Events

News about upcoming events.

  • February 28 – March 3, 2025

    Algonkian St. Augustine Author-Mentor

    One-on-one mentoring and novel development at this unique workshop in St. Augustine. Experience an intimate and professional space that combines extended private consults with small-group workshops, thereby enabling writers to more comprehensively approach the development and editing of their novel.

  • March 9–22, 2025

    Spring 2025 Workshop for SinC-GUPPY: Writing a Compelling Protagonist

    A two-week writing workshop for SinC-Guppy Online Chapter on tools and techniques for writing a compelling protagonist – 5 classes through which participants develop a compelling protagonist and develop them using a range of tools. Instructions, reading examples, exercises, discussion.

  • 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.

  • June 2, 2025

    Writing workshop at The Village at Duxbury

    Hallie will give a “Writing from Experience” workshop at The Village at Duxbury/link]

  • 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.

  • July 30 – August 3, 2025

    Willamette Writers 56th Annual Conference

    Hallie will be teaching a (online) 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.

  • 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