FEstival Schedule
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April 20 – 23, 2023
Our Thursday open mic event will be held at MTSU's Phillips Bookstore just east of the center of campus: 1768 MTSU Blvd, Murfreesboro, TN 37130.
Friday and Saturday’s events will all be held in the Keathley University Center near the center of campus: 1524 Military Memorial, Murfreesboro, TN 37130.
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Thursday, April 20
Open Mic Night Social Conference welcome and kick off featuring open mic readers
Phillips Bookstore
Friday, April 21
Registration and Check-in with All-Day Festival Bookfair
Keathley University Center
Session A
Jennifer Chesek
A Creative Nonfiction Writer’s Must-Have Tech Tools
Keathley University Center 322
Session B
Karen B. Golightly
Who Can You Rely On? Using an Unreliable Narrator in Your Fiction
Keathley University Center 324
Third Place Winners Reading
Theatre, Keathley University Center
Session A
Jane Marcellus
Metaphor in Memoir
Keathley University Center 322
Session B
Katie A. Nelson
Who Tells Your Story: Using Point of View Effectively
Keathley University Center 324
on your own
Second Place Winners Reading
Theatre, Keathley University Center
Session A
Fred Arroyo
Like a Match Struck in the Night: Writing Flash Fictions
Keathley University Center 322
Session B
Amie Whittemore
From Selfie to Poetry: Writing the Self-Portrait Poem
Keathley University Center 324
Session A
Julian R. Vaca
Write, Don’t Wait!
Keathley University Center 322
Session B
Christian Anton Gerard
When Keeping It Real Goes Writing: Nonfiction In Prose And Verse
Keathley University Center 324
on your own
Saturday, April 22
All-Day Festival Bookfair
Keathley University Center
SLFA Executive Board Breakfast Meeting
McCallie
Session A
Cameron L. Mitchell
Making the Impossible
Keathley University Center 322
Session B
C. Kay “Andy” Landis
You’ve Got the Music in You
Keathley University Center 324
Session A
Mike James
The Adaptive Voice
Keathley University Center 322
Session B
Candie Moonshower
Meet-Cute: What Is It and How Do I Achieve It in YA and Adult Romances?
Keathley University Center 324
on your own
First Place Winners Reading
Theatre, Keathley University Center
Session A
Graduate School Panel
What Next?: Everything You Wanted to Know but Were Afraid to Ask about Grad School in English
Keathley University Center 322
Session B
Ezekiel Black
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Prosody
Keathley University Center 324
Session A
Claudia Barnett
What if He Sold Her Arm? An Exercise in Five Parts
Keathley University Center 322
Session B
Candie Moonshower
The Day Things Change: How to Begin Your Middle-Grade or YA Novel
Keathley University Center 324
on your own
