Schedule Of events

May 10,2025

1-5PM: Guests should plan check-in with housing after 3pm. Registration in Assembly Hall. Housing codes, packets, directions, lanyards, etc.,  

5.30PM: Welcome reception + Happy Hour by Salty Butcher on the Institute Patio

7.15PM: Walk to beach for Sunset (around 7:30PM)

May 11,2025

8-845am - Amavida Coffee

8-830am - Yoga with poet Leona Sevick

8-845am - Breakfast by Shrimp Shack/Pickles, Assembly Hall

9-10am - Seminar, Agent Audrey Crooks: Query Letter 101: Do’s and Don’ts

Workshop meetings:

10:15-12pm - Poetry: Pence (Assembly Hall)

10:15-12pmProse: Sundar (Surfing Deer)

12:30-2:15pm - Prose/CNF: Sundeen (Surfing Deer)

12:30-2:15pm - Poetry: Turner (Assembly Hall)

1230-3pm - Agent Consultations, Location: .

330-430pm - Seminar: Charlotte Pence: Praise for the Praise Poem: Writing Uplifting Poems

5-6pm - Fellows Reading: Institute Patio

6-7pm - Happy Hour and Food by Chiringo, Institute Patio/AH
 
May 12,2025

8-845am - Amavida Coffee

8-830am - Morning Swim with Matt: meet on the beach

8-830am - Yoga with poet Leona Sevick, location

8-845 -Breakfast by Raw and Juicy, Assembly Hall

9-10am - Seminar: Latoya Watkins: Method Writing: Tips and Tricks for Building Complex Characters

Workshop meetings:
10:15-12pm - Poetry: Pence (Assembly Hall)

10:15-12pm-Prose: Sundar (Surfing Deer)

10:15-12pm-Poetry: Turner

12:30-2:15pm - -Prose/CNF: Sundeen (Surfing Deer)

12:30-2:15pm - Prose: Watkins (Assembly Hall)

12:30-3pm - Agent Consultations, Location: Seaside Chapel "Bride’s Room"

3:30-430pm - Seminar: Agent Aurora Fernandez: What Do You Write? How to Place Your Work in Genre or other Categories

5-6pm - Faculty and Scholars Reading, Institute Patio

6-7pm - Happy Hour and Food by Central 87, Assembly Hall patio
 
May 13 ,2025

8-8:45am - Amavida Coffee

8-8:30am - Yoga with Leona Sevick

8-30am - 5k Run with Snowden Wright (meet at Assembly Hall)

8am - Waterfront Breakfast at Bud and Alley’s Restaurant

10-11am - Seminar, Brian Turner: Visionary Poetics: The Cinematic Nature of Poetry

Workshop meetings:

10:15-12pm - Poetry: Pence (Assembly Hall)

10:15-12pmProse: Sundar (Surfing Deer)

10:15-12pmPoetry: Turner

12:30-2:15pm - Prose/CNF: Sundeen (Surfing Deer)

12:30-2:15pm - Prose: Watkins (Assembly Hall)

3:30-430pm - Seminar: Andre Dubus III: On Revision:Challenges Every Writer Must Face

5:30-730pm - (Happy hour 5pm) Visiting Writer Reading and Seafood Boil by Grayton Seafood: at "Backyard of Love" – Hibiscus Coffee and Guesthouse.

LOCALS! Join us for a donation of your choice! REGISTER HERE!
All conference attendees who need a ride (or who have cars to give rides) meet on the Institute patio at 4:45pm. Seafood Boil Dinner follows directly after the reading.
 
May 14 ,2025

8-8.45am - Amavida Coffee

8-8.30am - Morning Swim with Matt: meet on the beach

8-8.30am - Yoga with Leona Sevick

8-8.45AM: Breakfast by , Assembly Hall

9-10 AM: Seminar: Mark Sundeen: Metaphor Repair Shop

Workshop meetings:

10:15-12pm - Poetry: Pence (Assembly Hall)

10:15-12pm-Prose: Sundar (Surfing Deer)

10:15-12pm-Poetry: Turner

12:30-2:15pm - Prose/CNF: Sundeen (Surfing Deer)

12:30-2:15pm - Prose: Watkins (Assembly Hall)

12:30-300PMAgent Consultations, Location: Seaside Chapel "Bride’s Room".

3:30-415pm - Seminar: Agent Ayla Zuraw-Friedland: Your Agent and You: What to expect from your agent/author relationship

5-6pm - Visiting Writer Reading at Distillery 98
LOCALS: buy a pass for a donation of your choice! PURCHASE HERE
All conference attendees who need a ride (or who have cars to give rides) meet on the Institute patio at 430pm. Food by Grayton Seafood.
 
May 15 ,2025

8-8.45am - Amavida Coffee

8-8.30am - Yoga with Leona Sevick

8-8.45 Breakfast by Amavida, Assembly Hall

9AM-1pm - Fellows and Scholars depart for Writers in the Classroom outreach program

9:35AM-11:15 am - SWHS

10-130pm - Agent Consultations, Location: Seaside Chapel "Bride’s Room"

FREE DAY - NO WORKSHOPS: Read/Write/Explore!

3:30-415: Seminar: Agent Kayla Lightner: Subrights 101: Translation, Film, and Audio - The Different Lives Your Book Can Live

5-6pm - Sundog Bookstore Signing Event and Reception. Come meet our authors and get your books signed!

DINNER IS ON YOUR OWN— for local restaurants, check for reservations or put your names in early - Patronize our local sponsors!

8;30-10pm - Attendee Reading Open Mic - Assembly Hall

May 16,2025

8-8.45am - Amavida Coffee

8-8.30am - Yoga with Leona Sevick

8-30am - 5k Run with Snowden Wright (meet at Assembly Hall)

8-8.45am - Breakfast by Amavida, Assembly Hall

9-10am - Seminar, Agent

10-1pm - Agent Consultations, Location: Seaside Chapel "Bride’s Room"

Workshop meetings:

10:15-12pm - Poetry: Pence (Assembly Hall)

10:15-12pm-Prose: Sundar (Surfing Deer)

10:15-12pm-Poetry: Turner

12:30-2:15pm - Prose/CNF: Sundeen (Surfing Deer)

12:30-2:15pm - Prose: Watkins (Assembly Hall)

330-4.15: Seminar: Sheila Sundar: Something to Say: Writing Characters with Political and Social Consciousness

5-6pm - Faculty Reading: Institute Patio

6-7pm - Pizza Party by Grace Pizza, Assembly Hall Patio

7-9pm - Bonfire on the Beach
 
May 17,2025

8-11AM: All depart

Date: May 10-17,2025

Location: Seaside Institute-168 Smolian Circle Santa Rosa Beach, FL 32459

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