The Sitka Center for Art and Ecology will offer two- to twelve-week residencies from October 2026 to April 2027 to poets, fiction writers, nonfiction writers, and translators at the center’s main campus and adjacent 80-acre property, all located...
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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.
The Summer 2026 Sonoma County Writers Camp will be held from July 22 to July 26 at the Ratna Ling Retreat Center in Cazadero, California. The retreat features generative workshops and master classes in fiction and creative nonfiction, meditative...
read more Event Date: July 22, 2026
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Financial Aid Deadline: May 1, 2026
The 49th annual Southampton Writers Conference was 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 featured workshops in...
read moreThe 2024 Southern Festival of Books: A Celebration of the Written Word, sponsored by Humanities Tennessee, was held on October 26 and October 27 at the Bicentennial Capitol Mall State Park, Tennessee State Library & Archives, and Tennessee...
read moreThe Southern Vermont Writers’ Conference was held from April 12 to April 17 at the Inn at Manchester in Manchester, Vermont. The program included workshops, generative writing sessions, private writing time, and afternoon salons for poets,...
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The Spring Creek Project offers two-week collaborative residencies in August and September to pairs of poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers at the Cabin at Shotpouch Creek in the Oregon Coast Range. The...
read moreSquam Writes will offer a retreat from June 11 to June 14 for fiction and creative nonfiction writers at Rockywold Deephaven Camps, a historic resort campsite on the shores of Squam Lake in Holderness, New Hampshire. Residents are provided with...
read more Event Date: June 11, 2026
Storyknife offers two- to four-week residencies from April through October to women poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers on ten acres of wilderness overlooking the Aleutian Range outside of Homer, Alaska. Each...
read more Application Deadline: August 31, 2026
Studio Faire offers two- or four-week residencies year-round to artists and writers, including poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, and translators, at an early 19th-century house in Nérac, France. The residency accommodates up to...
read more Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The 39th annual Summer Fishtrap Gathering of Writers will be held from June 23 to June 28 at Wallowa Lake Lodge on the shores of Wallowa Lake, Oregon. The weeklong conference features generative writing workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative...
read more Event Date: June 23, 2026
Application Deadline: June 23, 2026
The Sundog Poetry Retreat at Fielder Farm was held from November 3 to November 5 at the 230-acre Fielder Farm in Huntington, Vermont. The retreat featured workshops, craft talks, and readings for poets. The faculty included poets Alison Prine and...
read moreSunlit Residency offers weekly residencies of one to three weeks and monthly residencies of up to three months year-round to poets, fiction writers, nonfiction writers, and translators at the Sue-Je Lee Gage Residency for Human Rights and Social...
read more Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Taleamor Park offers two- to four-week residencies from April to September to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers on a working grain farm and nature preserve with walking paths in northwestern Indiana between the towns of La...
read moreThe 10th annual Taos Writers Conference will be held from July 24 to July 26 at the headquarters of the Society of the Muse of the Southwest, a literary organization in Taos, New Mexico. The conference features in-person and online workshops for...
read more Event Date: July 24, 2026
Application Deadline: June 1, 2026
The 2025 Texas Book Festival was held on November 8 and November 9 around the Texas State Capitol in downtown Austin. The festival featured panels, discussions, and book signings with more than 250 authors and hosts nearly 100 exhibiting vendors...
read moreThe Cabins retreat was held from June 18 to June 22 in cabins on Tobey Pond in the Great Mountain Forest near Norfolk, Connecticut. The retreat offered collaborative, interdisciplinary presentations and group exercises led by and for attendees,...
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The Frost Place Poetry Seminar will be held online from August 2 to August 6. The seminar features poetry workshops, craft talks, and faculty and student readings. The faculty includes poets Lauren Camp, Armen Davoudian, and Patrick Donnelly. The...
read more Event Date: August 2, 2026
Application Deadline: July 1, 2026
The 2026 Lab Creative Writing Retreat will be held from September 30 to October 8 in Mexico City for four nights and at the Khungi Temple, a remote retreat center in Valle de Bravo, Mexico, for four nights. Programming includes time to write,...
read more Event Date: September 30, 2026
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The Studios of Key West offers monthlong residencies to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers at the Old Town campus in Key West, Florida. Residents are provided with private lodging and work space. There is no cost to attend...
read moreThe 2026 Writer’s Hotel Maine All-Genre “Mini MFA” Writers Conference will be held from June 10 to June 16 at the Sebasco Harbor Resort in Phippsburg, Maine. The conference features a full-manuscript pre-conference reading with two sets of...
read more Event Date: June 10, 2026
Good Contrivance Farm, an educational nonprofit, offers residencies of up to four weeks year-round to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers on a Victorian farm in Reisterstown, Maryland, located 24 miles north of Baltimore....
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The Tin House Summer Workshop will be held from July 12 to July 19 at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. The program features poetry, novel, short fiction, and creative nonfiction workshops (eight participants per class) as well as one-on-one...
read more Event Date: July 12, 2026
The annual Tinker Mountain Writers’ Workshop will be held from June 14 to June 19 at the Hollins University campus in Roanoke, Virginia. The conference features generative and critique workshops as well as craft talks, individual conferences with...
read more Event Date: June 14, 2026
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The 2026 Todos Santos Writers Workshop Winter Session was held from January 31, 2026, to February 7, 2026, at La Posada del Molino in Todos Santos, Baja California Sur, Mexico. The workshop offered daily classes and craft seminars in poetry,...
read moreThe Tremont Writers Conference will be held from October 21 to October 25 at the Great Smoky Mountains Institute at Tremont, located in the eponymous national park six miles southwest of Townsend, Tennessee. The conference...
read more Event Date: October 21, 2026