Wondering how to protect your writing against unauthorized use? Are you just trying to get started freelancing? Looking to self-publish?

Sharpen your pencils and charge your laptops…the third annual Writers’ Weekend at the Mark Twain House and Museum starts on Friday. There will be a keynote conversation, book signings, workshops, panels, and reading series throughout the weekend.

Here’s what the schedule looks like:

Friday, April 25

6:00 pm — Welcome Reception

7:00 pm — Keynote, Meg Wolitzer

8:00 pm — Book signing with Meg Wolitzer

Saturday, April 26

10:00 am — Workshops

  • Tim Parrish: “In Tension: Conflict in Fiction and Memoir”
  • Susan Campbell: “Ferreting Out the Facts”
  • Susan Schoenberger: “Finding an Agent”

11:00 am — Workshops

  • Bessy Reyna: “Poetry as Memoir”
  • Mary Sharnick: “Making A Scene: Jump Start Your Novel”
  • Wayne English: “Writing for the Web”
  • Patrice Fitzgerald: “Self-Publishing: The Reality of Doing It Yourself”

12:00 pm — Critics’ Panel

2:00 pm — Workshops

  • TJ Jarrett: “Poetry”
  • John Casey: “What’s Funny”
  • Mike Morin: “Pitching for Publicity”

3:00 pm — Workshops

  • Vivian Shipley: “Revising for Publication”
  • Patricia Chaffee: “Freelancing for Local Markets”
  • Susan Schoenberger: “The Fiction Writer’s Mindset”
  • Mary-Ann Tirone Smith: “The Art of the Memoir:  The Remembered Life”

4:00 pm — Playwriting Panel

6:30 pm — Literary Death Match (a “competitive, humor-centric reading series“)

Sunday, April 27

10:00 am — Workshops

  • Steve Courtney: “Telling Someone Else’s Story”
  • Ravi Shankar: “Collaborate to Recreate; or How to use your Friends to Make Yourself a Better Writer”
  • Leslie Johnson: “Fiction”

11:00 am — Workshops

  • Aisha Sabatini Sloan: “The Architecture of the Essay”
  • David Handler: “Mystery”
  • Christine Beck: “What Writers Need to Know about the Law “
  • Vladimir Alexandrov: “Researching and Writing a Forgotten Black American’s Amazing Life”

1:00 pm — Workshops

  • Matthew Dicks: “A Sneak Peak Into the Publishing Industry”
  •  John Stanizzi: “Synesthetic Poetry”
  • Qais Akbar Omar: “Case Study of a Memoir”

2:00-3:30 pm — SYLLABLE (a non-competitive reading series)

To see the full schedule and get tickets, click here.

And bring money — there will be books for sale.