Lit Fest 2025

Lit Fest 2025

9:00am MDT

Create Your Novel's Bible LighthouseJan Thomas Writing Beyond Walls: Resilience and Difficult Subject Matter LighthouseHillary Leftwich Tuning In: Using Music and Playlists to Develop Character in Prose LighthouseAnthony D'Aries Words that Woo: Literary Activism (V) ZoomEllen Blum Barish The Art of the Crónica (V) ZoomJavier Sinay Three Paths to Publishing Your Poetry Book LighthouseRadha Marcum In Retrospect LighthouseAustin Segrest Author Websites 101: Your Guide to Designing, Branding, and Launching Your Successful Site LighthouseHR Hegnauer

1:30pm MDT

Welcome to the Sh*t Show: Your Inciting Incident LighthouseErika Krouse Queer(ing) Images for Our Futures LighthouseKanika Agrawal Erasures, Lacunae, and Voids: Writing What's Not There LighthouseSasha Geffen Creating Our Personal Language (V) ZoomOso Guardiola I'll Follow You Into the Dark: Letting the Unknown Drive Your Personal Narrative LighthouseGina DeMillo Wagner Structure and the Art of Not-Knowing in the Creative Nonfiction Book LighthouseClaire Dederer The Art of Condensary LighthouseAlyse Knorr Site/Visit: Writing with the Land LighthouseCass Eddington

4:00pm MDT

Dynamic Scenes LighthouseErika Krouse Write a Happy Story LighthouseNick Arvin Developing Writing Habits LighthousePoupeh Missaghi Vocational Poetics: Working, Writing, Calling Out LighthouseCass Eddington The Importance of Gaps (V) ZoomKaren Auvinen "Tell Me What You Really Think: Writing Dialogue" LighthouseAlexander Lumans Asking Questions (V) ZoomElizabeth Robinson A Talk Against Goodness LighthouseSolmaz Sharif

9:00am MDT

Art of Creative Research (V) ZoomLadane Nasseri Managing the Middle: How to Not Lose Readers Along the Way LighthouseKristin Koval When Everything Changed: Writing Your Marker Story (V) ZoomEllen Blum Barish Oracle Poetry: Pushing the Veil Between the Spirit Realm and Our Writing (V) LighthouseHillary Leftwich

1:30pm MDT

ChatGPT Is My Secretary (V) ZoomErika Krouse Scansion Blast LighthouseDavid Rothman

4:00pm MDT

Everyday Objects, Luminous Things LighthousePeter Markus Cultivate Your Metaphors LighthouseTeow Lim Goh Learning Craft Techniques from Literature in Translation LighthousePoupeh Missaghi Rhyme: Crime or Sublime? LighthouseDavid Rothman How to Build Your Niche as a Poet (V) ZoomYuyutsu Sharma

9:00am MDT

Art Writing, Writing Art LighthouseKatie Kitamura Writing Food LighthousePoupeh Missaghi Intimate Strangers: Writing the Family (V) ZoomLadane Nasseri Equanimity and the Long-Lined Poem (V) ZoomSawnie Morris

1:30pm MDT

Drama-rama: Conflict and Dramatic Questions LighthouseErika Krouse Perchance to Dream: Crafting Our Dreams Into Poems (V) ZoomSawnie Morris

9:00am MDT

Literary Lightning: Finding the Poetry in Your Prose (V) ZoomEllen Blum Barish

1:30pm MDT

How to Create Unforgettable Characters LighthouseSteve Almond The Laundry Line (V) ZoomNatalie Hodges Borderless: Writing Against Containment LighthouseKanika Agrawal So You Want to Go Indie LighthouseCynthia Swanson Symbolism and Metaphor: They Aren’t Just For Fiction (V) ZoomAngelique Stevens Tragedy Plus Time: Writing Traumedy LighthouseElissa Bassist My Own Alphabet LighthouseSarah Elizabeth Schantz Just Two Poems LighthouseLynn Wagner Practical Publishing: Journals as Models for Your Work LighthouseHillary Leftwich

