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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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Baltimore Writers’ Conference Conference Towson, MD The 20th annual Baltimore Writers’ Conference was held on November 12, 2011, at Towson University in Towson, Maryland. The program, sponsored by Johns Hopkins University and Towson University, offers seminars... |
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction | No | 11/1/13 | ||
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Banff Centre/Leighton Artists' Colony Residency Banff, Canada The Banff Centre/Leighton Artists' Colony offers residencies year-round to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers at the Leighton Studios in Banff, Canada. Residents are provided with separate lodging and... |
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction | No |
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Beall Poetry Festival Festival Waco, TX The 19th annual Beall Poetry Festival was held from April 3 to April 6 at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. The festival features readings, panel discussions, and the Virginia... |
Poetry | Yes | 4/3/13 | ||
Bear River Writers’ Conference Conference Petoskey, MI The 13th annual Bear River Writers’ Conference, sponsored by the University of Michigan, will be held from May 30 to June 3 at Camp Michigania on Walloon Lake, near Petoskey,... |
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction | No | 5/30/13 | 5/17/13 | |
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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 | ||
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Berkshire WordFest Festival Lenox, MA The biennial Berkshire WordFest was held from September 14 to September 16, 2012, at the Mount, the former home of Edith Wharton in Lenox, Massachusetts. The festival featured talks, discussions,... |
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction | No | 9/14/12 |