2025 Washington Writers Conference Schedule

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Agent pitches are ongoing from 9-11:50 a.m. and 1:30-4 p.m.

Please note that room assignments are TBD.

The bookstore will be open May 3rd from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m.

Friday, May 2nd

5:30 p.m.

• Check-in/registration begins

6-7:30 p.m.

• Reception (food and drink, cash bar)

7:30-8:30 p.m.

• “How to Pitch an Agent” panel

8:30-9 p.m.

• Reception wrap-up

Saturday, May 3rd

7:30 a.m.

• Check-in begins

8-8:30 a.m.

• Continental breakfast

8:30-8:50 a.m.

• Welcome & Housekeeping

9-9:50 a.m.

• Nonfiction Authors Share Their Stories
• What Do Local Editors Want?

10-10:50 a.m.

• Debut Authors: How They Did It
• Workshop: You’ve Written It: Now What? How to Publicize Your Book

11-11:50 a.m.

• Telling the Untold Tale: Finding Your Niche in Historical Fiction
• Workshop: Revising Your Novel: How to Know When It’s Done

12-1:30 p.m.

• Lunch
• Lifetime Achievement Award: E. Ethelbert Miller
• Keynote Speaker: Glory Edim

1:30-2 p.m.

• Break

2-2:50 p.m.

• Deconstructing the Book: An Author, Editor, Agent and Publisher Talk about What Sells
• How to Find Grants, Scholarships, Residencies

3-3:50 p.m.

• Writing Across Genres
• When Your Life is the Story: Personal Essays and Memoir

4-5 p.m.

• Happy Hour/Social/Bookstore Still Open