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Monday, October 28
 

9:30am EDT

Morning Pages: Day 1
Monday October 28, 2024 9:30am - 10:15am EDT
Lumina Theater
Speakers
avatar for Shira Pilarski

Shira Pilarski

Morning Pages
Shira Pilarski is the Humanities Librarian at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, their first academic library role after over a decade in public libraries. In addition to Creative Writing, they also liaise with English, Film Studies, Gender Studies & Resource Center, Music... Read More →
Monday October 28, 2024 9:30am - 10:15am EDT
Lumina Theater
  Morning Pages

10:30am EDT

Judge a Book by its Cover (we all do it anyway)
Monday October 28, 2024 10:30am - 11:30am EDT
Lumina Theater
Navigating the interplay of aesthetic design and consumerism. What I look for in a “good” cover, and maybe you will too.
Speakers
avatar for Janay Nachel Frazier

Janay Nachel Frazier

Publishing Guest, Penguin Random House
Janay Frazier is an Assistant Art Director, with over 9 years of experience across non-profit, art direction, creative marketing services and design production in the publishing industry. She is also an adjunct professor at the Maryland Institute College of Art. Some of her proudest... Read More →
Monday October 28, 2024 10:30am - 11:30am EDT
Lumina Theater
  Craft Talk

2:00pm EDT

Fat Poetics: Writing for the 'Fat Girl' in All of Us
Monday October 28, 2024 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT
Lumina Theater
In this craft talk, we will explore the concept of "excess" through the language of Other as well as its potential for rupture and reclamation as a writing tool. Together, we will use fatness as a lens to reclaim ourselves, our environment, and our community through writing.
Speakers
avatar for Diamond Forde

Diamond Forde

Visiting Writer
Diamond Forde (she/her) is the author of Mother Body (Saturnalia Books, 2019), a Kate Tufts Discovery Award finalist, and the forthcoming collection The Book of Alice (Scribner Books, 2026). Her work has appeared in Poetry, Callaloo, Obsidian and elsewhere. You can find out more at... Read More →
Monday October 28, 2024 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT
Lumina Theater
  Craft Talk

7:00pm EDT

Diamond Forde & Sarah Domet Reading
Monday October 28, 2024 7:00pm - 8:00pm EDT
Lumina Theater
Speakers
avatar for Sarah Domet

Sarah Domet

Reading
Sarah Domet is the author of The Guineveres and the craft book 90 Days to Your Novel. Her second novel, Earthshine, is forthcoming from Flatiron Books.
avatar for Diamond Forde

Diamond Forde

Visiting Writer
Diamond Forde (she/her) is the author of Mother Body (Saturnalia Books, 2019), a Kate Tufts Discovery Award finalist, and the forthcoming collection The Book of Alice (Scribner Books, 2026). Her work has appeared in Poetry, Callaloo, Obsidian and elsewhere. You can find out more at... Read More →
Monday October 28, 2024 7:00pm - 8:00pm EDT
Lumina Theater
  Reading

8:00pm EDT

Meet & Greet with Diamond Forde & Sarah Domet
Monday October 28, 2024 8:00pm - 9:00pm EDT
Clocktower Lounge
Speakers
avatar for Diamond Forde

Diamond Forde

Visiting Writer
Diamond Forde (she/her) is the author of Mother Body (Saturnalia Books, 2019), a Kate Tufts Discovery Award finalist, and the forthcoming collection The Book of Alice (Scribner Books, 2026). Her work has appeared in Poetry, Callaloo, Obsidian and elsewhere. You can find out more at... Read More →
avatar for Sarah Domet

Sarah Domet

Reading
Sarah Domet is the author of The Guineveres and the craft book 90 Days to Your Novel. Her second novel, Earthshine, is forthcoming from Flatiron Books.
Monday October 28, 2024 8:00pm - 9:00pm EDT
Clocktower Lounge
  Meet & Greet
 
Tuesday, October 29
 

9:30am EDT

Morning Pages: Day 2
Tuesday October 29, 2024 9:30am - 10:15am EDT
Lumina Theater
Speakers
avatar for Michael Ramos

