The 2026 Longleaf Writers Conference will be held from May 9 to May 16 at the Seaside Academic Village in Santa Rosa Beach, Florida. The conference features workshops, craft seminars, sunset receptions, bonfire readings, and one-on-one...
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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 2026 Macondo Writers Workshop will be held from July 20 to July 26 at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. The program features multigenre writing workshops, seminars, and free public readings for poets, fiction writers, and creative...
read more Event Date: July 20, 2026
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 2026 Mendocino Coast Writers’ Conference will be held from July 30 to August 1 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: July 30, 2026
Application Deadline: June 30, 2026
The Mesa Verde Writers Conference, sponsored by Mancos Creative District, was held on July 10 and July 11 at the Mancos Commons Building in downtown Mancos, Colorado. The conference features workshops for poets, fiction writers, and creative...
read moreThe 2023 Minnesota Northwoods Writers Conference was held from June 20 to June 25 in Minnesota’s Northwoods at Bemidji State University. The conference featured workshops, craft talks, panels, an evening reading series, and manuscript...
read moreThe 2023 Napa Valley Writers’ Conference was held from July 30 to August 4 on the main campus of Napa Valley College in Napa, California. The conference featured workshops in poetry, fiction, and translation, as well as craft talks and evening...
read moreThe 18th National Black Writers Conference (NBWC) was held from March 25 to March 28 at Medgar Evers College, City University of New York, in Brooklyn. This year’s conference was themed “Expanding Conversations on Environmental Justice, Popular...
read more Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The 2023 National Black Writers Conference Biennial Symposium was held from March 31 to April 1 in the Edison O. Jackson Auditorium at Medgar Evers College, as well as online. The symposium will featured scholarly presentations, roundtable...
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The 2026 Neraki International Writers Workshops will be held from June 5 to June 14 at a seaside private home and seminar space in Katigiorgis, Greece. The workshop features craft classes, generative writing sessions, small-group workshops,...
read more Event Date: June 5, 2026
The 40th annual New York State Summer Writers Institute will be held from June 21 to July 18 at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs. The program features two- and four-week workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. The faculty...
read more Event Date: June 21, 2026
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The 2025 North Carolina Writers’ Network (NCWN) Fall Conference was held from November 7 to November 9 at the Holiday Inn Resort on Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina. The conference featured classes in poetry, fiction, and...
read moreThe 2025 North Carolina Writers’ Network (NCWN) Squire Summer Writing Workshops was held from July 24 to July 27 at Davidson College in Davidson, North Carolina. The conference featured workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, as...
read moreThe 2020 North Carolina Writers’ Network Writingest State Conference was held online from November 10 to November 14. The conference featured classes in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, as well as conversations and panel discussions on...
read moreThe 2025 Off Topic Writers’ Conference was held online on August 9 and August 10. The conference featured craft talks, panels, and workshops for poets, fiction writers, and nonfiction writers. The faculty included poet, fiction writer, and...
read moreThe Orion Environmental Writers’ Workshop will be held from June 14 to June 19 at the Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, New York. The program features workshops, faculty readings, panels on publishing, and conversations with faculty members and ...
read more Event Date: June 14, 2026
Application Deadline: May 1, 2026
The Orion in the Wilderness retreat, cosponsored by the Omega Institute, was held from March 8 to March 14 at the American Museum of Natural History’s Southwestern Research Station in Cave Creek Canyon in Portal, Arizona, surrounded by the...
read moreThe O‘ahu Writers Mini-Retreat was held on November 29 and November 30 at a historic vacation property in the town of Waialua, on the North Shore of O‘ahu, Hawai‘i. The retreat featured generative writing workshops, critiques,...
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The Pacific Residency Writers Conference, sponsored by Pacific University’s creative writing MFA program, was held from January 8, 2026, to January 18, 2026, at the Best Western Ocean View Resort in the beachside town of Seaside, Oregon. The...
read morePoetry by the Sea: A Global Conference will be held from May 19 to May 22 at Mercy by the Sea, a retreat center and private beach in Madison, Connecticut. The conference features workshops, seminars, readings, and panels. The faculty includes...
read more Event Date: May 19, 2026
Application Deadline: May 10, 2026
The 2026 Poets on the Coast: A Weekend Retreat for Women will be held from September 11 to September 13 at the La Conner Inn in La Conner, Washington. The retreat features poetry workshops, an open mic, yoga, generative writing sessions, a museum...
read more Event Date: September 11, 2026
Application Deadline: August 1, 2026
Financial Aid Deadline: June 15, 2026
The 2025 Red Clay Writers Conference, sponsored by the Georgia Writers Association (GWA), was held on April 26 at Kennesaw State University. The conference featured writing workshops and panels on literary journals and publishing for poets,...
read moreThe Rutgers-New Brunswick Writers’ Conference was held from June 2 to June 3 at the Rutgers University Continuing Education Center in Somerset, New Jersey. The conference featured workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative...
read moreThe 34th annual Sewanee Writers’ Conference was held from July 16 to July 28 on the campus of the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee. The conference featured workshops, special topics classes, lectures, one-on-one meetings with faculty...
read moreThe 49th annual Southampton Writers Conference was held from July 10 to July 14 at the Stony Brook Southampton campus in Southampton, New York, located on the Atlantic coast 90 miles east of New York City. The conference featured workshops in...
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