The 17th annual Brattleboro Literary Festival was held from October 11 to October 14 at various venues in downtown Brattleboro, Vermont. The festival featured readings, panels, and special events. Participants included poets Wyn...
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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 2019 Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference will be held from May 31 to June 6 in the Green Mountains of Ripton, Vermont. The conference, designed for poets and prose writers whose work deals with the environment and...
read more Event Date: May 31, 2019
Application Deadline: February 15, 2019
The 2019 Bread Loaf in Sicily Conference will be held from September 22 to September 28 in the ancient hilltop town of Erice, on the western coast of Sicily. The conference includes workshops in poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and...
read more Event Date: September 22, 2019
Application Deadline: April 15, 2019
The 2019 Bread Loaf Translators’ Conference will be held from May 31 to June 6 in the Green Mountains of Ripton, Vermont. The conference, designed for both emerging and established translators, features translation workshops in...
read more Event Date: May 31, 2019
Application Deadline: February 15, 2019
The 2019 Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference will be held from August 14 to August 24 in the Green Mountains of Ripton, Vermont. The conference features workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, as well as lectures,...
read more Event Date: August 14, 2019
Application Deadline: February 15, 2019
The fourth annual Broadleaf Writers Conference will be held from September 21 to September 22 at the Cobb Galleria in Atlanta, Georgia. The conference features workshops for poets, fiction writers, and nonfiction writers, as well as panels and...
read more Event Date: September 21, 2019
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The 12th annual Brooklyn Book Festival was held from September 10 to September 17 at various venues in New York City. The festival featured readings, panels, and a book fair. Participants included poets Eve L. Ewing, Tarfia...
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The Museum of Fine Arts in Houston offers residencies of one to three months from July 1 to November 30 to midcareer poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers at the Dora Maar House in Ménerbes, France. Residents are provided with...
read more Application Deadline: February 15, 2019
Buinho Creative Hub offers residencies of two weeks to three months year-round to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers in the historic town of Messejana, Portugal. Residents are provided with private lodging and shared work...
read more Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The Cagibi Fall 2018 Hudson Valley Writing Retreat was held from October 18 to October 21 in Rhinebeck, New York. The retreat featured daily workshops, one-on-one consultations, readings, and time to write for poets, fiction writers, and creative...
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The 56th annual Cape Cod Writers Center Conference was held from August 2 to August 5 at the Resort and Conference Center in Hyannis, Massachusetts. The conference featured workshops and craft classes in poetry, fiction, and...
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The 2018 Catamaran Writing Conference was held from August 5 to August 9 at the Robert Louis Stevenson School in Pebble Beach, California. The conference featured workshops, craft talks, and daily excursions for poets, fiction writers, and...
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The 2019 Centrum Port Townsend Writers’ Conference will be held from July 14 to July 21 at Fort Worden State Park, a turn-of-the-century army base accessible to saltwater beaches, wooded hills, and the Olympic Mountains in Washington State. The...
read more Event Date: July 14, 2019
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The 2019 Chautauqua Writers’ Festival will be held from June 19 to June 22 at the historic Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, New York. The conference features workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, as well as...
read more Event Date: June 19, 2019
Application Deadline: May 31, 2019
The eighth annual Chesapeake Writers’ Conference will be held from June 23 to June 29 on the St. Mary’s College campus in St. Mary’s City, Maryland. The conference features lectures, craft talks, readings, and panel discussions, as well as daily...
read more Event Date: June 23, 2019
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The 2019 Chuckanut Writers Conference, cohosted by Whatcom Community College and Village Books, will be held on June 21 and June 22 on the campus of Whatcom Community College in the scenic coastal city of Bellingham, Washington. The conference...
read more Event Date: June 21, 2019
Application Deadline: June 20, 2019
The 2018 Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP) Literary Writers Conference was held from December 6 to December 7 at the New School in New York City. The conference featured workshops in professional publishing and publicity to poets...
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The Colgate Writers’ Conference will be held from June 16 to June 22 at Colgate University in Hamilton, New York. The conference features workshops, readings, craft talks, and panel discussions for poets, fiction writers, and nonfiction writers....
read more Event Date: June 16, 2019
Application Deadline: March 30, 2019
Financial Aid Deadline: March 30, 2019
The Spring Creek Project offers two-week collaborative residencies in August and September to pairs of poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers at the Cabin at Shotpouch Creek in the Oregon Coast Range. The...
read more Application Deadline: May 1, 2019
The Colrain Poetry Manuscript Conference will be held from June 28 to July 1 in Leicester, Massachusetts. The conference features evaluation and discussion of book-length and chapbook-length poetry manuscripts with poets,...
read more Event Date: June 28, 2019
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The Community of Writers at Squaw Valley offers workshops in poetry from June 22 to June 29 and in fiction and creative nonfiction from July 8 to July 15 in Squaw Valley, near the north shore of Lake Tahoe in the Sierra Nevada mountains. The...
read more Event Date: June 22, 2019
Application Deadline: March 28, 2019
Financial Aid Deadline: March 28, 2019
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...
read more Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Financial Aid Deadline: April 1, 2018
The 2018 Creative Nonfiction Writers’ Conference was held from May 24 to May 26 on the campus of Point Park University in downtown Pittsburgh. The conference featured craft talks, publishing discussions, agent consultations, manuscript reviews,...
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Residencies of three and four weeks are offered year-round to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers at the Bloedel Reserve in Bainbridge Island, Washington. The residency...
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The Cuba Writers Program was held from May 2 to May 10 in Havana, Cuba. The program featured workshops for poets, fiction writers, and nonfiction writers, as well as lectures on Cuban history and culture, cultural activities, and opportunities to...
read more Application Deadline: January 15, 2019