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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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Genre | Free? | Event Date | Application Deadline | Financial Aid Deadline |
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Berkshire Writing Workshop Conference Great Barrington, MA The Berkshire Writing Workshop will be held from July 14 to July 19, 2013, on the campus of Bard College at Simon’s Rock in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. The conference... |
Fiction, Creative Nonfiction | No | 7/14/13 |
Rolling Admissions |
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Berkshire WordFest Festival Lenox, MA The biennial Berkshire WordFest was held from September 14 to September 16, 2012, at the Mount, the former home of Edith Wharton in Lenox, Massachusetts. The festival featured talks, discussions,... |
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction | No | 9/14/12 | ||
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Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Residency Lenox, MA The Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation’s Amy Clampitt Residency Program offers residencies of 6 or 12 months between February 3, 2014, and January 17, 2015, to a poet at Clampitt’s... |
Poetry | Yes | 8/1/12 | ||
Bear River Writers’ Conference Conference Petoskey, MI The 13th annual Bear River Writers’ Conference, sponsored by the University of Michigan, will be held from May 30 to June 3 at Camp Michigania on Walloon Lake, near Petoskey,... |
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction | No | 5/30/13 | 5/17/13 | |
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Beall Poetry Festival Festival Waco, TX The 19th annual Beall Poetry Festival was held from April 3 to April 6 at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. The festival features readings, panel discussions, and the Virginia... |
Poetry | Yes | 4/3/13 | ||
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Banff Centre/Leighton Artists' Colony Residency Banff, Canada The Banff Centre/Leighton Artists' Colony offers residencies year-round to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers at the Leighton Studios in Banff, Canada. Residents are provided with separate lodging and... |
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction | No |
Rolling Admissions |