Tara McAllister performing a dramatic fire illusion at Poe's Magic Conference

April 15 to 18, 2027 · Baltimore

Our Magic.
Our Stories.

A conference for magicians who believe the story is not what happens between the tricks. It is the magic.

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April 15 to 18, 2027 Lord Baltimore Hotel Storytelling · Mystery · Theatre

Chapter One

The storytellers
take the stage

Performers, makers, thinkers, and splendidly suspicious people. New artists will appear here as their names are written into the 2027 program.

NEXT

Another name waits in the wings

More 2027 artists and lecturers will be announced shortly.

Chapter Two

Four days.
One unfolding story.

The detailed schedule will grow as artists and sessions are confirmed. No stale program pretending to be current. A surprisingly radical idea.

Arrival, opening gatherings, and the first strange turns of the weekend.

Full schedule coming soon

Lectures, workshops, performances, dealers, and late-night mysteries.

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A full day of theatre, close-up work, conversations, and the gala experience.

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The last sessions, the awards ceremony, shared discoveries, and a proper farewell.

Full schedule coming soon
A magician presenting on the Poe's Magic Conference stage before a live audience
Stories shared since 2018

The conference

Magic deserves more than a trick and a polite little bow.

Poe's Magic Conference brings together theatrical magic, bizarre magic, mentalism, mystery, and illusion with one stubborn belief: presentation matters. Here, methods serve meaning. Performers trade ideas, stories grow teeth, and the conversation continues long after the formal program has shuffled off to bed.

The world's leading storytelling magic conference.
Boats and the Baltimore skyline at the Inner HarborBaltimore, Maryland

Beyond the curtain

A city with
stories in its bones.

Come for four days of magic. Stay for harbor views, painted rowhouses, excellent museums, Poe's own Baltimore haunts, and a grand 1928 hotel that understands theatrical entrances.

Explore Baltimore and the hotel

Your invitation

Take your seat
inside the story.

April 15 to 18, 2027 at the historic Lord Baltimore Hotel in downtown Baltimore.

2027 Conference

Tickets

Join magicians and theatrical mystery artists in Baltimore for four days of lectures, workshops, performances, and the conversations that continue after the formal program.

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The Purloined Program

Conference news,
quietly slipped under the door.

Talent announcements, schedules, ticket news, and occasional dispatches from the stranger corners of theatrical magic.