2026 Writing Conferences

FEB 5–8           Savannah Book Festival, Savannah, GA.

FEB 28             Amelia Island Book Festival, FL

FEB 28–MAR 1 Left Coast Crime, San Francisco, CA.

MAR 12–15     New Orleans Book Festival, New Orleans, LA

MAR 20–22     Virginia Festival of the Book , Charlottesville, VA

APRIL 18–19   LA Times Festival of Books, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA

APRIL 24–26   Malice Domestic, North Bethesda, MD

MAY 1–3         Crime and Thriller Weekend, Cromarty, UK

MAY 2             Annapolis Book Festival, Annapolis, MD

MAY 5–9         ThrillerFest, New York, NY

MAY 16           Gaithersburg Book Festival, Gaithersburg, MD

MAY 21–31      Hay Festival, Hay, UK

MAY 29–31     CrimeCon, Las Vegas, NV

MAY 30–31     Bay Area Book Festival, Berkeley, CA

JUNE 2–3        U S Book Show, New York City, NY

JUN 11–14       Shetland Noir, Lerwick, UK

JUN 17–20       Space Coast Book Lovers Event, Cape Canaveral, FL

JUN 18–20       Capital Crime, London, UK

JUL 15–18       Romance Writers of America Conference, Albuquerque, NM

JUL 17–19        Book Passage Mystery Writers Conference, Corte Madera, CA

JUL 23–26       Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival, Harrogate, UK

JUL 30–AUG 2 PulpFest, Pittsburgh, PA

AUG TBA        National Book Festival, Washington, DC

AUG 9–24       Edinburgh International Book Festival , Edinburgh, UK

AUG 20–23     Killer Nashville, Franklin, TN

SEPT 12–20     The Agatha Christie Festival, Torquay and South Devon, UK

SEPT 18–20     Bloody Scotland, Stirling, UK

SEPT 18–20     Creatures, Crimes & Creativity, Columbia, MD

OCT 3              Chiltern Kills, Gerrards Cross, UK

OCT 3–4         CrimeCon UK, London, UK

OCT TBA       Murder One, Dublin, IE

OCT 21–25      Bouchercon, Calgary, CANADA

NOV TBA        New England Crime Bake, Boston/Dedham, MA