News about upcoming events.
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March 21–23, 2025
Writers Digest Annual Mystery & Thriller Writers Virtual Conference 2025
Hallie will gives a workshop on “Creating a Character Web” (aka *making trouble for your protagnist*) at this fantastic 2-day annual writing conference.
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April 22, 2025
Mystery Writers of America New York Chapter workshop: Beginnings and Endings (ZOOM)
Hallie will give a 6PM Zoom writing workshop for members of the New York chapter of Mystery Writers of America. All about crafting of beginnings and endings (of scenes, chapters, novels) for forward momentum.
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April 29 – May 8, 2025
Exploring Your Life Through Writing
Hallie and Delia Ephron will teach a series of four workshops (“Exploring Your Life Through Writing”) for Droste Mental Health Services in NYC.
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May 17, 2025
CrimeCONN 2025
The Friends of the Ferguson Library (Stamford, CT), in partnership with Mystery Writers of America, New York Chapter, present CrimeCONN, Connecticut’s own one-day mystery lovers’ conference.
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July 18–20, 2025
Book Passage Mystery Writers Conference 2025
Hallie will teach a blow-out, everything-you-need-to-know about crafting a mystery novel in a pre-conference class and continuing on through a fabulous meeting. This year’s conference features the brilliant Michael Connelly.
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July 26 – August 3, 2025
Willamette Writers 56th Annual Conference
Hallie will be teaching a (online) pre-conference master class on writing character-driven fiction and a virtual workshop on harnessing voice and viewpoint for this fantastic annual writing conference based in Portland, OR.
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September 11, 2025
“Make Mine Murder” panel, Milton, MA, Public Library
Panel of New England crime fiction writers discuss where their ideas come from, how they plot the twists and turns, and how they develop their characters. Lucy Burdette, Sarah Stewart Taylor, and Elise Hart Kipness with moderator Hallie Ephron. 7:00 pm
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October 3, 2025
Private book group
Hallie will be meeting with a private book group in Milton.
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November 7–9, 2025
New England Crime Bake
At this fantastic New England conference for writers and fans of crime fiction… Thrilled to be interviewing the divine Miss Lori Rader Day, the conference Guest of Honor, with Julie Hennrikus!
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February 2, 2026
Private book group
Hallie meets with a private book group to talk about CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR. (Contact Hallie if you have a book group that would like to read one of her books.)
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February 16–20, 2026
Writing from Experience – The Studios of Key West
Hallie teaches a 3-session (M-W-F) small group workshop on writing from experience for The Studios of Key West.
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April 18, 2026
Weaving a Character Web Zoom workshop for Iowa Chapter of SinC
Hallie will be giving an hour-long Zoom workshop on weaving a character web for the Iowa chapter of Sisters in Crime (starting at 3PM Central Time)
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May 7, 2026
Guest speaker for Harvard Extension mystery writing
Hallie will discuss the fine points of writing a mystery novel.
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October 4–16, 2026
Fall 2026 Workshop for SinC-GUPPY: Writing a Compelling Protagonist
Once again Hallie will be giving this popular two-week (remote) writing workshop for SinC-Guppy Online Chapter on tools and techniques for writing a compelling protagonist. Instructions, reading examples, exercises, individualized feedback. For the Guppy Chapter of Sisters in Crime.
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