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Conferences and 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.

Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Lansing, MI

The 34th annual A Rally of Writers conference was held on April 9 at the West Campus of Lansing Community College in Lansing, Michigan. The conference featured workshops, panel discussions, and readings in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction...

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Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Paducah, KY

A.I.R. Studio Paducah offers residencies of two weeks to three months year-round to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers in the Lower Town Arts District of Paducah, Kentucky. Residents are provided with a private apartment, Wi-...

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Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Austin, TX

The Writers’ League of Texas (WLT) 2022 Agents & Editors Conference was held from June 24 to June 26 at the Hyatt Regency on Lady Bird Lake in Austin, Texas. The conference featured presentations, panels, authors in conversation, a keynote...

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Creative Nonfiction
Columbia County, NY

The 2022 All Write Creative Nonfiction Conference was held from October 19 to October 23 at the Spencertown Academy in Columbia County, New York. The conference featured one-hour workshops to discuss 15 to 20 pages of each writer’s work, an...

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Translation
Tucson, AZ

The 44th annual American Literary Translators Association Conference was held online and in person throughout the months of September, October, and November. Programming included online pitch sessions from September 8 to September 24 and online...

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Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Paris, France

The American University of Paris Summer Creative Writing Institute offers workshops to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers from June 28 to July 19 on the university’s campus in the seventh arrondissement of Paris. The faculty...

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Event Date: June 28, 2023
Application Deadline: June 1, 2023
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation
Red Wing, MN

The 2023 General Artist Residency Program offers residencies of two weeks or one month during July, September, October, and November to poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, and translators at Tower View, a 350-acre historic estate...

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Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Twitchell Lake, NY

The Adirondack Center for Writing will offer a residency from September 24 to October 8 to six poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers at a lodge on Twitchell Lake in the Adirondack Mountains in New York. Three of the residents...

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Event Date: September 24, 2023
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation
Ghent, NY

Residencies of one week to two months are offered to poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, and translators from late March through early June and from early September through early November at Omi International Arts Center,...

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Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Snowmass Village, CO

The 47th annual Aspen Summer Words Writing Conference and Literary Festival will be held from June 18 to June 23 at the Viewline, a resort in the mountain town of Snowmass, Colorado, around 15 minutes from downtown Aspen. The conference features ...

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Event Date: June 18, 2023
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Seattle, WA

The 2023 AWP Conference and Bookfair was held from March 8 to March 11 at the Seattle Convention Center in Washington and alsod include a virtual component comprising prerecorded and livestreamed events. The conference featured panel discussions...

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Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Atlanta, GA

The spring 2023 Atlanta Writers Conference, sponsored by the Atlanta Writers Club, was held from May 5 to May 6 at the Westin Atlanta Airport Hotel. The conference included a book fair featuring attendees’ books; presentations on the craft and...

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Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Creative Nonfiction
New York City, NY

The 2023 Biographers International Organization (BIO) Conference was held from May 19 to May 21 at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York in New York City as well as online. The conference featured panels on current issues in...

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Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Bogliasco, Italy
Bogliasco

The Bogliasco Foundation offers month-long residencies from January to May and from September to December to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers in the coastal fishing village of Bogliasco, Italy, located seven miles southeast...

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Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Brattleboro, VT

The 21st annual Brattleboro Literary Festival was held online and in person in downtown Brattleboro, Vermont, from October 13 to October 16. The festival featured readings, panels, and special events. Participants included poets Andrea Cohen,...

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Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Ripton, VT

The 2023 Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference will be held from June 2 to June 8 in the Green Mountains of Ripton, Vermont. The conference, designed for poets and prose writers whose work deals with the environment and the natural world,...

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Event Date: June 2, 2023
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation
Ripton, VT

The 2023 Bread Loaf Translators’ Conference will be held from June 2 to June 8 in the Green Mountains of Ripton, Vermont. The conference, designed for both emerging and established translators, features translation workshops in poetry, fiction,...

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Event Date: June 2, 2023
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Ripton, VT

The 2023 Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference will be held from August 16 to August 26 in the Green Mountains of Ripton, Vermont. The conference features workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction as well as lectures; craft classes; meetings...

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Event Date: August 16, 2023
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Dunwoody, GA

The 7th annual Broadleaf Writers Conference was held from October 8 to October 9 at the Perimeter Doubletree Hotel in Dunwoody, Georgia. The conference featured panels and workshops for poets, fiction writers, and nonfiction writers, as well as...

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Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Ménerbes, France

The Museum of Fine Arts in Houston offered residencies of one to three months from July 1 to November 30 to mid-career poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers at the Dora Maar House in Ménerbes, France. Residents were provided...

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Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Messejana, Portugal

Buinho Creative Hub offers residencies of two weeks to three months year-round to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers in the historic town of Messejana, Portugal. Residents are provided with private lodging and shared work...

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Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Paris, France

The Cambridge Writers’ Workshop Paris Writing Retreat will be held from July 19 to July 25 in the historic Montparnasse neighborhood of Paris. The retreat features writing and publishing workshops, craft seminars, and generative writing sessions...

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Event Date: July 19, 2023
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
New Orleans, LA

The 2020 Cambridge Writers’ Workshop Spring in New Orleans Writing Retreat was held from March 19 to March 22 at the Pelham Hotel, a five-minute walk from the French Quarter. The retreat featured multi-genre and publishing workshops, craft...

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Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Online

The 2022 Cape Cod Writers Center Conference was held online from August 4 to August 6. The conference featured workshops in poetry and fiction, an agent panel, and mentoring sessions with faculty. The faculty included poet Rebecca Rolland;...

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Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Pebble Beach, CA
Coastal picture with bright blue water, sky, and green shore.

The 2023 Catamaran Writing Conference will be held from July 30 to August 3 at the Robert Louis Stevenson School in Pebble Beach, California. The conference features small group workshops, lectures, craft talks, and daily excursions for poets,...

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Event Date: July 30, 2023
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions

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