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Conferences and 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.

Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Portal, AZ

The Orion in the Wilderness retreat, cosponsored by the Omega Institute, was held from March 8 to March 14 at the American Museum of Natural History’s Southwestern Research Station in Cave Creek Canyon in Portal, Arizona, surrounded by the...

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Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation
Gabriola Island, BC, Canada

The Ou Gallery’s Ou-telier program offers one- to four-week residencies starting on the 1st and 16th of every month year-round to poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, and translators on Gabriola Island in British Columbia, Canada...

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Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Saugatuck, MI

The Ox-Bow School of Art offered two-, three-, and five-week residencies from September 7 to October 11 to poets, fiction writers, and nonfiction writers on the Ox-Bow campus in Saugatuck, Michigan, located near the shores of Lake Michigan and...

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Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation
Guanacaste, Costa Rica

The Playa Flamingo Writing Residency, sponsored by Atmosphere Press, offers a five-day residency from May to August to a poet, fiction writer, nonfiction writer, or translator at the Punta Plata condominium in Playa Flamingo, a white sand beach...

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Application Deadline: February 28, 2024
Poetry
Round Top, TX

The 22nd annual Poetry at Round Top Festival will be held from April 19 to April 21 at the Round Top Festival Institute campus in Round Top, Texas. The program features workshops, readings, lectures, craft talks, open mics, and panel discussions...

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Event Date: April 19, 2024
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Poetry
Madison, CT

Poetry by the Sea: A Global Conference will be held from May 21 to May 24 at Mercy by the Sea, a retreat center and private beach in Madison, Connecticut. The conference features workshops, seminars, readings, and panels. The faculty includes...

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Event Date: May 21, 2024
Application Deadline: May 10, 2024
Poetry
La Conner, WA

The 2023 Poets on the Coast: A Weekend Retreat for Women was held from September 8 to September 10 at the Country Inn in La Conner, Washington. The retreat featured poetry workshops, craft classes, and one-on-one mentoring with faculty. The...

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Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Portland, OR

The 2023 Portland Book Festival, hosted by Literary Arts, was held on November 4 at seven partner venues in Portland’s South Park Blocks. The festival’s second annual Cover to Cover program was held from October 30 to November 5 in multiple...

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Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation
North Bennington, VT

Prospect Street Writers House offers one- and two-week residencies in January and from May through November to poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, and translators at the Prospect Street residency in the village of North...

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Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Lake Forest, IL

The Ragdale Foundation offers residencies of 18 or 25 days year-round to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers on 50 acres of prairie in Lake Forest, Illinois, 30 miles north of Chicago. Residents are provided with a private...

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Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Kennesaw, GA

The 2024 Red Clay Writers Conference, sponsored by the Georgia Writers Association, will be held on April 20 at Kennesaw State University. The conference features writing workshops and panels on literary journals and publishing for poets, fiction...

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Event Date: April 20, 2024
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Financial Aid Deadline: April 11, 2024
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Sanibel Island, FL

Red Mountain Press offered two- and four-week residencies from November 14 to December 12 to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers in a private home on Sanibel Island, Florida. Residents were provided with private lodging,...

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Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Martha's Vineyard, MA

The Renaissance House Residency Program offered an activist writers festival from September 17 to September 19 for poets, fiction writers, and nonfiction writers in Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts. Participation in the festival may have been ...

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Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
New York, NY

The Renaissance House Residency Program offered a residency from October 7 to October 10 to poets, fiction writers, and nonfiction writers in Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts. The residency featured workshops and lectures. Participating writers...

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Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Martha’s Vineyard, MA

The Renaissance House Residency Program offered residencies of one to two weeks in July to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers in Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts. The residencies included workshops, lectures, and time to...

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Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation
Kitsap Peninsula, WA

Rockland offers two three-week residencies from October 8, 2024, to October 29, 2024, and from January 8, 2025, to January 29, 2025, to poets, fiction writers, nonfiction writers, and translators in the Rockland Woods, located on the Kitsap...

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Event Date: October 8, 2024
Application Deadline: March 31, 2024
Not Genre-Specific, Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Madrid, Spain, and Havana and Trinidad, Cuba

ROOSTERGNN Global News Network (RGNN) offers residencies of at least ten days to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers year-round in Madrid, Spain, and during the summer in Havana and Trinidad, Cuba. Residents in Spain will be...

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Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Somerset, NJ

The Rutgers-New Brunswick Writers’ Conference was held from June 2 to June 3 at the Rutgers University Continuing Education Center in Somerset, New Jersey. The conference featured workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative...

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Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation
McGee Island, ME

The Salty Quill Writers’ Retreat for Women offers one-week residencies three times a year to twelve poets, fiction writers, nonfiction writers, and translators who identify as women at McGee Island, a 110-acre private island located three miles...

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Event Date: May 25, 2024
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Financial Aid Deadline: March 13, 2024
Poetry
Bronxville, NY

The 2024 Sarah Lawrence College Poetry Festival will be held from April 19 to April 21 on the Sarah Lawrence College campus in Bronxville, New York, located 30 minutes by train from New York City. The festival features workshops, readings, panel...

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Event Date: April 19, 2024
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation
Lewis County, TN

Sarasvati Creative Space offers residencies of a week to four months year-round to poets, fiction writers, nonfiction writers, and translators at Camp Wonder Wander in the rural, rolling hills of Lewis County, Tennessee, near the Buffalo River,...

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Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Sewanee, TN

The 34th annual Sewanee Writers’ Conference will be held from July 16 to July 28 on the campus of the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee. The conference features workshops, special topics classes, lectures, one-on-one meetings with...

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Event Date: July 16, 2024
Application Deadline: March 15, 2024
Financial Aid Deadline: March 15, 2024
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation
Otis, OR

The Sitka Center for Art and Ecology offers two- to twelve-week residencies from October 2024 to April 2025 to poets, fiction writers, nonfiction writers, and translators at the Center’s adjacent 80-acre property, located within the unique...

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Event Date: October 1, 2024
Application Deadline: March 15, 2024
Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Healdsburg, CA
Sonoma County Writers Camp buildings

The Spring 2023 Sonoma County Writers Camp was held from April 17 to April 21 at Bishops Ranch Retreat Center in Healdsburg, California. The retreat featured generative workshops in fiction and memoir, panels by authors and agents, master classes...

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Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Southampton, NY

The 49th annual Southampton Writers Conference will be held from July 10 to July 14 at the Stony Brook Southampton campus in Southampton, New York, located on the Atlantic coast 90 miles east of New York City. The conference features workshops in...

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Event Date: July 10, 2024
Application Deadline: April 15, 2024
Financial Aid Deadline: March 15, 2024

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