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Events & Writing News
Events
January 14 Colorado Prize for Poetry
January 15 Organize Your Writing Life, Allison K Williams
January 15 Rose Post Creative Nonfiction Competition
January 15 Cai Emmons Fiction Award, Red Hen Press
January 15 Desert Writers Award, Ellen Meloy Fund
January 16 How to Get Published, Writers Digest University
Jan 24- 26 Novel Writing, Writers Digest University
January 27 Fund for Investigative Journalism
January 30 Thomas Wolfe Fiction Poetry
January 30 Iowa Review Awards
January 30 How to Hook an Agent, Writers Digest University
January 31 Litmosphere poetry contest
February 6 Establish (or Improve) Your Email Newsletter, Jane Friedman
February 13 Five Steps to An Airtight Plot, Writers Digest University
February 21 Gaithersburg Book Festival poetry
Feb 21- 23 Romance Writing Virtual Conference, Writers Digest University
February 27 Next Generation Short Story Awards
February 27 Outer Banks: Writers at the Beach Winter 2025
March 1-2 Genre Fiction Writers Conference
March 12 5 Secrets to Fantastic Flash, Dinty W Moore
March 13-15 Left Coast Crime 2025: Rocky Mountain High Jinks
March 26 - 29 Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference
March 31 Virginia Writers Project submissions for poetry, prose, history, and art
April 8 The Business of Being a Writer with Jane Friedman
April 10-13 Hamptons Whodunit
April 25-27 Malice Domestic
Apr 29 - 30 ECPA Leadership Summit
May 10 Tin House poetry collections
May 14-18 Sleuthfest
May 15-18 Crimefest
May 17 Gaithersburg Book Festival
May 31 Sacramento Book Festival
May 31 - June 1 Bay Area Book Festival
June 7 ShortCon
June 13-14 Capital Crime Festival
June 14-15 Maine Crime Wave
July 18-20 Book Passage Mystery Writers Conference 2025
Aug 21 - Aug 24 Killer Nashville writers conference
Aug 27 - Sep 3 Craft & Publishing Voyage
September 3-7 Bouchercon
September 5-7 CrimeCon: The World's #1 Event for True Crime & Mystery
September 13 Tin House short story collections
September 13- 21 International Agatha Christie Festival
September 19-20 Creatures, Crimes, and Creativity Con
September 20-22 StoryFest 2024
October 18-19 The Morristown Festival of Books
November 7-9 New England Crime Bake
November 9 Midwest Mystery Conference
Resources
- QueryTracker is a resource to search for literary agents and record your query submissions.
- Independent Book Publishers Association
- Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America has a wealth of information, including Writer Beware.
- Writer’s Digest provides an informative list of 100 Common Publishing Terms.
- The Alliance of Independent Authors, ALLi, rates the best and worst self-publishing services.
- Authors Guild provides a multitude of resources for writers.
- Horror Writers Association
Flowers By Blair Flowers and Gift arrangements for any occasion. Find her on Instagram and Facebook @FlowersbyBlair
- Advanced Self-Publishing with Orna Ross and Joanna Penn on first Fridays at 1 pm GMT
- Member Q&A with Orna Ross and Michael LaRonn on second Fridays at 1 pm GMT
- Foundational Self-Publishing with Dan Parsons and Orna Ross on third Fridays at 1 pm GMT
- Self-Publishing News with Dan Holloway and Howard Lovy on fourth Fridays at 1 pm UTC
- Inspirational Indie Authors Interviews with Howard Lovy on second Sunday at 1 pm GMT
- ALLi: FAQs Answered