The 16th National Black Writers Conference, “The Beautiful Struggle: Black Writers Lighting the Way,” was held virtually, as a series of webinars, from March 30 to April 2. The 2022 NBWC examined “the ways that texts by Black writers document...
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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 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 37th annual New York State Summer Writers Institute will be held from June 25 to July 22 at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs. The program features two- and four-week workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction for in-person...
read more Event Date: June 25, 2023
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The 2022 North Carolina Writers’ Network Fall Conference was held from November 18 to November 20 at the Holiday Inn Resort in Wrightsville Beach. The conference featured classes in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, as well as...
read moreThe 2022 North Carolina Writers’ Network Spring Conference was held on April 23, both in person at the University of North Carolina in Greensboro and online. The conference featured classes in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, as well as...
read moreThe 2023 North Carolina Writers’ Network (NCWN) Squire Summer Writing Workshops will be held from July 20 to July 23 at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem. The conference features workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, as...
read more Event Date: July 20, 2023
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Financial Aid Deadline: July 7, 2023
The 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 Orion Environmental Writers’ Workshop will be held from June 18 to June 23 at the Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, New York. The program features workshops (limited to 12 participants each), faculty readings and lectures, panels on publishing,...
read more Event Date: June 18, 2023
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 morePoetry by the Sea: A Global Conference will be held from May 23 to May 26 at Mercy by the Sea, a retreat center and private beach in Madison, Connecticut. The conference features workshops, seminars, readings, and panels. Participating poets...
read more Event Date: May 23, 2023
The 2022 Poets on the Coast: A Weekend Retreat for Women was held from September 9 to September 11 at the Country Inn in La Conner, Washington. The retreat featured a poetry workshop, craft classes, and one-on-one mentoring with faculty. The...
read moreThe 2023 Red Clay Writers Conference, sponsored by the Georgia Writers Association, was held on April 15 at Kennesaw State University (KSU) and online on April 16. The conference featured writing workshops and panels on literary journals and...
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The 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 33rd annual Sewanee Writers’ Conference will be held from July 18 to July 30 on the campus of the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee. The conference features workshops, special topics classes, lectures, and readings for poets,...
read more Event Date: July 18, 2023
The Spring 2023 Sonoma County Writers Camp was held from April 17 to April 21 at Bishops Ranch Retreat Center in Healdsburg, California. The retreat featured generative workshops in fiction and memoir, panels by authors and agents, master classes...
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The 48th annual Southampton Writers Conference will be held from July 12 to July 16 at the Stony Brook Southampton campus in Southampton, New York, located on the Atlantic coast 90 miles east of New York City. The conference features workshops in...
read more Event Date: July 12, 2023
Squam Writes will offer a retreat from June 8 to June 11 to fiction and creative nonfiction writers at Rockywold Deephaven Camps, a historic resort campsite in Holderness, New Hampshire. Residents are provided lodging in cottages, cabins, and...
read more Event Date: June 8, 2023
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Squam Writes will offer a retreat from June 8 to June 11 to fiction and creative nonfiction writers at Rockywold Deephaven Camps, a historic resort campsite in Holderness, New Hampshire. Residents are provided lodging in cottages, cabins, and...
read more Event Date: June 8, 2023
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The 36th annual Summer Fishtrap Gathering of Writers will be held from July 10 to July 16 at Wallowa Lake Lodge on the shores of Wallowa Lake, Oregon. The weeklong conference features generative writing workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative...
read more Event Date: July 10, 2023
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The 2023 Writer’s Hotel Maine “Mini MFA” All-Fiction Writers Conference will be held from May 24 to May 30 at the Spruce Point Inn in Boothbay Harbor, Maine. The conference features a full-manuscript pre-conference reading with two sets of...
read more Event Date: May 24, 2023
The 2022 Writer’s Hotel “Mini MFA” Conference in Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry was held virtually from June 8 to June 15. The conference featured two full manuscript readings with two sets of editorial comments offered per reading, one pre-...
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The 20th annual Tin House Summer Workshop will be held from July 8 to July 16 at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. The program features workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction (limited to 8 to 10 members per class), as well as one-...
read more Event Date: July 8, 2023
The annual Tinker Mountain Writers’ Workshop will be held from June 11 to June 15 on the campus of Hollins University in Roanoke, Virginia. The conference features manuscript workshops and generative classes in poetry, fiction, creative...
read more Event Date: June 11, 2023
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The Todos Santos Writers Workshop Paris in Spring: A Memoir Intensive was held from May 6 to May 13 in an atelier in the seventh arrondissement of Paris, near the Eiffel Tower and Rodin Museum. The intensive included daily workshops in narrative...
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The 2023 Todos Santos Writers Workshop Winter Session was held from January 28, 2023, to February 4, 2023, in Todos Santos, Baja California Sur, Mexico. The workshop offered daily classes and craft seminars in poetry, fiction, and memoir; one-on-...
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