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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 to June 2017, 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 moreThe 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...
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The Fine Arts Work Center’s annual summer workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction will be held from June 12 to August 25 in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Themed weeks include the Annual Poetry Festival and A Celebration of Memoir:...
read more Event Date: June 12, 2017
Financial Aid Deadline: April 14, 2017
The 2017 Fresh Water, Fresh Voices Writing Conference was held from July 20 to July 23 on the campus of Northern Michigan University in Marquette, Michigan, near the shores of Lake Superior. The conference featured workshops in poetry, fiction,...
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The third annual Frost Farm Poetry Conference will be held from June 16 to June 18 at the Robert Frost Farm in Derry, New Hampshire. The conferences features workshops, readings, and one-on-one consultations for formalist poets. The 2017 faculty...
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The third annual Frost Place Conference on Poetry will be held from July 9 to July 15 at Robert Frost’s former homestead in Franconia, New Hampshire. The conference features poetry workshops, lectures, and time to write. The faculty includes...
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The Frost Place Poetry Seminar will be held from July 30 to August 4 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 moreThe 2014 Furious Flower Conference: Seeding the Future of African American Poetry was held from September 24 to September 27 at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia. The conference featured readings, lectures, and roundtable...
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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...
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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, 25 miles north of Baltimore. Residents are provided with private...
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The 20th annual Green Mountain Writers Conference was held from June 24 to July 28 at the lakeside Mountain Top Inn in Chittenden, Vermont, located in the Green Mountain National Forest. The program featured workshops in poetry...
read moreThe 16th annual Muse and the Marketplace Conference was held from May 5 to May 7 at the Park Plaza Hotel in Boston. The conference, designed for fiction and creative nonfiction writers, featured craft classes, interactive discussions, and...
read moreHambidge 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, 2017
Headlands Center for the Arts offers four- to eight-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 moreHedgebrook 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 Hedgebrook VORTEXT weekend salon was held from May 29 to May 31 at the Whidbey Institute on Whidbey Island, about 35 miles northwest of Seattle. The retreat offered workshops, panel discussions, lectures, open mics, and time to write in...
read moreThe Crosshatch Center for Art and Ecology offers year-round residencies of two to four weeks to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers at the Hill House, located near the Mackinaw State Forest in East Jordan,...
read moreThe 2017 HippoCamp Creative Nonfiction Conference will be held from September 8 to September 10 at the Lancaster County Convention Center in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. The conference features craft and query workshops, panel discussions, lectures,...
read more Event Date: September 8, 2017
The seventh annual Historical Novel Society North American Conference will be held from June 22 to June 24, 2017, in downtown Portland, Oregon. The conference features presentations, panels, preconference workshops, pitch sessions with agents and...
read moreThe 2015 Houston Writers Guild Agents & Editors Conference was held from April 24 to April 26 at the Houston Marriott Westchase in Houston, Texas. The conference offered talks, panels, agent pitches, and manuscript consultations for fiction...
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 2017 Iceland Writers Retreat for fiction writers and creative nonfiction writers was held from April 5 to April 9 in the Icelandair Hotel Reykjavík Natura in Reykjavík, Iceland. The retreat offered workshops, panels,...
read moreThe Idyllwild Arts Summer Writers Week was held from July 3 to July 7 on the Idyllwild Arts campus in the Strawberry Valley of the San Jacinto Mountains in southern California. The program featured workshops, craft talks, readings, and one-on-one...
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