Red Mountain Press offered two- and four-week residencies from November 14 to December 12 to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers in a private home on Sanibel Island, Florida. Residents were provided with private lodging,...
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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 Renaissance House Residency Program offered an activist writers festival from September 17 to September 19 for poets, fiction writers, and nonfiction writers in Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts. Participation in the festival may have been ...
read moreThe Renaissance House Residency Program offers residencies of one to two weeks in July and August to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers in Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts. The residencies include workshops, lectures, and...
read more Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
ROOSTERGNN Global News Network (RGNN) offers residencies of at least ten days to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers year-round in Madrid, Spain, and during the summer in Havana and Trinidad, Cuba. Residents in Spain will be...
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The Rutgers-New Brunswick Writers’ Conference was held from June 2 to June 3 at the Rutgers University Continuing Education Center in Somerset, New Jersey. The conference featured workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative...
read moreThe Salty Quill Writers’ Retreat for Women offers one-week residencies a few times a year to twelve poets, fiction writers, nonfiction writers, and translators who identify as women at McGee Island, a 110-acre private island located three miles...
read more Event Date: September 23, 2023
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Financial Aid Deadline: June 15, 2023
The Salty Quill Writers’ Retreat for Women offers one-week residencies twice a year to twelve poets, fiction writers, nonfiction writers, and translators who identify as women at McGee Island, a 110-acre private island located three miles from...
read more Event Date: May 20, 2023
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The 2023 Sarah Lawrence College Poetry Festival was held from April 21 to April 23 on the campus of Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York, located 30 minutes by train from New York City. The festival featured workshops, readings, panel...
read moreSarasvati Creative Space offers residencies of a week to four months year-round to poets, fiction writers, nonfiction writers, and translators at Camp Wonder Wander in the rural, rolling hills of Lewis County, Tennessee, near the Buffalo River,...
read more Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The 33rd annual Sewanee Writers’ Conference will be held from July 18 to July 30 on the campus of the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee. The conference features workshops, special topics classes, lectures, and readings for poets,...
read more Event Date: July 18, 2023
The Spring 2023 Sonoma County Writers Camp was held from April 17 to April 21 at Bishops Ranch Retreat Center in Healdsburg, California. The retreat featured generative workshops in fiction and memoir, panels by authors and agents, master classes...
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The 48th annual Southampton Writers Conference will be held from July 12 to July 16 at the Stony Brook Southampton campus in Southampton, New York, located on the Atlantic coast 90 miles east of New York City. The conference features workshops in...
read more Event Date: July 12, 2023
The 2022 Southern Festival of Books: A Celebration of the Written Word was held from October 14 to October 16 at the War Memorial Plaza and the Nashville Public Library in downtown Nashville, Tennessee. Sponsored by Humanities Tennessee, the...
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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 8 to June 11 to fiction and creative nonfiction writers at Rockywold Deephaven Camps, a historic resort campsite in Holderness, New Hampshire. Residents are provided lodging in cottages, cabins, and...
read more Event Date: June 8, 2023
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Squam Writes will offer a retreat from June 8 to June 11 to fiction and creative nonfiction writers at Rockywold Deephaven Camps, a historic resort campsite in Holderness, New Hampshire. Residents are provided lodging in cottages, cabins, and...
read more Event Date: June 8, 2023
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Storyknife offers two- to four-week residencies from April to October to women poets, fiction writers, and nonfiction writers on ten acres of land outside of Homer, Alaska. Each resident is provided with a private cabin equipped with a kitchen,...
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Studio Faire offers two- or four-week residencies between April and October to artists and writers, including poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, and translators, at an early 19th-century house in Nérac, France. The residency...
read more 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 the Duval Street neighborhood in Key West, Florida. Residents are provided with private lodging and work...
read moreThe 36th annual Summer Fishtrap Gathering of Writers will be held from July 10 to July 16 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: July 10, 2023
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Taleamor Park offers two-week to 12-month residencies year-round to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers on a working grain farm and nature preserve in northwestern Indiana, near Lake Michigan. Residents are provided with a...
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The 2022 Texas Book Festival was held from November 5 to November 6 in downtown Austin. The festival featured panels and discussions with more than 250 authors and hosted nearly 100 exhibitors. Participating writers included poet, fiction writer...
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,...
read moreThe 2023 Writer’s Hotel Maine “Mini MFA” All-Fiction Writers Conference will be held from May 24 to May 30 at the Spruce Point Inn in Boothbay Harbor, Maine. The conference features a full-manuscript pre-conference reading with two sets of...
read more Event Date: May 24, 2023
The 2022 Writer’s Hotel “Mini MFA” Conference in Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry was held virtually from June 8 to June 15. The conference featured two full manuscript readings with two sets of editorial comments offered per reading, one pre-...
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