Good Contrivance Farm, an educational nonprofit, offers residencies of up to four weeks year-round to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers on a Victorian farm in Reisterstown, Maryland, located 25 miles north of Baltimore....
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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 20th annual Tin House Summer Workshop will be held from July 8 to July 16 at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. The program features workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction (limited to 8 to 10 members per class), as well as one-...
read more Event Date: July 8, 2023
The annual Tinker Mountain Writers’ Workshop will be held from June 11 to June 15 on the campus of Hollins University in Roanoke, Virginia. The conference features manuscript workshops and generative classes in poetry, fiction, creative...
read more Event Date: June 11, 2023
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The Todos Santos Writers Workshop Paris in Spring: A Memoir Intensive was held from May 6 to May 13 in an atelier in the seventh arrondissement of Paris, near the Eiffel Tower and Rodin Museum. The intensive included daily workshops in narrative...
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The 2023 Todos Santos Writers Workshop Winter Session was held from January 28, 2023, to February 4, 2023, in Todos Santos, Baja California Sur, Mexico. The workshop offered daily classes and craft seminars in poetry, fiction, and memoir; one-on-...
read moreThe Tusen Takk Foundation offers residencies of three to eight weeks from March to December to poets, fiction writers, and nonfiction writers at the modern Tusen Takk guesthouse on an isolated peninsula on Lake Michigan, approximately 25 miles...
read moreThe 12th annual Tutka Bay Writers Retreat, sponsored by 49 Writers, was held from September 23 to September 25 at Tutka Bay Lodge near Homer, Alaska. The retreat offered an intimate workshop, capped at 15 participants, open to poets, fiction...
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The Writers Studio, sponsored by the UCLA Extension Writers’ Program, was held from February 23 to February 26 on the UCLA campus in Los Angeles. The conference featured workshops in fiction and creative nonfiction as well as a literary agent...
read moreUcross offers two-, four-, and six-week residencies from February through early June and from August through early December to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers on a 20,000-acre ranch in Ucross, Wyoming, located 27 miles...
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The 20th annual Under the Volcano Master Classes and Guided Residency was held from January 6, 2023, to January 29, 2023, in Tepoztlán, Mexico, a village located one hour from Mexico City in the foothills of snow-capped volcanoes. The conference...
read moreThe Underground Workshop was held from June 8 to June 15 in the Pearl District of Portland, Oregon. The workshop, which was open to fiction writers, included workshops, individual manuscript consultations, local excursions, readings, and an...
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The 28th annual Vermont College of Fine Arts (VCFA) Postgraduate Writers’ Conference will be held from August 7 to August 13 on the Champlain College campus in Burlington, Vermont. Designed for writers with graduate degrees or equivalent...
read more Event Date: August 7, 2023
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Financial Aid Deadline: August 7, 2023
The Vermont Studio Center (VSC) offers two-, three-, and four-week residencies year-round to poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, and translators in Johnson, Vermont, a village located in the heart of the northern Green Mountains...
read more Application Deadline: June 15, 2023
Financial Aid Deadline: June 15, 2023
The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts offers residencies of varying lengths (up to six weeks) year-round to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers at Mt. San Angelo in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Residents are...
read moreThe Annual Writer Residency offers an 11-month residency from September 1, 2023, to July 31, 2024, to a poet, fiction writer, or nonfiction writer at the Visual Arts Center of Richmond in Virginia. Writers who have not yet published a full-length...
read more Event Date: September 1, 2023
The U.S. Forest Service, the National Park Service, and the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service offer residencies of one to two weeks from June through August to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers to take part in stewardship...
read moreThe 2022 Lighthouse Sessions Men’s Retreat was held from August 14 to August 19 for poets, fiction writers, nonfiction writers, and translators at the Whitehead Light Station, a lighthouse in Tenants Harbor, Maine. The retreat featured daily...
read moreThe 2022 Willamette Writers Conference was held online and in person at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Downtown Portland, Oregon, from August 5 to August 7. The conference featured workshops, panels, pitch sessions, and critiques for poets, fiction...
read moreWillapa Bay AiR offers monthlong residencies from April through October to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers on 16 wooded acres near Oysterville, Washington. Residents are provided with a private cottage with living and work...
read moreThe 29th annual Winter Poetry & Prose Getaway was held from January 13 to January 16 at the Seaview Hotel near Atlantic City. The program, sponsored by Murphy Writing of Stockton University, offered small, intensive workshops in poetry,...
read moreThe 2023 Wordplay festival will be held on July 8 in and around Open Book, a literary center in Minneapolis, with some panels to be livestreamed for a virtual audience. The festival features panel discussions, author interviews, interactive...
read more Event Date: July 8, 2023
The 2020 Words and Wanderlust Writing Retreat was held from June 7 to June 13 at the boutique Communal Hotel in Tbilisi, Georgia. The retreat featured guided writing workshops for fiction and nonfiction writers, craft talks, readings, a food and...
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The 37th annual Write on the Sound Writers Conference was held online from October 7 to October 9. The conference featured craft sessions, one-on-one manuscript consultations, a writing contest, and information sessions on publishing and...
read moreThe 2022 WriterCon was held from September 2 to September 5 at the Renaissance Waterford Hotel in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The conference featured over 70 presentations from authors, editors, agents, and publishers, opportunities for pitching and...
read moreA residency of two weeks or one month in November is offered to a poet, a fiction writer, or a nonfiction writer at a private apartment in Brooklyn, New York. The resident is provided with some meals. Writers over the age of 24 who are not...
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