The 34th annual A Rally of Writers conference was held on April 9 at the West Campus of Lansing Community College in Lansing, Michigan. The conference featured workshops, panel discussions, and readings in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction...
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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...
read moreThe 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 44th annual American Literary Translators Association Conference was held online and in person throughout the months of September, October, and November. Programming included online pitch sessions from September 8 to September 24 and online...
read moreThe American University of Paris Summer Creative Writing Institute offers workshops to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers from June 28 to July 19 on the university’s campus in the seventh arrondissement of Paris. The faculty...
read more Event Date: June 28, 2023
Application Deadline: June 1, 2023
Financial Aid Deadline: March 31, 2023
The 47th annual Aspen Summer Words Writing Conference and Literary Festival will be 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 features ...
read more Event Date: June 18, 2023
The 2023 AWP Conference and Bookfair was held from March 8 to March 11 at the Seattle Convention Center in Washington and alsod include a virtual component comprising prerecorded and livestreamed events. The conference featured panel discussions...
read moreThe spring 2023 Atlanta Writers Conference, sponsored by the Atlanta Writers Club, will be held from May 5 to May 6 at the Westin Atlanta Airport Hotel. The conference includes a book fair featuring attendees’ books; presentations on the craft...
read more Event Date: May 5, 2023
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The 2022 Biographers International Organization (BIO) Conference was held online from May 13 to May 15. The conference featured panels on current issues in biography and the craft of biography, including discussions on building suspense, getting...
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The 2023 Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference will be held from June 2 to June 8 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 2, 2023
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The 2023 Bread Loaf Translators’ Conference will be held from June 2 to June 8 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 2, 2023
The 2023 Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference will be held from August 16 to August 26 in the Green Mountains of Ripton, Vermont. The conference features workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction as well as lectures; craft classes; meetings...
read more Event Date: August 16, 2023
The 7th annual Broadleaf Writers Conference was held from October 8 to October 9 at the Perimeter Doubletree Hotel in Dunwoody, Georgia. The conference featured panels and workshops for poets, fiction writers, and nonfiction writers, as well as...
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...
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The 2022 Cape Cod Writers Center Conference was held online from August 4 to August 6. The conference featured workshops in poetry and fiction, an agent panel, and mentoring sessions with faculty. The faculty included poet Rebecca Rolland;...
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The 2021 Catamaran Writing Conference was held from July 25 to July 29 at the Robert Louis Stevenson School in Pebble Beach, California. The conference also offered virtual enrollment for remote participants. The conference featured workshops,...
read more Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
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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The Colrain Poetry Manuscript Conference will be held online from April 21 to April 24. 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: April 21, 2023
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The Community of Writers will offer workshops in poetry from June 19 to June 25, and in fiction, nonfiction, and memoir from July 10 to July 17 in Olympic Valley, near Lake Tahoe, in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California. The program features...
read more Event Date: June 19, 2023
Application Deadline: March 28, 2023
Financial Aid Deadline: March 28, 2023
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 2022 DISQUIET International Literary Program, sponsored by Dzanc Books and Centro Nacional de Cultura, was held from June 26 to July 8 in Lisbon, Portugal. The conference featured workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, as well...
read moreThe 2023 Elk River Writers Workshop will be held from August 13 to August 18 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 13, 2023
Application Deadline: May 1, 2023
Financial Aid Deadline: April 1, 2023
The Fine Arts Work Center’s (FAWC) annual summer workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction will be held from June 18 to August 19 in Provincetown, Massachusetts. The faculty includes poets Oliver Baez Bendorf, Tina Chang, Chen Chen,...
read more Event Date: June 18, 2023
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
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 14 to October 16. Sponsored by the Gotham Writers Workshop, the event was open to fiction and nonfiction writers as well as graphic novelists and graphic memoirists. The first two days of...
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