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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 |
Application Deadline | Financial Aid Deadline |
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Caldera Residency Sisters, OR Caldera offers monthlong residencies from January to March to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers. Located on 120 acres in the Central Cascades, 17 miles west of... |
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction | Yes | 6/15/13 | ||
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Headlands Center for the Arts Residency Sausalito, CA Headlands Center for the Arts offers residencies of 4 to 10 weeks from March to November to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers in the... |
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction | Yes | 6/7/13 | ||
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Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Residency Amherst, VA The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts offers residencies of two weeks to two months to poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, and other artists on a 450-acre estate at... |
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction | Yes | 5/15/13 | ||
Norman Mailer Writers Colony Residency Provincetown, MA The Norman Mailer Center and Writers Colony in Provincetown, Massachusetts, offers monthlong residencies from May 26 to June 23 for fiction writers, June 21 to July 21 for... |
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction | No | 3/16/13 | ||
International Writers’ and Artists’ Residency Residency Val David, Canada The International Writers’ and Artists’ Residency offers residencies of one to six weeks to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers in Val-David, Canada, 50 miles north of... |
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction | No |
Rolling Admissions |
7/1/13 | |
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Yaddo Residency Saratoga Springs, NY Yaddo offers residencies of two weeks to two months from late October through May to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers on a 400-acre estate in Saratoga Springs, New... |
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction | Yes | 8/1/13 |