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May and June listings
Nonfiction Writers Conference, May 3-5, 2023, Gold River, California. Since the Nonfiction Writers Conference began in 2010, their mission has always been to take the traditional writers conference experience and deliver it online. This allows more people to attend from around the world, saving valuable time and travel expenses. It also delivers powerful access to speakers during LIVE learning sessions with interactive Q&A.
Oklahoma Writers Federation Conference, May 4-6, 2023, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Enjoy sessions with publishing experts who can provide career-advancing knowledge. Speakers on legal issues, short stories, writing for film, editing, literary agents and publicists. Space is also provided for attendees to sell their books.
Massachusetts Poetry Festival, May 5-7, 2023, Salem, Massachusetts. During the first weekend of May, Salem becomes the epicenter of contemporary American poetry, offering rare opportunities to hear the nation’s best poets read and discuss their work in intimate and engaging forums. The Massachusetts Poetry Festival showcases nearly 100 poetry readings and workshops, a small press and literary fair, panels, poetry slams, visual arts, and open-air performances.
Hudson Children’s Book Festival, May 6, 2023, Hudson, New York. The Hudson Children’s Book Festival, established in 2009, is held each year in the historic city of Hudson, New York, and strives to create, sustain, and nurture a culture of literacy in partnership with their community and schools. This free, public event fosters a love of reading as families meet and greet world-class creators of books for children of all ages.
LitFest Pasadena, May 6-7, 2023, Pasadena, California. Founded in 2012, LitFest Pasadena is the free, community literary festival with over 200 authors, publishers, editors, agents, and poets participating in over 60 panel discussions, readings, and workshops at venues throughout Playhouse Village.
Bay Area Book Festival, May 6-7, 2023, Martin Luther King, Jr. Civic Center Park, Berkeley, California. Since 2015, Bay Area Book Festival has featured the boldest and most brilliant literary voices in conversations about issues that matter, with a focus on justice and diversity.
Montclair Literary Festival, May 6, 2023, Montclair, New Jersey. Montclair Literary Festival is a community-wide event that aims to exchange ideas, inspire future literary works, and engage with different points of view. Working closely with the Montclair Public Library, Montclair Art Museum, Watchung Booksellers, and a team of local volunteers, the festival will also generate lasting connections within arts institutions, the schools, and the community, benefiting a broad cross-section of participants and attendees.
Greater Pittsburgh Festival of Books, May 12-13, 2023, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The Greater Pittsburgh Festival of Books (GPFB) showcases Pittsburgh’s historic, vital role on the national and international literary stage. Readers, writers, booksellers, publishers, critics, educators, and neighbors will connect with, learn from, and support each other. With free, diverse programming featuring nationally recognized authors (many living in Western Pennsylvania), and across age, genre, and background, the festival will celebrate the joys of literacy.
San Antonio Book Festival, May 13, 2023, San Antonio, Texas. The free, daylong event is a gift to visitors and the citizens of San Antonio, bringing books to life through author presentations, innovative panel discussions, and book sales and signings. Also included in this fun day of literary entertainment are family activities such as children’s theater performances, a technology area, interactive play and art stations, and a selection of the city’s famous food trucks.
Kachemak Bay Writers Conference, May 13-16, 2023, Homer, Alaska. Held in Homer, Alaska, this nationally recognized writing conference features workshops, readings and panel presentations in fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and the business of writing. Since 2002, the Kachemak Bay Writers Conference has been at the heart of Alaska’s growing literary community. With its focus on community and craft, this conference strives to celebrate and enhance the connection between writers and readers in their communities.
Biographers International Organization (BIO) Conference, May 18-21, 2023, Santa Fe, New Mexico. The conference features panels on current issues in biography and the craft of biography, including discussions on building suspense, getting into print, Black women’s biography, and more.
Maine Romance Writers Retreat, May 19-20, 2023, Portland, Maine. Maine Romance Writers strongly supports their members through education, advocacy, networking, support, and recognition of the romance genre. The MRW annual retreat weekend features speakers on a variety of topics related to researching, writing, and self-promotion.
Short Story Fest, May 20-21, 2023, Baltimore, Maryland. Short Story Fest is an annual literary celebration held each year in May, coinciding with National Short Story Month. The purpose of the festival is to bring together readers and writers who enjoy great storytelling, inspiring people of all ages and backgrounds to discover for themselves the transformative wonders of a well-written tale.
