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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
Brandon, VT

The 23rd annual Green Mountain Writers Conference was held from August 2 to August 6 at the historic Brandon Inn in Brandon, Vermont, a walkable Vermont village. The program featured workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, as well...

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Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Online

The 2022 GrubStreet Muse & the Marketplace conference was held virtually with optional in-person events in and around GrubStreet’s Center for Creative Writing in Boston’s Seaport district, as public health guidelines allowed, from April 27 to...

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Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation
Guanajuato, Mexico

The 2023 Guanajuato Writing Retreat: Writing—and Living—Boldly was held from November 5 to November 12 at the Florecer Casitas in Guanajuato, the hilly capital city of the Guanajuato state, in Mexico’s high plateau region. The retreat (limited to...

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Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Rabun Gap, GA

Hambidge offers twelve residencies of two to eight weeks 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 a private cottage, which...

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Event Date: September 1, 2024
Application Deadline: April 15, 2024
Financial Aid Deadline: April 15, 2024
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Virginia Beach, VA

The 15th annual Hampton Roads Writers Conference was held from November 9 to November 11 at the Holiday Inn Virginia Beach Norfolk Hotel and Conference Center. The conference featured 10-minute agent pitches, critique sessions, and craft and...

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Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Sausalito, CA
A large white house nestled in trees and mountains.

Headlands Center for the Arts offers four- to eight-week residencies from June to early November to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers in the coastal wilderness of the Marin Headlands outside San Francisco. Residents are...

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Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation
Piggott, AR

The 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. The residency includes a loft...

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Event Date: June 1, 2024
Application Deadline: February 28, 2024
Creative Nonfiction
Lancaster, PA

The 2022 HippoCamp conference was held from August 12 to August 14 at the Downtown Lancaster Marriott in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. The conference featured craft talks, publishing and marketing sessions, panel discussions, a story slam, and...

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Fiction
San Antonio, TX

The biennial Historical Novel Society (HNS) North America Conference was held from June 8 to June 10 at the Marriott Rivercenter hotel in San Antonio, Texas, as well as online. The conference featured presentations, panels, pitch sessions with...

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Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Reykjavík, Iceland

The 2023 Iceland Writers Retreat for fiction and nonfiction writers was held from April 26 to April 30 at the Fosshotel in Reykjavík. The retreat featured workshops, panels, lectures, and time to write, as well as tours of Iceland. The faculty...

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Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Petaluma, CA

In 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,...

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Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Bloomington, IN

The 2023 Indiana University Writers’ Conference was held from June 8 to June 11 in Bloomington, Indiana. The conference featured workshops, craft classes, panel discussions, and readings for poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers...

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Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Cleveland, OH

The ninth annual Inkubator Writing Conference, sponsored by Literary Cleveland and kicking off Cleveland Book Week 2023, was held on September 22 and September 23 at the Cleveland Public Library in downtown Cleveland. The conference featured...

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Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Trescott, ME

The eighth annual Iota Short Forms Conference was held from October 12 to October 15 at the Cobscook Institute in Trescott, Maine, and its surrounding fifty acres of forest and former farmland. The conference featured writing classes, readings,...

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Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Jackson Hole, WY

The 2023 Jackson Hole Writers Conference was held from June 22 to June 24 at the Jackson Hole Center for the Arts in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, with the option to attend virtually. The conference featured workshops, lectures, readings, and manuscript...

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Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Richmond, VA

The 21st annual James River Writers Conference was held online and in person from October 6 to October 8 at the Greater Richmond Convention Center in Richmond, Virginia. The conference began with online and in-person master classes on October 6;...

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Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation
Montricher, Switzerland
Treehouse

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

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Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Banner, WY

The Jentel Foundation offers four-week residencies from mid-January to mid-December to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers on a cattle ranch in the Lower Piney Creek Valley, located 20 miles southeast of Sheridan, Wyoming....

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Event Date: May 15, 2024
Application Deadline: January 15, 2024
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Amherst, MA

The Juniper Summer Writing Institute will be held from June 9 to June 15 at the University of Massachusetts campus in Amherst. The program features workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, as well as craft seminars, manuscript...

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Event Date: June 9, 2024
Application Deadline: February 15, 2024
Financial Aid Deadline: February 15, 2024
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Homer, AK

The 2024 Kachemak Bay Writers’ Conference will be held from May 18 to May 21 at the Kenai Peninsula College campus in Homer, Alaska, with views of the snowcapped mountain ranges across Kachemak Bay. The conference features craft classes, as well...

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Event Date: May 18, 2024
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Financial Aid Deadline: February 28, 2024
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Kauai, HI

The 2023 Kauai Writers Conference was held from November 6 to November 12 at the Royal Sonesta Resort on Kalapaki Beach in Kauai, Hawai’i. The event featured a three-day conference and master classes in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction,...

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Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Lexington, KY

The 2022 Kentucky Book Festival, presented by Kentucky Humanities, was held October 27 and October 29 in Lexington, Kentucky. The festival included a ticketed luncheon with fiction and nonfiction writer Geraldine Brooks and biographer and...

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Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Nebraska City, NE

The Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts offers two- to eight-week residencies year-round to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers in the burr oak forests of Nebraska City, Nebraska. Residents are provided with lodging,...

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Event Date: July 1, 2024
Application Deadline: March 1, 2024
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation
Montegiovi, Italy

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 stay in private lodging...

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Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Mendocino County, CA

The spring 2023 Lit Camp was held from June 4 to June 9 at the Bell Valley Retreat Center in Mendocino County, California. The conference included craft talks and writing time for fiction and creative nonfiction writers. The faculty included...

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