OCTOBER 2025
October 16-19, 2025
Ashland Mystery Festival
Ashland, OR
Special Guests: Ellie Alexander, Hannah Dennison, Angela Sanders, Gigi Pandian, and more.
October 17-19, 2025
The BloodShed Crime Fiction Festival
Swindon, Wiltshire, England
Special Guests TBA
October 17-19, 2025
Death in the Dales
Sedburgh, UK
Special Guests include MW Craven, Martin Edwards, Kate Ellis, and more.
October 23-26, 2025
NoirCon
Palm Springs, CA
Special Guests TBA
NOVEMBER 2025
November 7-9, 2025
New England Crime Bake
Dedham, MA
Guest of Honor: Lorie Rayder-Day
November 8, 2025
Men of Mystery
Long Beach, CA
Special Guests: TBA
November 12-15, 2025
Iceland Noir
Reykjavik, Iceland
Special Guests: George R.R. Martin, Hwang Dong-Hyuk, and more
DECEMBER 2025
December 5-6, 2025
Newcastle
Noir
Newcastle, UK
Special guests: Mari Hannah, Trevor
Wood, Kate Rhodes, Martin Edwards, Nina Bhadreshwar and Ørjan Karlsson
December 6-7, 2025
Black Orchid Weekend
New York City, NY
FEBRUARY 2026
February 5-8, 2026
Savannah Book Festival
Savannah, GA
Special guests TBA
February 26 – March 1, 2026
Left Coast Crime
San Francisco, CA
Guests of Honor: Robin Burcell, Gary Phillips,
Randal Brandt, Leslie Karst
MARCH 2026
March 7, 2026
Southwest Festival Reading
Festival
Fort Myers, FL
Special guests TBA
March 14, 2026
Suffolk Mystery
Authors Festival
Suffolk, VA
Special Guests TBA
March 14-15, 2026
Tucson Festival of Books
Tucson, AZ
Special guests TBA
APRIL 2026
April 3-5, 2025
Quais Polar
Lyon, France
April 11, 2026
Midwest
Mystery Conference
Chicago, IL
Special Guests TBA
April 16-19, 2026
Hamptons Whodunnit
East Hampton Village, NY
Special Guests: Jack Carr, Attica Locke, May Cobb
April 18-19, 2026
Los Angeles Times
Festival of the Book
Los Angeles, CA
Special Guests TBA
April 19, 2026
Warrington
Crime Festival
Warrington, UK
Special guests include: Simon McCleave, Conrad Jones, Caroline England, Andrew Barrett, ML Raynor, Axl Malton, Cheryl Elaine, and more
April 24-26, 2026
Malice Domestic
Bethesda, MD
Guest of Honor: Annette Dashofy; Lifetime Achievement: Jacqueline Winspear;
Toastmaster: Ellen Byron; Poirot Award: Jim Huang;
MAY 2026
May 5-9, 2026
Thrillerfest
New York, NY
Special Guests: Lisa Scottoline, Thrillermaster; Harlan Coben, Thillermaster; Douglas Preston, Silver Bullet Recipient; Rachel Howzall Hall, Spotlight Guest; Luis Alberto Urrea, Spotlight Guest; Barbara Peters, Thriller Legend
May 23-24, 2025
Montreal
Mystery / Montréal Mystère
Montreal, Canada
Special Guests: TBA
JUNE 2026
June 6, 2026
Short Con (crime fiction short
stories)
Alexandria, VA
Special guests: TBA
June 18-20, 2026
Capital
Crime
London, UK
Special Guests TBA
June 25-29, 2026
ALA Conference
San Diego, CA
JULY 2026
July 23-26, 2026
Theakston
Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival
Harrogate, UK
Special Guests TBA
AUGUST 2026
August 20-23, 2026
Killer Nashville
Nashville, TN
Special Guests: TBA
