Saturday, June 22, 2024, at Elaine’s Restaurant in Old Town Alexandria, Virginia.
The day includes:
- Three hours of in-depth instruction on how to craft short crime fiction from New York Times bestselling novelist and multiple-award-winning short-fiction author Brendan DuBois.
- Insider look at the world’s leading mystery magazines by Alfred Hitchcock’s and Ellery Queen’s senior managing editor Jackie Sherbow.
- Career lessons from the author of more than twelve-hundred short stories—Michael Bracken.
- Wrap-up discussion led by short-crime fiction rising star Stacy Woodson.
The hope is to expand this one-day conference into a multi-day, multi-track convention next year, with an entire track devoted exclusively to short fiction, and with a short-story writer as a guest of honor in addition to a novelist guest of honor.