workshops
FICTION DISCUSSION / Breaking In: From Manuscript to First Novel
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6 / 4-5pm
Tickets $25
Not long ago, these three debut novelists, Melissa Anderson Sweazy, Hallie Shepherd and Tara Goedjen, were exactly where many aspiring writers are now. In this discussion, they share how they found their agents, landed publishers and made it to their first book launch, including what they wish someone had told them sooner. Bring your questions about querying, agents, and getting published. Limited capacity, purchase a ticket here.
true crime / Forensic Art: Facial Approximation from Skeletal Remains
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7 / 10-11am
Tickets $25
What does a skull tell you? Join forensic artist Joe Mullins and learn hands-on how the skull reveals vital clues about age, ancestry, sex, facial structure, and people’s unique anatomical features. Through a blend of science and art, the session demonstrates the methods used in forensic facial approximation to assist investigators to identify unknown individuals. Limited capacity, purchase a ticket here.
TRUE CRIME / From First Impression to Confession: techniques used during real criminal interviews and interrogations
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7 / 11am-12pm
Tickets $25
A 60-minute interactive presentation by Brad Beeler, a former Secret Service Special Agent, that takes the audience inside the interview room and walks through the process from the first few seconds of meeting someone all the way to getting them to open up and tell the truth. Covering first impressions, building trust, reading behavior, asking better questions, detecting possible deception, and other techniques used during real criminal interviews and interrogations. Limited capacity, purchase a ticket here.
TRUE CRIME / Witness for the Prosecution
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7 / 2-3pm
Tickets $25
How accurately can you describe a scene you’ve only seen for a few moments? In this interactive workshop, participants watch a short video. Afterwards, they are asked to describe certain aspects of the scene from memory and work with our experts to apply their recollections to the crime. The workshop offers a fascinating, hands-on look at eyewitness memory, forensic interviewing, and the role of composite sketches in criminal investigations. It also demonstrates why eyewitness descriptions can be valuable investigative leads while remaining imperfect and subject to memory limitations. Limited capacity, purchase a ticket here.
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7 / 3-5pm
Tickets $25
TRUE CRIME / X-Ray Identity Portrait Booth
Discover what lies beneath the surface in this unique interactive experience. Participants will have a side-profile photograph taken, which will be used to examine their facial structure and create a realistic interpretation of what their skull might look like. Each participant will receive their personalized skull portrait as a one-of-a-kind keepsake. Limited capacity, purchase a ticket here.
FICTION: the story starts now
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 8 / 1-2:30pm
Tickets $25
Pick your genre, then take a character, a verb, an adjective and an adverb and write a complete short story on the spot. New York Times bestselling author Heather Graham, with more than 200 novels to her name, coaches you along the way. A few past participants have gone on to publish the stories they started here! Limited capacity, purchase a ticket here.