The 2022 Chautauqua Writers’ Festival was held from June 22 to June 25 at the historic Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, New York. The conference featured workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, as well as readings and panel...
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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 11th annual Chuckanut Writers Conference, cohosted by Whatcom Community College and Village Books in Bellingham, Washington, was held online from June 21 to June 27. The conference featured breakout sessions in poetry, fiction, and creative...
read more Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The Colrain Poetry Manuscript Conference will be held online from April 21 to April 24. The conference features evaluation and discussion of book-length and chapbook-length poetry manuscripts with poets, editors, and publishers. The faculty...
read more Event Date: April 21, 2023
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The Community of Writers will offer workshops in poetry from June 19 to June 25, and in fiction, nonfiction, and memoir from July 10 to July 17 in Olympic Valley, near Lake Tahoe, in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California. The program features...
read more Event Date: June 19, 2023
Application Deadline: March 28, 2023
Financial Aid Deadline: March 28, 2023
Craigardan offers two-week to one-month residencies year-round to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers at Craigardan, a nonprofit arts and agricultural academic center in Keene, located on Hurricane Mountain in the Adirondack...
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The Cuttyhunk Island Writers’ Residency for fiction writers was held from September 16 to 23 and October 2 to 9 at the Avalon Inn on Cuttyhunk Island, seven nautical miles off the coast of southeastern Massachusetts. The residency offered ...
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The 2021 Desert Nights, Rising Stars Writers Conference was held online from February 18 to February 20. The conference featured workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, as well as craft classes, discussions on publishing and the...
read more Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The 2022 DISQUIET International Literary Program, sponsored by Dzanc Books and Centro Nacional de Cultura, was held from June 26 to July 8 in Lisbon, Portugal. The conference featured workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, as well...
read moreThe Djerassi Resident Artists Program offere four- and five-week residencies from mid-March through mid-November to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers on a 583-acre ranch located approximately 40 miles south of San Francisco...
read moreThe Edith Wharton–Straw Dog Writers Guild Writers-in-Residence Program offers one-week residencies during the month of March to nine emerging poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers at the Mount, Edith Wharton’s former home in...
read moreThe 2023 Elk River Writers Workshop will be held from August 13 to August 18 at Chico Hot Springs, a historic retreat in Pray, Montana, near Yellowstone National Park. The program features workshops, craft talks, outings, lectures, panel...
read more Event Date: August 13, 2023
Application Deadline: May 1, 2023
Financial Aid Deadline: April 1, 2023
Event Horizon offers residencies of two weeks to three months year-round to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers on five acres of olive groves in Crete, Greece. Residents are provided with lodging on site or in nearby affiliate...
read more Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The Fiction Meets Science Residency offers up to two residencies of three to nine months annually to fiction and nonfiction writers at the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg Institute for Advanced Study in Delmenhorst, Germany. Residents are provided with...
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The Fine Arts Work Center’s (FAWC) annual summer workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction will be held from June 18 to August 19 in Provincetown, Massachusetts. The faculty includes poets Oliver Baez Bendorf, Tina Chang, Chen Chen,...
read more Event Date: June 18, 2023
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Franconia Sculpture Park offered four residencies of two weeks in late January to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers at an outdoor sculpture park in Saint Croix River Valley, Minnesota. Residents were provided with a private...
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The Frost Place Poetry Seminar was held from August 2 to August 8 at Robert Frost’s former homestead in Franconia, New Hampshire. The seminar featured poetry workshops, craft talks, readings, and one-on-one meetings with faculty. The faculty...
read moreThe 25th annual Get Lit! Festival will be held online and in person from April 20 to April 23 at various venues in and around Spokane, Washington. The festival features readings, craft classes, and panel discussions for poets, fiction writers,...
read more Event Date: April 20, 2023
The Gotham Writers Conference was held online from October 14 to October 16. Sponsored by the Gotham Writers Workshop, the event was open to fiction and nonfiction writers as well as graphic novelists and graphic memoirists. The first two days of...
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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...
read more Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
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...
read moreThe 2022 Guanajuato Writing Retreat: Writing – and Living – Boldly was held from June 12 to June 19 at the Florecer Casitas in Guanajuato, the hilly capital city of Guanajuato state, in Mexico’s high plateau region. The retreat featured guided...
read moreHambidge offers residencies of two to eight weeks to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers on 600 wooded acres in the Blue Ridge Mountains of northern Georgia. Residents are provided with a private cottage with a bedroom, studio...
read more Application Deadline: April 15, 2023
Financial Aid Deadline: April 15, 2023
Headlands Center for the Arts offers four- to six-week residencies from June to late October to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers in the coastal wilderness of the Marin Headlands outside San Francisco. Residents are provided...
read moreThe Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum and Educational Center at Arkansas State University will offer a one-month-long residency during June to poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, and translators in Piggott, Arkansas. The residency...
read more Event Date: June 1, 2023