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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.
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Studios of Key West Conference Key West, FL The Studios of Key West offers workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction on the Old Town campus at the historic Armory in Key West, Florida. Unhinge, Resist, Transform: Poetry... |
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction | No | 6/27/12 | ||
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Summer Fishtrap Gathering of Writers Conference Wallowa Lake, OR The 26th annual Summer Fishtrap Gathering of Writers will be held from July 8 to July 14 at the Wallowa Lake Camp and Retreat Center in Wallowa Lake, Oregon. The... |
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction | No | 7/8/13 |
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Summer Literary Seminars–Kenya Conference Nairobi, Kenya The 2012 Summer Literary Seminars–Kenya will be held from December 8 to December 22 in Nairobi and on Lamu Island. The conference includes readings, lectures, roundtable... |
Poetry, Fiction | No | 12/8/12 | 11/15/12 | |
Summer Writing Program at Naropa University Conference Boulder, CO The 39th annual Summer Writing Program at Naropa University, presented by the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, will be held from July 1st to July 27th in Boulder, Colorado.... |
Poetry, Fiction | No | 7/1/13 |
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Sun Valley Writers' Conference Conference Sun Valley, ID The 2011 Sun Valley Writers' Conference was held from August 17 to August 20 at the Sun Valley Resort in Sun Valley, Idaho. The conference features discussions, readings, film... |
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction | No | 8/17/12 | ||
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Surprise Valley Writers’ Conference Conference Cedarville, CA The 2012 Surprise Valley Writers’ Conference was held from September 13 to September 16, 2012, in the high desert of Cedarville, California. The conference featured workshops in poetry,... |
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction | No | 9/13/12 | 6/30/12 |