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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
Brattleboro, VT

The 22nd annual Brattleboro Literary Festival was held in person in downtown Brattleboro, Vermont, from October 13 to October 15, and was recorded for online presentation. The festival featured readings, panels, and special events. Participating...

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Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Chautauqua, NY
Townscape lights reflected on the water at sunset.

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...

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Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Spokane, WA

The 26th annual Get Lit! Festival will be held online and in person from April 11 to April 14 at various venues in and around Spokane, Washington. The festival features readings, writing workshops, craft classes, open mics, and panel discussions...

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Event Date: April 11, 2024
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Lexington, KY

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...

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Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Denver, CO

The Lighthouse Writers Workshop’s 2024 Lit Fest will be held from June 7 to June 14 online and at the Lighthouse Writers Workshop headquarters in Denver. The festival features weekend and weeklong workshops, craft seminars, salons, business...

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Event Date: June 7, 2024
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Financial Aid Deadline: March 9, 2024
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Eastsound, WA

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...

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Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Poetry
Round Top, TX

The 22nd annual Poetry at Round Top Festival will be held from April 19 to April 21 at the Round Top Festival Institute campus in Round Top, Texas. The program features workshops, readings, lectures, craft talks, open mics, and panel discussions...

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Event Date: April 19, 2024
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Portland, OR

The 2023 Portland Book Festival, hosted by Literary Arts, was held on November 4 at seven partner venues in Portland’s South Park Blocks. The festival’s second annual Cover to Cover program was held from October 30 to November 5 in multiple...

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Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Martha's Vineyard, MA

The Renaissance House Residency Program offered an activist writers festival from September 17 to September 19 for poets, fiction writers, and nonfiction writers in Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts. Participation in the festival may have been ...

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Poetry
Bronxville, NY

The 2024 Sarah Lawrence College Poetry Festival will be 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 features workshops, readings, panel...

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Event Date: April 19, 2024
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Nashville, TN

The 2023 Southern Festival of Books: A Celebration of the Written Word was held from October 21 to October 22 at the Bicentennial Capitol Mall State Park, Tennessee State Library & Archives, and Tennessee State Museum in Nashville, Tennessee...

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Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Austin, TX

The 2023 Texas Book Festival was held from November 11 to November 12 in downtown Austin. The festival featured panels and discussions with more than 250 authors and hosts nearly 100 exhibitors. Participating authors included poet and nonfiction...

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Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation, Cross-Genre
Riverside, CA

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...

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Event Date: February 10, 2024
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Minneapolis, MN

The 2023 Wordplay festival was held on July 8 in and around Open Book, a literary center in Minneapolis, with some panels livestreamed for a virtual audience. The festival featured panel discussions, author interviews, interactive activities for...

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