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An excellent general resource (includes events outside the US as well): Conferences for Editors Facebook group

Some major regional & national conferences for editors (all but Red Pencil are annual)

Editorial Freelancers Association, (EFA), Chicago, August 21-23, 2019

Red Pencil 2019: Voice & Voices (organized by the Northwest Editors Guild; biennial), Seattle, September 21, 2019

Build a Better Freelancer, St. Louis, MO, October 11-13, 2019

ACES: The Society for Editing, Salt Lake City, Utah, April 30-May 2, 2020 [a Eugene editor who attended ACES 2019 said it was "well worth it"]

Some major regional (& a few national) festivals for book readers

Get Lit!, Spokane, WA, April 22-28, 2019

Bay Area Book Festival, Berkeley, May 4-5, 2019

Book Expo America, New York City, May 27-31, 2019 (actually for booksellers, but pretty stupendous for anyone book-connected)

National Book Festival, Washington, DC, August 31, 2019

Florence (OR) Festival of Books, September 2019

Portland (OR) Book Festival, November 2019; produced by Literary Arts, which presents many other literary events in Portland throughout the year

Wild Arts Festival, Portland, OR, mid-November

Tucson Festival of Books, March 2020 [dates to come]

Some major regional conferences for writers (most are annual)

San Francisco Writers Conference, February 13-15, 2020

Association of Writers & Writing Programs, San Antonio, TX, March 4-7, 2020

Wordcrafters in Eugene, spring 2020

Oregon Writers Colony spring conference/retreat at Sylvia Beach Hotel, Newport, OR, April

Terroir Creative Writing Festival, McMinnville, OR, April

Write to Publish (organized by Ooligan Press), Portland, OR, April

Willamette Writers Conference, Portland, OR, August

Pacific Northwest Writers Association, Seattle, September

Writing for Change, September

Additionally, many Northwest towns and cities host festivals of local authors at holiday time, in late November and December.

For additional literary events/venues in Eugene/Springfield, click here [link TK **].

Sources of (more) affordable lodgings at conference/festival sites

• Airbnb
• Hostels
• TrustedHousesitters.com
• Booking hotel via a conference (usually discounted rates) and sharing with other editor(s)