Attendee Registration 2022 Name * First Last * Last Email * Please note: Anyone with an encrypted email address will not be admitted to the festival Address * Address Address Address City City State Alabama Alaska Arkansas Arizona California Colorado Connecticut Delaware District of Columbia Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming State Zip/Postal Zip/Postal How did you hear about the festival? * Carmichael's Word of Mouth Other How did you hear about the festival? Scheduled Presentations Please choose the presentations you would like to attend. Friday, October 28th 10am-10:50am Femi Fadugba - "The Upper World" Rheonna Thornton - Poetry Slam 11am - 11:50am Lynn Slaughter| David F. Balog- Why YA? 12pm - 12:50pm Emily Bingham - "My Old Kentucky Home" Femi Fadugba - "The Upper World" 1pm - 1:50pm Samantha Perkins- Alive AF One Anxious Mom’s Journey to Becoming Alcohol Free Crystal Caudill - Rules You Must Never Break Michelle Bennington| Laurien Berenson| Valerie Burns - Cozy Crime: What is a cozy mystery, and why is it so popular? I Would Rather Be Reading Janna Donovan - "Writing about Hard Things with Humor and Resilience: A Discussion with the Author of *Burnout Diaries: How Work Stress Almost Killed Me", a Tragicomedy 2pm - 2:50pm Brian Livingston - "Just There" Adventure Through Hike of Appalachian Trail Stephanie Ferger - Marketing & Publishing Insights Annie Sullivan- Worldbuilding Characters/ Plot/ Setting Lynn Reynolds - JCPS Library Media Services 3pm - 3:50pm Ghazanfar Hashmi - The Myth of Exceptionalism Danielle M. Orsino, C.R. Rice, Valerie Willis and Erika Lance - Breaking Barriers for LGTBQIA in fiction 3pm - 4:50pm Lydia Sherrer - Developing Your Elevator Pitch 4pm - 4:50pm Dan Canon - "Pleading Out"- Panel with Dr. Jennifer Ortiz & Marc Murphy Kristina Hamlett & Elizabeth Decker-Benjamin - This Poet's Life 5pm - 5:50pm Dan Canon - "Pleading Out"- Panel with Dr. Jennifer Ortiz & Marc Murphy Deanna Talwalker- WORKSHOP Understanding Yourself: An Introduction to the Enneagram Saturday, October 29th 10am-10:50am D.A. Henneman| Catherine Ulrich Brakefield| Pamela Sinha Mathur| Greta Picklesimer - Romance Panel KMAC- Tiny Art Tales Brian Skillen- Kickstarter Book Launch Jen Mann - Life's Hard So Laugh More Daniel K. Epstein - Sacred Listening 11am - 11:50am Maya Payne Smart - Reading For Our Lives Fenyx Blue - Financial Literacy: Playing with Toys and Money Lydia Sherrer & Bridgette Dutta Portman - Fantasy Genre: Building Fantasy Worlds That Won't Let You Go Artress Bethany White - Diverse Literature Saves Lives: A Discussion With the Author of Survivor's Guilt: Essays on Race and American Identity 12pm - 12:50pm Joe Collins - "Extreme Book Club" Anne Armstrong - What is a Magic Moment? 5 Steps to creating moments that matter Wesley Gift/From Brain to Page - How to Write Graphic Novels Jesse DeLong - Poetry Reading 1pm - 1:50pm Francesca T. Royster & Stephen Deusner - Integrity, Nuance, and Performance in the Music of the American South American Printing House for the Blind - A Louisville Dream Danielle M. Orsino, Valerie Willis and Erika Lance- The Front and the backend of the publishing world Tony Acree- How to Pitch to Publishers Louisville Literacy Panel Discussion - Hear from the Book Works, the Imagination Library, and others as they discuss how they work to improve literacy in Louisville 2pm - 2:50pm David Dominé - Don't Rush It! Stephanie Ferger - Realizing Your Writing Dream Joel Shoemaker| Glodean Champion| Halli Gomez - Writing From Our Lived Experiences Tony Acree - Pitching Hour Lynn Reynolds - JCPS Library Media Services, Growing READers, Growing LEADers 3pm - 3:50pm Dave Matheis- A Celebration of Family: Stories of Parents with Disabilities Wesley Browne & James DF Hannah- Rural Noir: Dark Deeds and Down Dark Roads Tonya Duncan Ellis- Sophie Series Mark Chesnut - How to craft and market a memoir Danielle M. Orsino, C.R. Rice, Valerie Willis and Erika Lance - How Authors Keep Their Voice 4pm - 4:50pm Henry Yampolsky- Responding to Conflict and Division in Transformative Ways Deedee Cummings & Charlene Mosley - Collaborating as author and illustrator and finding an illustrator Angie Karcher - Writing Children's Books & Marketing Ellen Birkett Morris - What a Character! 5pm - 5:50pm Norman Minnick - "The Lost Etheridge" Emily Pike Stewart - How to create and publish audio books Dr. Christine Galib - The Art-and Science-of Storytelling If you are human, leave this field blank. Submit Δ
