The eleventh annual Inkubator Writing Conference, sponsored by Literary Cleveland, was held from September 11 to September 13 at the Cleveland Public Library in downtown Cleveland. The conference featured workshops, craft talks, panel discussions...
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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 tenth annual Iota Short Forms Conference was held from October 16 to October 19 at the Cobscook Institute in Trescott, Maine, and its surrounding fifty acres of forest and former farmland. The conference featured writing classes, readings,...
read moreThe 2025 Jackson Hole Writers Conference was held from October 23 to October 25 at the Jackson Hole Center for the Arts in Jackson, Wyoming. The conference featured craft and publishing classes, lectures, panels, readings, and manuscript...
read more Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The 23rd annual James River Writers Conference was held online and in person from October 3 to October 5 at the Greater Richmond Convention Center in Richmond. The conference started with online master classes on October 3; the following two days...
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The Jan Michalski Foundation offers residencies of two weeks to three months year-round to poets, fiction writers, nonfiction writers, and translators at the foot of the Swiss Jura Mountains in Montricher, Vaud, Switzerland, one hour from Geneva...
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The Jentel Artist Residency offers three-week residencies from mid-January to early December to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers in the scenic foothills of the Bighorn Mountains, 20 miles southeast of Sheridan, Wyoming....
read more Event Date: May 15, 2026
The Juniper Summer Writing Institute will be held from June 21 to June 27 at 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 21, 2026
The Kaatsbaan Weekend Retreats offered three-day residencies from October 3 to October 5 and from November 21 to November 23 at Kaatsbaan Cultural Park, a 153-acre artist sanctuary in Tivoli, New York, to poets, fiction writers, creative...
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The 2026 Kachemak Bay Writers’ Conference will be held from May 16 to May 19 at the Kenai Peninsula College campus in Homer, Alaska, with views of the snowcapped mountain ranges across Kachemak Bay. The conference features craft classes as well...
read more Event Date: May 16, 2026
Application Deadline: April 30, 2026
Financial Aid Deadline: February 28, 2026
The 2025 Kauai Writers Conference was held from November 10 to November 16 at the Royal Sonesta Resort on Kalapaki Beach in Kauai, Hawai‘i. The event featured a three-day conference, master classes, one-on-one agent sessions,...
read moreThe 2022 Kentucky Book Festival, presented by Kentucky Humanities, was held October 27 and October 29 in Lexington, Kentucky. The festival included a ticketed luncheon with fiction and nonfiction writer Geraldine Brooks and biographer and...
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The Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts offers two- to eight-week residencies year-round to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers in historic Nebraska City, Nebraska. Residents are provided with lodging in a mid-century...
read more Event Date: July 6, 2026
Application Deadline: March 1, 2026
The La Baldi Residency, sponsored by Cultivate, offers two-week and one-month residencies from April through October to poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, and translators, in Montegiovi, Italy. Residents are provided with...
read more Event Date: April 1, 2026
Application Deadline: May 1, 2026
The 2026 Las Vegas Writers Conference, sponsored by the literary nonprofit Henderson Writers Group (HWG), will be held from April 23 to April 25 at Sam’s Town Hotel & Gambling Hall in Las Vegas. Programming includes...
read more Event Date: April 23, 2026
Application Deadline: March 20, 2026
The List og Land Northern Lights Residency offered three-week residencies from October 1 to October 24 and from November 1 to November 24 at Laugaból Farm on Arnarfjörður, a fjord in Iceland, to poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers...
read moreThe spring 2023 Lit Camp was held from June 4 to June 9 at the Bell Valley Retreat Center in Mendocino County, California. The conference included craft talks and writing time for fiction and creative nonfiction writers. The faculty included...
read moreThe Lighthouse Writers Workshop’s 2025 Lit Fest was held from June 6 to June 13 online and at the Lighthouse Writers Workshop headquarters in Denver. The festival featured weekend and weeklong workshops, craft seminars, salons, business panels,...
read moreThe 2020 Literary Writers Conference was held online from December 2 to December 4. The conference, which was hosted by the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses, featured agent pitch sessions, pitch clinics, a query letter clinic, and...
read moreThe 14th annual LiTFUSE Poets’ Workshop was held from September 24 to September 26 at the Mighty Tieton Warehouse and nearby venues in Tieton, Washington. The workshop featured readings, performances, and master classes for poets. The faculty...
read moreThe 17th annual LiTFUSE UNiTE Poetry Workshop was held from September 22 to September 24 at the Mighty Tieton Warehouse and nearby venues in Tieton, Washington. The workshop featured readings, performances, craft talks, and master classes for...
read moreLoghaven offers residencies of two to six weeks year-round to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers in five rehabilitated historic log cabins and newly built facilities on ninety acres of woodland in Knoxville, Tennessee. The...
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The 2026 Longleaf Writers Conference will be held from May 9 to May 16 at the Seaside Academic Village in Santa Rosa Beach, Florida. The conference features workshops, craft seminars, sunset receptions, bonfire readings, and one-on-one...
read more Event Date: May 9, 2026
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
MacDowell offers residencies of up to eight weeks year-round to poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, and translators on 450 wooded acres near Mt. Monadnock in Peterborough, New Hampshire. Residents are provided with a private...
read more Event Date: September 1, 2026
The 2026 Macondo Writers Workshop will be held from July 20 to July 26 at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. The program features multigenre writing workshops, seminars, and free public readings for poets, fiction writers, and creative...
read more Event Date: July 20, 2026
The Margery Davis Boyden Wilderness Writing Residency offers a six- to seven-month residency from April through October to a poet or prose writer, or pair of writers, at Dutch Henry Homestead in the Rogue River Canyon of southwest Oregon....
read more Event Date: April 1, 2027
Application Deadline: March 15, 2026