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. Residents are...
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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.
ALERT: Due to the Coronavirus pandemic, some literary events are being canceled or postponed. Be sure to check with the event sponsor before making plans.
The 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...
read moreThe 2019 HippoCamp: A Conference for Creative Nonfiction Writers was held from August 23 to August 25 at the Lancaster County Convention Center in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. The conference featured craft talks, publishing and marketing sessions,...
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 2020 Iceland Writers Retreat for fiction writers and creative nonfiction writers will be held from April 29 to May 3 at the Veröld building at the University of Iceland in Reykjavík. The retreat features workshops, panels, lectures, and time...
read more Event Date: April 29, 2020
Application Deadline: March 28, 2020
Ike’s Canyon Ranch offers residencies from June 16 to June 29, July 7 to July 20, and September 1 to September 21 to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers on a 67-acre ranch in the foothills of Toquima Range, surrounded by...
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Ike’s Canyon Ranch offers weeklong workshops for fiction and creative nonfiction writers on a 67-acre ranch in the foothills of Toquima Range, surrounded by national forest in the high plains desert of central Nevada. “Silk Gowns and Cowboy Hats...
read moreThe 2019 Indiana University Writers’ Conference was held from June 1 to June 5 on the campus of Indiana University in Bloomington. The conference featured workshops, craft classes, panel discussions, and readings for poets,...
read moreThe 14th annual Interlochen Writer’s Retreat was held from June 10 to June 13 on the campus of Interlochen Center for the Arts in Interlochen, Michigan. The retreat featured workshops in fiction and creative nonfiction, as well...
read moreThe 2018 Iota Short Prose Conference was held from August 15 to August 19 at the Roosevelt Campobello International Park on Campobello Island, in New Brunswick, Canada, located just off the coast of Lubec, Maine. The conference...
read more Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The 33rd annual Iowa Summer Writing Festival will be held in June and July on the University of Iowa campus in Iowa City. The festival, open to writers of all levels over the age of 18, features more than 125 weeklong and weekend-long workshops...
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The 2019 Jackson Hole Writers Conference was held from June 27 to June 29 at the Jackson Hole Center for the Arts in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. The conference featured workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, as well...
read moreThe 17th annual James River Writers Conference was held from October 11 to October 13 at the Greater Richmond Convention Center in Richmond, Virginia. The conference featured pitch sessions with agents and editors and panel...
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The Jentel Foundation offers four-week residencies from mid-January to mid-December to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers on a cattle ranch in the Lower Piney Creek Valley, 20 miles east of Sheridan, Wyoming. Each residency...
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The Juniper Summer Writing Institute will be held from June 14 to June 20 on the University of Massachusetts campus in Amherst. The program features workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, as well as craft seminars, manuscript...
read more Event Date: June 14, 2020
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Financial Aid Deadline: January 15, 2020
The 2018 Kachemak Bay Writers' Conference was held from June 8 to June 12 at the Land's End Resort in Homer, Alaska. The conference featured workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, as well as manuscript reviews, panels,...
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The 2019 Kauai Writers Conference was held from November 4 to November 10 at the Marriott Resort on Kalapaki Beach in Kauai, Hawai’i. The conference featured master classes in fiction and creative nonfiction, as well as agent pitch sessions,...
read moreThe Kaz Creative Nonfiction Writers Conference was held from November 7 to November 10 at the Southampton Inn in Southampton, New York. The conference featured workshops, author roundtables, publishing panels, and readings for nonfiction writers...
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The 2019 Kentucky Book Festival, presented by Kentucky Humanities, was held from November 10 to November 16 at various venues in Lexington. The Kentucky Book Fair, the convention-style event that is the festival’s cornerstone, was held on...
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The 2019 Kentucky Women Writers Conference was held from September 19 to September 22 at the Carnegie Center in Lexington, Kentucky. The conference featured workshops and craft talks in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. The faculty...
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Kenyon Review offers weeklong workshops in poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and translation in June and July at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio. The faculty includes poets David Baker, Rodger Kamenetz, Carl...
read more Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts offers two- to eight-week residencies year-round to writers of all genres, including poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers in Nebraska City, Nebraska. Residents are provided with...
read more Application Deadline: March 2, 2020
The Kundiman Asian American Workshop Retreat will be held from June 24 to June 28 at Fordham University's Rose Hill campus in the Bronx in New York City. The retreat features poetry and fiction workshops, one-on-one mentoring, manuscript...
read more Event Date: June 24, 2020
Financial Aid Deadline: January 15, 2020
La Muse Writers’ and Artists’ Retreat offers one-week and three-week residencies year-round to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers in a 12th century manor house in the mountains of Languedoc, in southern France. Residents are...
read moreLanesboro Arts offers two- or four-week residencies from January to May and August to December to emerging poets, fiction writers, and nonfiction writers whose work is “place-based and community-engaged” in Lanesboro, Minnesota. Writers who are...
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