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The 2007 Bedell NonfictioNOW
Conference Schedule

EVENTS  -  FREE  -  OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

THURSDAY NOVEMBER 1st

8:00-8:30AM REGISTRATION (IMU Lobby)
[registration will continue throughout the day]

8:45-10:15 WELCOME SESSION  •  Free & open to public

Patricia Hampl, keynote speaker

Audio stream of speech

10:15-10:30 BREAK

10:30-12:00 SESSION II  •  PANELS

Creating the New Nonfiction Canon
Ned Stuckey-French, Lynn Z. Bloom, Rebecca Blevins Faery, Doug Hesse

Creative Nonfiction Writing as Therapy
Ann McCutchan, Vicki Lindner, Emily Fox Gordon

The Political Essay and Literary Quandary
Donald Morrill, Gayle Pemberton, Karen Salyer McElmurray, Patricia Foster

Square, Plumb, Level, True: The Ethical Dilemmas of Creative Nonfiction
Mimi Schwartz, Philip Gerard, Richard Hoffman, Dinty W. Moore

1:45-3:15 SESSION III  •  READING  •  Free & open to public

The Lyric Essay a Reading by Sarabande Press Authors
Sarah Gorham, Lia Purpura, Patricia Vigderman, Jenny Boully, Molly McQuade, Deborah Tall (read by Stephen Kuusisto)

3:30-5:00 SESSION IV  •  PANELS

Trauma, Truth, and Trash: Public and Critical Takes on Memoir
Rebecca Walker, Sue William Silverman, Karen Salyer McElmurray, Sonya Huber, Mindy Lewis

Composition = Creative Nonfiction: When Writers Teach Writers
Lad Tobin, Mike Steinberg, Robert Root, Mimi Schwartz

Nonfiction Writing About Disability
Maura Brady, Dan Roche, Cassandra Kircher, Elizabeth Stuckey-French, Stephen Kuusisto

The Death of the Scholarly
Jennifer Sinor, Mary Clearman Blew, Susanne George Bloomfield

5:00-6:00 SESSION V  •  READING  •  Free & open to public

Nebraska Press Reading
Jennifer Brice, Hilda Raz & Aaron Raz Link, Dinah Lenney, David Shields, and Peggy Shumaker (Nebraska Press)

8:30 PM KEYNOTE SCREENING/TALK  •   Free & open to public

Screening/Talk by Ross McElwee

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FRIDAY NOVEMBER 2

8:45-10:15 AM SESSION I  •  PANELS

What Is It? The Problem and Promise of The Spiritual Memoir
Tom Montgomery-Fate, Scott Cairns, Joe Mackall, Diane Glancy, S.L. Wisenberg

"That’ll Be $1000 for that Epigram”:  Copyright, Fair Use, and Writing with One Hand Tied Behind Your Back
Kembrew McLeod, Christina Bohannan, Robin Hemley

Travel Writing: To Simmer or Not to Simmer
Philip Graham, LeAnne Howe, Roy Kesey, Michele Morano, Xu Xi

Always the Fourth Genre?
Dan Roche, Cassandra Kircher, John Price, Mary Swander, James McKean

10:30-12:00 SESSION II  •  PANELS

Truth in Other Tongues:  Nonfiction in Translation
Emily Weirich, Becka Mara McKay, Diana Thow, Russell Valentino, Jay Vithalani

Pulling the Real:  A Workshop On Research Strategies, Opportunities, Challenges, and Conundrums
Leila Philip, Le thi diem thuy, Bill Roorbach, Lucy Ferriss

Will the Scaffolding Hold? Building the Nonfiction Book Out of Disparate Pieces
Andrea Hollander Budy, Heidi Hart, Barbara Hurd, Erica Bleeg, Gregory Martin

Documentary Theatre: Nonfiction Takes to the Stage
Allison Schuette-Hoffman, Kari-Anne Innes, Zachary Davis

12:00-1:45 LUNCH WITH SPEAKER 

Richard Rodriguez keynote speaker

1:45-3:15 SESSION III  •  PANELS

The Ontology of the Nonfiction Anthology
Dale Rigby, Patricia Foster, Daniel Jones, Hope Edelman, Faith Adiele

