inner Life with Gesture”
Craft Applications with Leslie Leyland Fields, “Inside the Outer Story: Discovering the Heart of your Memoir”
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”
Craft Applications with Linda Nemec Foster, “Prose or Poetry? The Unique World of the Prose Poem”
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
7:15 p.m. Reading and Reflection (Bunker Interpretive Center)
Open Mic for Readings (Bunker Interpretive Center)
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)
12:30 p.m. Lunch Together (Bunker Interpretive Center)
Writing and the Great Commission: Final Words
Scriptoria Awards announced