Authors After Dark Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, August 12-16, 2015
This is an event for readers featuring 100 authors with at least six parties, a steampunk tea and other events. Registration is typically limited to 400 reader attendees. YA day…
Conferences
HippoCamp: A Conference for Creative Nonfiction Writers, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, August 7-9, 2015
Hippocampus Magazine is an online publication set out to entertain, educate, and engage writers and readers of creative nonfiction. HippoCamp is an in-the-flesh extension of that three-fold mission. This three-day…
Deadly Ink, New Brunswick, New Jersey, August 7-9, 2015
Brad Parks, guest of honor and E. F. Watkins, toastmaster. http://www.deadlyink2015.org.
Digipalooza, Cleveland, Ohio, August 5-7, 2015
OverDrive Digipalooza is a conference for partner libraries that offers education and networking geared toward increasing circulation of digital audiobooks, eBooks, music, and video.
Writer’s Digest Conference, New York NY, July 31-August 2, 2015
The conference features sessions about writing, publishing, marketing, and more, as well as the three-hour Agent Slam with sixty professional agents. www.writersdigestconference.com
Book Passage Mystery Writers Conference, Corte Madera, California, July 23-26, 2015
The 22nd Annual Book Passage Mystery Writers Conference. Editors, agents, and publishers share with participants what they need to know to get published. Authors offer classes on setting, dialogue, suspense,…
Romance Writers Conference, New York City, July 22–25, 2015
The RWA Conference is the place where career-focused romance writers meet, mingle, and get down to the business of being an author.
Theaksons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival, Harrogate, United Kingdom • July 16–19, 2015
M.C. Beaton, Mark Billingham, Lee Child, Ann Cleeves, Lisa Gardener, Arnaldur, Val McDermid, David Morrissey, Sara Paretsky, Sally Wainwright. The Festival dates are 16-19 July 2015, so block out these…
Readercon 26, Burlington, Massachusetts, July 9-12, 2015
Readercon is an annual conference devoted to imaginative literature—literary science fiction, fantasy, horror, and the unclassifiable works often called slipstream. Although modeled on science fiction conventions, there is no art…
Thrillerfest X, New York, New York, July 7–11, 2015
Honoring 2015 ThrillerMaster Nelson DeMille along with 2015 Spotlight Guests Mark Billingham, Charlaine Harris, and Greg Iles. 2014 ThrillerMaster Scott Turow and 2014 Silver Bullet Award recipient Brenda Novak will…