3rd Annual Lighthouse LitFest
June 6 to June 21, 2008
"I noticed that all the other PEN/Hemingway finalists have MFAs from the best, except for one unknown guy with an MFW (Masters of Fine Workshops) from the University of Lighthouse. Pretty dang cool."
--member Gary Schanbacher, author of Migration Patterns, which was shopped and acquired at the first annual Lighthouse Lit Fest, recently short-listed for the PEN/Hemingway award.
Lighthouse LitFest brings writers together with each other and a handpicked selection of accomplished authors, agents, editors, and other bookish types. We'll fill our days with intensive workshops, entertaining and provocative salons, stimulating craft seminars, and more.
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| Workshop | Day | Time | Location | Instructor | Starts |
| LitFest | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All-Access Festival Pass--LitFest 2008 | Friday | Varies | Ferril House PTR | Instructors | 06/06/2008 |
| Craft Seminars Five-Pack | Friday | Varies | Ferril House LR | Instructors | 06/06/2008 |
| Opening Reception | Friday | 6:00 to 9:00PM | Ferril House LR | Instructors | 06/06/2008 |
| Environmental Writing: Changing the World | Saturday | 1:00 to 4:00 PM | Ferril House LR | Pritchett, PhD | 06/07/2008 |
| Novel Bootcamp | Saturday | 9:00 AM to Noon | Ferril House PTR | Henderson, MA | 06/07/2008 |
| Writing a Shadowbox | Saturday | 9:00AM to Noon | Ferril House 3FS | Fletcher, MFA | 06/07/2008 |
| Writing Through Character | Saturday | 9:00 AM to Noon | Ferril House LR | Roeder, MFA | 06/07/2008 |
| Making Memoir | Saturday | 1:00 to 4:00 PM | Ferril House PTR | Root | 06/07/2008 |
| From Detail to Big Picture and Back: Navigating Your Book | Saturday | 1:00 to 4:00 PM | Ferril House LR | Palmer | 06/07/2008 |
| Emotion on the Page and Off | Saturday | 1:00 to 4:00 PM | Ferril House 3FS | Berg, PhD | 06/07/2008 |
| Stalking the Real Story (or) Finding Meaning | Monday | 5:00 to 7:30 PM | Ferril House PTR | Caudron, MFA | 06/09/2008 |
| Writing about Real People | Monday | 2:00 to 4:30 PM | Ferril House 3FS | Caudron, MFA | 06/09/2008 |
| Finding Your Material | Monday | 5:00 to 7:30 PM | Ferril House LR | Dupree, MFA | 06/09/2008 |
| Writing Voodoo | Monday | 8:00 PM | Forest Room 5 | Henderson, MA | 06/09/2008 |
| Developing the “I” Narrator | Tuesday | 5:00 to 7:30 PM | Ferril House LR | Caudron, MFA | 06/10/2008 |
| Writing Your Truth | Tuesday | 2:00 to 4:30 PM | Ferril House 3FS | Kailey | 06/10/2008 |
| Stretching the Truth | Tuesday | 5:00 to 7:30 PM | Ferril House PTR | Hendrie | 06/10/2008 |
| Why Don’t You Collage That? Or, The Art of the Asterisk | Wednesday | 5:00 to 7:30 PM | Ferril House LR | Root | 06/11/2008 |
| Literary Journalism | Wednesday | 2:00 to 4:30 PM | Ferril House PTR | Caudron, MFA | 06/11/2008 |
| Deep Revision | Wednesday | 5:00 to 7:30 PM | Ferril House 3FS | Dupree, MFA | 06/11/2008 |
| Writing What You Know | Thursday | 2:00 to 4:30 PM | Ferril House 3FS | Roeder, MFA | 06/12/2008 |
| Writing What You Don't Know | Thursday | 5:00 to 7:30 PM | Ferril House LR | Berg, PhD | 06/12/2008 |
| Stealing From Poetry | Thursday | 5:00 to 7:30 PM | Ferril House 3FS | Henry, MFA | 06/12/2008 |
| Mixed-Up Arts | Thursday | 8:00 PM | Forest Room 5 | Instructors | 06/12/2008 |
| How to Make a (Darned Good) Living as a Freelance Writer | Friday | 2:00 to 4:30 PM | Ferril House 3FS | McPherson | 06/13/2008 |
| Ratcheting Up Your Prose | Monday | 5:00 to 7:30 PM | Ferril House 3FS | Root | 06/16/2008 |
| With a Nod to the Greats | Monday | 2:00 to 4:30 PM | Ferril House PTR | Pritchett, PhD | 06/16/2008 |
| Writing to One Person | Monday | 5:00 to 7:00 PM | Ferril House LR | Roeder, MFA | 06/16/2008 |
| DNC 2008 | Monday | 8:00 PM | Forest Room 5 | Rothman, PhD | 06/16/2008 |
| Writing Sex Well | Tuesday | 2:00 to 4:30 PM | Ferril House 3FS | Pritchett, PhD | 06/17/2008 |
| Hermit Crabs and Other Thievery | Tuesday | 5:00 to 7:30 PM | Ferril House PTR | Fletcher, MFA | 06/17/2008 |
| Collected Stories: The Whole or the Sum of the Parts? | Tuesday | 5:00 to 7:30 PM | Ferril House 3FS | Arvin, MFA | 06/17/2008 |
| Writing Humor | Wednesday | 2:00 to 4:30 PM | Ferril House LR | Caudron, MFA | 06/18/2008 |
| Voices in Your Head: A Workshop on Character | Wednesday | 5:00 to 7:30 PM | Ferril House PTR | Leff | 06/18/2008 |
| I to Eye: Writing About Photographs, Away from the Self | Wednesday | 5:00 to 7:30 PM | Ferril House LR | Instructor | 06/18/2008 |
| Writing the Alpine: Mountain Journalism for the Soul and Maybe Even the Bank Account | Thursday | 5:00 to 7:30 PM | Ferril House 3FS | Rothman, PhD | 06/19/2008 |
| Metaphor as Theme | Thursday | 5:00 to 7:30 PM | Ferril House 3FS | Henry, MFA | 06/19/2008 |
| Aerobic Writing | Thursday | 2:00 to 4:30 PM | Ferril House PTR | Leff | 06/19/2008 |
| Mid-Year Writing Goals Tune-up | Friday | 2:00 to 4:30 PM | Ferril House LR | Caudron, MFA | 06/20/2008 |
| A Gourmand's Tale | Friday | 6:00 to 10:00 PM | By the Botanic Gardens | Instructors | 06/20/2008 |
| Business Panel Pass | Saturday | 10 AM to 3:30 PM | Tattered Cover LoDo | Instructors | 06/21/2008 |
| The Business of Books: A Frank Panel Talk | Saturday | 10:00 to 11:30 AM | Tattered Cover LoDo | Instructors | 06/21/2008 |
| Making Contact, With Agent Betsy Lerner | Saturday | Noon to 1:30 PM | Tattered Cover LoDo | Lerner | 06/21/2008 |
| First Impressions, With Agent Betsy Lerner | Saturday | 2:00 to 3:30 PM | Tattered Cover LoDo | Lerner | 06/21/2008 |