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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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Power of Words Conference Conference Plainfield, VT The 2012 Power of Words Conference was held from October 26 to October 29 at Pendle Hill, a Quaker study center in Wallingford, Pennsylvania, outside Philadelphia. The biennial conference features... |
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction | No | 10/26/12 | ||
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Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Residency Amherst, VA The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts offers residencies of up to two months from February through May to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers on a 450-acre estate... |
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction | No | 9/15/12 | ||
Caldera Residency Sisters, OR Caldera offers monthlong residencies from January to March to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers. Located on 120 acres in the Central Cascades, 17 miles west of... |
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction | Yes | 6/15/13 | ||
Green Mountain Writer’s Conference Conference Tinmouth, VT The 14th annual Green Mountain Writer’s Conference will be held from July 29 to August 2 in Tinmouth, Vermont, 20 miles southwest of Rutland, at a conference center... |
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction | No | 7/29/13 | 7/15/13 | |
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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 | ||
Iowa Summer Writing Festival Conference Iowa City, IA The 27th annual Iowa Summer Writing Festival will be held during June and July on the University of Iowa campus in Iowa City. The festival, open to writers... |
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction | No |