Pat Hauldren

P-CON SciFi Fantasy LitCon -- ATTENDING!
2025-09-19 - 2025-09-21 | Holiday Inn DFW Southwest, 14320 Centre Station Dr, Fort Worth, TX, 76155, United States
P-CON SciFi Fantasy LitCon–ATTENDING!
Sept. 19-21, 2025
Holiday Inn DFW South
14320 Centre Station Dr, Fort Worth, TX, 76155

Welcoming P-Con Guest of Honor David Weber!

Join us September 19-21, 2025 at the Holiday Inn DFW South to meet renowned author David Weber. P-Con is excited to include David Weber as a Guest of Honor this year. Author of several novels and anthologies, David Weber is the creator of the Honorverse and the Safehold universes. He also plays well with other writers, and can be seen co-writing stories with Jane Lindskold, Jacob Holo, Charles E. Gannon, and several other folks who hang out at Baen’s Bar.

DFW Writers Conference
2025-10-04 - 2025-10-05 | Hurst Conference Center, 1601 Campus Dr, Hurst, 76054, United States
DFW Writers Conference
Oct 4-5, 2025
Hurst Conference Center
1601 Campus Dr
Hurst, Texas 76054
More than 300 attendees, 90+ classes, panels and workshops, 13 agents and editors, and a full weekend of networking.
Featured guests:
Keynote speaker: Carly Watters, Senior Literary Agent at P. S. Literary.
Keynote speaker: Kelly Bishop.
Special guest: Ari Tison

Texas Indie Book Fair - ATTENDING!
2025-10-11 | The British International School of Houston, 2203 North Westgreen Blvd, Katy, 77449, United States
TEXAS INDIE BOOK FAIR!SAT OCT 11, 2025
10a – 5p
FREE!
Join an amazing collection of 115+ Texas-based authors for a book fair dedicated to self and indie published literature. This is your opportunity to shine!
The British International School of Houston (gymnasium)2203 North Westgreen Blvd, Katy, TX 77449
On Facebook: TX Indie Book Fair
Main Website

Steampunk November
2025-11-15 - 2025-11-16
Steampunk November 2025
November 15-16, 2025
492 Cordes Drive
Venus, TX
Steampunk Event
Steampunk November is a 2-day outdoor festival brimming with live music, captivating entertainment, unique shopping, special events, and more. Camp onsite, indulge in late-night entertainment, and bond over stories by the fire. Join us for an unforgettable celebration of creativity and camaraderie!

FenCon--Attending!
2026-02-20 - 2026-02-22
FenCon — Attending!
February 20-22, 2026
New hotel venue, stay tuned for more info
FenCon is a literary science fiction and fantasy convention with quite a lot of filk programming, some science programming, an outstanding collection of guests, an art show, a charity auction, a short story contest, a writers workshop, our signature FenCon Cabaret, costuming and maker programming, and members like you. FenCon is a production of the Dallas Future Society.
http://www.fencon.org/

WORKSHOP--Worldbuilding Wizardry
2026-03-02 - 2026-03-27 | Fantasy, Futuristic, & Paranormal Romance Writers Online Group
WORLDBUILDING WIZARDRY
Constructing your setting through tropes, character, setting, culture and style. This class a unique worldbuilding with romance, romantic elements, & relationship focus. Learn how to use your romantic/relationship tropes & elements to enhance your story worldbuilding. Each class attendee receives a FREE PDF of the workbook: The Cosmic Kitchen, a Worldbuilding Workbook for Specuative Fiction Romance Writers.
I’ll be presenting a writing workshop on worldbuilding at the Fantasy, Futuristic, & Paranormal Romance Writers Online Group in March 2026! All writers welcome!
REGISTER FOR THIS CLASS HERE

Instructor: Pat Hauldren
Start Date: Monday, March 2, 2026
End Date: Friday, March 27, 2026
Type: Group.io
Duration: 4 Weeks
USD Fee: FF&P Member – $20; Non-Member – $25
Worldbuilding is all about context. Ninety-nine percent of the worldbuilding we do in our stories is dedicated to creating context for everything else in the story–setting, character, plot, theme, etc.. We’ll delve into what worldbuilding is and what elements we need from it, how to use the worldbuilding elements best in our own stories. We will use the first three pages of your manuscript or story as worksheets focusing on your genre and genre elements and your overall story as a guide. Time to build!
About the Instructor:
Pat Hauldren is a science fiction & fantasy author who teaches writing workshops online and live around the world. She has presented classes with online writers’ groups as well as community colleges and in Europe. Pat’s writing classes are a dynamic working writing experience for the student. The student gets extensive one-on-one time for rigorous personal attention and feedback as well as active class participation.
REGISTER FOR THIS CLASS HERE
READ MORE ABOUT MY WORKSHOPS IN GENERAL HERE

