A.I.R. Studio Paducah offers residencies of two weeks to three months year-round to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers in the Lower Town Arts District of Paducah, Kentucky. Residents are provided with a private apartment, Wi-...
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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 General Artist Residency Program offers residencies of two weeks or one month during July, September, October, and November to poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, and translators at Tower View, a 350-acre historic estate...
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The Adirondack Center for Writing will offer a residency from September 24 to October 8 to six poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers at a lodge on Twitchell Lake in the Adirondack Mountains in New York. Three of the residents...
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Application Deadline: May 10, 2023
Residencies of one week to two months are offered to poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, and translators from late March through early June and from early September through early November at Omi International Arts Center,...
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The Bogliasco Foundation offers month-long residencies from January to May and from September to December to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers in the coastal fishing village of Bogliasco, Italy, located seven miles southeast...
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The Museum of Fine Arts in Houston offered residencies of one to three months from July 1 to November 30 to mid-career poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers at the Dora Maar House in Ménerbes, France. Residents were provided...
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Buinho Creative Hub offers residencies of two weeks to three months year-round to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers in the historic town of Messejana, Portugal. Residents are provided with private lodging and shared work...
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The Celia & Wally Gilbert Artist-in-Residence Program offers six residencies of one to three weeks year-round to poets, fiction writers, and nonfiction writers looking to “explore the scientific process and interact with international...
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Craigardan offers two-week to one-month residencies year-round to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers at Craigardan, a nonprofit arts and agricultural academic center in Keene, located on Hurricane Mountain in the Adirondack...
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The Cuttyhunk Island Writers’ Residency for fiction writers was held from September 16 to 23 and October 2 to 9 at the Avalon Inn on Cuttyhunk Island, seven nautical miles off the coast of southeastern Massachusetts. The residency offered ...
read moreThe Djerassi Resident Artists Program offere four- and five-week residencies from mid-March through mid-November to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers on a 583-acre ranch located approximately 40 miles south of San Francisco...
read moreThe Edith Wharton–Straw Dog Writers Guild Writers-in-Residence Program offers one-week residencies during the month of March to nine emerging poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers at the Mount, Edith Wharton’s former home in...
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Event Horizon offers residencies of two weeks to three months year-round to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers on five acres of olive groves in Crete, Greece. Residents are provided with lodging on site or in nearby affiliate...
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The Fiction Meets Science Residency offers up to two residencies of three to nine months annually to fiction and nonfiction writers at the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg Institute for Advanced Study in Delmenhorst, Germany. Residents are provided with...
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Franconia Sculpture Park offered four residencies of two weeks in late January to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers at an outdoor sculpture park in Saint Croix River Valley, Minnesota. Residents were provided with a private...
read moreThe 2022 Guanajuato Writing Retreat: Writing – and Living – Boldly was held from June 12 to June 19 at the Florecer Casitas in Guanajuato, the hilly capital city of Guanajuato state, in Mexico’s high plateau region. The retreat featured guided...
read moreHambidge offers residencies of two to eight weeks to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers on 600 wooded acres in the Blue Ridge Mountains of northern Georgia. Residents are provided with a private cottage with a bedroom, studio...
read more Application Deadline: April 15, 2023
Financial Aid Deadline: April 15, 2023
Headlands Center for the Arts offers four- to six-week residencies from June to late October to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers in the coastal wilderness of the Marin Headlands outside San Francisco. Residents are provided...
read moreThe Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum and Educational Center at Arkansas State University will offer a one-month-long residency during June to poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, and translators in Piggott, Arkansas. The residency...
read more Event Date: June 1, 2023
The Jentel Foundation offers four-week residencies from mid-January to mid-December to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers on a cattle ranch in the Lower Piney Creek Valley, 20 miles southeast of Sheridan, Wyoming. Writers 25...
read more Event Date: May 15, 2023
The Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts offers two- to eight-week residencies year-round to writers of all genres, including poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers, in the burr oak forests of Nebraska City, Nebraska....
read more Event Date: July 3, 2023
The La Baldi Residency, sponsored by Cultivate, will be offering two-week and one-month residencies from April through October to poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, and translators, in Montegiovi, Italy. Residents will stay in...
read more Application Deadline: May 1, 2023
Loghaven offers residencies of two- to six-weeks year-round to poets, fiction writers, and nonfiction writers in five rehabilitated historic log cabins and newly-built facilities on surrounding grounds in Knoxville, Tennessee. The residency is...
read moreMacDowell offers residencies of up to six weeks year-round to poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, and translators on 450 wooded acres near Mt. Monadnock in Peterborough, New Hampshire. Residents are provided with a private room,...
read moreMASS MoCA offers two retreats of three to six days in June and October for poets. The summer retreat will take place from May 31 to June 6 at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art in North Adams. The retreat includes daily prompts,...
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