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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
Denver, CO

The Lighthouse Writers Workshop’s 2024 Lit Fest will be held from June 7 to June 14 online and at the Lighthouse Writers Workshop headquarters in Denver. The festival features weekend and weeklong workshops, craft seminars, salons, business...

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Event Date: June 7, 2024
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Financial Aid Deadline: March 9, 2024
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Online

The 2020 Literary Writers Conference was held online from December 2 to December 4. The conference, which was hosted by the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses, featured agent pitch sessions, pitch clinics, a query letter clinic, and...

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Poetry
Tieton, WA

The 14th annual LiTFUSE Poets’ Workshop was held from September 24 to September 26 at the Mighty Tieton Warehouse and nearby venues in Tieton, Washington. The workshop featured readings, performances, and master classes for poets. The faculty...

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Poetry
Tieton, WA

The 17th annual LiTFUSE UNiTE Poetry Workshop was held from September 22 to September 24 at the Mighty Tieton Warehouse and nearby venues in Tieton, Washington. The workshop featured readings, performances, craft talks, and master classes for...

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Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Knoxville, TN

Loghaven 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...

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Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Santa Rose Beach, FL

The 2024 Longleaf Writers Conference will be held from May 11 to May 18 at the Seaside Academic Village in Santa Rosa Beach, Florida. The conference features workshops, craft seminars, sunset receptions, bonfire readings, and one-on-one...

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Event Date: May 11, 2024
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation
Peterborough, NH

MacDowell 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...

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Event Date: September 1, 2024
Application Deadline: February 10, 2024
Financial Aid Deadline: February 10, 2024
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
San Antonio, TX

The 2024 Macondo Writers Workshop will be held from July 23 to July 28 at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. The program features writing workshops, seminars, and free public readings for poets, fiction writers, and nonfiction writers who...

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Event Date: July 23, 2024
Application Deadline: February 18, 2024
Financial Aid Deadline: February 18, 2024
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Elmira, OR

The 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...

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Event Date: April 1, 2025
Application Deadline: March 15, 2024
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Martha’s Vineyard, MA

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,...

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Poetry
North Adams, MA

MASS MoCA Writing Through Art offered a fall retreat for poets from October 19 to October 22 in North Adams and Williamstown, Massachusetts. The retreat included daily prompts, exercises, discussions, and readings; morning workshops; afternoons...

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Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Ft. Bragg, CA
Waves along the rocky Mendocino Coast shoreline.

The 2023 Mendocino Coast Writers’ Conference was held from August 3 to August 5 on the Mendocino Coast in California. The conference featured workshops for poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers, as well as craft seminars, panels...

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Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Austerlitz, NY

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 former estate of Edna St. Vincent...

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Event Date: August 1, 2024
Application Deadline: March 1, 2024
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Bemidji, MN

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...

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Poetry, Fiction, Translation
Napa, CA

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...

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Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
New York, NY

The 17th National Black Writers Conference (NBWC) will be held from March 20 to March 23 at Medgar Evers College, City University of New York. This year’s conference is themed “All That We Carry: Where Do We Go From Here?” and draws its name from...

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Event Date: March 20, 2024
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Brooklyn, NY

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

The 37th annual New York State Summer Writers Institute will be held from June 23 to July 20 at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs. The program will feature two- and four-week workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction for in-person...

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Event Date: June 23, 2024
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Financial Aid Deadline: March 15, 2024
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Winston-Salem, NC

The 2023 North Carolina Writers’ Network Fall Conference was held from November 3 to November 5 at the Hilton Charlotte University Place hotel in Charlotte, North Carolina. The conference featured classes in poetry, fiction, and creative...

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Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Wrightsville Beach, NC

The 2022 North Carolina Writers’ Network Fall Conference was held from November 18 to November 20 at the Holiday Inn Resort in Wrightsville Beach. The conference featured classes in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, as well as...

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Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Greensboro, NC

The 2022 North Carolina Writers’ Network Spring Conference was held on April 23, both in person at the University of North Carolina in Greensboro and online. The conference featured classes in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, as well as...

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Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Winston-Salem, NC

The 2023 North Carolina Writers’ Network (NCWN) Squire Summer Writing Workshops was held from July 20 to July 23 at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem. The conference featured workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, as well as...

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Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Online

The 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...

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Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Eastsound, WA

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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Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Rhinebeck, NY

The Orion Environmental Writers’ Workshop will be held from June 16 to June 21 at the Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, New York. The program features workshops (limited to 12 participants each), faculty readings, panels on publishing, and...

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Event Date: June 16, 2024
Application Deadline: May 1, 2024

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