The 7th annual Chesapeake Writers’ Conference was held from June 24 to June 30 on the St. Mary’s College campus in St. Mary’s City, Maryland. The conference featured lectures, craft talks, readings, and panel discussions, as well as daily...
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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 2018 Chuckanut Writers Conference, cohosted by Whatcom Community College and Village Books, was held on June 22 and June 23 on the campus of Whatcom Community College in the scenic coastal city of Bellingham, Washington. The conference...
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The Chippewa Valley Writers Guild offers five, three-day residencies from June through August to poets, fiction writers, and nonfiction writers at Cirenaica, a secluded lodge located in the Northwoods of Wisconsin, near the village of Fall Creek...
read more Application Deadline: May 1, 2018
The 2018 Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP) Literary Writers Conference will be held from December 6 to December 7 at the New School in New York City. The conference features workshops in professional publishing and publicity to...
read more Event Date: December 6, 2018
The Colgate Writers’ Conference was held from June 17 to June 23 at Colgate University in Hamilton, New York. The conference featured workshops, readings, craft talks, and panel discussions for poets, fiction writers, and nonfiction writers. The...
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The Spring Creek Project offers two-week residencies to pairs of poets, fiction writers, or creative nonfiction writers at the Cabin at Shotpouch Creek in the Oregon Coast Range from August 4 to August 17, and from August 19 to...
read more Application Deadline: May 15, 2018
The Colrain Poetry Manuscript Conference will be held from November 2 to November 5 at the Barred Owl Retreat in Leicester, Massachusetts. The conference features workshops of book-length poetry manuscripts with editors and...
read more Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The Community of Writers at Squaw Valley offers summer workshops in poetry from June 23 to June 30 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....
read more Application Deadline: March 28, 2018
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 14 to May 22 in Havana, Cuba. The program featured mixed-genre workshops for fiction and nonfiction writers, as well as lectures, cultural activities, and opportunities to meet with Cuban writers and...
read more Application Deadline: January 15, 2018
The Cuttyhunk Island Writers’ Residency for fiction and nonfiction writers will be held from June 25 to July 7, and from September 17 to September 24, at the Avalon Inn on Cuttyhunk Island, seven nautical miles off the coast of southeastern...
read more Application Deadline: March 1, 2018
The 2018 Dallas Fort-Worth Writers’ Workshop was held from June 9 to June 10 at the Hurst Convention Center in Hurst, Texas. The conference featured workshops in fiction and creative nonfiction; panels and workshops with editors, publishers, and...
read more Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Denali National Park and Preserve in central Alaska offers 10-day residencies from late February through March and from June through mid-September to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers. Residents are...
read more Application Deadline: September 30, 2017
The 2018 Desert Nights, Rising Stars Writers Conference was held from February 22 to February 24 on the Arizona State University campus in Tempe. The conference featured workshops in poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and...
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Dickinson House offers residencies from one to four weeks to poets, fiction writers, and nonfiction writers at the Dickinson House in East Flanders, Belgium, about 50 miles west of Brussels. Residencies of up to the three months are occasionally...
read more Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The eighth annual DISQUIET International Literary Program, sponsored by Dzanc Books and Fundação Luso-Americana, was held from July 1 to July 13 in Lisbon, Portugal. The conference featured workshops in poetry, fiction, and...
read more Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The Djerassi Resident Artists Program offers monthlong 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...
read more Application Deadline: March 15, 2018
Doe Branch Ink offers residencies from July through September and November through May to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers on 50-acres in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Marshall, North Carolina. Residents are provided with...
read more Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Doe Branch Ink offers workshops for fiction writers and creative nonfiction writers on 50 acres in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Marshall, North Carolina. The May 27 to June 2 workshop in fiction and creative nonfiction will be led by Philip Gerard...
read moreThe Dorland Mountain Arts Colony offers residencies of up to 12 weeks year-round to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers in the secluded hills overlooking the Temecula Valley in southern California. Residents...
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The 14th annual Eckerd College Writers’ Conference: Writers in Paradise was held from January 13, 2018, to January 20, 2018, at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Florida. The conference featured lectures, panels, roundtable...
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Two- and three-week residencies during the month of March are offered to three women poets, fiction writers, or creative nonfiction writers at the Mount, Edith Wharton’s former home in Lenox, Massachusetts. The residents will be...
read more Application Deadline: August 31, 2018
The Edward F. Albee Foundation offers four- and six-week residencies from June to mid-October to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers at the William Flanagan Memorial Creative Persons Center in Montauk, New...
read more Application Deadline: March 1, 2018