WriteAngles Conference: Full Schedule

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Book Promotion Boot Camp - Moderator: Ellen Meeropol. Panelists: Suzanne Strempek Shea, Jendi Reiter, and Randy Susan Meyers

Saturday October 24, 2026 3:30pm - 3:45pm EDT

Dining Commons - Blake Student Commons

With over 4 million new books published yearly and the shrinking of the traditional book marketplace, book marketing is increasingly done by authors. So how can you maximize your new book finding its way to your readers? Four well-published authors share their experiences and best practices. We’ll discuss hiring publicists, DIY resources, timelines, where and how to pitch for reviews, podcasts, festivals, and events, grassroots promotion, and keeping sane during the process.

Speakers

Ellen Meeropol

Moderator

Ellen Meeropol is the author of six novels, including Sometimes an Island, a mosaic novel featuring a group of older women facing rebuilding after a climate disaster that changes everything, and guest editor for the anthology Dreams for a Broken World. Her work has been a finalist... Read More →

Randy Susan Meyers

Promotion Panelist

Randy Susan Meyers is the internationally bestselling author of seven novels, including The Many Mothers of Ivy Puddingstone (October 2024), which explores the lasting impact of a family’s immersion in 1960s idealism. Her novels have been named Massachusetts Center for the Book... Read More →

Jendi Reiter

Promotion Panelist, Winning Writers

Jendi Reiter is the author of six poetry books and chapbooks, most recently Introvert Pervert (The Word Works); the novels Two Natures and Origin Story, both from Saddle Road Press; and the story collection An Incomplete List of My Wishes (Sunshot Press). Awards include two... Read More →

Suzanne Strempek Shea

Book Promotion Panelist

Suzanne Strempek Shea is the author of 12 novels and nonfiction books including the forthcoming Compositions: A memoir in 42 essays by one kid on her 8 years in Catholic school, handed in 60 years late. Her journalism and fiction have appeared in newspapers and magazines throughout... Read More →

Saturday October 24, 2026 3:30pm - 3:45pm EDT
Dining Commons - Blake Student Commons 588 Longmeadow St, Longmeadow, MA 01106

Block Four, Promotion

Audience All Levels
Subject Poetry, Publishing, Craft, Generative, Prose, Promotion, Publicity

3:30pm EDT

How Comics Work

Saturday October 24, 2026 3:30pm - 3:45pm EDT

TBA

This presentation explains how the storytelling devices unique to the comics medium function, serve the narrative, and aid the reader's experience. The areas of focus are the symbolic language of comics, how time and movement through space are communicated, how text functions within the visual narrative, and how the page is designed to guide the reader's eye through the placement of text and image. Example pages of comics will be analyzed and explained. At the end there will be a short comics creating assignment.

Speakers

John Rozum

Saturday October 24, 2026 3:30pm - 3:45pm EDT
TBA

Block Four, Comics

Audience All Levels
Subject Poetry, Publishing, Craft, Generative, Prose, Comics

3:30pm EDT

Say it on the Page: How to Craft Lively, Authentic Dialog

Saturday October 24, 2026 3:30pm - 3:45pm EDT

TBA

A craft-based workshop on writing authentic and reader-engaging dialog in your fiction and non-fiction narratives.

Speakers

Aine Greaney

Workshop Leader

Áine Greaney is an Irish-born writer who lives in Newburyport, Massachusetts. Her work has appeared in various publications, including Creative Nonfiction, Salon, The New York Times, Books Ireland and others. Her fifth book has just been published by Sea Crow Press. She teaches... Read More →

Saturday October 24, 2026 3:30pm - 3:45pm EDT
TBA

Block Four, Prose

Subject Poetry, Publishing, Craft, Generative, Prose, Fiction, Non-Fiction, Dialogue

3:30pm EDT

Singing from the Deep End: A Generative Poetry Workshop

Saturday October 24, 2026 3:30pm - 3:45pm EDT

TBA

In this workshop, poet and teacher Rebecca Hart Olander will provide generative writing exercises based on poems from her new collection, Singing from the Deep End. Participants will gain ideas for creating their own prompts, and start to sing their own songs through hearing model poems and using example prompts.

Speakers

Rebecca Olander

Workshop Leader

Rebecca Hart Olander is a Women's National Book Association Poetry Award winner and the author of three poetry collections: Dressing the Wounds (a dancing girl press chapbook, 2019), Uncertain Acrobats (CavanKerry Press, 2021), a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Book Award and the Massachusetts... Read More →

Saturday October 24, 2026 3:30pm - 3:45pm EDT
TBA

Block Four, Poetry

Audience All Levels
Subject Poetry, Publishing, Craft, Generative, Prose

3:30pm EDT

Where Ideas Come From

Saturday October 24, 2026 3:30pm - 3:45pm EDT

TBA

Writers are tasked with constant invention, whether starting fresh or developing an existing project. If you’ve ever felt stuck, you may have wondered, how DO we come up with great ideas? We’re going to learn to trigger our internal geniuses––the powerful mechanism of invention that resides within each of us.

Speakers

Sarah Jane Cody

Workshop Leader

Sarah Jane Cody is a writer of surreal and magical fiction and nonfiction and author of the webcomic Bathrobe Gal. Her writing has appeared in The Common, Joyland, The New York Times, Electric Literature, Gulf Coast, The Cincinnati Review, and elsewhere, and has been nominated for... Read More →

Saturday October 24, 2026 3:30pm - 3:45pm EDT
TBA

Block Four

Audience Emerging Writers
Subject Poetry, Publishing, Craft, Generative, Prose, Ideas, Inspiration

3:30pm EDT

Why Me? Memoir and Transforming Memory into Meaning

Saturday October 24, 2026 3:30pm - 4:45pm EDT

TBA

Each of us has a story – many stories – that help define who we are and how we see the world. In this workshop, we’ll explore various techniques to craft our own experiences and memories into compelling narratives. Through a number of writing exercises and discussion, we’ll unleash our own truth on the page.

Speakers

Helen Fremont

Workshop Leader

Helen Fremont is the author of three memoirs, including the acclaimed national bestseller After Long Silence, and the award-winning memoirs, The Escape Artist, and Outside the Lines. Her works of fiction and nonfiction have appeared in numerous publications, including, Prize... Read More →

Saturday October 24, 2026 3:30pm - 4:45pm EDT
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Block Four, Memoir

Subject Poetry, Publishing, Craft, Generative, Prose, Memoir, Non-Fiction

3:30pm EDT

Writing Your Controversial Views

Saturday October 24, 2026 3:30pm - 4:45pm EDT

TBA

We will explore tiptoeing towards the topics you are scared to write about, for fear of being ostracized. Using fiction, abstraction, poetry and/or direct narrative to express your most taboo viewpoints, we will liberate your worst shadows (or the ones you choose to bring).

Speakers

Chaya Grossberg

Workshop Leader

Lifelong poet, fiction and non fiction writer. Chaya has been writing and sharing poetry for 3 decades, participating in and hosting open mics from coast to coast, NYC to San Francisco, Portland, OR, Olympia WA, and here in the Valley the most. She recently published poetry books... Read More →

Saturday October 24, 2026 3:30pm - 4:45pm EDT
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Block Four, Prose/Poetry

Subject Poetry, Publishing, Craft, Generative, Prose, Fiction, Non-Fiction

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