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Conferences and Residencies Database

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.

Fiction
Portland, OR

The 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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Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Burlington, VT
A red building with a green roof on the campus of the Vermont College of Fine Art

The 28th annual Vermont College of Fine Arts (VCFA) Postgraduate Writers’ Conference was held from August 7 to August 13 on the Champlain College campus in Burlington, Vermont. Designed for writers with graduate degrees or equivalent experience,...

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Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation
Johnson, VT
A large red building with a gray roof next to a river.

The Vermont Studio Center 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....

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Application Deadline: February 15, 2024
Financial Aid Deadline: February 15, 2024
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Amherst, VA

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...

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Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Richmond, VA

The 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...

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Event Date: September 1, 2024
Application Deadline: April 1, 2024
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Girdwood, AK
Voices of the Wilderness

The 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...

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Event Date: June 1, 2024
Application Deadline: March 1, 2024
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Tenants Harbor, ME

The 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...

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Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation
Portland, OR

The 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,...

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Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Oysterville, WA

Willapa 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...

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Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Atlantic City, NJ

The 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...

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Event Date: January 12, 2024
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Minneapolis, MN

The 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...

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Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Tbilisi, Georgia

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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Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Edmonds, WA

The 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,...

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Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Tesuque, NM

Writeaways 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...

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Event Date: May 18, 2024
Application Deadline: March 1, 2024
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Oklahoma City, OK

WriterCon 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...

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Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Brooklyn, NY

A 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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Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Eureka Springs, AR

The 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....

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Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Cheyenne, WY

The 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...

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Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Saratoga Springs, NY

Yaddo 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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Application Deadline: January 10, 2024

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