schedule of events

Tentative Schedule of Events
(all authors are not confirmed)


Rooms	BIG SANDY	OHIO	MTG. ROOM 1	MTG. ROOM 2	MTG. ROOM 3
9:00pm- 10:00pm	Opening and Registration
10:00am-11:15am	Sharyn McCrumb ""Tell The Truth, But Tell It Slant": Using Historical Fact in Literary Fiction"	Madcap Puppets: "The Dream Weavers."	Joe Geiger & Jack Dickinson. "Researching the Civil War in Your Backyard."	Laura Bentley, Mark Defoe and John McKernan: "Why Poets Write."n	Dave Leiber: "If a New Yorker turned West Virginian Can Make it in Texas, Imagine What You Can Do!"
11:30am- 12:45pm	Ken & Melanie Light. “Coal Hollow: Images and Words from Southern West Virginia.”	Michelangelo Altiere: “Most Sincerely Yours: A look at letters in fiction yesterday and today.”	Kevin Stewart: "How to Write West Virginian."	Shutta Crum:"A Bag Full of Stories: Storytime for Threes and Up-and Their Adults."	Mary Alice Mairose: "The Ohio Governor's Residence & Heritage Garden."
1:30pm-230pm	Denise Wiles Adams: “Restoring American Gardens: Ornamental Plants and Landscapes, 1770-1920.”	Poetry Alive	Allen Loughry: “Don’t Buy Another Vote, I Won’t Pay for Your Landslide: The Sordid And Continuing History of Political Corruption in West Virginia."	Debbie Dadey: "Falling Out of A Plane and Into a Story."	Michele Rubin: "Inside Major Publishing."
2:45pm-4:00pm	Jon Carloftis	Shutta Crum: "Get These Crazy Characters Out of My Head! How a Writer Works."	Gordon Simmons, Chris Hatten, and David Owens: “Identifying Saleable Books and Ephemera.”	Coal Poetry Anthology	Jean Edward Smith: "FDR"
4:00pm- 5:00pm	Authors Signing Books & Closing