The Ragdale Foundation offered 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 were provided with a private room...
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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 REC.ON Ecovillage Artist & Writing Residency offers two- to four-week residencies year-round to poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, and translators in the picturesque village of La Mata de Bolaimí near the Sierra María–...
read more Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Red 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...
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The Rockland Residency offered 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 the...
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The Rockvale Writers’ Colony offers three-day themed retreats, one- to three-night mini-residencies, and one- to four-week residencies between January and November to poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, and translators on 65...
read more Event Date: January 1, 2026
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
ROOSTERGNN Global News Network (RGNN) offers residencies of at least ten days to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers year-round in Madrid, Spain, and during the summer in Havana and Trinidad, Cuba. Residents in Spain will be...
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The 2025 Ruth Stone House Poetry Retreat was held from August 24 to August 30 at poet Ruth Stone’s historic rural farmhouse in the Green Mountain National Forest in Goshen, Vermont. Programming included daily workshops, craft seminars, readings,...
read moreThe Salty Quill Writers’ Retreat for Women offers weeklong residencies four times a year to twelve poets, fiction writers, nonfiction writers, and translators who identify as women at McGee Island, a 110-acre private island located three miles...
read more Event Date: May 16, 2026
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Financial Aid Deadline: March 10, 2026
Sarasvati Creative Space offers residencies of one week to four months between April and November to poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, and translators at the 17-acre Camp Wonder Wander in the rural hills of Lewis County,...
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The Shannaghe Residency Program offers two- and four-week residencies from April through November to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers at the Shannaghe residence, a renovated house barn in Belfast, Maine. Residents are...
read more Event Date: April 1, 2026
The Sitka Center for Art and Ecology will offer two- to twelve-week residencies from October 2026 to April 2027 to poets, fiction writers, nonfiction writers, and translators at the center’s main campus and adjacent 80-acre property, all located...
read more Event Date: October 1, 2026
Application Deadline: March 10, 2026
Financial Aid Deadline: March 10, 2026
The Summer 2026 Sonoma County Writers Camp will be held from July 22 to July 26 at the Ratna Ling Retreat Center in Cazadero, California. The retreat features generative workshops and master classes in fiction and creative nonfiction, meditative...
read more Event Date: July 22, 2026
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Financial Aid Deadline: May 1, 2026
The Spring Creek Project offers two-week collaborative residencies in August and September to pairs of poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers at the Cabin at Shotpouch Creek in the Oregon Coast Range. The...
read moreSquam Writes will offer a retreat from June 11 to June 14 for fiction and creative nonfiction writers at Rockywold Deephaven Camps, a historic resort campsite on the shores of Squam Lake in Holderness, New Hampshire. Residents are provided with...
read more Event Date: June 11, 2026
Application Deadline: April 30, 2026
Financial Aid Deadline: April 30, 2026
Storyknife offers two- to four-week residencies from April through October to women poets, fiction writers, and nonfiction writers on ten acres of wilderness overlooking the Aleutian Range outside of Homer, Alaska. Each resident is provided with...
read more Event Date: April 1, 2026
Studio Faire offers two- or four-week residencies year-round to artists and writers, including poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, and translators, at an early 19th-century house in Nérac, France. The residency accommodates up to...
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Sunlit Residency offers weekly residencies of one to three weeks and monthly residencies of up to three months year-round to poets, fiction writers, nonfiction writers, and translators at the Sue-Je Lee Gage Residency for Human Rights and Social...
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Taleamor Park offers two- to four-week residencies from April to September to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers on a working grain farm and nature preserve with walking paths in northwestern Indiana between the towns of La...
read moreThe Cabins retreat was held from June 18 to June 22 in cabins on Tobey Pond in the Great Mountain Forest near Norfolk, Connecticut. The retreat offered collaborative, interdisciplinary presentations and group exercises led by and for attendees,...
read moreThe 2025 Lab Creative Writing Retreat was held from June 14 to June 21 at the Son Sion villa in the village of Porreres, located on a Mediterranean island 30 minutes south of Mallorca, Spain. Programming included workshops, one-on-one meetings...
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The Studios of Key West offers monthlong residencies to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers at the Old Town campus in Key West, Florida. Residents are provided with private lodging and work space. There is no cost to attend...
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Good Contrivance Farm, an educational nonprofit, offers residencies of up to four weeks year-round to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers on a Victorian farm in Reisterstown, Maryland, located 24 miles north of Baltimore....
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The 2026–2028 Tulsa Artist Fellowship, sponsored by the George Kaiser Family Foundation, offers three-year residencies to poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, and translators at Archer Studios in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Residents receive...
read moreThe Tusen Takk Foundation offers residencies of three to eight weeks from March to December to poets, fiction writers, and nonfiction writers at the modern Tusen Takk guesthouse on an isolated peninsula on Lake Michigan, approximately 25 miles...
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