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Saturday, October 10th, Japan Standard Time
| Room 1 (Mostly Fiction) | Room 2 (Mostly Poetry) | Room 3 (Nonfiction/Other) | Room 4 (Lounge) |
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| 9:00 | Naomi Hirahara Developing a Mystery Sleuth Lecture, Q&A | Christopher Simons Cross-Disciplinary Poetry, Workshop | Joan Bailey Meet the Editors Panel Discussion | |
| 10:00 | Melinda Falgoust Formula for Developing Plot Lecture, Q&A | Gregory Dunne The Truth of Poetry Lecture, Q&A | Patrick Parr Write and Sell Biography Lecture, Q&A | |
| 11:00 | David Brennan Playing with Voice in Fiction Lecture, Q&A | Paul Rossiter ISOBAR Press Poetry Reading | Todd Jay Leonard Publishing in EFL Market Lecture, Q&A | |
| 12:00 | Lunchtime Chat | |||
| 1:00 | Michael Pronko Structuring Blues: Long Fiction Lecture, Q&A | Warren Decker Rhyme and Meter Craft Workshop | Karen Hill Anton Writing Your Memoir Lecture, Q&A | |
| 2:00 | Michael Guest Depicting Marginalized Characters Lecture, Q&A | John Dougill Writers in Kyoto Lecture, Q&A | Marco Lobo Research for Authenticity, fiction and nonfiction Lecture, Q&A | |
| 3:00 | Steve Redford Managing Writing a Novel Lecture, Q&A | Percival Constantine Successful Self-Publishing Lecture, Q&A | ||
| 4:00 | Happy Hour |
Sunday, October 11th, Japan Standard Time
| Room 1 (Mostly Fiction) | Room 2 (Mostly Poetry) | Room 3 (Nonfiction/Other) | Room 4 (Lounge) |
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| 9:00 | Barry Eisler Write a Killer Opening Lecture, Q&A | David Gilbey Poetry Workshop Pre-registration Required | Kai Raine Subsidy presses and Self-publishing Lecture, Q&A | |
| 10:00 | Steven Wolfson Cinematic Storytelling Lecture, Q&A | David Gilbey Poetry Workshop, cont. | Maybin/Donnery Textbook Revision Lecture, Q&A | |
| 11:00 | Suzanne Kamata Writing about Disability Lecture, Q&A | Michael Dylan Welch Going Nowhere--Haiku Lecture & Workshop | Steve McClure The Art of the Interview Lecture, Q&A | |
| 12:00 | Lunchtime Chat | |||
| 1:00 | Charles Kowalski Creating 3D Villains Craft Workshop | Jane Joritz-Nakagawa, Yoko Danno, Goro Takano Poetry Reading | Bob Tobin Writing, Publishing, Promoting Nonfiction Lecture, Q&A | |
| 2:00 | Wendy Nakanishi How to Write a Crime Novel Lecture, Q&A | Michael Frazier Persona in Poetry Craft Workshop | Iain Maloney Making Narratives from Experience Lecture and Reading | |
| 3:00 | Hans Brinckman Making a Memoir From a Journal Lecture, Q&A | John Gribble MFA: The Good, Bad and Expensive Panel Discussion | ||
| 4:00 | Happy Hour |
