DFWCon 2026

DFWCon 2026

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9:00am CDT

Home Is Where the Heart Is: Using the Setting Around You to Build Fantasical Worlds Room 2 Screen to Page: Screenwriting Techniques for Creating Dynamic Fiction Room 3 You Can’t Always Leave the Past in the Past: Trauma, Flashbacks, and the Art of Backstory Room 1 ✅ Writing Resources 101 Room 6

10:00am CDT

Strategic Dialogue Deployment: Subtext, Story Beats, and Other Things You Didn’t Know Dialogue Could Do Room 2 Writing Middle Grade Books Room 3 Writing Suspense, Mysteries, and Thrillers Room 6 ✅ Feed Your Readers: All About Social Media Content For Authors Room 5

11:00am CDT

Andor: A Study in Adding Politics to Your Plot Room 2 Grammar AMA Room 5 How To Revise Like An Editor Room 6 ✅ Scene Structure Room 3

1:40pm CDT

How to Plot a Romance Arc That Complements the External Plot Room 1 No Small Parts: Big Worlds Built with Minor Characters Room 6 Revision as Momentum Engineering: Building a Revision Roadmap That Actually Works Room 3 Write a Picture Book with Me! Room 5 ✅ Brick House Chapter Building Room 2

2:40pm CDT

The Art of the Breakup Room 5 The Greatest Duos of All Time: How to Craft Killer Character Foils Room 3 ✅ The Writing Habit: How to Create Routines That Reduce Writing Anxiety and Produce Better Work TBA

3:40pm CDT

From Badge to Courtroom: Understanding the Layers of Criminal Investigation Room 2 The Art of the Memoir: Telling Your Story Room 5 Time Travels — A Fiction Workshop on the Clock Room 3 When to Rework It and When to Kill It: Revising vs Rewriting Room 1