4:00pm MDT

Writing in Color Presents: Finding the Ghost LighthouseIngrid Rojas Contreras Writing Thrillers LighthouseCarter Wilson Building the Writer's Notebook LighthouseJenny Shank Channeling Palimpsest in Your Writing LighthouseMalinda Miller The Big Voice: How to Amplify Your Narratives LighthouseSarah Elizabeth Schantz Writing the Self: Considerations of Character, Perspective, and Scene (V) ZoomKaren Auvinen The Art of Iteration: How to Revise Your Poetry Manuscript LighthouseRadha Marcum Lament (V) ZoomElizabeth Robinson

9:00am MDT

The Radical Four-Act Eastern Storytelling Structure (V) ZoomHenry Lien

1:30pm MDT

The Murder Book: A Roadmap to Writing Killer Fiction LighthouseBarbara Nickless The Power of Description LighthousePaul Harding Diving Into the Wreck—Finding Your Obsessions LighthouseWilliam Haywood Henderson The Art of Literary Submission LighthouseJenny Shank Letter to a Stranger LighthouseAlexander Lumans How to Be Less Afraid of Omniscient Point of View LighthouseAndrea Bobotis Say Less: Reading and Writing Minimal Poems LighthouseKanika Agrawal

4:00pm MDT

Beyond First and Third: Playing with Perspectives LighthouseJenny Shank Short Stories Explained LighthouseMary Robinette Kowal Place-Based Writing (V) ZoomKaren Auvinen How to Write Riveting Scenes LighthouseSteve Almond Find Your Unique Style LighthouseWilliam Haywood Henderson To Outline or Blast Ahead? That is the Question LighthouseCynthia Swanson The Rhetorical Hallway LighthouseMatthew Zapruder

9:00am MDT

Non-Linear Structures from Non-Western Storytelling (V) ZoomHenry Lien

1:30pm MDT

Novel Whispering: How To Finish a Novel LighthouseMat Johnson A Premise is Not a Promise: Thriving After the First Sentence LighthouseAlexander Lumans Write Livelihood: Making a Living as a Writer (V) ZoomCaryn Mirriam-Goldberg Close, Close (Close) Third Person LighthouseErika Krouse The Situation and the Story (V) ZoomNatalie Hodges How to Hook a Reader in Your First Ten Pages LighthouseRachel Weaver Story as Scrapbook: Structuring Prose with Documents, Letters, Journal Entries, and Articles LighthouseJenny Shank 10 Photos and a Dog LighthouseEileen Myles Poems for Garden and Forest LighthouseLynn Wagner Why Rhyme (V) ZoomJodie Hollander

4:00pm MDT

Create a Moment, Create a World LighthouseHelen Phillips Fiction Stuckshop LighthouseAmanda Rea The Animal Kingdom (V) ZoomDaniel Levine Freelance Writing: Getting Started and Building your Career LighthouseJenny Shank Endings: How to Wrap Things Up LighthouseMary Robinette Kowal Up Front: Exploring and Making Poem Titles LighthouseLynn Wagner

9:00am MDT

Live in the Layers: Mindfulness and Writing (V) ZoomCaryn Mirriam-Goldberg

1:30pm MDT

How to Write Sex Scenes without Shame LighthouseSteve Almond Writing the Law LighthouseGloria J. Browne-Marshall Imagination Station LighthouseErika Krouse Sell Essays that Boost Your Book's Potential LighthouseAmanda McCracken Using the Epistolary to Jumpstart the Poem LighthouseEmily Pérez

4:00pm MDT

Story Machine LighthouseAmanda Rae Story Structure and Shape LighthouseDino Enrique Piacentini What Carver Teaches us About Storytelling LighthouseTony Tulathimutte Writing Cinematically: Using Moving Pictures to Tell Your Story (V) ZoomKaren Auvinen Writing Fight Scenes (V) ZoomDaniel Levine

1:30pm MDT

In the Trenches with Historical Fiction LighthouseTerri Lewis How to Publish A Book While Staying (Reasonably) Sane LighthouseJenny Shank Taking it Off the Nose: Using Dialogue to Show Conflict and Develop Character (V) ZooomKaren Auvinen Details That Matter LighthouseWilliam Haywood Henderson Finding the Agency in Your Memoir LighthouseAnna Qu Making the Personal Universal: Five Ways to Connect Your Story to a Wider Audience LighthouseGina DeMillo Wagner Writing Family Members as Characters LighthouseAlex Marzano-Lesnevich A Circle Is God Saying Yes: Strategies for Rethinking Revision LighthouseEduardo Corral

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