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Lynne Streeter Childress is a playwright, actor, teaching artist, singer, director, and the founding artistic director of Building Better People Productions, a theater company for young audiences based in Annapolis, MD, that does works based on themes of kindness and respect. Her show, "We Got It!: A Show About Empathy," has toured schools around the DC/MD/VA area. Lynne's 26-year career in professional theater as a performer, educator, and administrator has taken her to places like the Kennedy Center, Arena Stage and the Folger Shakespeare Library. Lynne lives in Annapolis, Maryland, with her husband and son. Website: http://bbpproductions.com 10:30 AM This session seeks to provide ways to approach writing about historical events and figures in a way that allows the modern reader to see themselves in the place and time of the events. The session will also provide tips on writing about history in a way that the individuals are humanized rather than presented as a list of facts or stereotypical displays of habits, rhetoric, or actions. The session hopes to answer the question: how do I tell history differently while still be true? Kerri Moseley-Hobbs -- As CEO and executive director of More Than A Fraction Foundation, Dr. Kerri Moseley-Hobbs continues an almost 20-year career in education, currently serving in roles on both sides of education: administration and research/program development. This includes experiential learning, educational presentation and exposure, and historical research. Along with her extensive work with prestigious projects, she is a research author of a creative nonfiction book, More Than a Fraction: Based on a true story 11:45 AM
Lizzy Solovey is the creator of a three-part writing workshop series called "Unleash the Writer Within" and has taught four years of high school English. She holds an M.A. in the Teaching of English from Columbia University's Teachers College and participated in Kenyon College's Writing Workshop for Teachers. Lizzy believes not only that everyone is a creative writer, but also that everyone can use creative writing as a way to heal. | 2:15 PM
Randon Billings Noble is an essayist. Her collection Be with Me Always was published by the University of Nebraska Press in March 2019 and her anthology A Harp in the Stars: An Anthology of Lyric Essays is forthcoming from Nebraska in 2021. Other work has appeared in the "Modern Love" column of The New York Times, The Rumpus, Creative Nonfiction, and elsewhere. Currently she is working on her next book, a lyric meditation on shadows, and teaching in the West Virginia Wesleyan Low-Residency MFA Program. She is also the founding editor of the online literary magazine After the Art. You can read more at her website, www.randonbillingsnoble.com. 3: 30 PM
Michael Mitchell is a music journalist who writes for a wide variety of online music magazines, including Post-Punk.com, Torched, Stereo Embers, ReGen, God is in the TV, and Spill. He can be found rocking in Wilmington, Delaware, where he is happily married with two adult children (who also love to rock). In lieu of cash, he is always willing to work for concert tickets, backstage passes, albums, CD's, cassettes, or 8-tracks. SESSION SUMMARIES by TRACK Beginning Fiction - Advanced Fiction |