9:30 a.m. Registration Begins

10:30 a.m. - 12 noon Main Event: What Makes a Writer? with

Anna Quindlen Moderator Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author (chair, Barnard Trustees)	Ann Brashares (Traveling Pants series)	Edwidge Danticat (National Book Award finalist ; Krik? Krak!, Breath, Eyes, Memory and The Dew Breaker)	Mary Gordon (Bestselling novels: Final Payments, The Company of Women, Men and Angels, The Other Side)	Jhumpa Lahiri (Pulitzer Prize winner; Interpreter of Maladies, The Namesake)

12:15 p.m. to 1:15 p.m. Lunch

AFTERNOON PANELS:

1:30 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. Session One

[Registrants will select one of the following panels at time of registration.]

• NEW PANEL: Writing Your Life in Cyberspace: Bloggers Talk About the Newest Route to Fame and Infamy
  with Julie Moos, Robyn Schneider and Stephanie Klein
  
• Getting Published: Top Literary Agents and New Authors
  with: Molly Friedrich, Ellen Geiger, Lauren Sanders, Meg Mullins
  
• The Art of Humor and Satire in Fiction
  Ann Bernays, moderator
  with: Valerie Block, Cathleen Schine, Jane Leavy
  
• Writing for Television
  with: Alexa Junge, Sharon Johnson
  
  
• Writing for Children-- PANEL FULL
  Vicki Cobb, moderator
  with: Ellen Handler Spitz, Genevieve Gallagher
  
• The Art of the Memoir -- PANEL FULL
  Frances Kiernan, moderator
  with: Jeannette Walls, Daphne Merkin, Phyllis Raphael
  
• The Novel: Memorable Female Characters in Fiction -- PANEL FULL
  Mary Gordon, moderator
  with: Hortense Calisher, Suki Kim, Erica Jong, Elizabeth Benedict
  
• The Poet's World -- PANEL FULL
  Saskia Hamilton, moderator
  Karen Swenson, Rachel Blau du Plessis, Suzanne Vega
  
• The Voice of the Child and Adolescent in Fiction -- PANEL FULL
  with: Ann Brashares, Galaxy Craze, Eliza Minot, Amy Hassinger, Audrey Schulman
  
• The Gatekeepers and Trendsetters: Writing about the Arts, Movies, Style and Design -- PANEL FULL
  Sharon Waxman, moderator
  with: Eugenia Zukerman, Karen Wilkin, Jami Bernard, Alex Kuczynski
  
• Magazine and Newspaper Writing: Content and Culture -- PANEL FULL
  Dana Points, moderator
  with: Atoosa Rubenstein, Cyndi Stivers, Alexis Gelber, Roberta Caploe
  
• Everybody Wants to Write a Movie -- PANEL FULL
  Susan Stamberg, moderator
  with: Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal, Delia Ephron
  

3:15 - 4:45 p.m. Session Two

[Registrants will select one of the following panels at time of registration.]

• Food for Thought: Culinary Writing
  with: Dana Jacobi, Melissa Clark
  
  
• Writing Across Cultures -- PANEL FULL
  with: Suki Kim, Edwidge Danticat
  
• Books and Movies in the Post-September 11th World -- PANEL FULL
  Alexis Gelber, moderator
  with: Lynne Sharon Schwartz, Stacey D'Erasmo, Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal, Jessica Stern
  
• The Writer's Life: Discipline, Inspiration, Rejection and Triumph -- PANEL FULL
  Rosellen Brown, moderator
  with: Catherine Wald, Suzy McKee Charnas, Karen Swenson, Batya Swift Yasgur
  
• Biography: Capturing a Life -- PANEL FULL
  Barbara Lovenheim, moderator
  with: Frances Kiernan, Melissa Haley
  
• Literary Agents and Publishers: Finding the Bestseller -- PANEL FULL
  Julie Grau, moderator
  with: Helen Breitwieser, Nina Collins, Lourdes Lopez
  
• Mystery Writing -- PANEL FULL
  with: Faye and Jonathan Kellerman
  
• What Makes a Great Interview -- PANEL FULL
  Maria Hinojosa, moderator
  with: Sharon Waxman, Ginia Bellafante, Jeannette Walls
  
• Writing about Science and Medicine -- PANEL FULL
  Vicki Cobb, moderator
  with: Nieca Goldberg, Natalie Angier
  
• Writing for on and off Broadway and Beyond -- PANEL FULL
  Professor Pat Denison, moderator
  with: Ellen McLaughlin, Julia Jordan, Jeanine Tesori, Brooke Berman

Tickets are $65 which includes a box lunch. Tickets may be purchased by calling (212) 626-6527. We are no longer selling tickets online. We will continue to sell available seats by telephone ONLY. Please call (212) 626-6527 to register. Leave your name and telephone number if the voice mail message is on. Your phone call will be returned.

Please call 212-626-6527 or email writersconference@barnard.edu with any additional questions.