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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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Vermont Studio Center Residency Johnson, VT The Vermont Studio Center offers two- to twelve-week residencies year-round to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers in Johnson, a... |
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction | No |
Rolling Admissions |
2/15/13 | |
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Virginia Center for the Creative Arts–France Conference Auvillar, France The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts offers workshops at Le Moulin à Nef, its studio center in Auvillar, France. The poetry workshop O Taste and See: Writing the Senses... |
Fiction, Creative Nonfiction | No | 5/13/13 |
Rolling Admissions |
2/16/13 |
Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference Conference Middlebury, VT The 2013 Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference will be held from August 14 to August 24 in the Green Mountains of Ripton, Vermont. The conference includes workshops in poetry, fiction, and... |
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction | No | 8/14/13 | 3/1/13 | 3/1/13 |
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New York State Summer Writers Institute Conference Saratoga Springs, NY The 27th annual New York State Summer Writers Institute will be held from July 1 to July 26 at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs. The program features two- and four-week... |
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction | No | 7/1/13 |
Rolling Admissions |
3/10/13 |
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Napa Valley Writers’ Conference Conference St. Helena, CA The 33rd annual Napa Valley Writers’ Conference will be held from July 28 to August 2 at Napa Valley College, situated among the hills and vineyards of St. Helena,... |
Poetry, Fiction | No | 7/28/13 |
Rolling Admissions |
3/15/13 |
Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild Residency Woodstock, NY The Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild offers monthlong residencies from June through September to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers on a historic 250-acre campus in the Catskill... |
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction | No | 3/15/13 | 3/15/13 |