Welcome to the San Miguel Writers’ Conference Faculty Proposal site.
Faculty proposals for the 2025 in-person conference are NOW OPEN. Please submit proposals before April 15, 2024.
The 2025 San Miguel Writers' Conference and Literary Festival will take place February 12-16, 2025, in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. We are excited to announce that conference founder Susan Page is back as Senior Director, with a new management team and fresh new ideas for a bigger, more bilingual, more co-cultural conference than ever.
Since 2006, our multinational conference has attracted world-class keynote speakers, readers who love books, and both aspiring and experienced writers seeking to hone their craft and their publishing industry knowledge.
We are seeking high-quality proposals from expert faculty members. You may submit for 90-minute workshops, three-hour Master Classes, six-hour Master Classes, or panel discussions.
We ask that all faculty presenting proposals submit at least two separate proposals. For each proposal, please select the appropriate category from the list below. For example, if you propose a second or third 90-minute workshop, in the same or a different genre, please submit a separate proposal for each.
If you are unsure which category to submit your proposal in, click "Show Guidelines" next to the category. Proposals are reviewed by different people, who may or may not see all the submissions by the same person. For this reason, it is important you fill out each submitted proposal completely rather than cross-referencing to a different proposal. Please limit your total number of proposals to SIX or fewer.
For Literary Agent Applications: Scroll to the bottom of this page to find the 2025 Literary Agent submission category.
The proposal submission deadline is April 15, 2024.
Email: Please add register@sanmiguelwritersconference.org to your contact list, so our emails are not sent to Spam and you never miss out on important messages
Note: If you begin filling out a submission proposal and realize you are missing information, you can scroll to the bottom, save your proposal as a draft, and come back later to finish it.
For more information about the San Miguel Writers’ Conference or San Miguel Literary Sala please visit our websites: https://sanmiguelwritersconference.org/ or https://sanmiguelliterarysala.org/
Many writing techniques, concepts, and style improvement ideas are suitable for both fiction and creative non-fiction, including novel, memoir, travel writing, short story, and so on. Use this workshop category if your topic would be useful for writers in any prose genre.
In the past we have offered workshops such as "Strengthen Your Writing with Compelling Scenes," "Precise Language: Choosing the Right Word," and "Making Your Dialogue Come Alive."
Note: It is our policy that all our faculty teach two or more workshops. We ask that all faculty presenting proposals submit at least two separate workshop proposals. They can be in the same category/genre or different category/genre. Panels are not considered one of your two workshop proposals.
Pleasures of reading workshops are aimed at the general reading public, not necessarily writers only. They usually explore a specific author or category of writing such as Mexican literature. They are not writing skills workshops, but rather workshops where a reader can come to a better understanding about a certain subject through literature. Please choose this category for proposals about discussions of specifics book(s), author(s) or categories of literature.
In the past we have had pleasures of reading workshops such as “Reading Literature About Mexico by Authors From Both Sides of the Border,” “The Pleasures of Reading: Reading Like a Writer,” and “The Pleasures of Reading: The Odes of John Keats.
Note: It is our policy that all our faculty teach two or more workshops. We ask that all faculty presenting proposals submit at least two separate workshop proposals. They can be in the same category / genre or different category / genre. Panels are not considered one of your two workshop proposals.