The 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...
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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 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...
read moreThe Southern Vermont Writers’ Conference was held from April 12 to April 17 at the Inn at Manchester in Manchester, Vermont. The program included workshops, generative writing sessions, private writing time, and afternoon salons for poets,...
read moreThe 39th annual Summer Fishtrap Gathering of Writers will be held from June 23 to June 28 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: June 23, 2026
Application Deadline: June 23, 2026
The Sundog Poetry Retreat at Fielder Farm was held from November 3 to November 5 at the 230-acre Fielder Farm in Huntington, Vermont. The retreat featured workshops, craft talks, and readings for poets. The faculty included poets Alison Prine and...
read moreThe 10th annual Taos Writers Conference will be held from July 24 to July 26 at the headquarters of the Society of the Muse of the Southwest, a literary organization in Taos, New Mexico. The conference features in-person and online workshops for...
read more Event Date: July 24, 2026
Application Deadline: June 1, 2026
The Frost Place Poetry Seminar will be held online from August 2 to August 6. The seminar features poetry workshops, craft talks, and faculty and student readings. The faculty includes poets Lauren Camp, Armen Davoudian, and Patrick Donnelly. The...
read more Event Date: August 2, 2026
Application Deadline: July 1, 2026
The 2026 Writer’s Hotel Maine All-Genre “Mini MFA” Writers Conference will be held from June 10 to June 16 at the Sebasco Harbor Resort in Phippsburg, Maine. The conference features a full-manuscript pre-conference reading with two sets of...
read more Event Date: June 10, 2026
The Tin House Summer Workshop will be held from July 12 to July 19 at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. The program features poetry, novel, short fiction, and creative nonfiction workshops (eight participants per class) as well as one-on-one...
read more Event Date: July 12, 2026
The annual Tinker Mountain Writers’ Workshop will be held from June 14 to June 19 at the Hollins University campus in Roanoke, Virginia. The conference features generative and critique workshops as well as craft talks, individual conferences with...
read more Event Date: June 14, 2026
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The 2026 Todos Santos Writers Workshop Winter Session was held from January 31, 2026, to February 7, 2026, at La Posada del Molino in Todos Santos, Baja California Sur, Mexico. The workshop offered daily classes and craft seminars in poetry,...
read moreThe Tremont Writers Conference will be held from October 21 to October 25 at the Great Smoky Mountains Institute at Tremont, located in the eponymous national park six miles southwest of Townsend, Tennessee. The conference...
read more Event Date: October 21, 2026
The Tulsa NightWriters Craft of Writing Conference was held on October 19 and October 20 at Oklahoma State University’s Center for Poets and Writers in Tulsa. The conference featured panel discussions, presentations on the craft and business of...
read more Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The 12th annual Tutka Bay Writers Retreat, sponsored by 49 Writers, was held from September 23 to September 25 at Tutka Bay Lodge near Homer, Alaska. The retreat offered an intimate workshop, capped at 15 participants, open to poets, fiction...
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The Writers Studio, sponsored by the UCLA Extension Writers’ Program, was held from August 1 to August 4 on the UCLA campus in Los Angeles. The conference featured workshops in fiction and creative nonfiction as well as a literary agent search...
read more Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The Underground Workshop was held from June 8 to June 15 in the Pearl District of Portland, Oregon. The workshop, which was open to fiction writers, included workshops, individual manuscript consultations, local excursions, readings, and an...
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The 2026 Vasto Arts Workshops will be held from May 31 to June 6 and June 8 to June 13 at the liberty-style Villa Monteferrante in the town of Vasto, Italy, overlooking the Adriatic Sea. Programming includes workshops, a guided tour of Vasto’s...
read more Event Date: May 31, 2026
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The 30th annual Vermont College of Fine Arts (VCFA) Postgraduate Writers’ Conference was held from August 2 to August 8, 2025, on the Champlain College campus in Burlington, Vermont. Designed for writers with graduate degrees or equivalent...
read moreThe Washington Writers Conference, sponsored by the Washington Independent Review of Books, was held May 1 to May 2 at the Bethesda North Marriott Hotel in Rockville, Maryland. The conference featured pitch sessions, panels, craft...
read moreThe 2024 Willamette Writers Conference was held online and in person at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Downtown Portland from July 31 to August 4. The conference featured workshops, keynotes, panels, pitch sessions, and critiques for poets, fiction...
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The 32nd annual Winter Poetry & Prose Getaway, sponsored by Murphy Writing of Stockton University, was held from January 16, 2026, to January 19, 2026, at the Seaview Hotel near Atlantic City. The program offered small intensive workshops in...
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The 40th annual Write on the Sound conference was held in person at the Frances Anderson Center in Edmonds, Washington, from October 3 to October 5; online preconference sessions was held on September 27. The conference features craft sessions,...
read more Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
WriterCon 2023 was held from September 1 to September 4 at the Renaissance Waterford Hotel in Oklahoma City. The conference featured over 70 presentations from more than 60 authors, editors, agents, and publishers, opportunities for pitching and...
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The 2023 Wyoming Writers Conference was held from June 2 to June 4 at the Historic Plains Hotel in Cheyenne, Wyoming. The conference featured workshops in craft, marketing, and productivity for poets, fiction writers, and nonfiction writers, as...
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