Date: Wednesday, October 15, 2025 ( 8 EST / 7 CST / 6 MST / 5 PST)

Panelists:

• Ashley-Ruth Bernier

• Erika Krouse

• Art Taylor

Topic: Achieve Success Writing Short Crime Fiction

Create and sustain a successful career writing short crime fiction. Our panelists provide tips, tricks, and techniques for crafting publishable short stories and discuss finding and submitting to current crime fiction anthologies and magazines. Whether you’re a short story specialist or a novelist who dabbles in short fiction, you should come away with valuable information that will elevate your short story career.

Moderator: Michael Bracken is an Edgar- and Shamus-award nominee and three-time Derringer award-winner. Author of more than 1,300 short stories, his crime fiction has appeared in The Best American Mystery Stories, The Best Mystery Stories of the Year, and many other publications. Additionally, Bracken is the editor of Black Cat Mystery Magazine and three dozen anthologies, including the Anthony Award-nominated The Eyes of Texas; with Barb Goffman, the Derringer-winning and Anthony-nominated Murder, Neat; and, with Stacy Woodson, the Anthony-nominated Scattered, Smothered, Covered, and Chunked. He is a recipient of the Short Mystery Fiction Society’s Golden Derringer for Lifetime Achievement and, in 2024, was inducted into the Texas Institute of Letters for his contributions to Texas literature.

Registration will be here: https://mysterywriters.org/2025-mwa-university/