AML Conference Program 2005

Two conferences in 2005: the Annual Meeting (March) and the Writers Conference (November)

Annual Meeting:

March 5, Salt Lake Public Library. “Beauty and Belief.”

Plenary sessions

Hans Wilhelm Kelling. “The Aesthetic Experience through the Arts, Literature, Nature, and the Scriptures

Cynthia Hallen.”‘Beautiful Upon the Mountains’: The Book of Mormon’s Handbook for Writers”

LDS/Women’s Book Clubs-Panel

Kylie Turley, Wendy Fullmer, Kathleen Dalton-Woodbury, Heather Burton, Jana Parkin

Mormon Literature (BYU student panel)

Matt Easton. “Rites of Passage in the Fiction of Virginia Sorensen, Alan Mitchell, and Jack Harrell”

Lisa Dickson. “LDS Literature: Realizing its Full Potential”

David Wiseman. “Toward a Mormon Morality: LDS Literary Progression as a Function of Binary Opposition”

Toward a Mormon Aesthetics (Film)

Alyssa Rock. “In the World But Not Of the World: LDS Cinema and the Globalized Audience”

Sharon Lee Swenson. “Spectatorship and Mormon Films”

Davey Erekson. “Depictions of Spirituality: Searching the Mormon Transcendental Style” (Read by Mark Ellsworth)

Panel: Discoveries found in Mormon Women’s Poetry: Anthology, Performance, and Film

Sharon Swenson (Moderator, Producer of DVD). Sheree Bench, Susan Howe, Char Nelson, Thomas Lefler

Presidential Address

Melissa Proffitt. “To See With Eyes Unclouded”

Topics include “Mormon Folklore Studies,” a tribute to Elder Neal A. Maxwell and Napoleon Dynamite as Mormon Cinema.

Writers Conference:

“Life of Words; words of life”

Saturday, November 19 – Westminster College Gore Building Sessions held in Classrooms 106, 205, 206 and in the Auditorium

8:30 – 9:00

Registration (Gore foyer)

9:00 – 9:50

Plenary Session:
Dean Hughes “Life of Words; Words of Life”

10:00- 10:50

Panel: “What I Wish I’d Known” Shannon Hale, Dean Hughes, Lynn Kurland, Carol Lynch Williams (Gore Auditorium)

Prese ntation: ”Personal Essay”
Robert Kirby (Classroom 106)

Presentation: “Maga zine Writing”
Carolyn Campbell (Classroom 205)

Presentation: “Collaboration” Bettyanne Bruin, Fay Klingler
(Classroom 206)

11:00- 11:50

Panel: “Writing History/Historical Fiction”
Dean Hughes, Robert Kirby, Cory Maxwell, Eric Swedin

(Gore Auditorium)

Prese ntation: ”Your Writer’s Voice: The Key to Publishing Success” Lynn Kurland (Classroom 106)

Presentation: “Hone your promotional skills”

Carolyn Howard-Johnson

(Classroom 205)

Presentation: “Beating the Crap out of Your Writing” Cheri Earl, Carol Lynch Wil liams

(Classroom 206)

12:00- 12:50

Lunch: please put your ticket on the table in front of you

(if you paid at preregistration, your lunch ticket is behind your name badge)
(Gore Atrium) (if you did not purchase a lunch ticket, you may purchase lunch at the student center cafeteria)

1:00- 1:50

Panel: Magazine editors (Gore Auditorium)

Booksigning: all aut hors (this may continue into the next hour , if necessar y) (Gore foyer)

2:00- 2:50

Presentation: “Contracts–what they mean, what to watch for”
Nicole Empie, Kathleen Dalton- Woodbury (Gore Auditorium)

Presentation: “Beating the Crap out of Your Writing” Part 2–only for those who attended Part 1 at 11am. Attendees should bring two copies of one manuscript page of their work for evaluation. Cheri Earl, Carol Lynch Williams
(Classroom 206)

3:00- 3:50

Panel: “Writing for Young Readers” Cheri Earl, Dean Hughes, Carol Lynch Williams, Kathleen Dalton- Woodbury

(Gore Auditorium)

Prese ntation: ”Savvy marketing for new (& used) writers”
Carolyn Howard-Johnson (Classroom 106)

Presentation: “Maga zine Writing”
Carolyn Campbell (Classroom 205)

Presentation: “Creative Approaches to History” Robert Kirby (Classroom 206)

4:00- 4:50

Poet’s Corner:

Bring a poem and sign up at registration (first come, first served) to read it.
(Gore Auditorium)

Presentation: “Working with the media” Bettyanne Bruin, Fay Klingler

(Classroom 106)

Lucky 13 workshop:

sign up at registration (first come first served)
Kathleen Dalton-Woodbury (Classroom 205)

Presentation:”Humor in writing”
Carol Quist (Classroom 206)