The Mesa Verde Writers Conference, sponsored by Mancos Creative District, was held on July 10 and July 11 at the Mancos Commons Building in downtown Mancos, Colorado. The conference features workshops for poets, fiction writers, and creative...
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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.
Millay Arts offers two- and four-week residencies from April through November, as well as weeklong group residencies in December, to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers at Steepletop, the historic estate of Edna St. Vincent...
read more Application Deadline: October 8, 2025
The 2023 Minnesota Northwoods Writers Conference was held from June 20 to June 25 in Minnesota’s Northwoods at Bemidji State University. The conference featured workshops, craft talks, panels, an evening reading series, and manuscript...
read moreThe 2023 Napa Valley Writers’ Conference was held from July 30 to August 4 on the main campus of Napa Valley College in Napa, California. The conference featured workshops in poetry, fiction, and translation, as well as craft talks and evening...
read moreThe 17th National Black Writers Conference (NBWC) was held from March 20 to March 23 at Medgar Evers College, City University of New York. This year’s conference was themed “All That We Carry: Where Do We Go From Here?” and drew its name from the...
read more Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The 2023 National Black Writers Conference Biennial Symposium was held from March 31 to April 1 in the Edison O. Jackson Auditorium at Medgar Evers College, as well as online. The symposium will featured scholarly presentations, roundtable...
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The 39th annual New York State Summer Writers Institute was held from June 22 to July 19 at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs. The program featured two- and four-week workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. The faculty included...
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The 2025 North Carolina Writers’ Network (NCWN) Fall Conference will be held from November 7 to November 9 at the Holiday Inn Resort on Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina. The conference features classes in poetry, fiction, and...
read more Event Date: November 7, 2025
Application Deadline: October 31, 2025
Financial Aid Deadline: October 17, 2025
The 2025 North Carolina Writers’ Network (NCWN) Squire Summer Writing Workshops was held from July 24 to July 27 at Davidson College in Davidson, North Carolina. The conference featured workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, as...
read moreThe 2020 North Carolina Writers’ Network Writingest State Conference was held online from November 10 to November 14. The conference featured classes in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, as well as conversations and panel discussions on...
read moreThe 2025 Off Topic Writers’ Conference was held online on August 9 and August 10. The conference featured craft talks, panels, and workshops for poets, fiction writers, and nonfiction writers. The faculty included poet, fiction writer, and...
read moreThe 2023 Orcas Island Lit Fest was held from June 2 to June 3 at the Orcas Center in Eastsound, Washington. The festival featured panel discussions, book signings, author interviews, readings, and live music for poetry, fiction, and creative...
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The 2025 Orion Environmental Writers’ Workshop was held from June 15 to June 20 at the Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, New York. The program featured workshops, faculty readings, panels on publishing, and conversations with faculty members and ...
read moreThe Orion in the Wilderness retreat, cosponsored by the Omega Institute, was held from March 8 to March 14 at the American Museum of Natural History’s Southwestern Research Station in Cave Creek Canyon in Portal, Arizona, surrounded by the...
read moreThe Ou Gallery’s Ou-telier program offers two- and four-week residencies starting on the 1st and 17th of every month year-round to poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, and translators in a historic boatbuilding workshop in the...
read more Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The Ox-Bow School of Art offered two-, three-, and five-week residencies from September 7 to October 11 to poets, fiction writers, and nonfiction writers on the Ox-Bow campus in Saugatuck, Michigan, located near the shores of Lake Michigan and...
read moreThe O‘ahu Writers Mini-Retreat will be held on November 29 and November 30 at a historic vacation property in the town of Waialua, on the North Shore of O‘ahu, Hawai‘i. The retreat features generative writing workshops,...
read more Event Date: November 29, 2025
Application Deadline: November 15, 2025
The Pacific Residency Writers Conference, sponsored by Pacific University’s creative writing MFA program, will be held from January 8, 2026, to January 18, 2026, at the Best Western Ocean View Resort in the beachside town of Seaside, Oregon. The...
read more Event Date: January 8, 2026
Application Deadline: November 15, 2025
The Paris Writer’s Residency will offer a monthlong residency in October to poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, and translators at the American University of Paris. The resident is provided with an en suite single or double room...
read more Event Date: October 1, 2025
The Playa Flamingo Writing Residency, sponsored by Atmosphere Press, offered two five-day residencies from May to August to poets, fiction writers, nonfiction writers, and translators at the Punta Plata condominium in Playa Flamingo, a white sand...
read moreThe 23rd annual Poetry at Round Top Festival was held from April 25 to April 27 at the Round Top Festival Institute campus in Round Top, Texas. The program featured workshops, readings, craft talks, open mics, panel discussions, and manuscript...
read morePoetry by the Sea: A Global Conference was held from May 27 to May 30 at Mercy by the Sea, a retreat center and private beach in Madison, Connecticut. The conference featured workshops, seminars, readings, and panels. The faculty includes poets...
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The 2025 Poets on the Coast: A Weekend Retreat for Women was held from September 5 to September 7 at the La Conner Inn in La Conner, Washington. The retreat featured poetry workshops and one-on-one mentoring with faculty. The faculty included...
read moreThe 2025 Portland Book Festival, hosted by Literary Arts, will be held on November 8 at six partner venues in downtown Portland. The festival’s fourth annual Cover to Cover program will be held from November 3 to November 9 in multiple locations...
read more Event Date: November 8, 2025
Prospect Street Writers House offers one- and two-week residencies in January and from May through November to poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, and translators at the Prospect Street residency in the village of North...
read more Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions