This year’s annual 2026 Writers Conference Tornado Alley – Sisters In Crime will be a ​One-Day Writers Conference on Saturday, March 21, 2026, 9am to 4pm CST at St. Thomas More University Parish, 100 Stinson, Norman OK 73072, $40.00 for members, $50.00 for  nonmembers, and $40 for Zoom attendees. It is always a good time! ​Vanessa Lillie will be the featured speaker. Vanessa, who grew up in Oklahoma, is an enrolled member of the Cherokee tribe and a member of Sisters in Crime. She is the USA Today bestselling author of Blood Sisters, the first in a new series centered on the stories of missing and murdered indigenous women and girls. It was awarded best mystery of the year from The Washington Post, Amazon editors, and Reader’s Digest. The sequel, The Bone Thief, was recently released.

​​​Constance Squires, special guest speaker, whose latest novel, Low April Sun, is based on the Oklahoma City bombing, was  nominated for the National Book Award (2025). A winner of the Oklahoma Book award in 2012, Constance teaches a variety of courses in creative writing, with special emphasis on novel and short story at the University of Central Oklahoma.

​​​Merle Davenport, criminologist, is president of the Tulsa NightWriters, where writers help writers. He writes in a variety of genres. He and his wife collaborate on historical romance novels, turning their love story into stories for others. His new book, based on 25 years of experience teaching inside prisons as well as extensive research, is titled Echoes of the Criminal Mind.  It is written for authors to give them a better idea of how to create authentic, three-dimensional villains.

There will be a reception and book signing the night before on March 20 at Green Feather Book Company, 300 West Gray Street, Ste 108, Norman, OK 73069 from 7-9. Come by and meet the bestselling author and then attend the conference the next morning. It will be a weekend to remember!

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