Lit Fest 2025: Schedule For Nonfiction/Memoir Events @ Denver, CO, USA

Lit Fest 2025

9:00am MDT

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

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 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 Structure and the Art of Not-Knowing in the Creative Nonfiction Book (Livestream) ZoomClaire Dederer

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

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 Two-Day Intensive: Breaking the Surface—Revision LighthouseWilliam Haywood Henderson Two-Day Intensive: Strange Story Structures LighthouseErika Krouse Two-Day Intensive: Finish It! Perspective and Persistence (V) ZoomKhadijah Queen Two-Day Intensive: Experiments in Form—Audre Lorde LighthouseSuzi Q. Smith

1:00pm MDT

Two-Day Intensive: Asking The Oracle | Divination As Discipline LighthouseSarah Elizabeth Schantz Two-Day Intensive: "I Read it in One Sitting"—On Pacing LighthouseAnna Qu

1:30pm MDT

ChatGPT Is My Secretary (V) ZoomErika Krouse

4:00pm MDT

Cultivate Your Metaphors LighthouseTeow Lim Goh Learning Craft Techniques from Literature in Translation LighthousePoupeh Missaghi

5:30pm MDT

Faculty Showcase LighthouseMultiple Instructors

7:00pm MDT

Visiting Authors Reading: Nicole Chung, Claire Dederer, Katie Kitamura, and Solmaz Sharif LighthouseMultiple Instructors Visiting Authors Reading: Nicole Chung, Claire Dederer, Katie Kitamura, and Solmaz Sharif (Livestream) ZoomMultiple Instructors

9:00am MDT

Art Writing, Writing Art LighthouseKatie Kitamura Writing Food LighthousePoupeh Missaghi Intimate Strangers: Writing the Family (V) ZoomLadane Nasseri

1:30pm MDT

Drama-rama: Conflict and Dramatic Questions LighthouseErika Krouse

5:00pm MDT

Advanced Weeklong Workshop Orientation LighthouseMultiple Instructors

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

4:00pm MDT

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

4:30pm MDT

First Draft Live: The Debut Journey LighthouseMultiple Instructors

7:00pm MDT

Visiting Authors Reading: Mat Johnson, Alex Marzano-Lesnevitch, and Elizabeth McCracken LighthouseMultiple Instructors Visiting Authors Reading: Visiting Authors Reading: Mat Johnson, Alex Marzano-Lesnevitch, and Elizabeth McCracken (Livestream) ZoomMultiple Instructors

9:00am MDT

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

1:30pm MDT

Diving Into the Wreck—Finding Your Obsessions LighthouseWilliam Haywood Henderson The Art of Literary Submission LighthouseJenny Shank Letter to a Stranger LighthouseAlexander Lumans

4:00pm MDT

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

4:30pm MDT

Lit Fest Fellows Reading LighthouseMultiple Instructors

7:00pm MDT

Visiting Authors Reading: Steve Almond, Ingrid Rojas Contreras, Eduardo Corral, and Paul Harding LighthouseMultiple Instructors Visiting Authors Reading: Steve Almond, Ingrid Rojas Contreras, Eduardo Corral, and Paul Harding (Livestream) ZoomMultiple Instructors

9:00am MDT

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

1:30pm MDT

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

4:00pm MDT

Freelance Writing: Getting Started and Building your Career LighthouseJenny Shank Endings: How to Wrap Things Up LighthouseMary Robinette Kowal Two-Day Intensive: Comedic Memoir LighthouseElissa Bassist

4:30pm MDT

The Book Project Showcase LighthouseGloria J. Browne-Marshall

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 Imagination Station LighthouseErika Krouse Writing the Law LighthouseGloria J. Browne-Marshall Sell Essays that Boost Your Book's Potential LighthouseAmanda McCracken

4:00pm MDT

Writing Cinematically: Using Moving Pictures to Tell Your Story (V) ZoomKaren Auvinen Writing Fight Scenes (V) ZoomDaniel Levine

7:00pm MDT

Visiting Authors Reading: Helen Phillips, Eileen Myles, Tony Tulathimutte, and Matthew Zapruder LighthouseMultiple Instructors Visiting Authors Reading: Helen Phillips, Eileen Myles, Tony Tulathimutte, and Matthew Zapruder (Livestream) ZoomMultiple Instructors

1:30pm MDT

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) ZoomKaren 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

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