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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, Translation
Vashon, WA

The Vashon Artist Residency offers two- and four-week residencies from January to November to poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, and translators on Vashon Island, a 20-minute ferry ride from Seattle. Residents are provided with...

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Event Date: January 1, 2026
Application Deadline: August 20, 2025
Financial Aid Deadline: August 20, 2025
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation
Johnson, VT
A large red building with a gray roof next to a river.

Vermont Studio Center (VSC) offers two-, three-, and four-week residencies year-round to poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, and translators in Johnson, Vermont, a village located in the heart of the northern Green Mountains. VSC...

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Application Deadline: September 30, 2025
Financial Aid Deadline: September 30, 2025
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Amherst, VA

The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts offers residencies of varying lengths (up to six weeks) year-round to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers on the historic grounds of Mt. San Angelo in the foothills of the Blue Ridge...

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Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Richmond, VA

The Visual Arts Center of Richmond (VisArts) offers an 11-month residency from September 1, 2025, to July 31, 2026, to a poet, fiction writer, or nonfiction writer at the Virginia Dairy building in Richmond’s historic Fan District. The residency...

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Event Date: September 1, 2025
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Girdwood, AK
Voices of the Wilderness

The U.S. Forest Service, the National Park Service, and the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service offer one- to two-week residencies from June through August to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers who wish to take part in...

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Event Date: June 1, 2025
Application Deadline: March 1, 2025
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Tenants Harbor, ME

The 2022 Lighthouse Sessions Men’s Retreat was held from August 14 to August 19 for poets, fiction writers, nonfiction writers, and translators at the Whitehead Light Station, a lighthouse in Tenants Harbor, Maine. The retreat featured daily...

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Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Oysterville, WA

Willapa Bay AiR offers monthlong residencies from April through October to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers on 20 wooded acres near Oysterville, Washington. Residents are provided with a private cottage with living and work...

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Event Date: April 1, 2026
Application Deadline: August 31, 2025
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation
Twentynine Palms, CA

The Wonder Mountain Desert Cabin offers two-week residencies year-round to poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, and translators at the Wonder Mountain Open Source Center, 15 miles northeast of Joshua Tree National Park on the...

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Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Southern Pines, NC

Writeaways offered a weeklong retreat from February 24 to March 3 to poets, fiction writers, and nonfiction writers (including creative nonfiction writers) at the Weymouth Center for the Arts & Humanities, a 26-acre estate in Southern Pines,...

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Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Brooklyn, NY

A residency of two weeks or one month in November is offered to a poet, a fiction writer, or a nonfiction writer at a private apartment in Brooklyn, New York. The resident is provided with some meals. Writers over the age of 24 who are not...

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Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Eureka Springs, AR

The Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow offers residencies of two days to three months year-round to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers in Eureka Springs, Arkansas. Residents are provided with a private room and bathroom, work...

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Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Saratoga Springs, NY

Yaddo offers two- to eight-week residencies year-round to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers on a 400-acre estate in Saratoga Springs, New York. Residents are provided with a private bedroom, work space, and meals. To apply...

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Event Date: November 1, 2025
Application Deadline: August 1, 2025
Financial Aid Deadline: August 1, 2025

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