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Conferences and Residencies Database

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.

Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation
Anchorage, AK

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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Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Los Angeles, CA

The Writers Studio, sponsored by the UCLA Extension Writers’ Program, was held from February 23 to February 26 on the UCLA campus in Los Angeles. The conference featured workshops in fiction and creative nonfiction as well as a literary agent...

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Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Tepoztlán, Mexico
Under the Volcano

The 20th annual Under the Volcano Master Classes and Guided Residency was held from January 6, 2023, to January 29, 2023, in Tepoztlán, Mexico, a village located one hour from Mexico City in the foothills of snow-capped volcanoes. The conference...

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Fiction
Portland, OR

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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Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Burlington, VT
A red building with a green roof on the campus of the Vermont College of Fine Art

The 28th annual Vermont College of Fine Arts (VCFA) Postgraduate Writers’ Conference will be held from August 7 to August 13 on the Champlain College campus in Burlington, Vermont. Designed for writers with graduate degrees or equivalent...

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Event Date: August 7, 2023
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Financial Aid Deadline: August 7, 2023
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation
Portland, OR

The 2022 Willamette Writers Conference was held online and in person at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Downtown Portland, Oregon, from August 5 to August 7. The conference featured workshops, panels, pitch sessions, and critiques for poets, fiction...

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Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Atlantic City, NJ

The 29th annual Winter Poetry & Prose Getaway was held from January 13 to January 16 at the Seaview Hotel near Atlantic City. The program, sponsored by Murphy Writing of Stockton University, offered small, intensive workshops in poetry,...

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Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Online

The 37th annual Write on the Sound Writers Conference was held online from October 7 to October 9. The conference featured craft sessions, one-on-one manuscript consultations, a writing contest, and information sessions on publishing and...

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Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Oklahoma City, OK

The 2022 WriterCon was held from September 2 to September 5 at the Renaissance Waterford Hotel in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The conference featured over 70 presentations from authors, editors, agents, and publishers, opportunities for pitching and...

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Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Cheyenne, WY

The 2023 Wyoming Writers Conference will be held from June 2 to June 4 at the Historic Plains Hotel in Cheyenne, Wyoming. The conference features workshops in craft, marketing, and productivity for poets, fiction writers, and nonfiction writers,...

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Event Date: June 2, 2023
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions

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