The Playa Flamingo Writing Residency, sponsored by Atmosphere Press, offers two five-day residencies from May to August to poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, and translators at the Punta Plata condominium in Playa Flamingo, a...
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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.
Event Date: May 1, 2026
Application Deadline: February 28, 2026
The 24th annual Poetry at Round Top Festival will be held from April 17 to April 19 at the Round Top Festival Institute campus in Round Top, Texas. The program features workshops, readings, craft talks, open mics, panel discussions, and...
read more Event Date: April 17, 2026
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Poetry by the Sea: A Global Conference will be held from May 19 to May 22 at Mercy by the Sea, a retreat center and private beach in Madison, Connecticut. The conference features workshops, seminars, readings, and panels. The faculty includes...
read more Event Date: May 19, 2026
Application Deadline: May 10, 2026
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, was held on November 8 at six partner venues in downtown Portland. The festival’s fourth annual Cover to Cover program was held from November 3 to November 9 in multiple locations...
read moreProspect 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
The Ragdale Foundation offered residencies of 18 days year-round to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers on 38 acres of prairie in Lake Forest, Illinois, 30 miles north of Chicago. Residents were provided with a private room...
read moreThe REC.ON Ecovillage Artist & Writing Residency offers two- to four-week residencies year-round to poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, and translators in the picturesque village of La Mata de Bolaimí near the Sierra María–...
read more Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The 2025 Red Clay Writers Conference, sponsored by the Georgia Writers Association (GWA), was held on April 26 at Kennesaw State University. The conference featured writing workshops and panels on literary journals and publishing for poets,...
read moreRed Mountain Press offered two- and four-week residencies from November 14 to December 12 to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers in a private home on Sanibel Island, Florida. Residents were provided with private lodging,...
read moreThe Renaissance House Residency Program offered residencies of one to two weeks in July to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers at the former writing barn of Dorothy West in Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts. The residencies...
read more Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The Rockland Residency offered three-week residencies from October 8, 2025, to October 29, 2025 and from January 8, 2026, to January 29, 2026, to poets, fiction writers, nonfiction writers, and translators in the Rockland Woods, located on the...
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The Rockvale Writers’ Colony offers three-day themed retreats, one- to three-night mini-residencies, and one- to four-week residencies between January and November to poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, and translators on 65...
read more Event Date: January 1, 2026
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
ROOSTERGNN Global News Network (RGNN) offers residencies of at least ten days to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers year-round in Madrid, Spain, and during the summer in Havana and Trinidad, Cuba. Residents in Spain will be...
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The Rutgers-New Brunswick Writers’ Conference was held from June 2 to June 3 at the Rutgers University Continuing Education Center in Somerset, New Jersey. The conference featured workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative...
read moreThe 2025 Ruth Stone House Poetry Retreat was held from August 24 to August 30 at poet Ruth Stone’s historic rural farmhouse in the Green Mountain National Forest in Goshen, Vermont. Programming included daily workshops, craft seminars, readings,...
read moreThe Salty Quill Writers’ Retreat for Women offers weeklong residencies four times a year to twelve poets, fiction writers, nonfiction writers, and translators who identify as women at McGee Island, a 110-acre private island located three miles...
read more Event Date: May 16, 2026
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Financial Aid Deadline: March 10, 2026
The 2026 Sarah Lawrence College Poetry Festival will be held from April 17 to April 19 on the Sarah Lawrence College campus in Bronxville, New York, 30 minutes by train from New York City. The festival features workshops, readings, panel...
read more Event Date: April 17, 2026
Sarasvati Creative Space offers residencies of one week to four months between April and November to poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, and translators at the 17-acre Camp Wonder Wander in the rural hills of Lewis County,...
read more Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The 34th annual Sewanee Writers’ Conference was held from July 16 to July 28 on the campus of the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee. The conference featured workshops, special topics classes, lectures, one-on-one meetings with faculty...
read moreThe Shannaghe Residency Program offers two- and four-week residencies from April through November to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers at the Shannaghe residence, a renovated house barn in Belfast, Maine. Residents are...
read more Event Date: April 1, 2026
The Sitka Center for Art and Ecology will offer two- to twelve-week residencies from October 2026 to April 2027 to poets, fiction writers, nonfiction writers, and translators at the center’s main campus and adjacent 80-acre property, all located...
read more Event Date: October 1, 2026
Application Deadline: March 10, 2026
Financial Aid Deadline: March 10, 2026
The Summer 2026 Sonoma County Writers Camp will be held from July 22 to July 26 at the Ratna Ling Retreat Center in Cazadero, California. The retreat features generative workshops and master classes in fiction and creative nonfiction, meditative...
read more Event Date: July 22, 2026
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Financial Aid Deadline: May 1, 2026
The 49th annual Southampton Writers Conference was held from July 10 to July 14 at the Stony Brook Southampton campus in Southampton, New York, located on the Atlantic coast 90 miles east of New York City. The conference featured workshops in...
read moreThe 2024 Southern Festival of Books: A Celebration of the Written Word, sponsored by Humanities Tennessee, was held on October 26 and October 27 at the Bicentennial Capitol Mall State Park, Tennessee State Library & Archives, and Tennessee...
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