Michael Ramos

Morning Pages, Crossing Lines Panel
Michael Ramos is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at UNC Wilmington and Art Director for Ecotone Magazine. He is an Iraq war veteran and a writer. His essay collection The After: A Veteran's Notes on Coming Home (UNC Press 2024) received a starred Kirkus review.
Tuesday October 29, 2024 9:30am - 10:15am EDT
Lumina Theater
  Morning Pages

10:30am EDT

Destroy Responsibly: Art & Activism
Tuesday October 29, 2024 10:30am - 11:30am EDT
Lumina Theater
Destroy Responsibly: Art & Activism will be a discussion about how to incorporate activism into one's art and what it means to engage with the world as both a writer and activist. The panel will be tailored to issues that impact Wilmington specifically—racial injustice, overdevelopment and government corruption, and climate change.
Speakers
avatar for Justine Payton

Justine Payton

Art & Activism Panel
Justine Payton is an MFA candidate at the University of North Carolina-Wilmington where she is a recipient of the Philip Gerard Graduate Fellowship and the Bernice Kert Fellowship in Creative Writing. She has been published or has work forthcoming in the Bellevue Literary Review... Read More →
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KaToya Fleming

Art & Activism Panel Moderator
avatar for Tim Pinnick

Tim Pinnick

Art & Activism Panel
Timothy N. Pinnick is an article writer, national speaker, and author of the book, “Finding and Using African American Newspapers”. From 2006-2020 he taught as an associate instructor in the biennial “Researching African American Ancestors” course at the Institute of Genealogy... Read More →
avatar for Khalisa Rae

Khalisa Rae

Art & Activism Panel
Khalisa Rae is an award-winning writer, activist, and storyteller. As a queer rights advocate and community builder, she seeks to uplift Black queer voices. She is the author of the debut poetry collection, Ghost in a Black Girl's Throat, the writer of the sold-out play production... Read More →
avatar for Ben Schachtman

Ben Schachtman

Art & Activism Panel
Ben Schachtman is a writer, journalist, and editor with a focus on local government accountability. He began reporting for Port City Daily in the Wilmington area in 2016 and took over as managing editor there in 2018. He’s a graduate of Rutgers College and later received his MA... Read More →
Tuesday October 29, 2024 10:30am - 11:30am EDT
Lumina Theater
  Panel

2:00pm EDT

BFA Reading
Tuesday October 29, 2024 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT
Lumina Theater
Tuesday October 29, 2024 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT
Lumina Theater
  Reading

7:00pm EDT

Tessa Fontaine Reading + Bradford Niedermann Broadside Launch
Tuesday October 29, 2024 7:00pm - 8:00pm EDT
Lumina Theater
Speakers
avatar for MC Hyland

MC Hyland

DoubleCross Press
MC Hyland (she/they) is the founding editor of DoubleCross Press, a poetry micropress, and the author of over a dozen poetry chapbooks/artist books and two full-length books of poems: THE END (Sidebrow 2019) and Neveragainland (Lowbrow Press 2010). MC's third book, a collection of... Read More →
avatar for Tessa Fontaine

Tessa Fontaine

Visiting Writer
Tessa Fontaine is the author of THE ELECTRIC WOMAN: A MEMOIR IN DEATH-DEFYING ACTS, a New York Times Editors' Choice; Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers pick, and best book of the year by Southern Living, Amazon Editors', and The New York Post.  THE RED GROVE, her debut novel... Read More →
avatar for Kristin Emanuel

Kristin Emanuel

Speaker
Kristin Emanuel holds an MFA from the University of Kansas where she studied eco-fabulism and the comics poetry movement. She is now a PhD candidate researching visual poetry at Washington University in St. Louis, where she is a 2024 finalist for the Dean's Award for Graduate Research... Read More →
Tuesday October 29, 2024 7:00pm - 8:00pm EDT
Lumina Theater
  Reading

8:00pm EDT

Meet & Greet with Tessa Fontaine, MC Hyland, & Kristin Emanuel
Tuesday October 29, 2024 8:00pm - 9:00pm EDT
Clocktower Lounge
Speakers
avatar for MC Hyland

