The 2023 Sarah Lawrence College Poetry Festival will be held from April 21 to April 23 on the campus of Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York, located 30 minutes by train from New York City. The festival features workshops, readings,...
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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.
Sarasvati Creative Space offers residencies of a week to four months year-round to poets, fiction writers, nonfiction writers, and translators at Camp Wonder Wander in the rural, rolling hills of Lewis County, Tennessee, near the Buffalo River,...
read more Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The 33rd annual Sewanee Writers’ Conference will be held from July 18 to July 30 on the campus of the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee. The conference features workshops, special topics classes, lectures, and readings for poets,...
read more Event Date: July 18, 2023
The Spring 2023 Sonoma County Writers Camp will be held from April 17 to April 21 at Bishops Ranch Retreat Center in Healdsburg, California. The retreat features generative workshops in fiction and memoir, panels by authors and agents, master...
read more Event Date: April 17, 2023
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The 48th annual Southampton Writers Conference will be held from July 12 to July 16 at the Stony Brook Southampton campus in Southampton, New York, located on the Atlantic coast 90 miles east of New York City. The conference features workshops in...
read more Event Date: July 12, 2023
Application Deadline: April 15, 2023
The 2022 Southern Festival of Books: A Celebration of the Written Word was held from October 14 to October 16 at the War Memorial Plaza and the Nashville Public Library in downtown Nashville, Tennessee. Sponsored by Humanities Tennessee, the...
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The Spring Creek Project offers two-week collaborative residencies in August and September to pairs of poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers at the Cabin at Shotpouch Creek in the Oregon Coast Range. The...
read moreSquam Writes will offer a retreat from June 8 to June 11 to fiction and creative nonfiction writers at Rockywold Deephaven Camps, a historic resort campsite in Holderness, New Hampshire. Residents are provided lodging in cottages, cabins, and...
read more Event Date: June 8, 2023
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Squam Writes will offer a retreat from June 8 to June 11 to fiction and creative nonfiction writers at Rockywold Deephaven Camps, a historic resort campsite in Holderness, New Hampshire. Residents are provided lodging in cottages, cabins, and...
read more Event Date: June 8, 2023
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Storyknife offers two- to four-week residencies from April to October to women poets, fiction writers, and nonfiction writers on ten acres of land outside of Homer, Alaska. Each resident is provided with a private cabin equipped with a kitchen,...
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Studio Faire offers two- or four-week residencies between April and October to artists and writers, including poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, and translators, at an early 19th-century house in Nérac, France. The residency...
read more Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The Studios of Key West offers monthlong residencies to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers at the Old Town campus in the Duval Street neighborhood in Key West, Florida. Residents are provided with private lodging and work...
read moreThe 35th annual Summer Fishtrap Gathering of Writers was held from July 11 to July 17 at the Wallowa Lake Lodge on the shores of Wallowa Lake, Oregon. The weeklong conference featured generative writing workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative...
read more Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Taleamor Park offers two-week to 12-month residencies year-round to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers on a working grain farm and nature preserve in northwestern Indiana, near Lake Michigan. Residents are provided with a...
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The 2022 Texas Book Festival was held from November 5 to November 6 in downtown Austin. The festival featured panels and discussions with more than 250 authors and hosted nearly 100 exhibitors. Participating writers included poet, fiction writer...
read moreThe Cabins retreat was held from June 18 to June 22 in cabins on Tobey Pond in the Great Mountain Forest near Norfolk, Connecticut. The retreat offered collaborative, interdisciplinary presentations and group exercises led by and for attendees,...
read moreThe 2023 Writer’s Hotel Maine “Mini MFA” All-Fiction Writers Conference will be held from May 24 to May 30 at the Spruce Point Inn in Boothbay Harbor, Maine. The conference features a full-manuscript pre-conference reading with two sets of...
read more Event Date: May 24, 2023
The 2022 Writer’s Hotel “Mini MFA” Conference in Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry was held virtually from June 8 to June 15. The conference featured two full manuscript readings with two sets of editorial comments offered per reading, one pre-...
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Good Contrivance Farm, an educational nonprofit, offers residencies of up to four weeks year-round to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers on a Victorian farm in Reisterstown, Maryland, located 25 miles north of Baltimore....
read more Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The 20th annual Tin House Summer Workshop will be held from July 8 to July 16 at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. The program features workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction (limited to 8 to 10 members per class), as well as one-...
read more Event Date: July 8, 2023
The annual Tinker Mountain Writers’ Workshop will be held from June 11 to June 15 on the campus of Hollins University in Roanoke, Virginia. The conference features manuscript workshops and generative classes in poetry, fiction, creative...
read more Event Date: June 11, 2023
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The Todos Santos Writers Workshop Paris in Spring: A Memoir Intensive will be held from May 6 to May 13 in an atelier in the seventh arrondissement of Paris, near the Eiffel Tower and Rodin Museum. The intensive includes daily workshops in...
read more Event Date: May 6, 2023
The 2023 Todos Santos Writers Workshop Winter Session was held from January 28, 2023, to February 4, 2023, in Todos Santos, Baja California Sur, Mexico. The workshop offered daily classes and craft seminars in poetry, fiction, and memoir; one-on-...
read moreThe Tusen Takk Foundation offers residencies of three to eight weeks from March to December to poets, fiction writers, and nonfiction writers at the modern Tusen Takk guesthouse on an isolated peninsula on Lake Michigan, approximately 25 miles...
read moreThe 12th annual Tutka Bay Writers Retreat, sponsored by 49 Writers, was held from September 23 to September 25 at Tutka Bay Lodge near Homer, Alaska. The retreat offered an intimate workshop, capped at 15 participants, open to poets, fiction...
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