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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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Tin House Summer Writers Workshop Conference Portland, OR The 11th annual Tin House Summer Writers Workshop will be held from July 14 to July 21 at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. The program features workshops in poetry,... |
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction | No | 7/14/13 |
Rolling Admissions |
3/18/13 |
Antioch Writers’ Workshop Conference Antioch, OH The 28th annual Antioch Writers’ Workshop will be held from July 6 to July 12 in Yellow Springs, Ohio.... |
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction | No | 6/6/13 | 4/1/13 | |
Juniper Summer Writing Institute Conference Amherst, MA The 10th annual Juniper Summer Writing Institute will be held from June 23 to June 29 on the University of Massachusetts campus in Amherst. The program offers readings, craft... |
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction | No | 6/23/13 |
Rolling Admissions |
4/1/13 |
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Community of Writers at Squaw Valley Conference Lake Tahoe, CA The Community of Writers at Squaw Valley offers summer workshops in poetry from June 22 to June 29 and in fiction and creative nonfiction from July 8 to July 15.... |
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction | No | 6/22/13 | 4/2/13 | 4/2/13 |
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Dallas Fort-Worth Writers’ Conference Conference Dallas, TX The Dallas Fort-Worth Writers’ Workshop will host its sixth annual writers’ conference from May 4 to May 5 at the Hurst Convention Center in Hurst, Texas. The conference features workshops... |
Fiction, Creative Nonfiction | No | 5/4/13 |
Rolling Admissions |
4/4/13 |
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MacDowell Colony Residency Peterborough, NH MacDowell Colony offers residencies of up to two months from October 1 to January 31 to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers on a 450-acre estate near Mt. Monadnock... |
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction | Yes | 4/15/13 | 4/15/13 |