THE SINCLAIR LEWIS FOUNDATION OF SAUK CENTRE PRESENTS:

The 33rd Annual Sinclair Lewis Writers’ Conference

Saturday, October 7, 2023

Agenda:

8:30 am                       REGISTRATION

9:15 am                       WELCOME and OVERVIEW

9:30 am                       PANEL DISCUSSION:  Basics of Writing and Publishing

                                     Marcie Rendon; Thomas R. Smith; Julie Pfitzinger; Danny Klecko; moderated by Jim Umhoefer

10:45 am                    SESSION ONE

                                    Thomas R. Smith: A Year of Writing Dangerously

                                    Julie Pfitzinger: Telling Your Story: The First Keystroke to the Final Product

                                    Danny Klecko:  How To Find An Audience For Your Poems

11:45 am                  LUNCH

12:45 pm                 KEYNOTE TALK:  Marcie Rendon

                                 “We Are Still Here—Telling Our Stories Through Poetry, Fiction and Non-fiction”

2:00 pm                 SESSION TWO

                                Each topic from Session One will be repeated

3:15 pm               SESSION THREE

                              Each topic from Session One will be repeated

4:30 pm               Reception at the Palmer House Hotel (door prizes/cash bar)

NOTE: Each Session will be one hour in length, followed by a 15-minute break.