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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.
Poets House offers 10 fellowships from March 2018 to June 2018 to poets living in New York City. The twelve-week fellowship program includes weekly workshops, mentoring sessions, and free access to guest speaker appearances and...
read more Application Deadline: December 1, 2017
The University of Bremen offers up to two three- to nine-month residencies each year to fiction writers who are working on a novel or a short story collection in which science is an “essential feature of the book’s themes, plot, structure, or...
read more Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The Fine Arts Work Center’s annual summer workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction will be held from June 10 to August 24 in Provincetown, Massachusetts. The faculty includes poets Sophie Cabot Black, Traci Brimhall, Gabrielle...
read more Financial Aid Deadline: April 13, 2018
The 2018 Florida Heritage Book Festival will be held on September 22nd on the campus of Flagler College in Saint Augustine, Florida. The festival, which celebrates Florida’s culture and heritage by honoring authors who live in or write about the...
read more Event Date: September 22, 2018
The fourth annual Frost Farm Poetry Conference was held from June 15 to June 17 at the Robert Frost Farm in Derry, New Hampshire. The conferences featured workshops, readings, and one-on-one consultations for formalist poets....
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The fourth annual Frost Place Conference on Poetry will be held from July 8 to July 14 at Robert Frost’s former homestead in Franconia, New Hampshire. The conference features poetry workshops, lectures, and time to write. The faculty includes...
read more Event Date: July 8, 2018
Application Deadline: May 31, 2018
The Frost Place Poetry Seminar will be held from July 29 to August 3 at Robert Frost’s former homestead in Franconia, New Hampshire. The seminar features poetry workshops, craft talks, readings, and one-on-one meetings with faculty. The faculty...
read more Event Date: July 29, 2018
Application Deadline: June 28, 2018
The 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...
read more Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Gell: A Finger Lakes Creative Retreat offers residencies of up to ten days from April through November to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers at the Gell House, a furnished hillside house surrounded by the...
read more Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
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, 25 miles north of Baltimore. Residents are provided with private...
read more Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
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 more Event Date: September 21, 2018
Application Deadline: January 31, 2018
The 21st annual Green Mountain Writers Conference was held from June 16 to July 20 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 17th annual Muse and the Marketplace Conference was held from April 6 to April 8 at the Park Plaza Hotel in Boston. The conference, designed for fiction writers and creative nonfiction writers, featured craft classes, discussions, and...
read more Application Deadline: April 2, 2018
The University of Lethbridge Gushul Residency Program offers residencies from one week to four months year-round to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers at a cottage in the Rocky Mountains, located in the town of Blairmore,...
read more Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Hambidge offers residencies of two weeks to two months 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 private cottage...
read more Application Deadline: September 15, 2018
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 more Application Deadline: June 1, 2018
Hedgebrook offers the Master Class Retreat Series of weeklong sessions, limited to six to eight women writers each, on Whidbey Island, about 35 miles northwest of Seattle. The program features workshops for poets, fiction writers, and creative...
read moreThe 2018 HippoCamp Creative Nonfiction Conference will be held from August 24 to August 26 at the Lancaster County Convention Center in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. The conference features craft, publishing, and marketing sessions, panel discussions...
read more Event Date: August 24, 2018
The seventh biennial Historical Novel Society North American Conference was held from June 22 to June 24, 2017, in downtown Portland, Oregon. The conference featured presentations, panels, preconference workshops, pitch sessions with agents and...
read moreThe Hub City Writers Project offers three ten- or fifteen-week residencies each year at the Writers House in Spartanburg, South Carolina, for emerging poets and prose writers who are pursuing a graduate degree in creative...
read moreI-Park offered residencies of four weeks to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers from May to mid-November on 450 acres of woodlands and wetlands in East Haddam, Connecticut. Residents were provided a private room, work space,...
read moreThe 2018 Iceland Writers Retreat for fiction writers and creative nonfiction writers was held from April 11 to April 15 at the Icelandair Hotel Reykjavík Natura in Reykjavík, Iceland. The retreat offered workshops, panels,...
read moreThe Idyllwild Arts Summer Writers Week will be held from July 2 to July 6 on the Idyllwild Arts campus in the Strawberry Valley of the San Jacinto Mountains in southern California. The program features workshops, craft talks, and readings in...
read more Event Date: July 2, 2018
Financial Aid Deadline: April 17, 2018
The 2018 Indiana University Writers’ Conference will be held from June 2 to June 6 on the campus of Indiana University in Bloomington. The conference features workshops in poetry and fiction, as well as craft classes, readings,...
read more Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions