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
