DFWCon 2026

DFWCon 2026

Lisa Bridwell

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Aspiring author writing upmarket fiction, women’s fiction, historical fiction, and domestic fiction.

5:00pm CDT

Attendee Pre-Conference Mixer Hilton Garden Inn Atrium

7:30am CDT

Conference Doors Open Hurst Conference Center

8:00am CDT

Welcome to DFWCon 2026 Ballroom

8:30am CDT

✅ [START HERE] A FIRST-TIMER'S SURVIVAL GUIDE TO CON Room 5

9:30am CDT

Bridge Over Troubled Water II Room 1

10:30am CDT

Character Assassination: How to Torture Your Characters with Their Past Room 6

11:30am CDT

Micro Expressions, Macro Impact: Writing Body Language That Speaks Room 5 ✅ Treat Every Book Like a Thriller: Tips for Writing Page-Turners in Any Genre Room 3

12:30pm CDT

Lunch: Keynote Speaker Katherine Center Ballroom

2:10pm CDT

You Think That’s Funny? Room 2 ✅ Workshop: Top 5 Lessons from Self-Editing for Fiction Writers and How to Implement Them Now Room 5

3:10pm CDT

Character Driven Fiction Room 6 Me Write Pretty One Day Room 1 Trust No One: Building Dread and Suspense in Thrillers and Mysteries Room E-F

4:10pm CDT

Turn That Spark into a Blaze: 7 Steps to Crafting Compelling Conflict Room 6

7:00pm CDT

Cocktail Reception Hurst Conference Center

7:30am CDT

Conference Doors Open Hurst Conference Center

8:00am CDT

Dawn Of The Gong! The Query Gong Show Ballroom

9:00am CDT

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 Suspense, Mysteries, and Thrillers Room 6

11:00am CDT

How To Revise Like An Editor Room 6 ✅ Scene Structure Room 3

12:00pm CDT

Lunch: Keynote Speaker Natalie Sue Ballroom

1:40pm CDT

Revision as Momentum Engineering: Building a Revision Roadmap That Actually Works Room 3

2:40pm CDT

✅ The Writing Habit: How to Create Routines That Reduce Writing Anxiety and Produce Better Work TBA

3:40pm CDT

Time Travels — A Fiction Workshop on the Clock Room 3