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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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Whidbey Writers Workshop Alumni Association Emerging Writers Getaway Residency Asheville, NC A seven-day retreat at a cabin in the Smoky Mountains of North Carolina, approximately 70 miles southwest of Asheville, is given annually to a fiction writer who has... |
Fiction | Yes | 5/24/13 | ||
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William Paterson University Spring Writer’s Conference Conference Wayne, NJ The 2013 William Paterson University Spring Writer’s Conference will be held on April 13 on the WPU campus in Wayne, New Jersey, 20 miles northwest of New York City. This... |
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction | No | 4/13/13 | ||
Winter Poetry & Prose Getaway Conference Galloway, NJ The 20th annual Winter Poetry & Prose Getaway will be held from January 18 to January 21, 2013, at Stockton Seaview Hotel, a resort in Galloway, New Jersey. The program,... |
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction | No | 1/18/13 | ||
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Wisconsin Book Festival Festival Madison, WI The 11th annual Wisconsin Book Festival was held from November 7 to November 11, 2012, at various venues in downtown Madison. The festival features readings; panels; open mikes; conversations with... |
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Spoken Word | Yes | 11/7/12 | ||
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 | |
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Wordstock Festival Portland, OR The eighth annual Wordstock festival was held on October 13 and October 14, 2012, at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland. The festival features workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative... |
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction | No | 10/13/12 |
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