LIPSCOMB UNIVERSITY NOVEMBER 8-9, 2018 WRITERFESTNASHVILLE.COM WELCOME SCHEDULE November 8, 2018 Thursday, November 8 Welcome to the first ever WriterFest Nashville! We’re so glad you’re here! Registration/Networking 9:00-11:00 At this event you’ll hear from some incredible authors, songwriters, filmmakers, poets, and Opening Keynote 11:00-12:00 journalists. You’ll also cross paths with the folks who support these creative writers—editors, Lunch with Authors 12:15-1:15 publishers, directors, producers, and agents. Their goal? To empower, inspire, and connect with creative writers like you! Session 1 1:30-2:45 Session 2 3:00-4:15 We have a great lineup planned, including keynote speakers Liz Cackowski, Tom Douglas, and Liane Moriarty—plus 31 breakout sessions. Whether you’re just starting out, looking to move to Writers in the Round 4:30-5:45 the next level in your writing career, or a seasoned pro here to network, you’ll enjoy WriterFest Dinner with Speakers 6:00-7:30 Nashville and be inspired to dream big! Gratefully, Ami McConnell Founder/Director WriterFest Nashville Friday, November 9 Registration/Networking 9:00-9:30 Session 3 9:30-10:30 Session 4 10:45-12:00 Lunch 12:15-1:15 Session 5 1:30-2:45 Session 6 3:00-3:50 BREAK 3:50-4:30 P.S. A special thanks to our partners at Lipscomb University, especially the Shin College of Arts and Entertainment, and Parnassus Books. Keynote Closing Session 4:30-6:00 WiFi Network: LipscombGuest Username: Writerfest Password: 72694413 SESSIONS Friday, November 9 Publishing Screenwriters Songwriters Pro Writers Nonfiction Fiction A-Z Thursday, November 8 9:00 - Registration/Networking Publishing 9:30 (Ezell Center South Lobby) Screenwriters Songwriters Pro Writers Nonfiction Fiction A-Z 9:30 Session 3 3: Why 3: Colla- 9:00 - Nashville Is borative - Registration/Networking (Ezell Center South Lobby) 3: Literary Agents, 3: The Editor/Author 11:00 10:30 the It City Songwriting: Uncensored: Relationship: for Content Rabbit Room Alex Glass, Frank Weimann, Kathy Sarah Peltz, Jenny Baumgartner, 11:00 Ben Howard, Presents Randall Helmers, Steve Hutson Ariel Lawhon, Ruth Chou Simons, Margaret Riley Goodgame, - Burton 109 Michael Bishop Liz Cackowski, Opening Keynote (Ezell Board Room 147) King, and Carey Buddy Greene, Ezell 363 12:00 Nelson Burch and Andy Ezell 301 Gullahorn 12:15 Collins Auditorium - Lunch (Ezell Lobby) 10:45 Session 4 4: Cross- 4: Writing 4: Idea to 4: Words 4: The 4: Creating 1:15 - Media about Music Manuscript that Sell: Making of A a Vibrant 12:00 Synergy: Carrie Tipton & Sarah Arthur, Discoverability, Murder in Writing 1:30 Session 1 1: Storyclock: 1: Dave Barnes: 1: Idea to 1: CEO of 1: 1: How I Book/Screen/ Langston Wilkins Mark SEO, marketing Music City: Community - Seth Worley Who Knew It Manuscript: Your Writing Collaborative Came to Song: “I Can Collins Auditorium Deutschmann, copy, etc. The Creative Ariel Lawhon 2:45 Ezell 301 Would Be So Sarah Career: Nonfiction Joy: The Only Imagine” Melissa Bradley Metrock, Process behind and MaryBeth Hard to Be Arthur, Jenny Writing: Alex Glass, Novelist and the song, the Chambers, Matt West, the Phenomenal Whalen Myself Baumgartner, Dudley Delffs Colleen Coble, the Creative movie, the book: Sarah Pelz, Angela Guzman Book about Burton 200 Ezell 241, aka Steve Hutson, Karen Anderson, and publisher Process: Robert Noland, Alex Glass Ezell 303/336 Nashville’s First Swang Chapel in MaryBeth David Morris Kathy Helmers, Patti Callahan Jennifer Burton 109 Big Murder Case Ezell Whalen, Ezell 363 Sarah Pelz Henry Willingham, Ezell 363 Marjory Ezell 303/363 Ezell 147/Ezell Brian Mitchell Wentworth Board Room Ezell 301 Swang Rm 108/ Stowe Hall 12:15 - Lunch 3:00 Session 2 2: The New 2: Traditional 2: Romance (Boxed Lunches in Ezell Center Lobby) 2: Q&A with 1:15 - Hollywood: President of or Self- 2: Worth a Thousand Publishing 4:15 Howie Klausner Sony Music, Publishing: Words: 101: 1:30 Session 5 5: Indepen- 5: Writing 5: Traditional or Self- 5: Creative 5: Young Ezell 301 Troy Tomlinson Which The Power of Pairing Visual Artistry Melissa - dent Film from Your Publishing: Which Method Process in Adult Books: and Wes Yoder, Method Is with Texts with Ruth Chou Simons Chambers, 2:45 Making (for Core is Right for Me? the Chaos of Stephanie Appell President of Right for Ezell 303/363 Colleen Coble, the primate Cindy Morgan JT Ellison, Robin Cutler, Cynthia Life and Courtney Ambassador Me: and Jeanne and the and Jeremy Bose Ruchti, Frank Weimann Rebekah Lyons Stevens Literary Hardt sophisticate): Burton 200 Patti Callahan Collins Auditorium Swang 108 and Becky Nesbitt Ezell 241 Ezell 147 Henry, Robin Steve Taylor with Ezell 363 Cutler, Cynthia Seth Worley Ruchti, MaryBeth Ezell 