Bay to Ocean Writers Conference

Registration is open for the 2025 Bay to Ocean Writers Conference, which takes place March 8th at Chesapeake College in Wye Mills, Maryland. This year’s conference offers 31 sessions in six tracks to help writers hone their craft.
Organized and sponsored by the Eastern Shore Writers Association and now in its 28th year, BTO is dedicated to providing first-rate educational sessions and inspirational tips across a variety of writing genres. Whether you’re a beginning writer or an established, well-published author, BTO can help you on your writing journey.
This year’s keynote speaker is nationally recognized award-winning poet, author, and Iraq veteran, Brian Turner. The conference sessions, all 50-minutes in length, were carefully designed to help attendees develop their craft; edit, publish, and market their writing; and allow them to ask pointed questions of published and award-winning presenters about the process.
To register or learn more about this year’s conference, visit: https://www.easternshorewriters.org/
About Keynote Speaker Brian Turner: BRIAN TURNER is the author of five collections of poetry (from Here, Bullet to The Wild Delight of Wild Things) and a memoir (My Life as a Foreign Country) and is the editor of The Kiss and co-editor of The Strangest of Theatres anthologies. A musician, he has also written and recorded several albums with The Interplanetary Acoustic Team, including 11 11 (Me Smiling) and The Retro Legion’s American Undertow. His poems and essays have been published in The New York Times, The Guardian, National Geographic, Harper’s, among other fine journals, and he was featured in the documentary film Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience, which was nominated for an Academy Award. A Guggenheim Fellow, he has received a USA Hillcrest Fellowship in Literature, the Amy Lowell Traveling Fellowship, the Poets’ Prize, and a Fellowship from the Lannan Foundation. He lives in Orlando, Florida, with his dog, Dene, the world’s sweetest golden retriever.