MC Hyland

DoubleCross Press
MC Hyland (she/they) is the founding editor of DoubleCross Press, a poetry micropress, and the author of over a dozen poetry chapbooks/artist books and two full-length books of poems: THE END (Sidebrow 2019) and Neveragainland (Lowbrow Press 2010). MC's third book, a collection of... Read More →
avatar for Tessa Fontaine

Tessa Fontaine

Visiting Writer
Tessa Fontaine is the author of THE ELECTRIC WOMAN: A MEMOIR IN DEATH-DEFYING ACTS, a New York Times Editors' Choice; Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers pick, and best book of the year by Southern Living, Amazon Editors', and The New York Post.  THE RED GROVE, her debut novel... Read More →
avatar for Kristin Emanuel

Kristin Emanuel

Speaker
Kristin Emanuel holds an MFA from the University of Kansas where she studied eco-fabulism and the comics poetry movement. She is now a PhD candidate researching visual poetry at Washington University in St. Louis, where she is a 2024 finalist for the Dean's Award for Graduate Research... Read More →
Tuesday October 29, 2024 8:00pm - 9:00pm EDT
Clocktower Lounge
  Meet & Greet
 
Wednesday, October 30
 

9:30am EDT

Morning Pages: Day 3
Wednesday October 30, 2024 9:30am - 10:15am EDT
Lumina Theater
Speakers
avatar for Jill Gerard

Jill Gerard

Morning Pages
Jill Gerard writes and teaches writing, works as an editor, enjoys cooking and gardening, loves to explore the world in places near and far. She has called Wilmington home for seventeen years—and what she loves most here are the creeks and rivers, the smaller quieter places that... Read More →
Wednesday October 30, 2024 9:30am - 10:15am EDT
Lumina Theater
  Morning Pages

10:30am EDT

Craft Talk with Tessa Fontaine
Wednesday October 30, 2024 10:30am - 11:30am EDT
Lumina Theater
Speakers
avatar for Tessa Fontaine

Tessa Fontaine

Visiting Writer
Tessa Fontaine is the author of THE ELECTRIC WOMAN: A MEMOIR IN DEATH-DEFYING ACTS, a New York Times Editors' Choice; Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers pick, and best book of the year by Southern Living, Amazon Editors', and The New York Post.  THE RED GROVE, her debut novel... Read More →
Wednesday October 30, 2024 10:30am - 11:30am EDT
Lumina Theater
  Craft Talk

2:00pm EDT

The Accidental Translator: Writing as Listening
Wednesday October 30, 2024 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT
Lumina Theater
Parul Sehgal said, "All literature is literature in translation. There is no mother tongue. All of it migrates out of the body, out of a tangle of sensations and intuitions, obscure rancor and desire; we hunt racks of ready-made language for words that might fit." Marcel Proust seemed to agree, saying that "the function and the task of a writer are those of a translator." If this is the case, what then? How does our task as writers draw upon the skills of listening, reading, playing and imagining that translation demands?
Speakers
avatar for Michael Bazzett

Michael Bazzett

Visiting Writer
Michael Bazzett, he/him, is the author of five collections of poetry, including The Echo Chamber (Milkweed Editions, 2021) and the forthcoming The Morphologist (Milkweed, 2026) — as well as a verse translation of the creation epic of the Maya, The Popol Vuh (Milkweed, 2018), named... Read More →
Wednesday October 30, 2024 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT
Lumina Theater
  Craft Talk

7:00pm EDT

Jaquira Díaz & Michael Bazzett Reading
Wednesday October 30, 2024 7:00pm - 8:00pm EDT
Lumina Theater
Speakers
avatar for Michael Bazzett

Michael Bazzett

Visiting Writer
Michael Bazzett, he/him, is the author of five collections of poetry, including The Echo Chamber (Milkweed Editions, 2021) and the forthcoming The Morphologist (Milkweed, 2026) — as well as a verse translation of the creation epic of the Maya, The Popol Vuh (Milkweed, 2018), named... Read More →
avatar for Jaquira Díaz

