Name: Time & Pacing
Start: 2027-01-16T13:45:00-0500
End: 2027-01-16T14:45:00-0500

Saturday January 16, 2027 1:45pm - 2:45pm EST

Handling short and long time, time jumps, flashbacks, and multiple timelines is the bane of a writer’s existence. Add to that the thorny issue of pacing, and you’ve got a devilish duo that can make or break any piece of writing. This session will offer advice on what to do and what to avoid from the trenches of our panel’s experiences—the good, the bad, and everything in between.

Moderators

Michelle Hoover

GrubStreet, Instructor

Michelle Hoover is co-founder and current leader of the GrubStreet Novel Incubator program as well as the creator of the 7am Novelist podcast. She is a 2014 NEA Fellow and has been a Writer-in-Residence at Brandeis University, a fellow at MacDowell, Bread Loaf, and Sewanee Writers... Read More →

Speakers

Juliet Faithfull

LIAR’S DICE, Author

Juliet Faithfull is a Spanish-British-American writer who grew up in Brazil. Her debut novel, Liar’s Dice, was recently published by Jenna Bush Hager’s imprint Thousand Voices in partnership with Random House; it was also a winner of the 2024 Irish Writers Centre’s Novel Fair and a semifinalist for the James Jones First Novel Fellowship. A graduate of Harvard University and Smit... Read More →

Jennie Wood

NEW ROMANTICS, Author

Jennie Wood is an author, musician, and animal rescue volunteer. Jennie created the acclaimed graphic novel series Flutter with artist Jeff McComsey, hailed by The Advocate as one of the best LGBTQ graphic novels of its time. Jennie’s 2023 graphic novel Paper Planes sold out of... Read More →

Julie Carrick Dalton

THE FOREST BECOMES HER, Author

Julie Carrick Dalton is the author of The Forest Becomes Her, The Last Beekeeper, and Waiting for the Night Song. Her work has won the New Hampshire Book Awards’ People’s Choice Award for Best Novel and been named a finalist for the Massachusetts Book Award, the Siskiyou Prize for New Environmental Literature, and other prizes. A former journalist, organic farmer, and beekeeper, she is a... Read More →

Patricia Park

AMBROSIA LEE DROPS THE MIC, Author

Patricia Park writes humorous and heartfelt coming-of-age-novels set in the “Queens Multiverse.” Her adult novel Re Jane, is a Korean American retelling of Brontë’s Jane Eyre. Her Middle-Grade/YA crossover novel is What’s Eating Jackie Oh?, and the YA novels are Imposter... Read More →

Saturday January 16, 2027 1:45pm - 2:45pm EST
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