Autobiography and Critique
Greg Bottoms, David Shields, Gayle Pemberton, Sven Birkerts

Where Essays Get the Drama:  When There Is No Drama
Nicole Walker, Ander Monson, Anne Panning, Steve Fellner, Matthew Batt

3:30-5:15 SESSION IV  •  READING  •  Free & open to public

University of Georgia Press Reading
Patricia Foster, Barbara Hurd, Sue William Silverman (University of Georgia Press)

4:30-5:30 Afternoon of Stand-Up Tragedy and Comedy  • Shambaugh Auditorium • Free & open to public

Afternoon of Stand-Up Tragedy and Comedy with Jonathan Ames - Sponsored by the Writers' Workshop

5:30-7:00 Cash Bar - University of Iowa Press Reception.
                Jazz Combo, featuring Richard Terrill, Tenor Saxophone; William Minor, Piano

8:30PM KEYNOTE READING  •  Free & open to public

Patricia Hampl keynote reading

 

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SATURDAY NOVEMBER 3

8:45-10:15AM SESSION I  •  PANELS

"The Infinite Suggestiveness of Common Things”:  Essaying the Quotidian
Patrick Madden, Michael Danko, Shannon Lakanen, Desirae Matherly, David Lazar

The Painful Truth: Nonfiction and Trauma
Holly Welker, Cathy J. Schlund-Vials, Will Jennings

Perception as Muse:  Nonfiction Collaborations between Image and Text
Dave Griffith, Jill Christman, Ander Monson, Lia Purpura

Forum with Editors  •  Free & open to public
Daniel Jones, John Glassie, Bruce Tracy, Alex Postman

10:15-10:30 BREAK

10:30-12:00 SESSION II  READING   •  Free & open to public

Graywolf Press Reading
Sven Birkerts, Albert Goldbarth, Barrie Jean Borich, Robin Hemley, Paul Lisicky, Ander MonsonGraywolf Press

12:15-2:00 LUNCH WITH KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Ross McElwee keynote speaker                 

1:45-3:15 SESSION III  •  PANELS

Genre Jumping: Writing Both Nonfiction and Fiction
Porter Shreve, Lee Martin, Cathy Day, Ira Sukrungruang, Bich Minh Nguyen

Of Thumbs:  An Essay with Five Obstructions
Dinty W. Moore, Brenda Miller, Eula Biss, Donald Morrill, Sue William Silverman, Patrick Madden

Bodies. Spaces. Memories.
Barrie Jean Borich, David Shields, Suzanne Paola, Paul Lisicky, Mary Cappello

Beauty and Power: The Art of the Political Essay
Natalia Rachel Singer, William Bradley, David Griffith

3:30-5:00 SESSION IV  •  PANELS

Tell Me Something Human and Profound
Julene Bair, Marilyn Krysl, Ann McCutchan, Gwen Roland

The Changing Faces of Creative Nonfiction:  An Editor’s Panel
Mike Steinberg, Debra Marquart, Brenda Miller, Sven Birkerts

Writing about Sacred Spaces and Sites of Memory
James Silas Rogers, Karen Babine, Rachael Hanel, Brian Nerney

A Tribute to Carl Klaus
Jocelyn Bartkevicius, Maura Brady and Dan Roche, Hope Edelman, Rebecca Blevins Faery, Miriam Gilbert, Doug Hesse, Laura Julier, Cassandra Kircher, Michele Morano, John Price, Dale Rigby, Bob Root, Ned Stuckey-French

5:00-6:00 SESSION V  •  Free & open to public

University of Iowa Press Reading
Jeff Porter, David Lazar, Michele Morano, Dan Roche (University of Iowa Press)

8:30PM READING  •  Free & open to public

Richard Rodriguez keynote reading

Post-Reading SESSION VI   •   PANEL & MUSIC

Riffs, Chords, and Prose: Shaping the Future of Music Writing
Brian Goedde, Craig Eley, Andre Perry, Jessica Suarez, Evan Sult
(Also featuring live music (tbd) at The Mill in Iowa City: Free to conference attendees, $5 general public) .