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Sunday, October 4

Ballroom

8:00am • Dawn Of The Gong! The Query Gong Show
12:00pm • Lunch: Keynote Speaker Natalie Sue

Bookstore

10:00am • Book Signing: Duygu Balan, RC Bramhall, Andy C. Naranjo, Dana Swift
11:00am • Book Signing: Kay Goodnight, Rosemary Clement
1:40pm • Book Signing: Natalie Sue, Matthew Pitt, Harry Hall
2:40pm • Book Signing: Amanda Arista, CCS Jones, Aleese Lin
3:40pm • Book Signing: Jalyn Renae Fiske, Leslie Lutz, Dr. Kimberlee Mendoza

Hurst Conference Center

7:30am • Conference Doors Open

Room 1

9:00am • You Can’t Always Leave the Past in the Past: Trauma, Flashbacks, and the Art of Backstory
10:00am • The Art of the BookBub Deal
11:00am • Welcome to the Indie Author Trenches
1:40pm • How to Plot a Romance Arc That Complements the External Plot
3:40pm • When to Rework It and When to Kill It: Revising vs Rewriting

Room 2

9:00am • Home Is Where the Heart Is: Using the Setting Around You to Build Fantasical Worlds
10:00am • Strategic Dialogue Deployment: Subtext, Story Beats, and Other Things You Didn’t Know Dialogue Could Do
11:00am • Andor: A Study in Adding Politics to Your Plot
1:40pm • ✅ Brick House Chapter Building
2:40pm • How to Self-Publish with Amazon: From Start to Finish
3:40pm • From Badge to Courtroom: Understanding the Layers of Criminal Investigation

Room 3

9:00am • Screen to Page: Screenwriting Techniques for Creating Dynamic Fiction
10:00am • Writing Middle Grade Books
11:00am • ✅ Scene Structure
1:40pm • Revision as Momentum Engineering: Building a Revision Roadmap That Actually Works
2:40pm • The Greatest Duos of All Time: How to Craft Killer Character Foils
3:40pm • Time Travels — A Fiction Workshop on the Clock

Room 4

9:00am • Read & Critique
10:00am • So Here's My Problem: Fiction
11:00am • Read & Critique
1:40pm • So Here's My Problem: Querying
3:40pm • So Here's My Problem: Fiction

Room 5

9:00am • Publishing 101
10:00am • ✅ Feed Your Readers: All About Social Media Content For Authors
11:00am • Grammar AMA
1:40pm • Write a Picture Book with Me!
2:40pm • The Art of the Breakup
3:40pm • The Art of the Memoir: Telling Your Story

Room 6

9:00am • ✅ Writing Resources 101
10:00am • Writing Suspense, Mysteries, and Thrillers
11:00am • How To Revise Like An Editor
1:40pm • No Small Parts: Big Worlds Built with Minor Characters
2:40pm • The Speed Editing Event

Room E-F

9:00am • On the Same Page: The Author-Agent Partnership
10:00am • Queerly Beloved: LGBTQIA+ Romance
11:00am • Truth Be Told: Memoir And Creative Nonfiction
1:40pm • Own The Process: Building a Career in Self-Publishing
2:40pm • The Young and the Restless: Exploring the Heart of Young Adult Fiction
3:40pm • ✅ Let's Chat: An Overview & Celebration of DFWCON 2026!

TBA

2:40pm • ✅ The Writing Habit: How to Create Routines That Reduce Writing Anxiety and Produce Better Work
2:40pm • Read & Critique

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