Jaquira Díaz

Visiting Writer
Jaquira Díaz is the author of Ordinary Girls, winner of a Whiting Award, a Florida Book Awards Gold Medal, a Lambda Literary Awards finalist, an American Booksellers Association Indies Introduce Selection, a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Selection, an Indie Next Pick... Read More →
Wednesday October 30, 2024 7:00pm - 8:00pm EDT
Lumina Theater
  Reading

8:00pm EDT

Meet & Greet with Jaquira Díaz & Michael Bazzett
Wednesday October 30, 2024 8:00pm - 9:00pm EDT
Clocktower Lounge
Speakers
avatar for Michael Bazzett

Michael Bazzett

Visiting Writer
Michael Bazzett, he/him, is the author of five collections of poetry, including The Echo Chamber (Milkweed Editions, 2021) and the forthcoming The Morphologist (Milkweed, 2026) — as well as a verse translation of the creation epic of the Maya, The Popol Vuh (Milkweed, 2018), named... Read More →
avatar for Jaquira Díaz

Jaquira Díaz

Visiting Writer
Jaquira Díaz is the author of Ordinary Girls, winner of a Whiting Award, a Florida Book Awards Gold Medal, a Lambda Literary Awards finalist, an American Booksellers Association Indies Introduce Selection, a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Selection, an Indie Next Pick... Read More →
Wednesday October 30, 2024 8:00pm - 9:00pm EDT
Clocktower Lounge
  Meet & Greet
 
Thursday, October 31
 

9:30am EDT

Morning Pages: Day 4
Thursday October 31, 2024 9:30am - 10:15am EDT
Lumina Theater
Speakers
avatar for Jordan Walker

Jordan Walker

Morning Pages
Jordan Walker is a queer/nonbinary writer from Ohio. Their work has been published or is forthcoming in Hayden’s Ferry Review, Passages North, and The Shore. Their essay, “Island of Misfits,” won the Prairie Schooner Summer Creative Nonfiction Contest and will be published in... Read More →
Thursday October 31, 2024 9:30am - 10:15am EDT
Lumina Theater
  Morning Pages

10:30am EDT

On Speculative Nonfiction
Thursday October 31, 2024 10:30am - 11:30am EDT
Lumina Theater
Most often, creative nonfiction deals with truth and reality. But there is room in nonfiction for speculation, imagination, and invention. In this talk, I'll discuss work that moves beyond narration, reportage, and interrogation toward speculation: essays and books that build upon and expand the nascent genre of speculative nonfiction in innovative ways, work that imagines what else might be possible, speculating about alternate histories and realities, sometimes working with metaphor rather than the literal, suggesting new ways of seeing and thinking within the essay.  
Speakers
avatar for Jaquira Díaz

Jaquira Díaz

Visiting Writer
Jaquira Díaz is the author of Ordinary Girls, winner of a Whiting Award, a Florida Book Awards Gold Medal, a Lambda Literary Awards finalist, an American Booksellers Association Indies Introduce Selection, a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Selection, an Indie Next Pick... Read More →
Thursday October 31, 2024 10:30am - 11:30am EDT
Lumina Theater
  Craft Talk

2:00pm EDT

Both Alone and Together: The Vignette in Series
Thursday October 31, 2024 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT
Lumina Theater
Over the centuries, some of our best literature has been composed as a series of interrelated yet stand-alone pieces. We'll talk about this unique construction, which prioritizes association, assemblage, and fragmentation over causal movement and linearity.
Speakers
avatar for Justin Torres

Justin Torres

Visiting Writer
Justin Torres is the author of the “shimmering, fable-like novel” (Washington Post) Blackouts, winner of the 2023 National Book Award, and the instant contemporary queer classic We the Animals, which was translated into fifteen languages and adapted into a feature film. Marking... Read More →
Thursday October 31, 2024 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT
Lumina Theater
  Craft Talk

7:00pm EDT

Buckner Keynote Reading
Thursday October 31, 2024 7:00pm - 8:00pm EDT
Lumina Theater
Speakers
avatar for Justin Torres

Justin Torres

Visiting Writer
Justin Torres is the author of the “shimmering, fable-like novel” (Washington Post) Blackouts, winner of the 2023 National Book Award, and the instant contemporary queer classic We the Animals, which was translated into fifteen languages and adapted into a feature film. Marking... Read More →
Thursday October 31, 2024 7:00pm - 8:00pm EDT
Lumina Theater
  Buckner Keynote Presentation