301 Whalen, Amanda 3:00 Session 6 6: What to 6: Writing 6: Balanc- 6: Parnassus Co-owner Karen 6: Creating Bostic - Watch and ing Art & Hayes with authors Mary Laura Magical the Perfect Swang Rm 108/ 3:50 Read: Tools for Commerce Philpott and Ariel Lawhon Books for Villain: Stowe Hall the Screenwriter in Music Swang 108 Children: JT Ellison and 4:30 Ezell 301 Alissa Moreno Amy Parker, Ariel Lawhon - Tom Douglas & Friends in the Round (Collins Auditorium) Collins Auditorium Michelle Burke Burton 200 5:45 Ezell 363 6:00 4:30 - Dinner with Speakers (Shamblin Theater) - Liane Moriarty Closing Keynote (Collins Auditorium) 7:30 6:00 LEALAND LANE SPEAKERS C MAPALD 3 23 WELL LANE Burton Health Sciences Center 36 MAPLEHUR R 22 MOR Collins Auditorium 35 O W W A S VENUE Ezell Center 49 A 21b T 21 VENUE Shamblin Theater 30 Swang Business Center 38 25 26 20 24 27 LIANE MORIARTY GRANNY 19 Internationally bestselling novelist of 44 Big Little Lies and Nine Perfect Strangers 28 GR 18 AN NY W H 43 45 IT E 17 P 42 IK 29 30 E S 12 1 31 14 16 32 53 13 15 41 40 46 33 10 11 LIZ CACKOWSKI 47 35 34 5 38 2 Writer and producer, Saturday Night Live, 9 48 36 39 52 Community, The Last Man on Earth, Wine Country 8 7 6 4 S 50 3 49 SHA 37 51 CKLEF 2 1 ORD R GLEN BELMONT BOULEVARD O AD TOM DOUGLAS E 4 CH O R Award-winning #1 hit songwriter of “Run O ParnassusA mobile book store will be on-site selling books D to You,” “Drunk Girl,” “The House That Built Thursday 9:00-11:00 a.m. (during registration) and Me,” and “Meanwhile Back at Mama’s” Friday 12:00 p.m.-4:30 p.m. (during lunch and break) SPEAKERS paid to read books for more than fourteen years. She loves any great ROBIN CUTLER Tim McGraw’s “Southern Voice” (with Bob DiPiero), and concluding story, but is particularly drawn to southern fiction, contemporary, with Miranda Lambert’s “The House That Built Me” (with Allen women’s fiction, and suspense and thrillers. She makes her home in Robin Cutler is the director of IngramSpark, an Ingram Content Shamblin). Tom has had songs recorded by Garth Brooks, George KAREN ANDERSON Nashville with her husband, Randy, and their two children. Group service for indie authors and publishers. She is committed to Straight, Brooks & Dunn, Randy Travis, Trisha Yearwood, and many helping independent publishers get their content into the hands of others. Tom’s song “The House That Built Me” was nominated for Karen Anderson is Strategic Book Coach and Associate Publisher for readers around the globe. To help make this happen, Robin works to 2010 Grammy Song of The Year and Country Song of The Year Morgan James Publishing, as well as a nationally published author, CAREY NELSON BURCH support and refine the IngramSpark platform to better serve indies and won CMA Song of the Year as well as ACM’s Song of The Year self-published author, ghostwriter, and co-author. Carey Nelson Burch is the owner of My Own Shingle where she around the world. Her publishing career began over 30 years ago and Single Record of the Year. In 2014, Tom’s song “Meanwhile consults for several companies including Made In Network, Turner at a university press. She also founded her own publishing house, Back At Mama’s” was nominated for the Grammy’s Country Song of STEPHANIE APPELL Publishing, The Building Barn, Medals of Honor, and Big Banzai, SummerHouse Press, and has published 1000+ titles in her career. the year. In 2014, Tom was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Before joining the Ingram Content Group, Robin worked for Stephanie Appell is Manager of Books and Events for Young Readers while managing a handful of screenwriters, authors, and influencers. Hall Of Fame. Tom continues to impact Nashville’s songwriting Previously, she was the President of Hideout Pictures, a division of Amazon/CreateSpace. landscape, writing songs for contemporary country artists like Brett at Parnassus Books. Average Joes Entertainment and the company behind CMT’s “Still Eldredge, High Valley, Carrie Underwood, and Rachel Wammack. the King,” starring Joey Lauren Adams and Billy Ray Cyrus. She Chris Janson’s hit single “Drunk Girl” is a recent example of Tom’s SARAH ARTHUR was a packaging agent at William Morris Endeavor for 12-1/2 years DUDLEY DELFFS lyrical depth and ability to share powerful messages. and had the distinction of being the only TV/Film agent in Nashville, Sarah Arthur is a fun-loving speaker and the author of a dozen books Dudley J. Delffs, Ph.D., is an award-winning writer of both fiction servicing Feature and TV producers, the country artist roster, as ranging from popular devotionals to serious engagement with and nonfiction, and president and founder of Creative Fidelity, Inc., JT ELLISON well as numerous projects.