The 2026 Longleaf Writers Conference was held from May 9 to May 16 at the Seaside Academic Village in Santa Rosa Beach, Florida. The conference featured workshops, craft seminars, sunset receptions, bonfire readings, and one-on-one consultations...
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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.
MacDowell offers residencies of up to eight weeks year-round to poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, and translators on 450 acres near Mt. Monadnock in Peterborough, New Hampshire. Residents are provided with a private studio and...
read more Application Deadline: September 10, 2026
Financial Aid Deadline: September 10, 2026
The 2026 Macondo Writers Workshop was held from July 20 to July 26 at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. The program featured multigenre writing workshops, seminars, and free public readings for poets, fiction writers, and creative...
read moreThe 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....
read more Event Date: April 1, 2027
The 2021 Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing Summer Writers’ Conference was held from June 6 to June 12 and from June 13 to June 19 at the Vineyard Arts Project (VAP) campus in downtown Edgartown on the island of Martha’s Vineyard,...
read moreMASS MoCA Writing Through Art will be held from October 8 to October 13 in North Adams, Massachusetts. Programming includes generative workshops, exercises, discussions, time to write, and readings for poets. Residents also receive a one-on-one...
read more Event Date: October 8, 2026
The 2025 Massachusetts Poetry Festival, sponsored by Mass Poetry, was held from May 30 to June 1 at several venues throughout Salem, Massachusetts, including the House of the Seven Gables, Old Town Hall, the Peabody Essex Museum, and St. Peter’s...
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The 2026 Mendocino Coast Writers’ Conference was held from July 30 to August 1 on the Mendocino Coast in California. The conference features workshops for poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers, as well as craft seminars, panels...
read moreThe Mesa Verde Writers Conference, sponsored by Mancos Creative District, was held on July 10 and July 11 at the Mancos Commons Building in downtown Mancos, Colorado. The conference features workshops for poets, fiction writers, and creative...
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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 historic estate of Edna St. Vincent...
read more Application Deadline: October 1, 2026
Financial Aid Deadline: October 1, 2026
Millay House Rockland offers two monthlong residencies, one in October and one in July, to poets, fiction writers, and nonfiction writers in the duplex where the late poet Edna St. Vincent Millay was born in Rockland, Maine. Residents receive a $...
read more Event Date: October 1, 2026
The 2023 Minnesota Northwoods Writers Conference was held from June 20 to June 25 in Minnesota’s Northwoods at Bemidji State University. The conference featured workshops, craft talks, panels, an evening reading series, and manuscript...
read moreMontmartre Workshop will hold workshops from September 13 to September 17 for fiction writers and creative nonfiction writers, October 25 to October 29 for poets, and November 22 to November 26 for translators in the historic atelier of Toulouse-...
read more Event Date: September 13, 2026
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The 2023 Napa Valley Writers’ Conference was held from July 30 to August 4 on the main campus of Napa Valley College in Napa, California. The conference featured workshops in poetry, fiction, and translation, as well as craft talks and evening...
read moreThe 18th National Black Writers Conference (NBWC) was held from March 25 to March 28 at Medgar Evers College, City University of New York, in Brooklyn. This year’s conference was themed “Expanding Conversations on Environmental Justice, Popular...
read more Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The 2023 National Black Writers Conference Biennial Symposium was held from March 31 to April 1 in the Edison O. Jackson Auditorium at Medgar Evers College, as well as online. The symposium will featured scholarly presentations, roundtable...
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The 2026 Neraki International Writers Workshops was held from June 5 to June 14 at a seaside private home and seminar space in Katigiorgis, Greece. The workshop features craft classes, generative writing sessions, small-group workshops,...
read moreThe 40th annual New York State Summer Writers Institute was held from June 21 to July 18 at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs. The program features two- and four-week workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. The faculty included...
read more Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The 2026 North Carolina Writers’ Network (NCWN) Fall Conference will be held from November 6 to November 8 at the Lenoir-Rhyne University Asheville Center in Asheville, North Carolina, and at other sites nearby. The conference...
read more Event Date: November 6, 2026
Application Deadline: October 23, 2026
Financial Aid Deadline: October 16, 2026
The 2025 North Carolina Writers’ Network (NCWN) Squire Summer Writing Workshops was held from July 24 to July 27 at Davidson College in Davidson, North Carolina. The conference featured workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, as...
read moreThe 2020 North Carolina Writers’ Network Writingest State Conference was held online from November 10 to November 14. The conference featured classes in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, as well as conversations and panel discussions on...
read moreThe 2026 Off Topic Writers’ Conference was held online on August 8 and August 9. The conference featured craft talks, panels, and workshops for poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers. The faculty included poet Oladosu Michael...
read more Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The 2023 Orcas Island Lit Fest was held from June 2 to June 3 at the Orcas Center in Eastsound, Washington. The festival featured panel discussions, book signings, author interviews, readings, and live music for poetry, fiction, and creative...
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The Orion Environmental Writers’ Workshop was held from June 14 to June 19 at the Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, New York. The program features workshops, faculty readings, panels on publishing, and conversations with faculty members and Orion...
read moreThe Orion in the Wilderness retreat, cosponsored by the Omega Institute, was held from March 8 to March 14 at the American Museum of Natural History’s Southwestern Research Station in Cave Creek Canyon in Portal, Arizona, surrounded by the...
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