Thank you to the amazing speakers at Islanders Write who informed, enlightened, and entertained us at Islanders Write 2016; Thank you Noepe Center for Literary Arts and Justen Ahren for inspiring with workshops; Thank you to Niki Patton for facilitating the first Vineyard Writer’s Challenge and to all those who came out to read their work.
We’d also thank everyone who attended Islanders Write. We look forward to seeing you again in 2017.
OUR 2016 PROGRAM:
Sunday, August 7 at 7:30 pm
The Media and the Making of a President
Jeff Greenfield, Richard North Patterson, Walter Shapiro
and Charlayne Hunter-Gault (moderator)
Upstairs at The Grange Hall in West Tisbury. Doors open at 7pm.
We apologize, we are no longer taking advance reservations for this event.
All advance reservations will be honored until 7:20pm and then released to the public.
Monday, August 8
Panel discussions all day.
Writing workshops with Noepe Center for Literary Arts.
Author signings.
And introducing The Vineyard Writer’s Challenge at The West Tisbury Library.
Stay for the day or stop by for an hour. First come, first seated.
Panel Discussions – Upstairs at The Grange
8:30-9:30 Revisions, Rejection and Moving On
On dealing with rejection and techniques for revising your work, join us for a conversation that will encompass craft, psychology, and a little literary history.
Peter Kramer, Susan Wilson, John Hough, Jr., Alexandra Styron (moderator)
9:30-10:30 Mining History for Story
Researching and writing the narrative non-fiction story.
Joshua Hammer, Walter Shapiro, Meryl Gordon, Arnie Reisman (moderator)
10:30-11:30 The Mystery of Mystery Writing
Forget about who done it? The question is how do they do it?
Linda Fairstein, Cynthia Riggs, Avram Ludwig, Michael Ditchfield (moderator)
11:30-12:30 Writing for Radio: Podcasts and Personal essays
Writing to be heard.
Sean Corcoran, Nancy Aronie, Jay Allison, Callie Crossley
1:00-2:00 Writing for TV
A view from inside the writers room. Selling scripts and crafting story and dialogue for TV.
Halley Feiffer, Misan Sagay, Fred Barron, Clyde Phillips
2:00-3:00 Fictionalizing your Life
Nora Ephron famously said “everything is copy,” if only it was that easy.
Halley Feiffer, Nicole Galland, Adam Mansbach, Lara O’Brien (moderator)
3:00-4:00 Writing about Race
A discussion about race, racial identity and the written word.
Bliss Broyard, Misan Sagay, LaShonda Katrice Barnett, Tony Horwitz (moderator)
4:00-5:00 A Conversation
Two Pulitzer prize-winning novelists in discussion.
Geraldine Brooks and Junot Diaz
Downstairs at The Grange
We invite you to take a writing workshop on cultivating a daily writing practice
with Justen Ahren, founder and director of Noepe Center for Literary Arts
Justen will be facilitating three hour-long workshops.
9:30 am, 12:30 pm and 3:00 pm
Book sales and author signings by Islanders Write authors
If you can’t make the event, pre-order books from The Bunch of Grapes for IW authors to personalize.
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