The 26th annual Get Lit! Festival was held online and in person from April 11 to April 14 at various venues in and around Spokane, Washington. The festival featured readings, writing workshops, craft classes, open mics, and panel discussions for...
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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 Good Hart Artist Residency offers two- to three-week residencies year-round to artists and writers, including poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers, in the woods bordering the “Tunnel of Trees” Scenic Heritage Route in Good...
read more Application Deadline: January 8, 2024
The Gotham Writers Literary/Commercial Fiction Conference was held online from November 18 to November 19. Sponsored by the Gotham Writers Workshop, the event was open to fiction and nonfiction writers as well as graphic novelists and graphic...
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The 23rd annual Green Mountain Writers Conference was held from August 2 to August 6 at the historic Brandon Inn in Brandon, Vermont, a walkable Vermont village. The program featured workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, as well...
read more Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The 2022 GrubStreet Muse & the Marketplace conference was held virtually with optional in-person events in and around GrubStreet’s Center for Creative Writing in Boston’s Seaport district, as public health guidelines allowed, from April 27 to...
read moreThe Guanajuato Writing Retreat will be held from September 22 to September 29 at the Florecer Casitas in Guanajuato, the hilly capital city of Guanajuato state, in Mexico’s high plateau region. The theme for the 2024 retreat is “Renewing...
read more Event Date: September 22, 2024
Application Deadline: July 15, 2024
The Hambidge Creative Residency Program offers residencies of two to six weeks from mid-February to mid-December to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers on 600 forested acres in the Blue Ridge Mountains of northern Georgia....
read more Event Date: February 15, 2025
Application Deadline: September 15, 2024
Financial Aid Deadline: September 15, 2024
The 15th annual Hampton Roads Writers Conference was held from November 9 to November 11 at the Holiday Inn Virginia Beach Norfolk Hotel and Conference Center. The conference featured 10-minute agent pitches, critique sessions, and craft and...
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Headlands Center for the Arts offers four- to ten-week residencies from mid-June to mid-November to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers in the coastal wilderness of the Marin Headlands outside San Francisco. Residents are...
read more Event Date: June 15, 2024
Application Deadline: June 10, 2024
The Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum and Educational Center at Arkansas State University offers a monthlong residency in June to poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, and translators in Piggott, Arkansas. The residency includes a loft...
read more Event Date: June 1, 2024
Application Deadline: February 28, 2024
The 2022 HippoCamp conference was held from August 12 to August 14 at the Downtown Lancaster Marriott in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. The conference featured craft talks, publishing and marketing sessions, panel discussions, a story slam, and...
read moreThe biennial Historical Novel Society (HNS) North America Conference was held from June 8 to June 10 at the Marriott Rivercenter hotel in San Antonio, Texas, as well as online. The conference featured presentations, panels, pitch sessions with...
read moreThe 2023 Iceland Writers Retreat for fiction and nonfiction writers was held from April 26 to April 30 at the Fosshotel in Reykjavík. The retreat featured workshops, panels, lectures, and time to write, as well as tours of Iceland. The faculty...
read moreIn Cahoots offers residencies of one or two weeks year-round to poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, and scholars in the countryside of Petaluma, California, in scenic Sonoma County. Residents are provided with individual cottages...
read more Application Deadline: June 1, 2024
The 2024 Indiana University Writers’ Conference will be held from June 6 to June 9 in Bloomington, Indiana. The conference features workshops, craft classes, panel discussions, and readings for poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction...
read more Event Date: June 6, 2024
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The ninth annual Inkubator Writing Conference, sponsored by Literary Cleveland and kicking off Cleveland Book Week 2023, was held on September 22 and September 23 at the Cleveland Public Library in downtown Cleveland. The conference featured...
read moreThe eighth annual Iota Short Forms Conference was held from October 12 to October 15 at the Cobscook Institute in Trescott, Maine, and its surrounding fifty acres of forest and former farmland. The conference featured writing classes, readings,...
read moreThe 2024 Jackson Hole Writers Conference will be held from November 1 to November 3 at the Jackson Hole Center for the Arts in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. The conference features craft classes, lectures, readings, and manuscript critiques for poets,...
read more Event Date: November 1, 2024
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The 21st annual James River Writers Conference was held online and in person from October 6 to October 8 at the Greater Richmond Convention Center in Richmond, Virginia. The conference began with online and in-person master classes on October 6;...
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The Jan Michalski Foundation offers residencies of two weeks to three months year-round to poets, fiction writers, nonfiction writers, translators, and scholars at the foot of the Swiss Jura Mountains in Montricher, Vaud, Switzerland, one hour...
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The Jentel Foundation offers three-week residencies from mid-January to mid-December to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers on a cattle ranch in the Lower Piney Creek Valley, 20 miles southeast of Sheridan, Wyoming. Residents...
read more Event Date: January 15, 2025
Application Deadline: September 15, 2024
The Juniper Summer Writing Institute will be held from June 9 to June 15 at the University of Massachusetts campus in Amherst. The program features workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, as well as craft seminars, manuscript...
read more Event Date: June 9, 2024
Application Deadline: February 15, 2024
Financial Aid Deadline: February 15, 2024
The 2024 Kachemak Bay Writers’ Conference will be held from May 18 to May 21 at the Kenai Peninsula College campus in Homer, Alaska, with views of the snowcapped mountain ranges across Kachemak Bay. The conference features craft classes, as well...
read more Event Date: May 18, 2024
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Financial Aid Deadline: February 28, 2024
The 2024 Kauai Writers Conference will be held from November 11 to November 17 at the Royal Sonesta Resort on Kalapaki Beach in Kauai, Hawai‘i. The event features a three-day conference, master classes, one-on-one agent sessions, and publishing...
read more Event Date: November 11, 2024
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The 2022 Kentucky Book Festival, presented by Kentucky Humanities, was held October 27 and October 29 in Lexington, Kentucky. The festival included a ticketed luncheon with fiction and nonfiction writer Geraldine Brooks and biographer and...
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