Baltimore Writers' Conference

Mark your calendars: the Baltimore Writers' Conference returns with craft sessions and panels on fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and finding a literary agent.

The conference will be hosted at Towson University on Nov. 14 and is sponsored by the graduate professional writing program.

Register for the Conference

Online registration will open at a later date. For group registrations please e-mail us, , ​or call us at ​410-704-5196 for more information.

Registration Rates

  • General registration: Stay tuned for this years rates
  • Student rate: Stay tuned for this years rates
    • Code will be announced when rates are published
  • Alumni rate: Stay tuned for this years rates

Registration price includes admission to all sessions including quick critiques, free parking, morning refreshments with coffee and tea, a hot buffet lunch, and a wine-and-cheese reception at the close of the conference.

Accommodations for Inviduals with Disabilities

Towson University promotes the full inclusion of individuals with disabilities as part of our commitment to creating a diverse, multicultural community. Towson University is in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, and other applicable federal and state laws that prohibit discrimination on the basis of disability. The university will provide reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities upon request. However, the BWC must receive such requests at least one month prior to the scheduled date of each year's conference.

nov. 14, 2026

Keynote Speaker | Ed Park

Ed Park is the author of the novels Personal Days and Same Bed Different Dreams (a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize); the story collection An Oral History of Atlantis; and the memoir Three Tenses: A Transmission From the Nineties. He is a founding editor of the National Magazine Award–winning The Believer, a former newspaper and book editor, and a frequent contributor to many periodicals, including The Atlantic, Harper's, The New York Review of Books, and The New Yorker. His latest book is The Repairer of Reputations, a work of weird horror. He is the recipient of the Arts and Letters Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Deborah Pease Prize from A Public Space. A native of Buffalo, he lives in Manhattan and teaches creative writing at Princeton University.

About Us

The Baltimore Writers' Conference has been held on the campus of Towson University for twenty seven years, and has played host to many diverse and remarkable writers, including Pulitzer Prize winners Tim Page and Alice McDermott, MacArthur Foundation and Orange Prize winner Chimamande Adichie, past NEA president Dana Gioia, essayist and NPR contributor Marion Winik, authors Steve Almond, Larry Doyle, Elissa Schappell, Mark Bowden and others.