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...
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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.
The 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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The 23rd annual Green Mountain Writers Conference was held from August 2 to August 6 at the historic Brandon Inn in Brandon, Vermont, a walkable Vermont village. The program featured workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, as well...
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The 2022 GrubStreet Muse & the Marketplace conference was held virtually with optional in-person events in and around GrubStreet’s Center for Creative Writing in Boston’s Seaport district, as public health guidelines allowed, from April 27 to...
read moreThe 2022 HippoCamp conference was held from August 12 to August 14 at the Downtown Lancaster Marriott in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. The conference featured craft talks, publishing and marketing sessions, panel discussions, a story slam, and...
read moreThe biennial Historical Novel Society (HNS) North America Conference will be held from June 8 to June 10 at the Marriott Rivercenter hotel in San Antonio, Texas, as well as online. The conference features presentations, panels, pitch sessions...
read more Event Date: June 8, 2023
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The 2023 Iceland Writers Retreat for fiction and nonfiction writers was held from April 26 to April 30 at the Fosshotel in Reykjavík. The retreat featured workshops, panels, lectures, and time to write, as well as tours of Iceland. The faculty...
read moreThe 2023 Indiana University Writers’ Conference will be held from June 8 to June 11 in Bloomington, Indiana. The conference features workshops, craft classes, panel discussions, and readings for poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction...
read more Event Date: June 8, 2023
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The 8th annual Inkubator Writing Conference, sponsored by Literary Cleveland and joining Cleveland Book Week, was held on September 9 and September 10 at the Cleveland Public Library in downtown Cleveland. The conference featured workshops, craft...
read moreThe 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 2023 Jackson Hole Writers Conference will be held from June 22 to June 24 at the Jackson Hole Center for the Arts in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, with the option to attend virtually. The conference features workshops, lectures, readings, and...
read more Event Date: June 22, 2023
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The 20th annual James River Writers Conference was held online and in person from October 7 to October 9. The conference started with online master classes on October 7, followed by in-person events on October 8 and 9 at the Greater Richmond...
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The Juniper Summer Writing Institute will be held from June 11 to June 17 on the University of Massachusetts campus in Amherst. The program features workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, as well as craft seminars, manuscript...
read more Event Date: June 11, 2023
The 2023 Kachemak Bay Writers’ Conference was held from May 13 to May 16 in Homer, Alaska, with a view of the snowcapped mountain ranges across Kachemak Bay. The conference featured craft classes, as well as craft conversations, readings, panels...
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The 2022 Kauai Writers Conference was held from November 7 to November 13 at the Royal Sonesta Resort on Kalapaki Beach in Kauai, Hawai’i. The conference featured master classes in fiction and creative nonfiction, as well as agent pitch sessions...
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The spring 2023 Lit Camp will be held from June 4 to June 9 at the Bell Valley Retreat Center in Mendocino County, California. The conference includes craft talks and writing time for fiction and creative nonfiction writers. The faculty includes...
read more Event Date: June 4, 2023
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...
read moreThe 14th annual LiTFUSE Poets’ Workshop was held from September 24 to September 26 at the Mighty Tieton Warehouse and nearby venues in Tieton, Washington. The workshop featured readings, performances, and master classes for poets. The faculty...
read moreThe 16th annual LiTFUSE UNiTE Poetry Workshop was held from September 23 to September 25 at the Mighty Tieton Warehouse and nearby venues in Tieton, Washington. The workshop featured readings, performances, and master classes for poets. The...
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The 2023 Longleaf Writers Conference was held from May 13 to May 20 at the Seaside Academic Village in Santa Rosa Beach, Florida. The conference featured workshops, craft seminars, sunset receptions, bonfire readings, and one-on-one consultations...
read more Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The 2023 Macondo Writers Workshop will be held from July 25 to July 29 at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. The conference features writing workshops, seminars, and free public readings for poets, fiction writers, and nonfiction writers....
read more Event Date: July 25, 2023
The 2021 Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing Summer Writers’ Conference was held from June 6 to June 12 and from June 13 to June 19 at the Vineyard Arts Project (VAP) campus in downtown Edgartown on the island of Martha’s Vineyard,...
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The 2023 Mendocino Coast Writers’ Conference will be held from August 3 to August 5 on the Mendocino Coast in California. The conference features workshops for poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers, as well as craft seminars,...
read more Event Date: August 3, 2023
Application Deadline: June 30, 2023
The 2023 Minnesota Northwoods Writers Conference will be held from June 20 to June 25 in Minnesota’s Northwoods at Bemidji State University. The conference features workshops, craft talks, panels, an evening reading series, and manuscript...
read more Event Date: June 20, 2023
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The 2023 Napa Valley Writers’ Conference will be held from July 30 to August 4 on the main campus of Napa Valley College in Napa, California. The conference features workshops in poetry, fiction, and translation, as well as craft talks and...
read more Event Date: July 30, 2023