The 38th annual A Rally of Writers conference was held on April 12 at the West Campus of Lansing Community College in Lansing, Michigan. The conference featured workshops, craft classes, panel discussions, and readings in poetry, fiction, and...
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The inaugural 2025 Adriatic Writers Conference was held from May 10 to May 17 at the Hotel Bellevue on Lošinj island in Croatia. Programming included small-group workshops, craft classes, a one-on-one meeting with a writing instructor, master...
read moreThe Writers’ League of Texas (WLT) 2024 Agents & Editors Conference was held from June 21 to June 23 at the Hyatt Regency on Lady Bird Lake in Austin, Texas. The conference featured presentations, panels, authors in conversation, and a...
read more Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The 2022 All Write Creative Nonfiction Conference was held from October 19 to October 23 at the Spencertown Academy in Columbia County, New York. The conference featured one-hour workshops to discuss 15 to 20 pages of each writer’s work, an...
read moreThe 2023 All Write Fiction Conference will be held from November 9 to November 12 at the Spencertown Academy in Columbia County, New York. The conference features workshops to discuss 15 to 20 pages of each writer’s work, an opening night...
read moreThe 47th annual American Literary Translators Association Conference was held from October 25 to October 28 at the Hyatt Regency Milwaukee Hotel in Milwaukee. Programming included panels, workshops, bilingual readings, a bookfair, a gathering of...
read moreThe American University of Paris Summer Creative Writing Institute will offer workshops to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers from July 1 to July 23 on the university’s campus in the seventh arrondissement of Paris. The...
read more Event Date: July 1, 2025
The 47th annual Aspen Summer Words Writing Conference and Literary Festival was held from June 18 to June 23 at the Viewline, a resort in the mountain town of Snowmass, Colorado, around 15 minutes from downtown Aspen. The conference featured...
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The 2025 AWP Conference and Bookfair was held from March 26 to March 29 at the Los Angeles Convention Center and also included a virtual component comprising prerecorded and live streamed events. The conference featured panel discussions,...
read moreThe spring 2025 Atlanta Writers Conference, sponsored by the Atlanta Writers Club, will be held on May 2 and May 3 at the Westin Atlanta Airport Hotel. The conference includes a book fair featuring attendees’ books; presentations on the craft and...
read more Event Date: May 2, 2025
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The 2025 Biographers International Organization (BIO) Conference will be held on June 5 and June 6 at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.; select events will also be streamed online. The conference theme will be “Potomac Fever.”...
read more Event Date: June 5, 2025
Application Deadline: June 5, 2025
The 2026 Black Sea Workshop, sponsored by the Elizabeth Kostova Foundation, will be held from June 26 to July 2 at the Sozopol Art Gallery in Sozopol, Bulgaria. The workshop features time and space to write; workshops; lectures on local history,...
read more Event Date: June 26, 2026
Application Deadline: March 1, 2026
The 2025 Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference will be held from June 15 to June 21 in the Green Mountains of Ripton, Vermont. The conference, designed for poets and prose writers whose work deals with the environment and the natural world...
read more Event Date: June 15, 2025
The 2025 Bread Loaf Translators’ Conference will be held from June 15 to June 21 in the Green Mountains of Ripton, Vermont. The conference, designed for both emerging and established translators, features translation workshops in poetry, fiction...
read more Event Date: June 15, 2025
The 2025 Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference will be held from August 13 to August 23 in the Green Mountains of Ripton, Vermont. The conference features workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, as well as lectures; craft classes;...
read more Event Date: August 13, 2025
The ninth annual Broadleaf Writers Conference was held on September 21 and September 22 at the Decatur Library in Decatur, Georgia. The conference featured panels, first page critiques, and workshops for poets, fiction writers, and nonfiction...
read more Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The 2020 Cambridge Writers’ Workshop Spring in New Orleans Writing Retreat was held from March 19 to March 22 at the Pelham Hotel, a five-minute walk from the French Quarter. The retreat featured multi-genre and publishing workshops, craft...
read moreThe 2025 Cape Cod Writers Center Conference will be held from July 31 to August 3 at the Emerald Resort/Cape Cod Irish Village hotel in Hyannis, Massachusetts. The conference features workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction; an...
read more Event Date: July 31, 2025
Application Deadline: July 25, 2025
The 2023 Catamaran Writing Conference was held from July 30 to August 3 at the Robert Louis Stevenson School in Pebble Beach, California. The conference featured small group workshops, lectures, craft talks, and daily excursions for poets,...
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The twelfth annual Chesapeake Writers’ Conference will be held from June 22 to June 28 on the St. Mary’s College campus in St. Mary’s City, Maryland. The conference features lectures, craft talks, readings, panel discussions, and daily workshops...
read more Event Date: June 22, 2025
The Chicago Writers Association Conference was held from March 21 to March 23 at the Warwick Allerton Hotel in Chicago. The program featured faculty presentations, workshops, panel discussions, master classes, pitch sessions, author interviews,...
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The 2025 annual Chuckanut Writers Conference, cohosted by the Narrative Project, Sidekick Press, and Village Books and Paper Dreams, will be held on June 27 and June 28 at Sehome High School in Bellingham, Washington. The conference features...
read more Event Date: June 27, 2025
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The Civitella Ranieri Foundation “Nature of Wonder” workshop will be held from November 15 to November 24 at the 15th-century Civitella Ranieri Castle in Umbria, Italy. The workshop features writing sessions, craft lectures, and excursions to...
read more Event Date: November 15, 2025
Application Deadline: September 1, 2025
The Colrain Poetry Manuscript Conference will be held online from July 25 to July 28. The conference features evaluation and discussion of book-length and chapbook-length poetry manuscripts with poets, editors, and publishers. The faculty...
read more Event Date: July 25, 2025
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The Community of Writers offers workshops in poetry from June 21 to June 27 and in fiction and nonfiction (including creative nonfiction) from July 7 to July 14 in Olympic Valley, near Lake Tahoe in California’s Sierra Nevada. The program...
read more Event Date: June 21, 2025