Headlands Center for the Arts offers four- to eight-week residencies from June to early November to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers in the coastal wilderness of the Marin Headlands outside San Francisco. Residents are...
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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 Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum and Educational Center at Arkansas State University will offer a one-month-long residency during June to poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, and translators in Piggott, Arkansas. The residency...
read more Event Date: June 1, 2023
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 will be held from June 8 to June 10 at the Marriott Rivercenter hotel in San Antonio, Texas, as well as online. The conference features presentations, panels, pitch sessions...
read more Event Date: June 8, 2023
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The 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, two, or three 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...
read more Application Deadline: June 1, 2023
The 2023 Indiana University Writers’ Conference will be held from June 8 to June 11 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 8, 2023
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The 8th annual Inkubator Writing Conference, sponsored by Literary Cleveland and joining Cleveland Book Week, was held on September 9 and September 10 at the Cleveland Public Library in downtown Cleveland. The conference featured workshops, craft...
read moreThe 2018 Iota Short Prose Conference was held from August 15 to August 19 at the Roosevelt Campobello International Park on Campobello Island, in New Brunswick, Canada, located just off the coast of Lubec, Maine. The conference...
read moreThe 2023 Jackson Hole Writers Conference will be held from June 22 to June 24 at the Jackson Hole Center for the Arts in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, with the option to attend virtually. The conference features workshops, lectures, readings, and...
read more Event Date: June 22, 2023
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The 20th annual James River Writers Conference was held online and in person from October 7 to October 9. The conference started with online master classes on October 7, followed by in-person events on October 8 and 9 at the Greater Richmond...
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The Jentel Foundation offers four-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. Writers 25...
read more Event Date: May 15, 2023
The Juniper Summer Writing Institute will be held from June 11 to June 17 on 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 11, 2023
The 2023 Kachemak Bay Writers’ Conference was held from May 13 to May 16 in Homer, Alaska, with a view of the snowcapped mountain ranges across Kachemak Bay. The conference featured craft classes, as well as craft conversations, readings, panels...
read more Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The 2022 Kauai Writers Conference was held from November 7 to November 13 at the Royal Sonesta Resort on Kalapaki Beach in Kauai, Hawai’i. The conference featured master classes in fiction and creative nonfiction, as well as agent pitch sessions...
read more 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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The Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts offers two- to eight-week residencies year-round to writers of all genres, including poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers, in the burr oak forests of Nebraska City, Nebraska....
read more Event Date: July 3, 2023
The La Baldi Residency, sponsored by Cultivate, offers two-week and one-month residencies from April through October to poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, and translators, in Montegiovi, Italy. Residents stay in private lodging...
read moreThe spring 2023 Lit Camp will be held from June 4 to June 9 at the Bell Valley Retreat Center in Mendocino County, California. The conference includes craft talks and writing time for fiction and creative nonfiction writers. The faculty includes...
read more Event Date: June 4, 2023
The Lighthouse Writers Workshop’s 2023 Lit Fest will be held from June 9 to June 16 at the Lighthouse Writers Workshop headquarters in Denver, as well as online. The festival features weekend and weeklong workshops, craft seminars, salons,...
read more Event Date: June 9, 2023
The 2020 Literary Writers Conference was held online from December 2 to December 4. The conference, which was hosted by the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses, featured agent pitch sessions, pitch clinics, a query letter clinic, and...
read moreThe 14th annual LiTFUSE Poets’ Workshop was held from September 24 to September 26 at the Mighty Tieton Warehouse and nearby venues in Tieton, Washington. The workshop featured readings, performances, and master classes for poets. The faculty...
read moreThe 16th annual LiTFUSE UNiTE Poetry Workshop was held from September 23 to September 25 at the Mighty Tieton Warehouse and nearby venues in Tieton, Washington. The workshop featured readings, performances, and master classes for poets. The...
read moreLoghaven offers residencies of two to six weeks year-round to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers in five rehabilitated historic log cabins and newly built facilities on ninety acres of woodland in Knoxville, Tennessee. The...
read more Application Deadline: July 15, 2023
The 2023 Longleaf Writers Conference was held from May 13 to May 20 at the Seaside Academic Village in Santa Rosa Beach, Florida. The conference featured workshops, craft seminars, sunset receptions, bonfire readings, and one-on-one consultations...
read more Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions