Keynote Speaker Larry Doyle is the author of the novel I Love You, Beth Cooper, soon to be released as a film directed by Chris Columbus and starring Hayden Panettiere as Beth. He was a writer and producer for The Simpsons for four years and now writes for The New Yorker magazine.

Featured guests include poet Ned Balbo, novelist Jessica Anya Blau, children's author Margaret Meacham, editor Mark Drew, novelist Geoff Becker, and contract lawyer Cynthia Sanders.

Registration opens at 8:30 a.m.; Keynote begins at 9 a.m. Registration fee includes continental breakfast, lunch and closing reception. Sessions run from 10:15 a.m. to 5:15 p.m. Session topics include fiction, non-fiction, poetry, magazine and journals, agents and publishers, and blogging.

Saturday, November 8 in Towson University's University Union. For more information, visit the BWC website.