8:00pm EDT

Meet & Greet with Justin Torres
Thursday October 31, 2024 8:00pm - 9:00pm EDT
Clocktower Lounge
Speakers
avatar for Justin Torres

Justin Torres

Visiting Writer
Justin Torres is the author of the “shimmering, fable-like novel” (Washington Post) Blackouts, winner of the 2023 National Book Award, and the instant contemporary queer classic We the Animals, which was translated into fifteen languages and adapted into a feature film. Marking... Read More →
Thursday October 31, 2024 8:00pm - 9:00pm EDT
Clocktower Lounge
  Meet & Greet
 
Friday, November 1
 

9:30am EDT

Morning Pages: Day 5
Friday November 1, 2024 9:30am - 10:15am EDT
Lumina Theater
Speakers
avatar for Tim Bass

Tim Bass

Morning Pages
I retired in June 2024 after teaching for 23 years in the Department of Creative Writing. For 15 of those years, I was the coordinator of the Bachelor of Fine Arts Program. In addition to program administration and academic advising, I taught grammar, fiction, creative nonfiction... Read More →
Friday November 1, 2024 9:30am - 10:15am EDT
Lumina Theater
  Morning Pages

10:30am EDT

Crossing Lines: Creating Across Genres
Friday November 1, 2024 10:30am - 11:30am EDT
Lumina Theater
Crossing Lines: Creating Across Genres will serve as a reflection of Both/And, our Writers Week theme this year. We'll discuss the fluidity of artistic expression across boundaries of genre, mode, and medium. We'll explore the blurry lines between fiction, nonfiction, and poetry—but we also want to talk about how being an editor, an activist, a teacher, and more informs an artist's practice.
Speakers
avatar for Mark Cox

Mark Cox

Crossing Lines Panel
MARK COX has authored seven volumes of poetry, the latest being Knowing (2024) and Readiness (2018), both from Press 53. He has a 40-year history of publication in prominent magazines and his honors include a Whiting Writers' Award, a Pushcart Prize, the Oklahoma Book Award, and The... Read More →
avatar for Melissa Crowe

Melissa Crowe

Crossing Lines Panel Moderator
Melissa Crowe is the author of Dear Terror, Dear Splendor (University of Wisconsin Press, 2019) and Lo (University of Iowa Press, 2023), winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize. Her work has appeared recently in Copper Nickel, New England Review, Poetry Northwest, and the Rumpus, among other... Read More →
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Chip Hackler

Crossing Lines Panel
avatar for Jason Mott

Jason Mott

Crossing Lines Panel
Jason Mott is the author of two poetry collections and four novels. His most recent novel, Hell of a Book, was the winner of the 2021 National Book Award of Fiction.
avatar for Michael Ramos

Michael Ramos

Morning Pages, Crossing Lines Panel
Michael Ramos is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at UNC Wilmington and Art Director for Ecotone Magazine. He is an Iraq war veteran and a writer. His essay collection The After: A Veteran's Notes on Coming Home (UNC Press 2024) received a starred Kirkus review.
Friday November 1, 2024 10:30am - 11:30am EDT
Lumina Theater
  Panel

2:00pm EDT

Same River Alumni Reading
Friday November 1, 2024 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT
ZOOM
Speakers
avatar for Melissa Crowe

Melissa Crowe

Crossing Lines Panel Moderator
Melissa Crowe is the author of Dear Terror, Dear Splendor (University of Wisconsin Press, 2019) and Lo (University of Iowa Press, 2023), winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize. Her work has appeared recently in Copper Nickel, New England Review, Poetry Northwest, and the Rumpus, among other... Read More →
Friday November 1, 2024 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT
ZOOM
  Reading

7:00pm EDT

MFA Halloween Reading
Friday November 1, 2024 7:00pm - 9:30pm EDT
Bull City Ciderworks
Friday November 1, 2024 7:00pm - 9:30pm EDT
Bull City Ciderworks 615 S 17th St, Wilmington, NC 28401
  Reading
 
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