What Conferences Are All About...

The list of writers' conferences that take place around the United States is vast. Conferences are another great way to meet literary agents rather than solely depending on query letters. They are also a wonderful resource with the various business, as well as craft, forums and workshops you are able to attend. The DFW Writers' Conference in Hurst, Texas is a great example of what you can expect from a writers' conference. Though the details of their website pertain to their 2012 Conference, it is a useful guide to what may take place in their 2013 Conference this coming May 4-5, 2013.

What is most interesting about their website are Agent Interests. There you can find a list of authors and what genres they are looking for. If say you would like to know which literary agents attending the conference are interested in young adult (YA), science fiction, and/or fantasy, you could click on fiction genres, and a list of all the literary agents in attendance pops up in a PDF; each literary agent interested in those topics are checked off in their corresponding rows. Another great feature of this website is under Schedule; if you open the word document displayed, the entire itinerary is available and you can see what kind of forums or workshops you can participate in.

So if last year's conference looks interesting and you would like to attend the next one, you can register on the conference page, and continue to look for details of the DFW Writers' Conference 2013. Lindsay Cummings, author of the upcoming futuristic thriller The Murder Complex, met her agent Louise Fury at a previous DFW Writers' Conference. Cummings says "It was amazing, and the other authors there taught me a TON of awesome things" (personal communication, October 29, 2012). Read about her road to success as a now published YA author after she attended the 2011 DFW Conference.

SAVE THE DATE! 

DFW Writer's Conference 2013

May 4, 2013 @ 8am - May 5, 2013 @4pm

Hurst Conference Center

1601 Campus Drive- Hurst, TX. 76054