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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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Writers in the Heartland Residency Gilman, IL Writers in the Heartland offers weeklong residencies from August 30 to September 7 and September 27 to October 5 on a 32-acre wooded site in Gilman, Illinois, approximately 50 miles... |
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction | Yes | 4/30/13 | ||
Andrews Forest Writers' Residency Residency McKenzie, OR The H. J. Andrews Experimental Forest offers one- to two-week residencies to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers in September, November, and December in the Oregon Cascades,... |
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction | Yes | 5/15/13 | ||
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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 | ||
Collaborative Retreat at the Cabin at Shotpouch Creek Residency Corvallis, OR The Cabin at Shotpouch Creek offers two-week residencies to pairs of poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers from August 10 to August 23 and August 25 to September 7... |
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction | Yes | 5/15/13 | ||
Whidbey Writers Workshop Alumni Association Emerging Writers Getaway Residency Asheville, NC A seven-day retreat at a cabin in the Smoky Mountains of North Carolina, approximately 70 miles southwest of Asheville, is given annually to a fiction writer who has... |
Fiction | Yes | 5/24/13 | ||
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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 |