Ucross 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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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 21st annual Under the Volcano Master Classes and Guided Residency was held from January 12, 2024, to January 28, 2024, in Tepoztlán, Mexico, a village located one hour from Mexico City in the foothills of snow-capped volcanoes. The program...
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...
read moreThe 29th annual Vermont College of Fine Arts (VCFA) Postgraduate Writers’ Conference will be held from August 3 to August 9 on the Champlain College campus in Burlington, Vermont. Designed for writers with graduate degrees or equivalent...
read moreThe 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 in the northern Green Mountains. VSC provides time...
read moreThe 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 Visual Arts Center of Richmond (VACR) offers an 11-month residency from September 1, 2024, to July 31, 2025, to a poet, fiction writer, or nonfiction writer at the Virginia Dairy building in Richmond’s historic Fan District. Writers who have...
read moreThe U.S. Forest Service, the National Park Service, and the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service offer one- to two-week residencies 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 2023 Willamette Writers Conference was held online and in person at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Downtown Portland, Oregon, from August 2 to August 6. The conference featured workshops, keynotes, panels, pitch sessions, and critiques for poets,...
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 30th annual Winter Poetry & Prose Getaway was held from January 12, 2024, to January 15, 2024, at the Seaview Hotel near Atlantic City. The program, sponsored by Murphy Writing of Stockton University, offered small, intensive workshops in...
read moreThe 2023 Wordplay festival was held on July 8 in and around Open Book, a literary center in Minneapolis, with some panels livestreamed for a virtual audience. The festival featured panel discussions, author interviews, interactive activities for...
read moreThe 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...
read moreThe 38th annual Write on the Sound conference was held in person at the Frances Anderson Center in Edmonds, Washington, from October 6 to October 8; online preconference sessions were held on September 30. The conference featured craft sessions,...
read moreWriteaways offers a weeklong Writeaway in New Mexico residency from May 18 to May 25 to poets, fiction writers, and nonfiction writers (including creative nonfiction writers) in Casa Bellisima, an adobe home with mountain views near the village...
read moreWriterCon 2023 was held from September 1 to September 4 at the Renaissance Waterford Hotel in Oklahoma City. The conference featured over 70 presentations from more than 60 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...
read moreThe Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow offers residencies of three nights to three months year-round to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers at a former bed-and-breakfast in the Ozarks village of Eureka Springs, Arkansas....
read moreThe 2023 Wyoming Writers Conference was held from June 2 to June 4 at the Historic Plains Hotel in Cheyenne, Wyoming. The conference featured workshops in craft, marketing, and productivity for poets, fiction writers, and nonfiction writers, as...
read moreYaddo offers residencies of two to eight weeks year-round to poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, and translators on a 400-acre estate in Saratoga Springs, New York. Residents are provided with a private bedroom, work space, and...
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