The Edith Wharton & Straw Dog Writers Guild Writing Residency 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 Lenox,...
read moreConferences & Residencies Contact Form
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.
The Edward F. Albee Foundation offers monthlong residencies year-round, except during the month of December, to poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, and translators at the William Flanagan Memorial Creative Persons Center on the...
read more Application Deadline: March 16, 2026
The 2025 Elk River Writers Workshop was held from August 10 to August 15 at Chico Hot Springs, a historic retreat in Pray, Montana, near Yellowstone National Park. The program featured workshops, craft talks, outings, lectures, panel discussions...
read moreThe Essere Writer & Artist Residency, which was held from May 10, 2025, to May 24, 2025, and again from September 13, 2025, to September 27, 2025, offers two-week residencies at the medieval Camporsevoli estate in the Cetona province of...
read more
Event Horizon offers residencies of two weeks to three months year-round to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers in modern studios built from converted shipping containers on eight...
read more Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The Fiction Meets Science Residency offers up to two residencies of three to ten months annually to fiction and nonfiction writers at the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg Institute for Advanced Study in Delmenhorst, Germany. Residents...
read more Application Deadline: May 15, 2026
The Fine Arts Work Center’s annual weeklong summer workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction will be held at the center from June 21 to August 21 in Provincetown, Massachusetts. The faculty includes poets George Abraham, Cameron...
read more Event Date: June 21, 2026
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Franconia Sculpture Park offered eight residencies of two weeks in January and October to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers at an outdoor sculpture park located in the St. Croix River Valley, in Shafer, Minnesota. Residents...
read moreThe tenth annual Frost Farm Poetry Conference was held from August 15 to August 17 at the Robert Frost Farm in Derry, New Hampshire. The conference featured workshops, readings, and one-on-one consultations for poets. The faculty included poets...
read moreThe Gell Writing Residency, sponsored by Writers & Books, offers one- to three-week residencies year-round to poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, and translators at Gell: A Finger Lakes Creative Retreat in Naples, New York,...
read more Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The 28th annual Get Lit! Festival will be held online and in person from April 17 to April 19 at various venues in and around Spokane, Washington. The festival features readings, craft classes, panel discussions, and a bookfair for poets, fiction...
read more Event Date: April 17, 2026
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The Good Hart Artist Residency offers 10- to 21-day residencies year-round to artists and writers, including poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers, in the woods bordering the “Tunnel of Trees” Scenic Heritage Route in Good Hart...
read more
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 Guanajuato Writing Retreat was held from September 22 to September 29 at the Florecer Casitas in Guanajuato, the hilly capital city of Guanajuato state, in Mexico’s high plateau region. The theme for the 2024 retreat was “Renewing Ourselves...
read moreHambidge offers residencies of two weeks to two months from February through December to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers on 600 forested acres in the Blue Ridge Mountains of northern Georgia. Each resident is provided with...
read more Event Date: June 1, 2026
The 16th annual Hampton Roads Writers Conference was held from November 7 to November 9 at the Holiday Inn Virginia Beach Norfolk Hotel and Conference Center in Virginia Beach, Virginia. The conference featured agent pitch sessions, critique...
read more
Headlands Center for the Arts offers four- to ten-week residencies from mid-March to mid-November to poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, and graphic novelists at its retreat center in the coastal wilderness of the Marin Headlands...
read moreThe Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum and Educational Center at Arkansas State University offers a monthlong residency in June to poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, and translators in Piggott, Arkansas. Residents are provided with a...
read more Event Date: June 1, 2026
Application Deadline: February 28, 2026
The 2026 Himalayan Literature Festival and Writers Workshop, sponsored by White Lotus Book Shop, will be held from May 29 to June 5 at the Malla Hotel in Kathmandu, Nepal. The writers workshop, which takes place from May 29 to June 3, includes...
read more Event Date: May 29, 2026
Application Deadline: March 31, 2026
Financial Aid Deadline: March 31, 2026
The 2022 HippoCamp conference was held from August 12 to August 14 at the Downtown Lancaster Marriott in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. The conference featured craft talks, publishing and marketing sessions, panel discussions, a story slam, and...
read moreThe biennial Historical Novel Society (HNS) North America Conference was held from June 26 to June 28 at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, as well as online. The conference featured presentations, panels, pitch sessions with agents and editors, an...
read moreThe 2026 Iceland Writers Retreat will be held from April 15 to April 19 at the Fosshotel in Reykjavík. The retreat features workshops, panels, lectures, receptions, and time to write for poets, fiction writers, and nonfiction...
read more Event Date: April 15, 2026
Application Deadline: April 7, 2026
In Cahoots offers residencies of one, two, or three weeks year-round to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers in the countryside of Petaluma, California, in scenic Sonoma County. Residents are provided with individual cottages,...
read moreThe 2025 Indiana University Writers’ Conference was held from June 5 to June 8 at University of Indiana in Bloomington. The conference featured workshops, craft classes, panel discussions, and readings for poets, fiction writers, and creative...
read more