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Saturday, October 3

Ballroom

8:00am • Welcome to DFWCon 2026
12:30pm • Lunch: Keynote Speaker Katherine Center

Bookstore

10:30am • Book Signing: Sydney Applegate, Kayla Olson, Brian Tracey, Madeline Warthan
11:30am • Book Signing: Sean Fletcher, A. Lee Martinez, Jennifer Moorhead
2:10pm • Book Signing: Katherine Center, Katie Bernet, Amber Helt
3:10pm • Book Signing: Kate Khavari, Sarah Mensinga, BJ Sloan
4:10pm • Book Signing: Helen Dent, Brooke Fossey, Matthew Rollins, Shawn Warner

Hurst Conference Center

7:30am • Conference Doors Open
7:00pm • Cocktail Reception

Room 1

8:30am • Age Isn't Just a Number: Exploring Age Categories in KidLit
9:30am • Bridge Over Troubled Water II
10:30am • ✅ Mind Your Mannerisms
11:30am • Writing Human Women
2:10pm • The Art of Truth: Writing Nonfiction They Can't Put Down
3:10pm • Me Write Pretty One Day
4:10pm • Writing for Kids These Days

Room 2

8:30am • Get Out of the Way: Writing First Person That Pulls Readers In
9:30am • Navigating Literary and Revelatory Poetry
10:30am • ✅ Read Like You Write: Unlocking the Wisdom of Your Literary Heroes
11:30am • How To Hook An Agent – From The Query Letter Through The Opening Pages
2:10pm • You Think That’s Funny?
3:10pm • The Untraditional Choice: Indie Press or Self-Pub?
4:10pm • Anatomy of the Unreliable Narrator

Room 3

8:30am • Growing Up: Moving from Writing YA to Adult Fantasy
9:30am • ✅ Understanding and Utilizing Narrative Position
10:30am • Reels, SEO & Carousels, Oh My! Intermediate Social Media Tips
11:30am • ✅ Treat Every Book Like a Thriller: Tips for Writing Page-Turners in Any Genre
2:10pm • ✅ Book Balderdash: Play a Game, Fool Your Friends & Improve Your Writing!
3:10pm • ✅ Writing in the Margins
4:10pm • The Editorial Escape Room: Curse on a Doomed Draft

Room 4

8:30am • Read & Critique
9:30am • So Here's My Problem: FIction
10:30am • Read & Critique
11:30am • So Here's My Problem: Indie Marketing
2:10pm • Read & Critique
3:10pm • So, Here's My Problem: Querying
4:10pm • Read & Critique

Room 5

8:30am • ✅ [START HERE] A FIRST-TIMER'S SURVIVAL GUIDE TO CON
9:30am • Creating An Online Presence As An Author
10:30am • How to Hide Research in Historical Fiction
11:30am • Micro Expressions, Macro Impact: Writing Body Language That Speaks
2:10pm • ✅ Workshop: Top 5 Lessons from Self-Editing for Fiction Writers and How to Implement Them Now
3:10pm • Banter and Barbs
4:10pm • ✅ Long Story Short: Tips On Writing The Synopsis

Room 6

8:30am • How to Revise a Chapter: Let's Edit a Chapter Together (Live!)
9:30am • Your First Five Pages
10:30am • Character Assassination: How to Torture Your Characters with Their Past
11:30am • How the Door Swings: A Guide to Writing Romance Heat Levels
2:10pm • The Art Of The Elevator Pitch (Editor's Edition)
3:10pm • Character Driven Fiction
4:10pm • Turn That Spark into a Blaze: 7 Steps to Crafting Compelling Conflict

Room E-F

8:30am • Dear Agent: Querying, Pitching, And Slush Piles
9:30am • Love Hurts: Conflict, Separation, And Angst In Romance
10:30am • Beyond The Default: Representation, Inclusion, and Authentic Storytelling
11:30am • The Poet’s Eye: How Poetic Techniques Strengthen Every Writer's Work
2:10pm • Literary Smackdown
3:10pm • Trust No One: Building Dread and Suspense in Thrillers and Mysteries
4:10pm • Here Be Dragons: Making Exposition in Your Fantasy Invisible

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