For all you fiction slingers, we've got an impressive array of visiting and resident instructors doing all manner of craft seminars, brown-bag business panels, and illuminating nighttime salons.
Are you ready to expand your writing toolbox? Check out our Lit Fest genre-specific guides for poetry and, in the coming days, nonfiction, dramatic writing, and YA/MG.
Two-Weekend Intensives
- Beyond Plot: Taking Your Writing to the Next Level with William Haywood Henderson (June 8-9, 15-16)
- Plot Structure Clinic: The Hero/Antihero's Journey with Erika Krouse (June 8-9, 15-16)
One-Weekend Intensive
- The Alchemy of Propulsion with BK Loren (June 15-16)
Suggested Craft Seminars
To view all of our craft seminars, click here.
Friday, June 7
- 50 Shades of Hot: How to Write Sex Scenes Without Shame with Steve Almond
Saturday, June 8
- Where Your Story Starts: Doubt and Disequilibrium with Steve Almond
- Inventing the Real: Writing Fiction About Real People with Christopher Castellani
Sunday, June 9
- Goring the Sacred Bull: Why "Show, Don't Tell" Is a Crock with Steve Almond
Monday, June 10
- Building New Worlds: Writing Speculative Fiction with Victoria Hanley
- Le Domaine Perdu: Writing Your Lost World with Amanda Rea
Tuesday, June 11
- The Dual-Genre Novel with Cynthia Swanson
- Character Origins with Doug Kurtz
- Welcome to the Sh*t Show: Your Inciting Incident, Stakes, and Dramatic Questions with Erika Krouse
Wednesday, June 12
- Tips For Writing and Assembling a Short Story Collection with Courtney E. Morgan
- Written on the Body with Melissa Febos
Thursday, June 13
- The Sum of Its Parts: Piecing Together a Book-Length Narrative with Tiffany Quay Tyson
- Crash Course in Character with Jenny Shank
Friday, June 14
- Tapping Into Your Weirdness with Alexander Lumans
- Elements of Narrative Structure with Nick Arvin
- What's Your Canoe? Identifying and Excising Your Manuscript's Achilles' Heel with LS Hawker
Sunday, June 16
- Losing Conciousness with BK Loren
Monday, June 17
- Backstory as Collage with Mario Acevedo
- A Matter of Style: Holding a Reader's Attention with Gabe Habash
Tuesday, June 18
- First Person Blues with David Heska Wanbli Weiden
- Classic Fairy Tales and Story Shapes with Paula Younger
Wednesday, June 19
- Novel Writing Made Easy with Lija Fisher
- Mirrors of Allusion with Daniel Levine
Thursday, June 20
- The In-Between Novel with Amitava Kumar
- Using What You Know to Write Whatever You Want with Julie Buntin
Friday, June 21
- Writing the Unlikable Woman with Brandi Homan
- Flash Dance: Shorts and Micro Fiction with Wendy J. Fox
BROWN-BAG BUSINESS PANELS
You can register for brown-bag business panels individually, or a Business Panel Pass will get you into all of them.
- When to Stop–June 8
- The Author-Agent Relationship–June 10
- Launching Your Literary Career–June 11
- Agents Tell All–June 12
- Hidden Opportunities for Writers–June 13
- Nonfiction Pitch Clinic–June 14
- Writer-Editor Relationship–June 17
- The Crystal Ball: Peering Into Publishing's Future–June 18
- Publishing Basics for YA and MG Authors–June 19
- How to Debut–June 20
- Setting Up Your Writing Life–June 21
SALONS
Every salon includes drinks and a catered dinner.
- Salon + Reading: Is It Really All About You?–June 8
- Writing/Thinking/Flowing/Weeping–June 10
- Storytelling Night with Raconteur Denver: Family–June 11
- The Not-So-Secret-Garden–June 13
- Movie Night: "The End of the Tour" Screening + The Art of Adaptation–June 14
- Salon + Reading: Edge of Laughter–June 15
- Dumpster Fyre: Money in Literature–June 17
- To Tweet or Not to Tweet–June 18
- Storytelling Night with The Narrators Denver–June 20
VISITING AUTHORS READINGS
Our two visiting author readings are free and open to the public. We'll have drinks available, and food trucks will be on site.
