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. 15 and is sponsored by the graduate professional writing program.

Register for the Conference

Online registration is now open. For group registrations please e-mail us, , ​or call us at ​410-704-5196 for more information.

Registration Rates

  • General registration: $85 before October 24th, 2025; $105 after
  • Student rate: $50 before October 24th, 2025; $70 after
    • Use code STUBWC35
  • Alumni rate: $75

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.

Register for the conference

nov. 15, 2025

Keynote Speaker | Sonia Shah

Sonia Shah is an investigative journalist, author of critically acclaimed and prize-winning books on science, human-animal relations, and international politics, and a 2024 Guggenheim Fellow. Her new book, Special: the Rise and Fall of a Beastly Idea, winner of a 2023 Whiting Grant for creative nonfiction, is forthcoming from Bloomsbury.

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.