The 37th annual A Rally of Writers conference was held on April 13 at the West Campus of Lansing Community College in Lansing, Michigan. The conference featured workshops, panel discussions, and readings in poetry, fiction, and creative...
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The 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 Event Date: June 21, 2024
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 will be held from October 25 to October 28 at the Hyatt Regency Milwaukee Hotel in Milwaukee. Programming includes panels, workshops, bilingual readings, a bookfair, a gathering...
read more Event Date: October 25, 2024
Application Deadline: September 9, 2024
The American University of Paris Summer Creative Writing Institute offers 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 faculty...
read more Event Date: July 1, 2024
Application Deadline: June 1, 2024
Financial Aid Deadline: March 29, 2024
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 2024 AWP Conference and Bookfair was held from February 7 to February 10 at the Kansas City Convention Center in Kansas City, Missouri, and included a virtual component comprised of prerecorded and livestreamed events. The conference features...
read more Event Date: February 7, 2024
The fall 2024 Atlanta Writers Conference, sponsored by the Atlanta Writers Club, will be held on November 1 and November 2 at the Westin Atlanta Airport Hotel. The conference includes a book fair featuring attendees’ books; presentations on the...
read more Event Date: November 1, 2024
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The 2024 Biographers International Organization (BIO) Conference was held on May 16 and May 17 at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York in New York City; select events were also streamed online. The conference featured panels on...
read more Event Date: May 16, 2024
Application Deadline: May 17, 2024
The 2024 Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference was held from June 11 to June 17 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 11, 2024
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Financial Aid Deadline: February 1, 2024
The 2024 Bread Loaf Translators’ Conference was held from June 11 to June 17 in the Green Mountains of Ripton, Vermont. The conference, designed for both emerging and established translators, featured translation workshops in poetry, fiction, and...
read more Event Date: June 11, 2024
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Financial Aid Deadline: February 1, 2024
The 2024 Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference was held from August 14 to August 24 in the Green Mountains of Ripton, Vermont. The conference featured workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, as well as lectures; craft classes; meetings...
read more Event Date: August 14, 2024
Application Deadline: February 1, 2024
Financial Aid Deadline: February 1, 2024
The ninth annual Broadleaf Writers Conference will be held on September 21 and September 22 at the Decatur Library in Decatur, Georgia. The conference features panels, first page critiques, and workshops for poets, fiction writers, and nonfiction...
read more Event Date: September 21, 2024
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 2024 Cape Cod Writers Center Conference was held from August 1 to August 4 at the Emerald Resort/Cape Cod Irish Village hotel in Barnstable, Massachusetts. The conference featured workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, an...
read more Event Date: August 1, 2024
Application Deadline: July 25, 2024
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 tenth annual Chesapeake Writers’ Conference was held from June 18 to June 24 on the St. Mary’s College campus in St. Mary’s City, Maryland. The conference featured lectures, craft talks, readings, panel discussions, and daily workshops in...
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The 11th annual Chuckanut Writers Conference, cohosted by Whatcom Community College and Village Books in Bellingham, Washington, was held online from June 21 to June 27. The conference featured breakout sessions in poetry, fiction, and creative...
read more Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The Colrain Poetry Manuscript Conference was held online from June 28 to July 1. The conference featured evaluation and discussion of book-length and chapbook-length poetry manuscripts with poets, editors, and publishers. The faculty included...
read more Event Date: June 28, 2024
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The Community of Writers offered workshops in poetry from June 17 to June 23 and in fiction and nonfiction (including creative nonfiction) from July 8 to July 15 in Olympic Valley, near Lake Tahoe in California’s Sierra Nevada. The program...
read more Event Date: June 17, 2024
Application Deadline: March 1, 2024
Financial Aid Deadline: March 1, 2024
The Desert Nights, Rising Stars Writers Conference, sponsored by the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing at Arizona State University (ASU), will be held from October 10 to October 12 at the Memorial Union community center on the...
read more Event Date: October 10, 2024
Application Deadline: September 30, 2024
Financial Aid Deadline: September 30, 2024
The 2024 DISQUIET International Literary Program, sponsored by Dzanc Books and Centro Nacional de Cultura, was held from June 23, 2024, to July 5, 2024, at the Centro Nacional de Cultura in Lisbon, Portugal. The conference featured workshops in...
read more Event Date: June 23, 2024
Application Deadline: December 1, 2023
Financial Aid Deadline: January 5, 2024
The 2024 Elk River Writers Workshop was held from August 11 to August 16 at Chico Hot Springs, a historic retreat in Pray, Montana, near Yellowstone National Park. The program featured workshops, craft talks, outings, lectures, panel discussions...
read more Event Date: August 11, 2024
Application Deadline: May 1, 2024
Financial Aid Deadline: April 1, 2024
The Fine Arts Work Center’s (FAWC) annual summer workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction were held from June 16 to August 16 in Provincetown, Massachusetts. The faculty included poets Cameron Awkward-Rich, Samiya Bashir, Gabrielle...
read more Event Date: June 16, 2024
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions