We’ve lined up New York Times bestsellers and literary superstars right alongside some of this year’s biggest debut authors for an Exquisite Corpse unlike any you’ve ever seen. SLICE’s Paul Florez and Randy Winston are serving as hosts for the reading and will keep even the most unruly writers in line!

Here’s how this Exquisite Corpse game works: One author plucks a sentence from a hat and uses that sentence to kick off a story—right there, on the spot. The next author gets the last sentence of the first author’s installment (without hearing anything that preceded it) and continues the story. And so on. The result is a story stitched together, live, right before your eyes, without any preparation, by a group of literary masters (the final lineup will be announced in our conference program).

*Free and open to the public.