RNA Conference Timetable
THE RNA CONFERENCE, HARPERADAMSUNIVERSITY, 14-16 JULY 2017
Edgmond, Newport, Shropshire TF10 8NB
Thursday 13th July2pm onwards / Collect room keys from Aspire building.
If driving, park in Visitor Car Park C1
Settle into accommodation
6 - 7pm / BAR in The Welly Inn
7 - 8pm / DINNER in Queen Mother dining room (ground floor)
8 - 11pm / BAR in The Welly Inn
THE RNA CONFERENCE, HARPERADAMSUNIVERSITY, 14-16 JULY 2017
Friday 14th July7.30 - 9 am / BREAKFAST (for those staying Thursday night)in Queen Mother dining room
9-12 / Make up the goody bags, Bookstall setup by Booka Books
Set up RNA reception hub, tables, noticeboards
Weston building foyer
Sandwich lunch for helpers
All offers of help gratefully received!
Choices / A / or B / or C / or D
MAIN CONFERENCE BEGINS HERE!
1pm onwards / Collect room keys from Aspire building, register for conference (Weston)
Lunch will be available to buy in the Graze Café in the Faccenda building
(next to Queen Mother Hall - photo 10, campus plan 24)
Goody bags, Bookstall, tea and coffee
Weston foyer
2.45-3.45 / Janet Gover: What wordsmiths need to know about pictures / Felicity Trew: The role of an agent and how to write the perfect submission letter / Lucy Felthouse: Write unforgettable sex scenes / Rosie de Courcy
editor/author appts
3.45-4.00 / break
4.00-4.30 / WELCOME by Nicola Cornick followed by conference notices with Jan Jones
4.30-5.30 / Panel: The state of the industry
Nicola Cornick (chair) with
Rosie de Courcy, Isobel Dixon
Broo Doherty, Sam Missingham
Emily Yau / Carol McGrath: Fabric, embroidery & tapestry as inspiration for historical fiction / Pia Fenton
1-1 appts for ChocLit
6pm-7.30 / BAR in Queen Mother Hall (upstairs)
7.30-8.30 / DINNER in Queen Mother dining room (downstairs)
8.30-midnight / BAR in Queen Mother Hall (upstairs)
THE RNA CONFERENCE, HARPERADAMSUNIVERSITY, 14-16 JULY 2017
Saturday15th July / A / or B / or C / or D
7.30 - 9am / BREAKFAST in Queen Mother dining room for residential delegates
Day visitor registration from 8.30am in Weston foyer
9.00-10.00 / Nicola Cornick, Sarah Morgan: Let’s get social - make social media work for you! / Ruth Frances Long: Back to school - demystifying the schools talk / Immi Howson:
New Writers’ Scheme
get together / Broo Doherty
Lisa Eveleigh
Felicity Trew
agent/author appts
Natasha Harding
editor/author appts
10.00-10.30 / Tea, coffee and biscuits
10.30- 11.30 / Elizabeth Chadwick: Beyond the dressing up box (historical talk) / Alison May, Bella Osborne:
Plotter vs Pantser / Ria Cheyne: Writing disability in romance - potentials & pitfalls / Broo Doherty
Lisa Eveleigh
agent/author appts
Emily Yau
editor/author appts
11.45-12.45 / Joanna Maitland, Sophie Weston: Sparkle by Liberta - add sparkle to your ms / Pia Fenton, Anna Belfrage: Playing with time in romantic fiction (making timeshift work) / Clare Mitchell(Clare London): Keep calm & call an accountant / Rosie de Courcy
Natasha Harding
editor/author appts
Emily Ruston, Jenny Hutton: editorial consultants1-1 appts
12.45-1.45pm / Lunch, tea & coffee
in Queen Mother dining room
1.45-2.45 / Jill Mansell in conversation with Kate Johnson / Lynne Connolly: Is WORD still the only one? / Julia Williams,
Laurie Johnson
M&B editor/author appointments
Alex Hammond
editorial consultant1-1 appointments
3.00-4.00 / RNA Open Discussion: Have Your Say!
Your chance to have a say in how you’d like the RNA to develop. It's also a chance to hear about plans that are already underway.
4.00- 4.30 / Tea, coffee and biscuits
4.30-5.30 / Emily Ruston, Jenny Hutton: “Say what?” Deconstructing the revisions letter / Julia Williams, Laurie Johnson, Charlotte Ellis:
Make a date with Mills & Boon! / These We Have Loved: Ian Skillicorn on Lucilla Andrews
& Louise Allen on reviving the backlist / Julia Silk
Kate Nash
Isobel Dixon
agent/author appts
6.30-7.30 / Pre-dinner drinks in Queen Mother Hall (upstairs)
1st glass free, cash bar thereafter
7.30- 9pm / GALA DINNER
Including the Presentation of the Elizabeth Goudge Trophy
in Queen Mother dining room
9pm-midnight / BAR in Queen Mother Hall (upstairs)
THE RNA CONFERENCE, HARPERADAMSUNIVERSITY, 14-16 JULY 2017
Sunday16th July / A / or B / or C / or D
7.30 - 9am / BREAKFASTin Queen Mother dining room for residential delegates
Day visitor registration from 8.30am in Weston foyer
9.00-10.00 / Liz Harris: I speak, therefore I can write speech. Or can I? (dialogue workshop) / Laura James: The IT in wrITing - ways in which technology can help writers / Paisley Piranhas: Pia Fenton, Katy Haye, Gill Stewart, Claire Watts on the current YA scene / Julia Silk
Tanera Simons
agent/author appts
10.00-10.30 / Tea, coffee and biscuits
10.30-11.30 / Fiona Harper:
Building characters from the inside out / Ian Preston:
Time mastery - making effective use of your time / Immi Howson: NWS Readers’ get together / Tanera Simons
agent/author appts
11.45-12.45 / Panel:How Can I help?Chaired byAlison MaywithDebbie Johnston, Julia Silk andJulia Williams / Catherine Miller: How to sell a story in two lines / Sonia Duggan: Feel the fear... and write anyway / Pia Fenton (ChocLit)
1-1 appts
12.45-1.00 / Nicola Cornick sums up the 2017 Conference
1.00-2.00pm / Lunch, tea & coffee
in Queen Mother dining room
End of Main Conference. Sunday Extra starts here!
2.00- 3.00 / Mandy Baggot:
From indie to Ebury / Marie Macneil: Writing for the movies
3.15-4.15 / Nicola Slade: From kissing to killing / Kate Johnson:
Building a fictional world
4.15-4.45 / Tea, coffee and biscuits
4.45-5.45 / Jan Jones: How Much ... is Too Much? Whole room discussion about writing and reading in which all the topics are of the form “How much (or many) <insert topic here> is/are too much (or many)? Bring wine. Trust me, this will work.
6 - 7pm / BAR in The Welly Inn
7 - 8pm / DINNER in Queen Mother dining room
8 - 11pm / BAR and Sunday Night Quiz in The Welly Inn
Delegates staying overnight should please vacate the accommodation by 9am on Monday.
See you at Leeds Trinity next year!