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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? | Event Date |
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Financial Aid Deadline |
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Frost Place Poetry Advanced Seminar Conference Franconia, NH The Frost Place Advanced Poetry Seminar was held from August 8 to August 13, 2012. The seminar features poetry workshops, craft talks, and a reading. The faculty included Reginald Dwayne... |
Poetry | No | 8/8/12 | 7/15/12 | 7/15/12 |
Environmental Writing Institute Conference Missoula, MT The 21st annual Environmental Writing Institute was held from October 3 to October 7, 2012, at the University of Montana in Missoula. The 2012 program, limited to 15 participants,... |
Creative Nonfiction | No | 10/3/12 | 7/15/12 | |
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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 | ||
Mariposa Poetry Retreat Conference Waynesboro, Pennsylvania, The 2012 Mariposa Poetry Retreat was held from October 6 to October 8 at the Capital Retreat Center, located on 260 acres in the Catoctin Mountains of Waynesboro, Pennsylvania, approximately... |
Poetry | No | 10/6/12 | 8/31/12 | |
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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 |