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Wednesday November 9

7:00-9:00pm Registration

Thursday November 10

8:00-8:45am Registration

9:00-10:30 Welcome Session - Phillip Lopate, keynote address (56:47 23 Mb)
                  (low bandwidth version 3.3Mb)

10:30-10:45 Break

10:45-12:15 SESSION II

Spirit in Place: Nonfiction Spiritual Writing in Cultural Context (37.3 Mb)
Mary Swander, Hope Edelman, Michele Morano, Patricia Monaghan, John T. Price

You Get No Credit for Playing: When Sport Occasions Memoir (43 Mb)
Dale Rigby, Richard Hoffman, Gretchen Legler, James McKean, Michael Steinberg

The Nonfiction Story: Ruptured and Revised (33 Mb)
Patricia Foster, Marilyn Abildskov, Kass Fleisher, Abigail Thomas

12:15-2:00 Lunch Break

2:00-3:30 SESSION III

The Importance of Not Being So Earnest: Bringing Environmental Writing Back into the Mainstream (29.5 Mb)
Susan Zakin, Jordan Fisher Smith, Jack Hitt, Elizabeth Royte

Some Lines of Descent from the Montaignean Essay (27 Mb)
Patrick Madden, Michael Danko, Shannon Lakanen, Desirae Matherly

Family First: What Problems Arise When Writing Includes Family? (26.8 Mb)
Tom Nawrocki, Robin Hemley, Joe Mackall, Mimi Schwartz

3:30-3:45 Break

3:45-5:15 SESSION IV

Editor’s Panel (33.7 Mb)
David Cooper (Fourth Genre), Mike Steinberg (Fourth Genre), Dan Jones (New York Times), Joe Mackall (River Teeth), Dinty Moore (Brevity), Ladette Randolph (University of Nebraska American Lives Series)

Writers on War (71 Mb - 3 hours)
Christopher Merrill, Jacki Lyden, Bob Shacochis, Anthony Swofford

First Person Third: An Exploration of the Uses of Varying Points of View in Creative Nonfiction (34.4 Mb)
Suzanne Paola, Donald Morrill, Judith Kitchen, Brenda Miller

5:30-6:30 Cash Bar

6:00-7:00 FOURTH GENRE READING (23.3 Mb)
         Bret Lott, Michele Morano, Lad Tobin,and Ladette Randolph.
         Editors David Cooper and Michael Steinberg. Moderators

7:30-8:30 Dinner

8:30 Reading - Lauren Slater (14.1 Mb)
This event is open to the public.

Friday November 11

9:00-10:30 SESSION I

The Varieties of Collaboration (32.5 Mb)
Phillip Graham, Anne de Marcken, Alma Gottlieb, LeAnne Howe, Lawrence Sutin

The Stranger Side of Truth: Innovations in Nonfiction (34 Mb)
Ander Monson, Debra Marquart, Michael Martone, Michael Mejia, David Shields

Place in Nonfiction: From Bit Part to Multiple Leading Roles (35.5 Mb)
Becky Bradway, Doug Hesse, Mary Helen Stefaniak, Sheryl St. Germain, David Wright

10:30-10:45 Break

10:45-12:15 SESSION II

Reading: Faith Adiele, Mary Ruefle, David Shields. Chris Offutt (40.1 Mb)

Speaking for the Dead and the Living (35.8 Mb)
Sonya Huber, Jeff Gundy, Lee Martin, Mary Winstead

Writing Home (24.7 Mb)
Sherry Simpson, Jennifer Brice, J.D. Dolan and Michael Martone

12:15-2:00 Lunch with speaker Pico Iyer

2:00-3:30 SESSION III

The Writing Teacher as Composite Character (33 Mb)
Lad Tobin, Bonnie Sunstein

Writing from the Outside In
Jim Reese, Daryl Farmer, Bob Gibney, Kelly Grey Carlisle

Essayists on the Essay: Definitions from the Writers Themselves (32 Mb)
Dan Roche, Maura Brady, Cassandra Kircher, Ned Stuckey-French

3:30-3:45 Break

3:45-5:30 SESSION IV

JAMES BALDWIN TRIBUTE (31.8 Mb)
Brian Goedde, James Alan McPherson, Vershawn Young, Gayle Pemberton and David Shields

BREVITY READING (29 Mb)
Dinty W. Moore, Brenda Miller, Marcia Aldrich, Greg Bottoms, Bob Cowser, Jeff Gundy, Sheyene Foster Heller, Bret Lott, Lee Martin, Rebecca McClanahan, Patricia McNair, Mimi Schwartz, Porter Shreve, Richard Terrill

5:30-7:00 UNIVERSITY OF IOWA PRESS RECEPTION

7:00-8:30 Dinner Break

8:30 Reading - Phillip Lopate (26.8 Mb)
This event is open to the public. Tickets, $5, available at the conference registration table

Saturday November 12

9:00-10:30 SESSION I

Haunted Writing (35.2 Mb)
Erin Soros, V.V. Ganeshananthan, Nicole Wallack

The Video Essay: Writing with Images and Sound (not recorded)
John Bresland, Anne de Marcken, Marilyn Freeman, Ron Sandvik

The Spirit of Travel: Intersections Between Travel and Transcendence (35.9 Mb)
Judy Copeland, Faith Adiele, Tim Bascom, Andy Douglas

Memoir as First Book: Writing After Writing Your Life (36.5 Mb)
Amy Benson, Jill Christman, Brad Land

10:30-10:45 BREAK

10:45-12:15 SESSION II

Mary McCarthy (1912-1989): A Creative Nonfiction Appreciation (34.6 Mb)
Sandi Wisenberg, Phillip Lopate, Leila Phillip

The Author, the Other, the Self (32.6 Mb)
Holly Welker, Joshua Shaw

Writing New Orleans: Race, History, and Crisis in Context (34.6 Mb)
Barbara Eckstein, Bret Lott, and Sheryl St. Germain

12:15-2:00 Lunch with speaker Lauren Slater

2:00-3:30 SESSION III

Beyond the Restaurant Review: The Future of Food Writing (34 Mb)
Angela Balcita, Vicki Lindner, Maggie McKnight, Tim Morris

Poets Writing Essays
Laurie Kutchins, Fleda Brown, Andrea Hollander Budy, Rebecca McClanahan

The Real, Imagined, and Imposed “I” (34 Mb)
Wendy Call, Faith Adiele, Sejal Shah

The Interplay Between Form and Content in Creative Nonfiction
Eileen Pollack, Donovan Hohn, Miles Harvey

3:30-3:45 Break

3:45-5:15 SESSION IV

The New Yorker Contribution (28.5 Mb)
John Pauly, Brian Nerney, James Silas Rogers, Norman Sims

Searching for the Self in Others: Internal Truths and External Influences (33.4 Mb)
Steven Church, John Calderazzo, Sophie Beck, Matt Roberts

The Memoir-in-Essays: Two-Headed Hydra or Hip New Form? (30.1 Mb)
Jennifer Brice, Emily Fox Gordon, Ladette Randolph, Natalia Rachel Singer

5:30-6:30 Cash bar

6:00-7:00 IOWA REVIEW READING -Albert Goldbarth, Amy Leach, and Lia Purpura (26 Mb)

7:00-8:30 Dinner Break (dinner not provided)

8:30 Reading - Pico Iyer (21.2 Mb)

Conference closes

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