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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.

Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation
Tuscany, Italy

The Essere Writer & Artist Residency, which will be 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...

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Event Date: May 10, 2025
Application Deadline: November 20, 2024
Financial Aid Deadline: November 20, 2024
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Crete, Greece
Event Horizon Amphitheatre

Event Horizon offers residencies of two weeks to three months year-round to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers on eight acres of olive groves in Crete, Greece. Residents are provided with lodging on site or in nearby...

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Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Delmenhorst, Germany

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 are provided with...

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Application Deadline: May 15, 2025
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Provincetown, MA

The Fine Arts Work Center’s annual weeklong summer workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction will be held at the center from June 15 to August 16 in Provincetown, Massachusetts. The faculty includes poets Cameron Awkward-Rich, Samiya...

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Event Date: June 15, 2025
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Shafer, MN

Franconia Sculpture Park offers 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...

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Event Date: January 10, 2024
Poetry
Derry, NH

The seventh annual Frost Farm Poetry Conference was held from August 16 to August 18 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...

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Event Date: August 16, 2024
Application Deadline: August 1, 2024
Poetry
Online

The Frost Place Poetry Seminar was held online from August 4 to August 8. The seminar featured poetry workshops, craft talks, and faculty readings. The faculty included poets Patrick Donnelly, Janice N. Harrington, and Jane Huffman. The cost of...

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Event Date: August 4, 2024
Application Deadline: July 1, 2024
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Spokane, WA

The 27th annual Get Lit! Festival will be held online and in person from April 10 to April 13 at various venues in and around Spokane, Washington. The festival features readings, craft classes, panel discussions, and a bookfair at Montvale Event...

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Event Date: April 10, 2025
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Good Hart, MI

The Good Hart Artist Residency offers two- to three-week 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...

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Application Deadline: January 8, 2025
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Brandon, VT

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...

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Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Online

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...

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Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation
Guanajuato, Mexico

The 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...

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Event Date: September 22, 2024
Application Deadline: July 15, 2024
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Rabun Gap, GA

Hambidge 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...

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Event Date: February 1, 2025
Application Deadline: January 15, 2025
Financial Aid Deadline: January 15, 2025
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Virginia Beach, VA

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...

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Event Date: November 9, 2024
Financial Aid Deadline: October 25, 2024
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Sausalito, CA
A large white house nestled in trees and mountains.

Headlands Center for the Arts offers four- to ten-week residencies from mid-June to mid-November to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers in the coastal wilderness of the Marin Headlands outside San Francisco. Residents are...

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Event Date: June 15, 2024
Application Deadline: June 10, 2024
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation
Piggott, AR

The 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...

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Event Date: June 1, 2025
Application Deadline: February 28, 2025
Creative Nonfiction
Lancaster, PA

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...

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Fiction
San Antonio, TX

The biennial Historical Novel Society (HNS) North America Conference was held from June 8 to June 10 at the Marriott Rivercenter hotel in San Antonio, Texas, as well as online. The conference featured presentations, panels, pitch sessions with...

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Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Reykjavík, Iceland

The 2025 Iceland Writers Retreat will be held from April 23 to April 27 at the Fosshotel in Reykjavík. The retreat features workshops, panels, lectures, receptions, and time to write for fiction and nonfiction writers, as well as literary tours...

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Event Date: April 23, 2025
Application Deadline: April 16, 2025
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Petaluma, CA

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,...

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Application Deadline: October 1, 2024
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Bloomington, IN

The 2024 Indiana University Writers’ Conference was held from June 6 to June 9 in Bloomington, Indiana. The conference featured workshops, craft classes, panel discussions, and readings for poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers...

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Event Date: June 6, 2024
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Cleveland, OH

The tenth annual Inkubator Writing Conference, sponsored by Literary Cleveland, was held on September 20 and September 21 at the Cleveland Public Library in downtown Cleveland. The conference featured workshops, craft talks, panel discussions,...

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Event Date: September 20, 2024
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Trescott, ME

The ninth annual Iota Short Forms Conference was held from October 20 to October 23 at the Cobscook Institute in Trescott, Maine, and its surrounding fifty acres of forest and former farmland. The conference featured writing classes, readings,...

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Event Date: October 20, 2024
Application Deadline: September 30, 2024
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Jackson Hole, WY

The 2024 Jackson Hole Writers Conference was held from November 1 to November 3 at the Jackson Hole Center for the Arts in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. The conference featured craft classes, lectures, readings, and manuscript critiques for poets,...

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Event Date: November 1, 2024
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Richmond, VA

The 22nd annual James River Writers Conference was held online and in person from October 4 to October 6 at the Greater Richmond Convention Center in Richmond. The conference started with online master classes on October 4; the following two days...

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Event Date: October 4, 2024
Application Deadline: September 30, 2024

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