CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
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We're still fine-tuning our 2025 schedule. This summer's full program will be distributed to all admitted writers in advance of their arrival on campus as well as posted here. While we will post workshop descriptions further in advance of of the Below we have complied a (non-exhaustive) list of workshop descriptions from past conferences; these are posted with the intent of giving applicants a better idea of what a week at Kettle Pond might be like. Please check back later in the spring!
2024 at KETTLE POND WRITERS
​Saturday, June 22
1:00 - 5:00pm
Conference Check-In
5:00 - 5:45pm
Welcome Reception
5:45 - 6:45pm
Dinner
7:30 - 8:00pm
Conference Orientation
8:00 - 8:30pm
Evening Reading
Kevin Bertolero
8:45 - 11:00pm
Lakeside Social & Bookstore Hours
​Sunday, June 23
7:30 - 8:45am
Breakfast
9:00 - 10:00am
Faculty Lecture
Christopher Citro - On Giving Up: Its Uses & Benefits in the Writing Life​
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10:15 - 11:15am
Workshop Session
Brian Hall - Short Short Fiction (part I)
10:15am - 12:15pm
Workshop Session
Kevin Bertolero - I Remember, I Remember
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12:15 - 1:15pm
Lunch
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1:00 - 4:00pm
Kayak & Canoe Launch Hours
1:15 - 2:15pm
Faculty Lecture
Michael Seidlinger - How to Find Your Own Perfect Day
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2:15 - 3:15pm
Book Club with Jack (part I)
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4:30 - 5:30pm
Resident Writer Readings
5:45 - 6:45pm
Dinner
7:30 - 8:00pm
Evening Readings
Michael Seidlinger & Kem Joy Ukwu
8:45 - 11:00pm
Lakeside Social & Bookstore Hours
​Monday, June 24
7:30 - 8:45am
Breakfast
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9:00 - 10:00am
Faculty Lecture
Kem Joy Ukwu - Goals & Gravity in Story Creation (& Recreation)​
10:15 - 11:45am
Workshop Session
Brian Hall - Short Short Fiction (part II)
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10:15am - 12:15pm
Workshop Session
Christopher Citro - Broken Things & Anaphora
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12:15 - 1:15pm
Lunch
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1:00 - 4:00pm
Kayak & Canoe Launch Hours
4:30 - 5:30pm
Resident Writer Readings
5:45 - 6:45pm
Dinner
7:30 - 8:00pm
Evening Readings
Jack Bachmann & Christopher Citro
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8:45 - 11:00pm
Lakeside Social & Bookstore Hours
Tuesday, June 25
7:30 - 8:45am
Breakfast
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9:00 - 10:00am
Faculty Lecture
Sandra Lim - Remarks on Endings​
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10:15am - 12:15pm
Workshop Session
Sandra Lim -Using Myth in Poems
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10:15am - 12:15pm
Workshop Session
​Kem Joy Ukwu - Short Fiction
12:15 - 1:15pm
Lunch
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1:00 - 4:00pm
Kayak & Canoe Launch Hours
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1:15 - 3:15pm
Workshop Session
Naomi Jackson - Writing Down to the Bones I
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4:30 - 5:30pm
Resident Writer Readings
5:45 - 6:45pm
Dinner
7:30 - 8:00pm
Evening Readings
Brian Hall & Sandra Lim
8:45 - 11:00pm
Lakeside Social & Bookstore Hours
Wednesday, June 26
7:30 - 8:45am
Breakfast
9:00 - 10:00am
Faculty Lecture
Brian Hall - Writing From Reality
10:15am - 12:15pm
Workshop Session
Sandra Lim - Lists! (13 Ways of Looking at Description)
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11:15am - 12:15pm
Workshop Session
Michael Seidlinger - 3-Hour Idea Generator Intensive (part I)
12:15 - 1:15pm
Lunch
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1:00 - 4:00pm
Kayak & Canoe Launch Hours
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1:15 - 3:15pm
Workshop Session
Michael Seidlinger - 3-Hour Idea Generator Intensive (part II)
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4:30 - 5:30pm
Resident Writer Readings
5:45 - 6:45pm
Dinner
8:30pm - ?
Reception at Kettle Pond Staff Residence
Thursday, June 27
7:30 - 8:45am
Breakfast
9:00 - 10:00am
Faculty Lecture
Naomi Jackson - Building Books / Building Essays
10:15 - 11:15am
Workshop Session
Brian Hall - Four-Beat Couplets (part I)
10:15 am - 12:15pm
Workshop Session
Kem Joy Ukwu - From Short Story to Screen
12:15 - 1:15pm
Lunch
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1:00 -4:00pm
Kayak & Canoe Launch Hours
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1:15 - 3:15pm
Workshop Session
Naomi Jackson - Writing Down to the Bones II
3:30 - 4:30pm
Chapbook Roundtable
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4:30 - 5:30pm
Resident Writer Readings
5:45 - 6:45pm
Dinner
7:30 - 8:30pm
Evening Readings
Cecilia Corrigan & Deirdre Coyle
8:45 - 11:00pm
Lakeside Social & Bookstore Hours
Friday, June 28
7:30 - 8:45am
Breakfast
9:00 - 10:15am
Faculty Lecture
Kevin Bertolero - In Suffering / With Joy: On Time, Place & the AIDS Crisis
10:30am - 12:00pm
Workshop Session
Brian Hall - Four-Beat Couplets (part II)
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10:30am - 12:30pm
Workshop Session
Christopher Citro - The Sky & Leaping
12:15 - 1:15pm
Lunch
1:00 -4:00pm
Kayak & Canoe Launch Hours
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1:15 - 2:15pm
Pilates Mystery with Cecilia
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2:15 - 3:15pm
Meditation with Deirdre
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3:15 - 4:15pm
Book Club with Jack (part II)
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4:30 - 5:30pm
Publishing with John & Kevin
5:45 - 6:45pm
Dinner
7:00 - 8:00pm
Evening Readings
Naomi Jackson & Ashley Mayne
8:30pm - 12:00am
2024 Conference Party & Salon
​Saturday, June 29
7:30 - 8:45am
Breakfast
9:15 - 10:15am
Workshop Session
Ashley Mayne - The Unknown
9:30am - 2:00 pm
Conference Check-Out