Gaithersburg Book Festival, May 20, 2023, Gaithersburg, Maryland. Since its inception in 2010, the festival has quickly become one of the nation’s top literary events, attracting hundreds of award-winning and best-selling authors, poets, and songwriters from across the country to its beautiful park setting.
Blue Ridge Mountains Christian Writers Conference, May 28–June 1, 2023, Ridgecrest, North Carolina. The Blue Ridge Mountains Christian Writers Conference began nearly four decades ago as a spirit-filled environment where writers could move forward in their writing journey and publishing dreams. The legacy event is focused on God’s path for each writer, and the conference is dedicated to meeting professional and spiritual needs.
Book Lovers Con, June 1-4, 2023, Orlando, Florida. Book Lovers Con is an event full of fun and laughter where readers will meet their all-time favorite authors and find new-to-you authors you never knew were missing from your collection!
WCU Poetry Center Poetry and Creative Arts Festival, June 09-11, 2023, West Chester, Pennsylvania. Working with a shared respect and understanding of craft, The Poetry and Creative Arts Festival gives poets and critics, musicians, as well as visual and performing artists opportunities to forge connections across disciplines, to delve into innovative approaches to artmaking, to engage new media and technology, to reconsider the power of revision, and to sharpen their critical lenses.
Write-to-Publish Conference, June 13-16, 2023, Wheaton, Illinois. Since 1971, Write-to-Publish has been training, inspiring and encouraging Christian writers, connecting them with editors to help them improve their craft, with publishers who are looking for good books to publish, and with literary agents who can represent them.
Nantucket Book Festival, June 15-18, 2023, Nantucket, Massachusetts. The Nantucket Book Festival has established itself as a major summer destination for booklovers with impressive and eclectic line-ups of award-winning authors. The multi-day festival offers author readings, panel discussions, and social events in an informal atmosphere that encourages conversations between writers and readers. Most of the festival events are free and held within walking distance of the ferries.
Aspen Summer Words Writing Conference, June 18-23, 2023, Aspen, Colorado. The conference features workshops, including a workshop with a focus on revision, for poets, fiction writers, and nonfiction writers; panels; and readings; as well as opportunities to meet with agents and editors.
Jackson Hole Writers Conference, June 22-24, 2023, Jackson Hole, Wyoming. The annual Jackson Hole Writers Conference brings top agents, editors and authors together each June for a celebration of the craft of writing. For more than thirty years, diverse groups of passionate professional and novice writers have gathered at the Jackson Hole Writers Conference. While attending workshops and keynote addresses at the Jackson Hole Center for the Arts, writers learn about the craft of writing, share ideas, and make new friends while networking with authors, editors, and agents from myriad backgrounds.
American Library Association Annual Conference, June 23 – 26, 2023, Chicago, Illinois. Over 25,000 experts in the industry will help you take your career to new heights. As the world’s largest library event, the ALA Annual Conference & Exhibition brings together thousands of librarians and library staff, educators, authors, publishers, friends of libraries, trustees, special guests, and exhibitors.
International Christian Retail Show (ICRS) 2023, June 25-28, 2023, Georgia World Congress Center, Atlanta, Georgia. Sara Bolme, author of Your Guide to Marketing Books in the Christian Marketplace, considers this the best book show for Christian authors. International Christian Retail Show will provide a huge platform for the coming together of suppliers and retailers of Christian products from all across the world. This event therefore is an excellent forum where sellers will get to meet buyers directly, and this event will stage a wide collection of Christian products and items under one roof. This event therefore will cut down on the efforts of people to go from shop to shop and thus will save their time and energy.
Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Workshop, June 25-August 05, 2023, San Diego, California. Established in 1968, the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Workshop is the oldest workshop of its kind and is widely recognized as a premier proving and training ground for aspiring writers of fantasy and science fiction. Applications are judged by a student selection committee. The review panel selects 18 applicants and a few waitlist students. All applicants are notified of their status by late March/early April. The review panel does not comment or give feedback on stories.
The RBMS Booksellers Showcase, June 27-30, 2023, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. The RBMS Booksellers’ Showcase offers a variety of exhibitors and products like original art and illustration and manuscripts.