Texas Hot Link Festival--ATTENDING
2026-04-25
Texas Hot Link Festival–ATTENDING!
April 26, 2026
(downton Pittsburgh, TX)
212 Market Street–Pittsburg, TX 75686
Texas Hot Link Festova; 2026

Lone Star Lit Fest--ATTENDING
2026-06-05 - 2026-06-07 | Austin Southpark Hotel, 4140 Governors Row, Austin, TX, 78744, United States
LONE STAR LITERARY FESTIVAL–ATTENDING
June 5 – 7, 2026
Austin, TX
Austin Southpark Hotel
Experience the vibrant heart of Texas creativity at Lone Star Festival 2026. Celebrating Texas artists, authors, musicians, and innovators. Our event connects audiences with wide-ranging showcases, workshops, and networking opportunities. Join us in fostering a dynamic, creative community in Texas, where inspiration thrives and artistic excellence is nurtured.
https://lsf26.com/

Texas Horror Lit Festival--ATTENDING
2026-06-27 10:00 - 2026-06-28 18:00 UTC | Irving Covention Center, 500 West Las Colinas Boulevard, Irving, TX, 75039, United States
TEXAS HORROR LITERARY FESTIVAL
Jun 27 at 10 am to Jun 28 at 6 pm CDT
Irving Convention Center at Las Colinas Irving, TX
Texas Horror Lit Fest is a two-day literary event spotlighting works in Horror, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and dark or speculative genres.

WORKSHOP--Generating Gorgeous Genre
2026-07-06 - 2026-07-31 | Fantasy, Futuristic, & Paranormal Romance Writers Online Group
GENERATING GORGEOUS GENRE
Using Genre Elements and Tropes to Enhance Your Stories.
I’ll be presenting a writing workshop on enhacing our stories with genre at the Fantasy, Futuristic, & Paranormal Romance Writers Online Group in July 2026! All writers welcome!
Instructor: Pat Hauldren
Start Date: Monday, July 6, 2026
End Date: Friday, July 31, 2026
Type: Group.io
Duration: 4 Weeks
USD Fee: FF&P Member – $20; Non-Member – $25
Genres are special in storytelling. Each genre has it’s own shorthand–tropes or elements–that make a genre that specific genre. Bestselling genre-writing authors use those tropes to feed their readers’s needs. Romance readers crave romantic elements. Fantasy readers desire unreal elements. Regardless of the genre you are writing, weaving in those genre tropes is one of the best methods for feeding your reader’s genre addictions. To generate gorgeous genre stories, we must learn the elements/tropes and use them to best effect. In this class, we’ll analyze others’ work and enhance our own first three pages. Your readers are addicted to those tropes, so let’s feed them!
About the Instructor:
Pat Hauldren is a science fiction & fantasy author who teaches writing workshops online and live around the world. She has presented classes with online writers’ groups as well as community colleges and in Europe. Pat’s writing classes are a dynamic working writing experience for the student. The student gets extensive one-on-one time for rigorous personal attention and feedback as well as active class participation.
REGISTER FOR THIS CLASS HERE
READ MORE ABOUT MY WORKSHOPS IN GENERAL HERE

WORKSHOP--First Page Fixes
2026-10-05 - 2026-10-30 | Fantasy, Futuristic, & Paranormal Romance Writers Online Group
FIRST PAGE FIXES
Analyzing Your First Pages Using Bestselling Authors’ Techniques
Instructor: Pat Hauldren
Start Date: Monday, October 5, 2026
End Date: Friday, October 30, 2026
Type: Group.io
Duration: 4 Weeks
USD Fee: FF&P Member – $20; Non-Member – $25
Bestsellers are bestsellers for a reason. Bestselling authors use their writing toolbox and skills to create a fascinating story. In this class, we will analyze bestselling authors and see how they created their bestseller and apply those techniques to our own. Bestseller here we come!
About the Instructor:
Pat Hauldren is a science fiction & fantasy author who teaches writing workshops online and live around the world. She has presented classes with online writers’ groups as well as community colleges and in Europe. Pat’s writing classes are a dynamic working writing experience for the student. The student gets extensive one-on-one time for rigorous personal attention and feedback as well as active class participation.
REGISTER FOR THIS CLASS HERE
READ MORE ABOUT MY WORKSHOPS IN GENERAL HERE
