Calling all memoirists, personal essay writers, narrative nonfictioneers, and hybridists, Lit Fest 2019 has something for you!
Ready to add to your multi-genre cred? Check out our Lit Fest genre-specific guides for fiction, poetry, and in the coming days, dramatic writing, and YA/MG.
One-Weekend Intensives
- Enlarging the Personal Narrative with Elisa Gabbert (June 8-9)
- Hybrid and Cross-Genre Forms with Serena Chopra (June 8-9)
SUGGESTED CRAFT SEMINARS
To view all of our craft seminars, click here.
Monday, June 10
- Boundaries and Strategies for Nonfiction Writers of Trauma with Cinelle Barnes
Tuesday, June 11
- Conducting Interviews with Sheila Heti
- Writing a Great Proposal: Discovering Your Book with Buzzy Jackson
Wednesday, June 12
- On Writing About Nature with Helen Macdonald
Thursday, June 13
- Personal Essays With a Twist with Jenny Shank
- Power Play: Subjectivity and the Writing Process with Rachel Cusk
Friday, June 14
- Breaking Form: Alchemies in Creative Nonfiction Structure with Melissa Febos
- Have Pen, Will Travel: Crafting Brilliant Travel Stories with Joel Warner
Monday, June 17
- Get to Work: Writing a Memoir About Your Job with Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman
- Personal + Universal with Jason Heller
- When I Becomes We: Writing the Collective Memoir with Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman
Tuesday, June 18
- Who You Used to Be: Creating Distance Between You and Your Past-Self in Memoir with Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman
- Writing From Weakness with Jennifer Wortman
- Writing on the Road: The Art of Travel Writing with Elizabeth Geoghegan
- Idea Generator with Paula Younger
Wednesday, June 19
- Building Bridges: From Fiction to Nonfiction and Back Again with Alexander Chee
- Changing Over Time: Creating Characters in the Memoir with Karen Auvinen
- The Memoir Toolkit: Five Best Practices for Telling Your Story with Karen Auvinen
Thursday, June 20
- Not Your Daddy's Book Review: Writing About Books Today with Jenny Shank
Friday, June 21
- (re)Vision: Prose Editing Tips and Tricks That Will Change Your Life with Selah Saterstrom
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.
- Week One: Featuring Rachel Cusk, Melissa Febos, Ross Gay, Sheila Heti, Helen Macdonald, and Donald Margulies
- Week Two: Featuring Julie Buntin, Alexander Chee, Gabe Habash, Amitava Kumar, and Mary Ruefle
