The ninth annual Broadleaf Writers Conference was held on September 21 and September 22 at the Decatur Library in Decatur, Georgia. The conference featured panels, first page critiques, and workshops for poets, fiction writers, and nonfiction...
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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 Museum of Fine Arts in Houston offered residencies of one to three months from July 1 to November 30 to mid-career poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers at the Dora Maar House in Ménerbes, France. Residents were provided...
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Buinho Creative Hub offers residencies of two weeks to two months year-round to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers in the historic town of Messejana, Portugal. Residents are provided with a single- or double-occupancy room in...
read more Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The Calabash International Literary Festival was held from May 23 to May 25 at the Jack Sprat restaurant and bar in the fishing village of Treasure Beach, Jamaica. Programming included author readings, panels, and live music events. Participating...
read more Event Date: May 23, 2025
The Cambridge Writers’ Workshop Budapest and Prague Writing Retreat was held from July 19 to July 27 in the historic city centers of Budapest and Prague. The retreat featured writing and publishing workshops, craft seminars, and generative...
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The 2020 Cambridge Writers’ Workshop Spring in New Orleans Writing Retreat was held from March 19 to March 22 at the Pelham Hotel, a five-minute walk from the French Quarter. The retreat featured multi-genre and publishing workshops, craft...
read moreThe 2025 Cape Cod Writers Center Conference will be held from July 31 to August 3 at the Emerald Resort/Cape Cod Irish Village hotel in Hyannis, Massachusetts. The conference features workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction; an...
read more Event Date: July 31, 2025
Application Deadline: July 25, 2025
The 2023 Catamaran Writing Conference was held from July 30 to August 3 at the Robert Louis Stevenson School in Pebble Beach, California. The conference featured small group workshops, lectures, craft talks, and daily excursions for poets,...
read moreThe Celia and Wally Gilbert Artist-in-Residence Program offers residencies of one to three weeks year-round to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers looking to “explore the scientific process and interact with international...
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The 2023 Chautauqua Writers’ Festival was held from June 21 to June 24 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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The twelfth annual Chesapeake Writers’ Conference will be held from June 22 to June 28 on the St. Mary’s College campus in St. Mary’s City, Maryland. The conference features lectures, craft talks, readings, panel discussions, and daily workshops...
read more Event Date: June 22, 2025
The Chicago Writers Association Conference was held from March 21 to March 23 at the Warwick Allerton Hotel in Chicago. The program featured faculty presentations, workshops, panel discussions, master classes, pitch sessions, author interviews,...
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The 2025 annual Chuckanut Writers Conference, cohosted by the Narrative Project, Sidekick Press, and Village Books and Paper Dreams, will be held on June 27 and June 28 at Sehome High School in Bellingham, Washington. The conference features...
read more Event Date: June 27, 2025
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The Civitella Ranieri Foundation “Nature of Wonder” workshop will be held from November 15 to November 24 at the 15th-century Civitella Ranieri Castle in Umbria, Italy. The workshop features writing sessions, craft lectures, and excursions to...
read more Event Date: November 15, 2025
Application Deadline: September 1, 2025
The Colrain Poetry Manuscript Conference will be held online from July 25 to July 28. 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: July 25, 2025
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The Community of Writers offers workshops in poetry from June 21 to June 27 and in fiction and nonfiction (including creative nonfiction) from July 7 to July 14 in Olympic Valley, near Lake Tahoe in California’s Sierra Nevada. The program...
read more Event Date: June 21, 2025
The Concord Free Public Library Writer-in-Residence Program offers a six-month residency from January to June to a poet, fiction writer, or creative nonfiction writer at the historic Concord Free Public Library (CFPL) in Concord, Massachusetts....
read more Event Date: January 1, 2026
Application Deadline: July 15, 2025
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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Creekside Arts offers three-week residencies from mid-May to early June to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers on the coastal redwoods of Freshwater, California. Residents are provided with a private room, kitchen, bathroom,...
read more Application Deadline: February 15, 2025
The Cuttyhunk Island Writers’ Residency for fiction writers was held from September 11 to September 18 at the Avalon Inn on Cuttyhunk Island, seven nautical miles off the coast of southeastern Massachusetts. The residency offered workshops,...
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The Desert Nights, Rising Stars Writers Conference, sponsored by the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing at Arizona State University (ASU), will be held from October 9 to October 11 at the Memorial Union and Old Main buildings on the...
read more Event Date: October 9, 2025
Application Deadline: July 30, 2025
Financial Aid Deadline: August 1, 2025
The 2025 DISQUIET International Literary Program, sponsored by Dzanc Books and Centro Nacional de Cultura, will be held from June 22, 2025, to July 4, 2025, at the Centro Nacional de Cultura in Lisbon, Portugal. The conference features workshops...
read more Event Date: June 22, 2025
The Djerassi Resident Artists Program offer monthlong residencies from February through November to poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, and translators on a 583-acre ranch in the Santa Cruz Mountains, approximately 37 miles south...
read moreThe Edith Wharton–Straw Dog Writers Guild Writers-in-Residence Program offered 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 Edward F. Albee Foundation offers monthlong residencies year-round to poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, and translators at the William Flanagan Memorial Creative Persons Center on the eastern terminus of Long Island in...
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