The 2024 Sessions are ready to educate, entertain, and inspire on March 9, 2024!
| 8:30 a.m. | Doors Open & Scavenger Hunt Begins |
| 9:30 a.m. | Keynote Doors Open |
| 9:45 a.m.-10:35 a.m. | Author Introduction & Keynote by Eric Smith |
| 10:40 a.m.-11:25 a.m. | Session 1 |
| 11:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m. | Session 2 (Lunch 1) |
| 12:20 p.m.-1:05 p.m. | Session 3 (Lunch 2) |
| 1:10 p.m.-1:55 p.m. | Session 4 (Lunch 3) |
| 2:00 p.m.-2:30 p.m. | Virtual Session: Jiordan Castle Discusses Writing a YA Memoir |
| 2:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m. | Authors’ Signing |
| Ongoing Sessions (offered all day) Board Games Scrabble! Scattergories! Sorry! Join your favorite authors in friendly competition. Escape Room Can you survive the Hunger Games? | Book Selling After attending a session, is there a book you must have? Stop by the festival book store all day. Lunch Lunch will be available for all, and for free starting at 11:40 am. |
Session 1
| Option 1 | Option 2 | Option 3 | Option 4 | Option 5 | Option 6 | Option 7 |
| Author Discussion Collaborating with Other Creators | Writing Workshop Creating Characters | Author Discussion Outside the School Yard | Author Discussion The New Terrain of Publishing | Author Discussion Tough Stuff | Writing Workshop How to Write Believable Characters | Author Discussion Inspired by Edgar Allen Poe |
Session 2
| Option 1 | Option 2 | Option 3 | Option 4 | Option 5 | Option 6 | |
| Poetry Workshop SLAM Poetry | Author Discussion Write What You Know: Putting YOU in Your Writing | Author Discussion Ohio Ghost History | Author Discussion Stuck in the Middle with You: Writing for Tweens | Writing Workshop How to Create Suspense in a Novel | Author Discussion Quantum Leaps: Stories of Time Travel | Lunch |
Session 3
| Option 1 | Option 2 | Option 3 | Option 4 | Option 5 | Option 6 | Option 7 | |
| Author Discussion Fantastical Worlds | Author Discussion Writing About Authentic Love | Author Discussion Here for the W: Capturing Authentic Athletes in Stories | Author Discussion Casting Spells: How to Make Magic Systems Believable | Author Discussion The Many Masks | Writing Workshop Story Drafting & Dynamic Description | Writing Workshop Creating Characters | Lunch |
Session 4
| Option 1 | Option 2 | Option 3 | Option 4 | Option 5 | Option 6 | Option 7 | |
| Author Discussion Off the Grid: Stories with Exotic Settings | Community Book Club Don’t Read the Comments | Author Discussion Not Your Mother’s Romance | Author Discussion My Journey with Writing | Author Discussion Self Performance as Writing Fuel | Poetry Workshop Collage Poetry | Author Discussion Complex Relationships: Creating Multi-dimensional Characters | Lunch |