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Conferences & Residencies Database
Looking to meet up with agents and editors? To join a supportive writing community? Or to find the perfect environment to fuel your writing practice? The Conferences & Residencies database includes details about over two hundred writing conferences, writers residencies, and literary festivals.
| Event | Genre | Free? |
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Application Deadline | Financial Aid Deadline |
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Voices of the Wilderness Residency Residency Anchorage, AK The United States Forest Service offers residencies of seven to nine days from June through August to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers, to take part in a field... |
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction | Yes | 4/20/12 | ||
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Thurber House John E. Nance Writer-in-Residence Program Conference Columbus, OH Thurber House offers a four-week residency in September and October to a nonfiction writer (including creative nonfiction) in the boyhood home of James Thurber in Columbus, Ohio. Writers who have... |
Creative Nonfiction | Yes | 5/1/12 | ||
Whidbey Writers Workshop Alumni Association Emerging Writers Getaway Residency Asheville, NC A seven-day retreat at a cabin in the Smoky Mountains of North Carolina, approximately 70 miles southwest of Asheville, is given annually to a fiction writer who has... |
Fiction | Yes | 5/24/13 | ||
Writers & Books Gell Center Residency Rochester, NY Writers & Books’ Gell Center offers residencies of up to ten days, year-round to poets, fiction, and creative nonfiction writers at the Gell House, a furnished hillside house surrounded... |
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction | No |
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Martha’s Vineyard Writers Residency Residency Edgartown, MA The Martha’s Vineyard Writers Residency offers residencies of two to six weeks twice yearly to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers from April 1 to May 15 and... |
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction | No | |||
Split This Rock Poetry Festival Festival Washington, DC The Split This Rock Poetry Festival: Poems of Provocation and Witness will be held from March 27 to March 30, 2014, at various venues in Washington, D.C. The biennial... |
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction | No | 3/27/14 |