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
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8:30 – 9:00 |
Registration (Gore foyer) |
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9:00 – 9:50 |
Plenary Session: |
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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” |
Presentation: “Maga zine Writing” |
Presentation: “Collaboration” Bettyanne Bruin, Fay Klingler |
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11:00- 11:50 |
Panel: “Writing History/Historical Fiction” (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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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2:00- 2:50 |
Presentation: “Contracts–what they mean, what to watch for” |
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 |
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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” |
Presentation: “Maga zine Writing” |
Presentation: “Creative Approaches to History” Robert Kirby (Classroom 206) |
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4:00- 4:50 |
Poet’s Corner: Bring a poem and sign up at registration (first come, first served) to read it. |
Presentation: “Working with the media” Bettyanne Bruin, Fay Klingler (Classroom 106) |
Lucky 13 workshop: sign up at registration (first come first served) |
Presentation:”Humor in writing” |