Authenticity is often what separates a good story from a convincing one. Moderated by Angela Greenman, Aliah Wright, John Bukowski, Mike Tucker, Randy Overbeck, and Sharon Butcher discuss how smart research choices bring precision, texture, and truth to both fiction and nonfiction. This session focuses on practical research techniques that help writers write with confidence while keeping stories vivid and grounded in reality.
Thinking Visually From the First Draft
This session explores how to write a screenplay that translates seamlessly from script to screen. The guest speaker focuses on how words, dialogue, and visual storytelling work together to create cinematic impact, showing writers how to think like filmmakers from the...




