Conferences

Some of these festivals have already happened for 2024 but are recurring year to year. This gives you plenty of time to plan for an excursion for 2025! Others are…

AUG 30th – SEPT 2nd Oklahoma City, OK The annual WriterCon Conference is three days of 60+ speakers providing more than 80 sessions designed to cover all genres and all…

June 9-10 Maine Crime Wave, Portland, Maine July 19-21 Book Passage Mystery Writers Conference, Corte Madera, California June 19-23 Space Coast Book Lovers Event, Cape Canaveral, Florida June 20-24 Lyme…

The second American Writers Festival on May 19, 2024 in Chicago is presented by the American Writers Museum and Chicago Public Library. The free literary festival will be held at…

The 40th annual Cuesta College Central Coast Writers Conference will be held on Saturday, October 5, 2024. Location: Cuesta College San Luis Obispo Campus. Topics will be relevant to creators…

New Hampshire–Live Free and Write by Murphy Writing of Stockton University, August 11–16, 2024, writers retreat at Dexter’s Inn at Sunapee. Beginners and experienced writers welcome. Scholarships available. murphywriting@stockton.edu.

Indiana – MWW24 Conference (Midwest Writers Workshop), July 11–13, 2024, in-person or virtual. In-person at Ball State Alumni Center, Muncie, Indiana. In-person, $289, virtual, $219. midwestwriters@yahoo.com.

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…

DFW writers conference October 5 & 6 Hurst, Texas “The premier, multi-genre writers conference in the Southwest.”

The International Women’s Writing Guild Summer Conference in Bristol, Rhode Island, on the campus of Roger Williams University August 1-5. Writing workshops on playwriting, poetry, memoir, fiction and more. At…