MacDowell offers residencies of up to six weeks year-round to poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, and translators on 450 wooded acres near Mt. Monadnock in Peterborough, New Hampshire. Residents are provided with a private room,...
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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 2023 Macondo Writers Workshop will be held from July 25 to July 29 at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. The conference features writing workshops, seminars, and free public readings for poets, fiction writers, and nonfiction writers....
read more Event Date: July 25, 2023
The 2021 Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing Summer Writers’ Conference was held from June 6 to June 12 and from June 13 to June 19 at the Vineyard Arts Project (VAP) campus in downtown Edgartown on the island of Martha’s Vineyard,...
read moreMASS MoCA offers two retreats of three to six days in June and October for poets. The summer retreat will take place from May 31 to June 6 at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art in North Adams. The retreat includes daily prompts,...
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The 2023 Mendocino Coast Writers’ Conference will be held from August 3 to August 5 on the Mendocino Coast in California. The conference features workshops for poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers, as well as craft seminars,...
read more Event Date: August 3, 2023
Application Deadline: June 30, 2023
Millay Arts offers two- and four-week residencies from April through November to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers at Steepletop, the former estate of Edna St. Vincent Millay in Austerlitz, New York. Each residency includes...
read moreThe 2023 Minnesota Northwoods Writers Conference will be held from June 20 to June 25 in Minnesota’s Northwoods at Bemidji State University. The conference features workshops, craft talks, panels, an evening reading series, and manuscript...
read more Event Date: June 20, 2023
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The 2023 Napa Valley Writers’ Conference will be held from July 30 to August 4 on the main campus of Napa Valley College in Napa, California. The conference features workshops in poetry, fiction, and translation, as well as craft talks and...
read more Event Date: July 30, 2023
The 16th National Black Writers Conference, “The Beautiful Struggle: Black Writers Lighting the Way,” was held virtually, as a series of webinars, from March 30 to April 2. The 2022 NBWC examined “the ways that texts by Black writers document...
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The 2023 National Black Writers Conference Biennial Symposium was held from March 31 to April 1 in the Edison O. Jackson Auditorium at Medgar Evers College, as well as online. The symposium will featured scholarly presentations, roundtable...
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The 37th annual New York State Summer Writers Institute will be held from June 25 to July 22 at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs. The program features two- and four-week workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction for in-person...
read more Event Date: June 25, 2023
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The 2022 North Carolina Writers’ Network Fall Conference was held from November 18 to November 20 at the Holiday Inn Resort in Wrightsville Beach. The conference featured classes in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, as well as...
read moreThe 2022 North Carolina Writers’ Network Spring Conference was held on April 23, both in person at the University of North Carolina in Greensboro and online. The conference featured classes in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, as well as...
read moreThe 2023 North Carolina Writers’ Network (NCWN) Squire Summer Writing Workshops will be held from July 20 to July 23 at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem. The conference features workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, as...
read more Event Date: July 20, 2023
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Financial Aid Deadline: July 7, 2023
The 2020 North Carolina Writers’ Network Writingest State Conference was held online from November 10 to November 14. The conference featured classes in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, as well as conversations and panel discussions on...
read moreThe 2023 Orcas Island Lit Fest will be held from June 2 to June 3 at the Orcas Center in Eastsound, Washington. The festival features panel discussions, book signings, author interviews, readings, and live music for poetry, fiction, and creative...
read more Event Date: June 2, 2023
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The Orion Environmental Writers’ Workshop will be held from June 18 to June 23 at the Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, New York. The program features workshops (limited to 12 participants each), faculty readings and lectures, panels on publishing,...
read more Event Date: June 18, 2023
The Orion in the Wilderness retreat, cosponsored by the Omega Institute, was held from March 8 to March 14 at the American Museum of Natural History’s Southwestern Research Station in Cave Creek Canyon in Portal, Arizona, surrounded by the...
read moreThe Ou Gallery’s Ou-telier program offers one- to four-week residencies starting on the 1st and 16th of every month year-round to up to 12 emerging and established poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, and translators on Gabriola...
read more Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The Ox-Bow School of Art offered two-, three-, and five-week residencies from September 7 to October 11 to poets, fiction writers, and nonfiction writers on the Ox-Bow campus in Saugatuck, Michigan, located near the shores of Lake Michigan and...
read morePoetry by the Sea: A Global Conference will be held from May 23 to May 26 at Mercy by the Sea, a retreat center and private beach in Madison, Connecticut. The conference features workshops, seminars, readings, and panels. Participating poets...
read more Event Date: May 23, 2023
The 2022 Poets on the Coast: A Weekend Retreat for Women was held from September 9 to September 11 at the Country Inn in La Conner, Washington. The retreat featured a poetry workshop, craft classes, and one-on-one mentoring with faculty. The...
read moreThe 2022 Portland Book Festival, hosted by Literary Arts, was held November 5 at the Portland Art Museum, Portland’5 Centers for the Arts, and surrounding venues. A new addition to the festival, the Portland Book Festival Cover to Cover, was held...
read moreThe Ragdale Foundation offers residencies of 18 or 25 days year-round to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers on 50 acres of prairie in Lake Forest, Illinois, 30 miles north of Chicago. Residents are provided with a private...
read moreThe 2023 Red Clay Writers Conference, sponsored by the Georgia Writers Association, was held on April 15 at Kennesaw State University (KSU) and online on April 16. The conference featured writing workshops and panels on literary journals and...
read more Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions