Coffee will be available.

Networking Room
(Morosco)

A "Networking Room" will be available on a sign-up basis, for a maximum of 30 minutes, for members to meet in person.

Personal Pitching Appointments
(Lyceum-Imperial-Booth)

Personal Pitching Appointments allow members to meet with, individually, and pitch to agents and editors. This is the first time we've tried this, so we'll need your goodwill, good attitude, cooperation, and possibly forbearance, to make it work. Click here for full details.

Not enough time? Use these time management methods to create more time to pitch, interview, and write--even get in that golf game. From goals to more and better output, and even some leisure, here's how to make time work for you!

Workshop Leader: Erik Sherman, contributor to The New York Times Magazine, Newsweek, US News & World Report, USA Weekend, Technology Review, Editor & Publisher, and author of several books.

2) Literary Narrative Nonfiction
(Carnegie Hall-Alvin)

Making the leap from doing those short service pieces, or even those longer "voice-y" pieces, to writing that long-form, narrative nonfiction piece, may seem the impossible dream. How can you get that first assignment; how can you find the right approach; how do you do the research; how can you work with the editor to be sure--as you develop the story--that it works for the publication?

Participants:

• Moderator Rebecca Skloot, ASJA, contributing editor at Popular Science magazine, and contributor to The New York Times and The New York Times Magazine, Wilson Quarterly, Chicago Tribune, others. Skloot is a regular faculty member at the yearly Mid-Atlantic Summer Creative Nonfiction Writers Conference. Her first book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, is forthcoming from Crown.
• Burkhard Bilger, Senior Editor at Discover, a staff writer for the New Yorker, and author of Noodling for Flatheads and series editor of The Best American Science and Nature Writing. A former and editor for The Sciences, where he helped earn two National Magazine Awards and six nominations, Bilger has written for The Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, and The New York Times.
• Tom Bissell is the author of Chasing the Sea, an account of his journey through Uzbekistan to the Aral Sea, commonly regarded as the world's worst ecological catastrophe. His journalism, fiction, and criticism have appeared in numerous magazines, among them Harper's, McSweeney's, The Boston Review, Esquire, Granta, and The Believer.
• A.J. Jacobs, senior editor, Esquire Magazine; former writer and editor at Entertainment Weekly. Author of The Two Kings: Jesus and Elvis; America Off-Line; and The Know-it-all: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World, forthcoming from Simon & Schuster.
• Michael Rosenwald, staff writer for The Boston Globe, and a contributor to The New Yorker, Popular Science, ESPN The Magazine, Creative Nonfiction, and the New York Times. One of Rosenwald's magazine pieces is a finalist in the feature writing category for the 2004 National Magazine Award.

If freelance writing is more than a hobby for you, treat it like a business--including a solid career plan with short-, mid-, and long-range goals. This session will teach you how to define your financial, marketing, and creative objectives.

Moderator: Jennifer Haupt, ASJA, author of hundreds of articles for AARP: The Magazine, Entrepreneur, Family Circle, Lifetime, Parents, Woman s Day and other magazines, as well as several business books.

Participants:

• Sam Greengard, Past president ASJA, author of articles that have appeared in dozens of magazines including Wired, Discover, Family Circle, American Way, Hemispheres, Chief Executive, Business Finance, Workforce and Los Angeles.
• Kelly James-Enger, ASJA, author, Ready, Aim, Specialize! Create your own Writing Specialty and Make More Money; freelancer for magazines including Redbook, Woman's Day, Self, Health, Continental.
• Sondra Forsyth, ASJA, contributing editor, Ladies' Home Journal; former executive editor, Ladies' Home Journal, features editor, Cosmopolitan, articles editor, Bride's; National Magazine Award winner; author of scores of articles for the major magazines and author or co-author of nine books.

How can you get the best from your assignment? These editors will discuss the fine techniques of interviewing, and key points of article development. Plus, you'll get the chance to ask those tough questions you--until now--could only post on the Phorum: how many editors will be involved in "editing" my piece; if we have a conflict over article content, how will you handle it; how often do you pay a kill fee; what's your timeframe and procedure for processing a writer's check?

Moderator: Karen Bannan, ASJA, contributor to Better Homes & Gardens, Brides, Family Circle, Good Housekeeping, Scientific American, Wall Street Journal, Woman's Day, others.

Participants:

• Doug Harbrecht, editor, BusinessWeek.
• Diane Debrovner, senior editor, Parents.
• Anne Fritz, service editor, Woman's Day.
• Amy Fishbein, senior health editor, Fitness.

Award-winning books can be purchased at the Barnes & Noble bookfair in the Shubert-Majestic room. Award-winning articles will be available outside the dining room after lunch.

Over the past decade, journalism has changed in more ways than any of us could have imagined. Have ethics deteriorated and standards dropped? Five diverse voices in journalism discuss current challenges to our ethics and practices as writers.

Moderator: Jack El-Hai, Executive vice president, ASJA; author of the forthcoming biography The Lobotomist

Participants:

• Susan Berfield, associate editor, BusinessWeek.
• Cynthia Cotts, media critic, The Village Voice.
• John Dinges, asistant professor, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism; author of The Condor Years: How Pinochet and His Allies Brought Terrorism to Three Continents.
• Janine Latus, ASJA. Instructor, School of Communication, East Carolina University.
• Steve Weinberg, ASJA, Professor of Journalism, University of Missouri; author of The Reporter's Handbook.

If you want your career to have two simultaneous directions--nonfiction and fiction--here's how to make both work so that the transition is seamless. Here's how to get the best from both; and how to raise the level so each informs and improves the other.

Moderator: Sally Wiener Grotta

Participants:

• Janice Harayda, ASJA, is an award-winning journalist who has been a staff writer for Glamour, editorial director of Boston Magazine, and the book editor and critic for The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer. Five years ago she successfully made the transition from nonfiction to fiction when St. Martin's published her first novel, The Accidental Bride, a comedy of manners that serves up the American wedding industry. Her second novel is due out later this year from Sourcebooks.
• Lucy Kavaler, ASJA, is the author of 15 nonfiction books and two novels. When a reviewer wrote of Lucy Kavaler's Freezing Point, that "it can match many a novel in its style" she decided that the time had come to make the change to fiction. The results were Heroes and Lovers, about an all-women's expedition in a race for the South Pole, and The Secret Lives of the Edmonts, about the excesses of the fabulously rich in New York and Newport in 1895.
• Carol Weston, ASJA, is the author of ten books including three Knopf novels for children: The Diary of Melanie Martin, Melanie Martin Goes Dutch, and With Love From Spain, Melanie Martin. Her nonfiction includes Girltalk: All The Stuff Your Sister Never Told You, Fourth Edition (HarperCollins, 2004) and For Teens Only: Quotes, Notes & Advice You Can Use. She's also the "Dear Carol" advice columnist at Girls' Life.