Donald Maass
Donald Maass founded the Donald Maass Literary Agency in New York in 1980. He is the author of The Career Novelist (1996), Writing the Breakout Novel (2001), Writing the Breakout Novel Workbook (2004), The Fire in Fiction (2009), The Breakout Novelist (2011), Writing 21st Century Fiction (2012) and The Emotional Craft of Fiction (2019). He is a past president of the Association of Authors’ Representatives, Inc.
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2026 Keynote Speakers
OPENING KEYNOTE
Emily Nemens
Water, Water Everywhere: Wellsprings, Rivers, and Floods in our Writing
FRIDAY PLENARY
Brendan O'Meara
Rage Against the Algorithm: How to Build a Lasting Author Platform without Social Media
SATURDAY PLENARY
Sonora Jha
Wake Up, and Other Daily Writing Practices in a Time of Madness
CLOSING KEYNOTE
Derek Sheffield
Equipment for Living: On the Necessity and Nature of Poetry
2026 Faculty
Kelli Russell Agodon
Anastacia-Reneé
Sarah Hawley
Glen Hirshberg
Maya Jewell Zeller
Scott Lambridis
Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe
Donald Maass
Laura Mazer
Elise McHugh
Brenda Miller
Peter Mountford
A. Muia
Sati Mookherjee
Katie Reed
Lucy Tan
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