The 23rd annual Brattleboro Literary Festival will be held from October 18 to October 20 in downtown Brattleboro, Vermont. The festival features readings, panels, and author conversations. Participating writers include poets Sharon Dolin, Jessica...
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The 2023 Chautauqua Writers’ Festival was held from June 21 to June 24 at the historic Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, New York. The conference featured workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, as well as readings and panel...
read moreThe 26th annual Get Lit! Festival was held online and in person from April 11 to April 14 at various venues in and around Spokane, Washington. The festival featured readings, writing workshops, craft classes, open mics, and panel discussions for...
read more Event Date: April 11, 2024
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The 2022 Kentucky Book Festival, presented by Kentucky Humanities, was held October 27 and October 29 in Lexington, Kentucky. The festival included a ticketed luncheon with fiction and nonfiction writer Geraldine Brooks and biographer and...
read moreThe Lighthouse Writers Workshop’s 2024 Lit Fest was held from June 7 to June 14 online and at the Lighthouse Writers Workshop headquarters in Denver. The festival featured weekend and weeklong workshops, craft seminars, salons, business panels,...
read more Event Date: June 7, 2024
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Financial Aid Deadline: March 9, 2024
The 2023 Orcas Island Lit Fest was held from June 2 to June 3 at the Orcas Center in Eastsound, Washington. The festival featured panel discussions, book signings, author interviews, readings, and live music for poetry, fiction, and creative...
read more Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The 22nd annual Poetry at Round Top Festival was held from April 19 to April 21 at the Round Top Festival Institute campus in Round Top, Texas. The program featured workshops, readings, lectures, craft talks, open mics, and panel discussions. The...
read more Event Date: April 19, 2024
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The 2024 Portland Book Festival, hosted by Literary Arts, will be held on November 2 at six partner venues in Portland’s South Park Blocks. The festival’s third annual Cover to Cover program will be held from October 28 to November 3 in multiple...
read more Event Date: November 2, 2024
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The 2024 Sarah Lawrence College Poetry Festival was held from April 19 to April 21 on the Sarah Lawrence College campus in Bronxville, New York, located 30 minutes by train from New York City. The festival featured workshops, readings, panel...
read more Event Date: April 19, 2024
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The 2024 Southern Festival of Books: A Celebration of the Written Word, sponsored by Humanities Tennessee, will be held on October 26 and October 27 at the Bicentennial Capitol Mall State Park, Tennessee State Library & Archives, and...
read more Event Date: October 26, 2024
The 2024 Texas Book Festival will be held on November 16 and November 17 in downtown Austin. The festival features panels and discussions with more than 250 authors and hosts nearly 100 exhibitions from magazines, presses, and other literary...
read more Event Date: November 16, 2024
The 47th annual UCR Writers’ Week Festival, sponsored by the Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB), was held from February 10 to February 16 at the University of California campus in Riverside (UCR) and online. The festival’s programming...
read more Event Date: February 10, 2024
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The Washington Island Literary Festival, sponsored by Write On, Door County, will be held from September 19 to September 21 at the Trueblood Performing Arts Center and other venues in Washington Island, Wisconsin. The festival features workshops...
read more Event Date: September 19, 2024