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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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Sage Hill Writing Experience Conference Lumsden, Canada Sage Hill Writing Experience offers summer programs in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. This year's conference was held from July 23 to August 2, 2012, at St. Michael’s Retreat in... |
Poetry, Fiction | No | 7/23/12 | 5/11/12 | 5/11/12 |
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Thurber House John E. Nance Writer-in-Residence Program Conference Columbus, OH Thurber House offers a four-week residency in September and October to a nonfiction writer (including creative nonfiction) in the boyhood home of James Thurber in Columbus, Ohio. Writers who have... |
Creative Nonfiction | Yes | 5/1/12 | ||
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Voices of the Wilderness Residency Residency Anchorage, AK The United States Forest Service offers residencies of seven to nine days from June through August to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers, to take part in a field... |
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction | Yes | 4/20/12 | ||
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Boston Summer Writers Conference Conference Boston, MA The 2012 Boston Summer Writers Conference was held from June 24 to June 30 on the campus of at Emerson College in Boston. The conference features workshops in poetry, fiction,... |
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction | No | 6/24/12 | 4/13/12 | |
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New York Mills Regional Cultural Center Residency New York Mills, MN The New York Mills Regional Cultural Center provides residencies of two to four weeks from July through December to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers in New... |
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction | Yes | 4/1/12 | ||
Kerouac Writer in Residence Project Residency Orlando, FL The Jack Kerouac Writer in Residence Project offers residencies of three months to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers at Jack Kerouac's former cottage home in Orlando, Florida. Residents... |
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction | Yes | 3/31/12 |