Conferences and Residencies Database

The Gell Writing Residency, sponsored by Writers & Books, offers one- to three-week residencies year-round to poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, and translators at Gell: A Finger Lakes Creative Retreat in Naples, New York,...

The Guanajuato Writing Retreat was held from September 22 to September 29 at the Florecer Casitas in Guanajuato, the hilly capital city of Guanajuato state, in Mexico’s high plateau region. The theme for the 2024 retreat was “Renewing Ourselves...

Headlands Center for the Arts offers four- to ten-week residencies from mid-March to mid-November to poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, and graphic novelists at its retreat center in the coastal wilderness of the Marin Headlands...

The 2026 Iceland Writers Retreat was held from April 15 to April 19 at the Fosshotel in Reykjavík. The retreat featured workshops, panels, lectures, receptions, and time to write for poets, fiction writers, and nonfiction...

The Jan Michalski Foundation offers residencies of two weeks to three months year-round to poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, and translators at the foot of the Swiss Jura Mountains in Montricher, Vaud, Switzerland, one hour...

The Kaatsbaan Weekend Retreats offered three-day residencies from October 3 to October 5 and from November 21 to November 23 at Kaatsbaan Cultural Park, a 153-acre artist sanctuary in Tivoli, New York, to poets, fiction writers, creative...

The La Baldi Residency, sponsored by Cultivate, offers two-week and one-month residencies from April through October to poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, and translators, in Montegiovi, Italy. Residents are provided with...

Loghaven offers residencies of two to six weeks year-round to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers in five refurbished historic log cabins and newly built facilities on ninety acres of woodland in Knoxville, Tennessee. The...

The Margery Davis Boyden Wilderness Writing Residency offers a six- to seven-month residency from April through October to a poet or prose writer, or pair of writers, at Dutch Henry Homestead in the Rogue River Canyon of southwest Oregon....

Millay Arts offers two- and four-week residencies from April through November, as well as weeklong group residencies in December, to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers at Steepletop, the former estate of Edna St. Vincent...

Ou-Telier offers two- and four-week residencies year-round to poets, fiction writers, nonfiction writers, and translators (with March, June, and September as priority times) at the Ou Gallery in the Quw’utsun/Warmland of the Cowichan Valley, the...

The Paris Writer’s Residency will offer a monthlong residency in October to a poet, fiction writer, creative nonfiction writer, or translator at the American University of Paris. The resident is provided with an en suite single or double room,...