The Good Hart Artist Residency offers two- to three-week residencies year-round to artists and writers, including poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers, in the woods bordering the “Tunnel of Trees” Scenic Heritage Route in Good...
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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 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...
read moreHambidge offers residencies of two weeks to two months from February through December to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers on 600 forested acres in the Blue Ridge Mountains of northern Georgia. Each resident is provided with...
read moreHeadlands 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...
read moreThe Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum and Educational Center at Arkansas State University offers a monthlong residency in June to poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, and translators in Piggott, Arkansas. Residents are provided with a...
read moreThe 2025 Iceland Writers Retreat will be held from April 23 to April 27 at the Fosshotel in Reykjavík. The retreat features workshops, panels, lectures, receptions, and time to write for fiction and nonfiction writers, as well as literary tours...
read moreIn Cahoots offers residencies of one, two, or three weeks year-round to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers in the countryside of Petaluma, California, in scenic Sonoma County. Residents are provided with individual cottages,...
read moreThe Jentel Foundation offers three-week residencies from mid-January to mid-December to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers in the scenic foothills of the Bighorn Mountains, 20 miles southeast of Sheridan, Wyoming. Writers age...
read moreThe Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts offers two- to eight-week residencies year-round to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers in historic Nebraska City, Nebraska. Residents are provided with lodging in a mid-century...
read moreThe La Baldi Residency, sponsored by the arts collective Cultivate, will offer two-week and one-month residencies from April through October to poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, and translators in apartments and a small...
read moreLoghaven offers residencies of two to six weeks year-round to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers in five rehabilitated historic log cabins and newly built facilities on ninety acres of woodland in Knoxville, Tennessee. The...
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 studio...
read moreThe Margery Davis Boyden Wilderness Writing Residency, administered by PEN Northwest, offers a 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...
read moreMASS MoCA Writing Through Art offered a fall retreat for poets from October 31 to November 6 in North Adams, Massachusetts. The retreat included morning generative workshops with prompts, exercises, discussions, and readings; afternoon visits to...
read moreMillay 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...
read moreThe Ou Gallery’s Ou-telier program offers one- to four-week residencies starting on the 1st and 16th of every month year-round to poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, and translators on Gabriola Island in British Columbia, Canada...
read moreThe Ox-Bow School of Art offered two-, three-, and five-week residencies from September 7 to October 11 to poets, fiction writers, and nonfiction writers on the Ox-Bow campus in Saugatuck, Michigan, located near the shores of Lake Michigan and...
read moreThe Paris Writer’s Residency will offer a monthlong residency in October to poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, and translators at the American University of Paris. The resident is provided with an en suite single or double room...
read moreThe Playa Flamingo Writing Residency, sponsored by Atmosphere Press, offers two five-day residencies from May to August to poets, fiction writers, nonfiction writers, or translators at the Punta Plata condominium in Playa Flamingo, a white sand...
read moreProspect Street Writers House offers one- and two-week residencies in January and from May through November to poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, and translators at the Prospect Street residency in the village of North...
read moreThe Ragdale Foundation offers residencies of 18 days year-round to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers on 38 acres of prairie in Lake Forest, Illinois, 30 miles north of Chicago. Residents are provided with a private room and...
read moreRed Mountain Press offered two- and four-week residencies from November 14 to December 12 to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers in a private home on Sanibel Island, Florida. Residents were provided with private lodging,...
read moreThe Renaissance House Residency Program offered residencies of one to two weeks in July to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers at the former writing barn of Dorothy West in Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts. The residencies...
read moreThe Rockland Residency will offer three-week residencies from October 8, 2025, to October 29, 2025, and from January 8, 2026, to January 29, 2026, to poets, fiction writers, nonfiction writers, and translators in the Rockland Woods, located on...
read moreThe Rockvale Writers’ Colony offers one- to three-day retreats and one- to four-week residencies between January and October to poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, and translators on 65 acres of farmland in College Grove,...
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