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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.

Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Lansing, MI

The 37th annual A Rally of Writers conference will be held on April 13 at the West Campus of Lansing Community College in Lansing, Michigan. The conference features workshops, panel discussions, and readings in poetry, fiction, and creative...

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Event Date: April 13, 2024
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Austin, TX

The Writers’ League of Texas (WLT) 2022 Agents & Editors Conference was held from June 24 to June 26 at the Hyatt Regency on Lady Bird Lake in Austin, Texas. The conference featured presentations, panels, authors in conversation, a keynote...

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Creative Nonfiction
Columbia County, NY

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...

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Fiction
Columbia County, NY

The 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...

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Translation
Tucson, AZ

The 46th annual American Literary Translators Association Conference was held from November 8 to November 11 at the Tucson Marriott University Park Hotel in Tucson. Programming included panels, roundtables, bilingual readings, a bookfair, a...

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Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Paris, France

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...

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Event Date: July 1, 2024
Application Deadline: June 1, 2024
Financial Aid Deadline: March 29, 2024
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Snowmass Village, CO

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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Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Kansas City, MO

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...

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Event Date: February 7, 2024
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Atlanta, GA

The spring 2024 Atlanta Writers Conference, sponsored by the Atlanta Writers Club, will be held from May 3 to May 4 at the Westin Atlanta Airport Hotel. The conference includes a book fair featuring attendees’ books; presentations on the craft...

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Event Date: May 3, 2024
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Creative Nonfiction
New York City, NY

The 2023 Biographers International Organization (BIO) Conference was held from May 19 to May 21 at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York in New York City as well as online. The conference featured panels on current issues in...

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Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Ripton, VT

The 2024 Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference will be 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...

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Event Date: June 11, 2024
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Financial Aid Deadline: February 1, 2024
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation
Ripton, VT

The 2024 Bread Loaf Translators’ Conference will be held from June 11 to June 17 in the Green Mountains of Ripton, Vermont. The conference, designed for both emerging and established translators, features translation workshops in poetry, fiction...

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Event Date: June 11, 2024
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Financial Aid Deadline: February 1, 2024
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation
Ripton, VT

The 2024 Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference will be held from August 14 to August 24 in the Green Mountains of Ripton, Vermont. The conference features workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, as well as lectures; craft classes;...

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Event Date: August 14, 2024
Application Deadline: February 1, 2024
Financial Aid Deadline: February 1, 2024
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Dunwoody, GA

The eighth annual Broadleaf Writers Conference was held from September 23 to September 24 at the Decatur Library in Decatur, Georgia. The conference featured panels and workshops for poets, fiction writers, and nonfiction writers, as well as...

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Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
New Orleans, LA

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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Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Barnstable, MA

The 2023 Cape Cod Writers Center Conference was held from August 3 to August 6 at the Resort and Conference Center at Hyannis in Barnstable, Massachusetts. The conference featured workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, an agent...

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Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Pebble Beach, CA
Coastal picture with bright blue water, sky, and green shore.

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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Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
St. Mary’s City, MD
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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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Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Online

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...

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Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Poetry
Online

The Colrain Poetry Manuscript Conference will be held online from March 8 to March 11 and from May 10 to May 13. The conference features evaluation and discussion of book-length and chapbook-length poetry manuscripts with poets, editors, and...

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Event Date: March 8, 2024
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Olympic Valley, CA

The Community of Writers offers 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...

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Event Date: June 17, 2024
Application Deadline: March 1, 2024
Financial Aid Deadline: March 1, 2024
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Online

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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Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Lisbon, Portugal

The 2024 DISQUIET International Literary Program, sponsored by Dzanc Books and Centro Nacional de Cultura, will be held from June 23, 2024, to July 5, 2024, at the Centro Nacional de Cultura in Lisbon, Portugal. The conference features workshops...

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Event Date: June 23, 2024
Application Deadline: December 1, 2023
Financial Aid Deadline: January 5, 2024
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Pray, MT

The 2024 Elk River Writers Workshop will be held from August 11 to August 16 at Chico Hot Springs, a historic retreat in Pray, Montana, near Yellowstone National Park. The program features workshops, craft talks, outings, lectures, panel...

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Event Date: August 11, 2024
Application Deadline: May 1, 2024
Financial Aid Deadline: April 1, 2024
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Provincetown, MA

The Fine Arts Work Center’s (FAWC) annual summer workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction will be held from June 16 to August 16 in Provincetown, Massachusetts. The faculty includes poets Cameron Awkward-Rich, Samiya Bashir,...

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Event Date: June 16, 2024
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions

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