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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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M Literary Residency–China Residency Shanghai, China The M Literary Residency program offers a three-month-long residency in Shanghai, China, to a poet, a fiction writer, or a creative nonfiction writer. The residency may take place at... |
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction | Yes | 6/29/12 | ||
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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 | ||
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Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts Residency Nebraska City, NE Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, located in the Missouri River town of Nebraska City, offers residencies of two to eight weeks from January 1 to June 15 to... |
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction | Yes | 9/1/12 | ||
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Hedgebrook Residency Whidbey Island, WA Hedgebrook offers residencies of two to six weeks to women poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers on a 48-acre estate located on Whidbey Island, 35 miles north of Seattle. Up... |
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction | Yes | 9/10/12 | ||
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MacDowell Colony Residency Peterborough, NH MacDowell Colony offers year-round residencies of up to two months to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers on a 450-acre estate near Mt. Monadnock in Peterborough, New... |
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction | Yes | 9/15/12 | 9/15/12 | |
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Ragdale Residency Lake Forest, IL The Ragdale Foundation offers residencies of at least two weeks from September to December to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers on 50 acres of prairie in Lake... |
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction | Yes | 9/15/12 |