Conferences and Residencies Database

The Adriatic Writers Conference will be held from May 24 to May 30 at Hotel Bellevue on Lošinj island in Croatia. Programming includes small-group workshops, craft classes, a one-on-one meeting with a writing instructor, master...

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...

The 48th annual American Literary Translators Association Conference was held from November 5 to November 8 at the Tucson Marriott University Park Hotel in Tucson. Programming included panels, workshops, bilingual readings, a bookfair, a...

The 2026 AWP Conference and Bookfair will be held from March 4 to March 7 at the Baltimore Convention Center and will also include a virtual component comprising prerecorded and live streamed events. The conference features panel discussions,...

The 2025 Biographers International Organization (BIO) Conference was held on June 5 and June 6 at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.; select events were also streamed online. The conference theme was “Potomac Fever.” Programming included...

The 2026 Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference will be held from June 14 to June 20 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...

The 2026 Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference will be held from August 12 to August 22 amid the Green Mountains of Ripton, Vermont. The conference features workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, as well as lectures; craft classes;...

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...

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,...

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,...

The Civitella Ranieri Foundation “Nature of Wonder” workshop was held from November 15 to November 24 at the 15th-century Civitella Ranieri Castle in Umbria, Italy. The workshop featured writing sessions, craft lectures, and excursions to museums...

The Community of Writers offers workshops in poetry from June 22 to June 28 and in fiction and nonfiction (including creative nonfiction) from July 10 to July 17 in Olympic Valley, near Lake Tahoe in California’s Sierra Nevada. The program...