The 2019 Desert Nights, Rising Stars Writers Conference was held from February 22 to February 23 on the Arizona State University campus in Tempe. The conference featured workshops in poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and...
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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 third annual DISQUIET Azores Residency, sponsored by Dzanc Books and Fundação Luso-Americana, was held from July 7 to July 16 at the Hotel do Colégio in Ponta Delgada on Portugal’s São Miguel Island. The residency featured time to write,...
read moreThe 2019 DISQUIET International Literary Program, sponsored by Dzanc Books and Centro Nacional de Cultura, was held from June 23 to July 5 in Lisbon, Portugal. The conference featured workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, as well...
read more Financial Aid Deadline: January 10, 2019
The Djerassi Resident Artists Program offers 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...
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 are provided with...
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Two-week residencies during the month of March are offered to two women poets, fiction writers, or creative nonfiction writers at the Mount, Edith Wharton’s former home in Lenox, Massachusetts. The residents will be provided...
read morePoets House offers 10 fellowships from March 2019 to June 2019 to emerging poets living in New York City. Each fellow receives a $500 honorarium, a $100 travel stipend, and access to weekly workshops, mentoring sessions, and...
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Event Horizon offers residencies of up 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...
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The Fiction Meets Science Program in Northwest Germany offers up to three three- to nine-month residencies each year to fiction writers who are working on a novel, short story collection, memoir, or narrative nonfiction work in which science is...
read moreThe Fine Arts Work Center’s annual summer workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction will be held from June 9 to August 23 in Provincetown, Massachusetts. The faculty and presenters include poets David Baker, Samiya Bashir, Jill...
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Financial Aid Deadline: April 12, 2019
The 2018 Florida Heritage Book Festival was held on September 22nd on the campus of Flagler College in Saint Augustine, Florida. The festival, which celebrated Florida’s culture and heritage by honoring authors who lived in or wrote about the...
read moreThe fifth annual Frost Farm Poetry Conference was held from June 14 to June 16 at the Robert Frost Farm in Derry, New Hampshire. The conference featured workshops, readings, and one-on-one consultations for formalist poets. The...
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The fifth annual Frost Place Conference on Poetry was held from July 6 to July 12 at Robert Frost’s former homestead in Franconia, New Hampshire. The conference featured poetry workshops, lectures, and time to write. The faculty included Oliver...
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The Frost Place Poetry Seminar was held from August 4 to August 9 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 2018 Furious Flower Collegiate Summit: Poetry Without Boundaries was held from March 22 to March 24 at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia. The conference, open to undergraduate and graduate students from any college or...
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The Get Lit! Festival was held from April 22 to April 28 at various venues in Spokane, Washington. The festival featured readings, panel discussions, craft classes, poetry slams, happy hours, and a book fair for poets, fiction writers, and...
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Good Contrivance Farm offers residencies of up to four weeks year-round to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers on a Victorian farm in Reisterstown, Maryland, located 25 miles north of Baltimore. Residents are provided with...
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The Good Hart Residency Program offers two- to three-week residencies to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers in Good Hart, Michigan, a rural town on the scenic route known as the "Tunnel of Trees," within walking distance to...
read moreThe Gotham Writers Conference was held from October 25 to October 26 at the Ace Hotel in New York City. Sponsored by the Gotham Writers Workshop, the event was open to fiction and nonfiction writers. The first day of the conference featured ...
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The 22nd annual Green Mountain Writers Conference was held from July 29 to August 2 at the lakeside Mountain Top Inn in Chittenden, Vermont, located in the Green Mountain National Forest. The program featured workshops in poetry, fiction, and...
read moreThe 18th annual Muse and the Marketplace Conference was held from April 5 to April 7 at the Park Plaza Hotel in Boston. Designed for fiction writers and creative nonfiction writers, the conference featured more than 130 craft classes, discussions...
read moreHambidge offers residencies of two weeks to two months year-round 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...
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Headlands Center for the Arts offers four- to ten-week residencies from March to mid-November to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers in the coastal wilderness of the Marin Headlands outside San Francisco....
read moreThe Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum and Educational Center offers a monthlong residency in June to a poet, fiction writer, or nonfiction writer in Piggott, Arkansas. The resident will receive a $1,000 stipend, lodging in a private loft apartment, and...
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