Conferences and Residencies Database

The Summer 2024 Sonoma County Writers Camp was held from July 24 to July 28 at the Ratna Ling Retreat Center in Cazadero, California. The retreat featured generative workshops in fiction and creative nonfiction, panels by authors and agents,...

The 2024 Southern Festival of Books: A Celebration of the Written Word, sponsored by Humanities Tennessee, will be held on October 26 and October 27 at the Bicentennial Capitol Mall State Park, Tennessee State Library & Archives, and...

Squam Writes offered 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 were provided lodging in cottages, cabins, and lodge...

Studio Faire offers two- or four-week residencies year-round to artists and writers, including poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, and translators, at an early 19th-century house in Nérac, France. The residency accommodates up to...

The 36th annual Summer Fishtrap Gathering of Writers was held from July 10 to July 16 at Wallowa Lake Lodge on the shores of Wallowa Lake, Oregon. The weeklong conference featured generative writing workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative...

Sunlit Residency offers weekly residencies of one to three weeks and monthly residencies of up to three months year-round to poets, fiction writers, nonfiction writers, and translators at the Sue-Je Lee Gage Residency for Human Rights and Social...

The eighth annual Taos Writers Conference was held from July 19 to July 21 at Society of the Muse of the Southwest, a literary organization in Taos, New Mexico. The conference featured workshops for poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction...

The 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,...

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-...

The 20th annual Tin House Summer Workshop was held from July 8 to July 16 at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. The program featured workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction (limited to 8 to 10 members per class), as well as one-on-...

The Todos Santos Writers Workshop Paris in Spring: A Memoir Intensive was 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 included daily workshops in narrative...

The Tremont Writers Conference will be held from October 23 to October 27 at the Great Smoky Mountains Institute at Tremont in a secluded campus in Townsend, Tennessee. The conference features workshops, author readings, and craft talks for poets...