The American University of Paris Summer Creative Writing Institute offers workshops to poets and fiction writers from June 30 to July 21 on the university’s campus in the seventh arrondissement in Paris. The faculty includes poet Biswamit Dwibedy...
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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.
ALERT: Due to the Coronavirus pandemic, some literary events are being canceled or postponed. Be sure to check with the event sponsor before making plans.
Event Date: June 30, 2021
Application Deadline: June 15, 2021
The 2021 AWP Conference and Bookfair was held online from March 3 to March 6. The conference featured events, panel discussions, readings, and a bookfair. The keynote speaker was poet Joy Harjo. The cost of the conference was $180 for nonmembers...
read more Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The 2021 Atlanta Writers Conference, sponsored by the Atlanta Writers Club, will be held online and by phone from May 7 to May 9. The conference features presentations on publishing, including a workshop offering critiques of book titles, book...
read more Event Date: May 7, 2021
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The 2021 Biographers International Organization (BIO) Conference will be held online from May 14 to May 16. The conference features panels on current issues in biography and the craft of biography, including discussion of the topics of...
read more Event Date: May 14, 2021
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The 2021 Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference will be held from June 3 to June 9 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 3, 2021
The 2021 Bread Loaf Translators’ Conference will be held from June 3 to June 9 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 3, 2021
The 2021 Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference will be held from August 11 to August 21 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 11, 2021
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...
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The 2021 Catamaran Writing Conference will be held from July 25 to July 29 at the Robert Louis Stevenson School in Pebble Beach, California. The conference will also offer virtual enrollment for remote participants. The conference features...
read more Event Date: July 25, 2021
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The 11th annual Chuckanut Writers Conference, cohosted by Whatcom Community College and Village Books in Bellingham, Washington, will be held online from June 21 to June 27. The conference features breakout sessions in poetry, fiction, and...
read more Event Date: June 21, 2021
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The Colrain Poetry Manuscript Conference will be held online from June 4 to June 7. The conference features evaluation and discussion of book-length and chapbook-length poetry manuscripts with poets, editors, and publishers. The faculty includes...
read more Event Date: June 4, 2021
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The Community of Writers will offer online workshops in poetry from June 19 to June 26, in fiction from July 11 to July 17, and in creative nonfiction from August 1 to August 6. The program features workshops, craft talks, publishing panels,...
read more Event Date: June 19, 2021
Financial Aid Deadline: April 28, 2021
The 2021 Desert Nights, Rising Stars Writers Conference was held online from February 18 to February 20. The conference featured workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, as well as craft classes, discussions on publishing and the...
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The 2021 Elk River Writers Workshop will be held from August 15 to August 20 at Chico Hot Springs, a historic retreat in Pray, Montana, near Yellowstone National Park. The program features workshops, craft talks, outings, lectures, panel...
read more Event Date: August 15, 2021
Application Deadline: June 1, 2021
The Frost Place Poetry Seminar was held from August 2 to August 8 at Robert Frost’s former homestead in Franconia, New Hampshire. The seminar featured poetry workshops, craft talks, readings, and one-on-one meetings with faculty. The faculty...
read moreThe Gotham Writers Conference was held online from October 16 to October 18. Sponsored by the Gotham Writers Workshop, the event was open to fiction and nonfiction writers. The first two days of the conference featured panels, presentations, and...
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The 23rd annual Green Mountain Writers Conference will be held from August 2 to August 6 at the historic Brandon Inn in Brandon, Vermont, a walkable Vermont village. The program features workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, as...
read more Event Date: August 2, 2021
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The 2021 GrubStreet Muse and the Marketplace conference will be held online from April 21 to May 2. The event features more than 65 craft classes, discussions, workshops, and meetings with agents and editors for poets, fiction writers, and...
read more Event Date: April 21, 2021
Application Deadline: April 20, 2021
The biennial Historical Novel Society North American Conference will be held online from June 21 to June 27. The conference features presentations, panels, pitch sessions with agents and editors, query critiques, and social events for historical...
read more Event Date: June 21, 2021
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The 2021 Indiana University Writers’ Conference will be held online from June 3 to June 6. The conference features workshops, craft classes, panel discussions, and readings for poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers. The faculty...
read more Event Date: June 3, 2021
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The 2018 Iota Short Prose Conference was held from August 15 to August 19 at the Roosevelt Campobello International Park on Campobello Island, in New Brunswick, Canada, located just off the coast of Lubec, Maine. The conference...
read moreThe 2021 Jackson Hole Writers Conference will be held online from June 23 to June 27. The conference features workshops in genres including poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, as well as lectures, readings, and manuscript critiques. The...
read more Event Date: June 23, 2021
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The 18th annual James River Writers Conference was held online from October 9 to October 11. The conference featured pitch sessions with agents and panel discussions for poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers. The conference also...
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The 2021 Kachemak Bay Writers’ Conference will be held online from May 15 to May 18. The conference features craft classes in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, as well as craft conversations, panels, manuscript reviews, readings,...
read more Event Date: May 15, 2021
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The 2020 Literary Writers Conference was held online from December 2 to December 4. The conference, which was hosted by the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses, featured agent pitch sessions, pitch clinics, a query letter clinic, and...
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