Join us at the Indiana State Library when Indiana’s best established and emerging writers will meet for a full day of classes on the writing craft for the 2025 Gathering of Writers Annual Writing Conference, presented by the Indiana Writers Center and the Indiana Center for the Book.

Featuring a keynote address and a breakout session from bestselling author, Ashley C. Ford. Other breakout sessions include poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction and more presented by Agata Izabela Brewer, Andrew Black, Anthony Borruso, Angela Jackson-Brown, Mitchel L.H. Douglas, Melissa Fraterrigo, Sarah Layden, Lylanne Musselman, Max Newman, Nick Reading, Barbara Shoup, and Natalie Tombasco. You’ll leave full of inspiration, armed with writing drafts ripe for experimentation—along with a hundred other writers who feel the same way.

Dates: Saturday, September 27, 2025
Time: 8:25 am – 4:30 pm
Location: Indiana State Library
Cost: Nonmembers: $200; Writer/Reader Members: $137; Teacher, Student, Senior, Military, & Librarian Members: $123