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Events & Writing News
Events
May 5-9 Thrillerfest XXI
May 16 CrimeCONN 2026
May 17 Crime Time at Old Haunts Bookshop, Capitol Crimes
May 20 Abandon Your Outline & Elevate Your Writing, Steven James
May 21 Working with Small and Independent Publishers, Inked Voices
May 24- 30 Martha Stewart Institute of Creative Writing Writers Conference
May 27 Bookstore Events for Fun, Profit, and Total World Domination, Sisters in Crime
May 27 Showing & Telling with Tiffany Yates Martin, Jane Friedman
May 27 Early Career Writers of Poetry submission deadline
May 28 Underground Books Author Talk with Walter Mosley
May 30 CIPA EVVY Awards
May 31 Kellman Prize for Immigrant Literature
May 31 Southern Poetry Review Guy Owen Prize
May 31 University of Georgia Press Flannery O'Connor Award for short fiction
May 31 Boa Short Fiction Prize
June 3-7 SFWA Nebula Conference
June 6 ShortCon by East Coast Crime
June 9 The Blackstone Publishing Novel Initiative
June 13 Stockholm Writers Festival
June 14- 20 Martha Stewart Institute of Creative Writing Writers Conference
June 19-20 Indie Love Nashville
June 20 Blk Ink Book Festival
June 25 What It Takes to Sell Your Memoir, Writers Digest University
June 25-29 ALA 2026 Annual Conference & Exhibition
June 29 Craft First Chapter Contest
July 8 Building a Strong Author-Publisher Relationship, Anne Trubek
July 13 Black List Unpublished Novel Award submission deadline
July 14 From Pulse to Prose, Sisters in Crime
July 15 Deep Winter Writers 2027 submission deadline
July 15 Pitch, Publish and Get Paid, Allison K Williams
July 16-18 Midwest Writers Workshop
July 17- 19 Book Passage Mystery Writers Conference
July 31- Aug 2 The 56th Annual Willamette Writers Concerence
August 8 Mid-Ohio Indie Author Book Expo
August 19 Futurisms Intensive Writing Residency 2027 submission deadline
August 20-23 Killer Nashville
August 21-23 Queens of the Desert, Romance Writers of Australia Conference
August 29 Harlem Book Fair
September 18-20 Creatures, Crimes, and Creativity Con
September 25-26 Central Coast Writer's Conference
September 25-27 James River Writers Conference
September 27 Chicago Urban Book Expo
October 2 Decatur Book Festival, Decatur, GA
October 21-25 Bouchercon in Calgary Canada
October 2026 Black List Annual Labs in Ojai, CA
November 6-8 New England Crime Bake
November 15-22 Miami Book Fair
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