The Desert Nights, Rising Stars Writers Conference, sponsored by the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing at Arizona State University (ASU), was held from October 10 to October 12 at the Memorial Union community center on the university’...
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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.
Event Date: October 10, 2024
Application Deadline: September 30, 2024
Financial Aid Deadline: September 30, 2024
The 2025 DISQUIET International Literary Program, sponsored by Dzanc Books and Centro Nacional de Cultura, will be held from June 22, 2025, to July 4, 2025, at the Centro Nacional de Cultura in Lisbon, Portugal. The conference features workshops...
read more Event Date: June 22, 2025
Application Deadline: December 2, 2024
Financial Aid Deadline: January 6, 2025
The 2025 Elk River Writers Workshop will be held from August 10 to August 15 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 10, 2025
Application Deadline: May 1, 2025
Financial Aid Deadline: April 1, 2025
The Fine Arts Work Center’s annual weeklong summer workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction will be held at the center from June 15 to August 16 in Provincetown, Massachusetts. The faculty includes poets Cameron Awkward-Rich, Samiya...
read more Event Date: June 15, 2025
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The seventh annual Frost Farm Poetry Conference was held from August 16 to August 18 at the Robert Frost Farm in Derry, New Hampshire. The conference featured workshops, readings, and one-on-one consultations for poets. The faculty included poets...
read more Event Date: August 16, 2024
Application Deadline: August 1, 2024
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...
read more Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
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 16th annual Hampton Roads Writers Conference was held from November 7 to November 9 at the Holiday Inn Virginia Beach Norfolk Hotel and Conference Center in Virginia Beach, Virginia. The conference featured agent pitch sessions, critique...
read more Event Date: November 9, 2024
Financial Aid Deadline: October 25, 2024
The 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 26 to June 28 at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, as well as online. The conference features presentations, panels, pitch sessions with agents and editors, an...
read more Event Date: June 26, 2025
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The 2025 Indiana University Writers’ Conference will be held from June 5 to June 8 at University of Indiana in Bloomington. The conference features workshops, craft classes, panel discussions, and readings for poets, fiction writers, and creative...
read more Event Date: June 5, 2025
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The tenth annual Inkubator Writing Conference, sponsored by Literary Cleveland, was held on September 20 and September 21 at the Cleveland Public Library in downtown Cleveland. The conference featured workshops, craft talks, panel discussions,...
read more Event Date: September 20, 2024
The ninth annual Iota Short Forms Conference was held from October 20 to October 23 at the Cobscook Institute in Trescott, Maine, and its surrounding fifty acres of forest and former farmland. The conference featured writing classes, readings,...
read more Event Date: October 20, 2024
Application Deadline: September 30, 2024
The 2024 Jackson Hole Writers Conference was held from November 1 to November 3 at the Jackson Hole Center for the Arts in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. The conference featured craft classes, lectures, readings, and manuscript critiques for poets,...
read more Event Date: November 1, 2024
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The 22nd annual James River Writers Conference was held online and in person from October 4 to October 6 at the Greater Richmond Convention Center in Richmond. The conference started with online master classes on October 4; the following two days...
read more Event Date: October 4, 2024
Application Deadline: September 30, 2024
The Juniper Summer Writing Institute will be held from June 15 to June 21 at 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 15, 2025
Application Deadline: February 5, 2025
The 2025 Kachemak Bay Writers’ Conference will be held from May 17 to May 20 at the Kenai Peninsula College campus in Homer, Alaska, with views of the snowcapped mountain ranges across Kachemak Bay. The conference features craft classes as well...
read more Event Date: May 17, 2025
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Financial Aid Deadline: February 28, 2025
The 2024 Kauai Writers Conference was held from November 11 to November 17 at the Royal Sonesta Resort on Kalapaki Beach in Kauai, Hawai‘i. The event featured a three-day conference, master classes, one-on-one agent sessions, and publishing...
read more Event Date: November 11, 2024
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The 2025 Las Vegas Writers Conference, sponsored by the literary nonprofit Henderson Writers Group (HWG), was held from April 3 to April 5 at the Orleans Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. Programming included presentations on craft, marketing, and...
read more Event Date: April 3, 2025
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The spring 2023 Lit Camp was held from June 4 to June 9 at the Bell Valley Retreat Center in Mendocino County, California. The conference included craft talks and writing time for fiction and creative nonfiction writers. The faculty included...
read moreThe 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 17th annual LiTFUSE UNiTE Poetry Workshop was held from September 22 to September 24 at the Mighty Tieton Warehouse and nearby venues in Tieton, Washington. The workshop featured readings, performances, craft talks, and master classes for...
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The 2024 Longleaf Writers Conference was held from May 11 to May 18 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 Event Date: May 11, 2024
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The 2025 Macondo Writers Workshop will be held from July 21 to July 27 at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. The program features writing workshops, seminars, and free public readings for poets, fiction writers, and nonfiction writers who...
read more Event Date: July 21, 2025
Application Deadline: February 23, 2025
Financial Aid Deadline: February 23, 2025