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Events & Writing News
Events
May 17 Greensboro Bound Book Festival
May 14-18 Sleuthfest
May 15 Pangyrus LitMag Submission
May 15 Loraine Williams Poetry Prize, Georgia Review
May 15 Crooks Corner Book Prize
May 15 Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize, American Poetry Review
May 15 James Laughlin Award, Academy of American Poets
May 15-18 Crimefest
May 17 How to Use Social Media Today, Sisters in Crime
May 17 Gaithersburg Book Festival
May 29 Will Your Nonfiction Book Sell, Writers Digest University
May 31 Guy Owen Prize, Southern Poetry Review
May 31 Sacramento Book Festival
May 31 BOA Short Fiction Prize
May 31 New Immigrant Writing Prize, Restless Books
May 31 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction
May 31 - June 1 Bay Area Book Festival
June 7 ShortCon
June 11- 13 Nonfiction NOW 2025
June 13-14 Capital Crime Festival
June 14-15 Maine Crime Wave
June 19 How to Research Agents and Publishers Like a Pro, Writers Digest University
June 27 Unpublished Novel Award, The Black List
June 30 To Hull And Back Humorous Short Story Competition
July 2 Writing a Compelling Query for Your Non-Fiction Book, Jane Friedman
July 8 Spotify X JED Impact Award
July 9 Mastering Character Inner Life, Tiffany Yates Martin
July 10 MWW25 Summer Conference
July 15 The Genre Films Manuscript Partnership Award, The Black List
July 18-20 Book Passage Mystery Writers Conference 2025
July 24- 24 Writers Digest Annual Conference
July 31 Anthology Short Story Competition
August 1 International Best Indie Book Award
August 1 Rock & Roll Short Story Contest
August 6 Onyx Collective Manuscript Initiative Program, The Black List
Aug 21 - Aug 24 Killer Nashville writers conference
Aug 27 - Sep 3 Craft & Publishing Voyage
August 31 American Book Fest Award
August 31 The BookLife Prize Award
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
September 26-27 Cuesta College Central Coast Writers Conference
September 27-28 New Frontiers in Writing
October 18-19 The Morristown Festival of Books
October 22- 26 Tremont Writers Conference in Townsend, TN
November 3-7 Author Nation Live, Las Vegas
November 7-9 New England Crime Bake
November 9 Midwest Mystery Conference
November 15 Pangyrus LitMag Submissions
January 21 Eric Hoffer Book Awards
February 12 Next Generation Indie Book Award
Lambda Literary Special Awards
Monthly submissions due by the 26th of each month for Andromeda magazine short story contest.
Monthly submissions due by the 28th of each month for Future Scholars Foundation, click for monthly story prompts.
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