Day/Time

FRI A Session

FRI B Session

Agents

SAT A Session

SAT B Session

Agents

8:00 - 9:00 am

Registration/Orientation/Breakfast

Registration/Breakfast

9:00 - 10:30 am

Book Reviewers
-Lev Grossman, Time
-Joy Press, Village Voice
-Celia McGee, Former Daily News
-Angela Dodson, BIBR
-Michael Tyrell, Chelsea
-Tim W. Brown, moderator

Birth of a Book
-Andy Greenwald,author
-Jen Bergstrom, publisher
-Ryan Fischer-Harbage, editor
-Jennifer Robinson, publicist
-Kerrie Loyd, account manager
-Mark Kohut, moderator

Agent Meetings

Writing Process Q&A
-Sean Wilsey, author
-Lou Young, WCBS-TV
-Sigrid Nunez, author
-Michael Mason, author
-Alex Steele, moderator

Marketing/PR
-Larry Davidson, Writers on the Vine
-Janet Goldstein, Publishing Consultant
-Sara Graham, FOX 5
-Heather Covington, Disilgold Soul
-Greg Godek, author
-Carol Hoenig, moderator

Agent Meetings

11:00 am - 12:30 pm

Non-Fiction Agents
-Peter Miller, PMA
-Judith Riven, Judith Riven Literary Agency
-Madeline Morel, 2M Communications
-Kate Epstein, The Epstein Literary Agency
-James Fitzgerald, moderator

Fiction Agents
-Kimberly Whale n, Trident
-Alex Glass, Trident
-Daniel Lazar, Writers House
-Irene Skolnick, Irene Skolnick Agency
-Violaine Huisman, Charlotte Sheedy Agency
-Anne Reid Garrett, moderator

Writers' Organizations
-Louis Reyes Rivera, NWU
-Jen Benka, Poets & Writers
-Dare Thompson, HVWC
-Melissa Rosati, IWWG
-Gary Frank, Horror Writers Association
-Janet Goldstein, moderator

Literary Presses & Journals
-Ram Devineni, Rattapallax
-Charles Valle, Fence
-Allison Lorentzen, n+1
-Joanna Yas, Open City
-Tim Hall, Undie Press
-Cantara Christopher, moderator

12:30 - 2:00 pm

Lunch-Nuala O'Faolain, author

Lunch-Mario Bosquez, WCBS-TV

2:00 - 3:30  pm

Fiction Editors
-Paul Slovak, Viking
-Megan Lynch, Riverhead
-Beverly Horowitz, Random House
-Sarah Branham, Atria (Simon Schuster)
-Carol Hoenig, Moderator

Non-Fiction Editors
-Hilary Redmon, Viking
-Denise Oswald, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
-Emily Takoudes, Ecco
-Anita Diggs, Thunder's Mouth/Avalon
-Madeline Morel, moderator

Agent Meetings

Careers in Publishing
-Margot Atwell, agent
-Janet Kinney-Denning and Manuela Soares, Pace U. Publishing Program
-Fred & Jan Yager, Hannacroix Creek Press
-CJ Sullivan, New York Post
-Madeline Morel, moderator

Self-Publishing
-Susan Driscoll, iUniverse
-Carol Hoenig, author
-Relentless Aaron, author
-Perry Brass, author
-Ron Pramschufer, RJ Communications
-Mark Kohut, moderator

Agent Meetings

4:00 - 5:30 pm

Online Writing
-June Thomas, Slate
-Laurel Touby, Mediabistro
-William Bastone, Smoking Gun
-Salvatore Borriello, New Partisan
-Rebecca Traister, Salon
-Bill Goldstein, moderator

Magazines
-Diane Byrne, Power & Motoryacht Magazine
-Amanda Casgar, Budget Living
-Jordan Heller, Black Book
-Nancy Kelton, author
-Alex Pappademas, GQ
-Karen Saks, moderator

Breakout Sessions:

Book Proposals
-James Fitzgerald, James Fitzgerald Agency

Creating a Bestselling Career: From Contract to Pub Date and Beyond
-Lloyd Jassin, attorney
-Greg Godek, author

Children's/YA Literature
-Bennett Madison, author
-David Ezra Stein, author/illustrator
-Paul Jacobs, author
-Maureen Johnson, author
-Eric Suben, author

6:00 - 7:00 pm

Cocktail Reception

Cocktail Reception

6:30 - 8:30 pm

Reading-Bowery Poetry Club

Gala Reception/Speaker-Jonathan Ames