MFA in Writing for Children & Young Adults Schedule

Schedule for Friday, January 12, 2018

Breakfast 7:30 – 8:30 am Dewey Café
“The Shapes of Stories” – lecture by faculty David Gill 8:45 – 9:30 am College Hall Chapel
“The Laughter Inside: How Humor Shifts Characters, Lifts Readers, and Changes the Weight of a Story” – lecture by faculty Uma Krishnaswami 9:45 – 10:30 am College Hall Chapel
Lunch 12 – 1 pm Dewey Café
Workshop Session 1 1:15 – 3:45 pm workshop classrooms
“Mastery” – lecture by faculty Alan Cumyn 4 – 5 pm College Hall Chapel
Dinner 5:45 – 6:45 pm Dewey Café
Faculty, Visiting Author, & Writer-in-Residence Readings (A.S. King, Ashley Wolff, Elana K. Arnold) 7 – 8 pm College Hall Chapel
Book Signing for Ashley Wolff & Elana K. Arnold 8:15 pm College Hall Chapel

Schedule for Sunday, January 14, 2018

Breakfast 7:30 – 8:30 am Dewey Café
Talk by Visiting Author/Illustrator Ashley Wolff 10:45 – 11:45 am College Hall Chapel
Lunch 12 – 1 pm sandwich buffet on the college green
Graduate Lectures 1:45 – 2:30 pm College Hall Gallery & Noble Lounge
“Girls, Ghosts, and Voices: An Interview with Nova Ren Suma” – lecture by faculty Will Alexander & Nova Ren Suma 2:45 – 3:45 pm College Hall Chapel
Graduate Assistant Readings 4 – 4:45 pm College Hall Gallery
Dinner 5:45 – 6:45 pm Dewey Café
Faculty Readings (Jane Kurtz, Kekla Magoon, Liz Garton Scanlon) 7 – 8 pm College Hall Chapel
Mildred Taken Crazy: a play reading 8:30 – 9 pm Café Anna