Lighthouse Writers Workshop’s thirteenth annual Lit Fest will be held from June 1 to June 15 in Denver. The festival features two weeks of workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, as well as salons, seminars, and parties for writers...
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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 2019 Lit Camp will be held from May 12 to May 17 at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California. The conference features workshops, panels, and yoga for fiction writers and creative nonfiction writers. The faculty includes fiction writers...
read more Event Date: May 12, 2019
Application Deadline: January 31, 2019
The 12th annual LiTFUSE Poets’ Workshop was held from September 28 to September 30 at the Mighty Tieton arts center in Tieton, Washington. The workshop featured readings, performances, and meditation for poets. The faculty...
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Keep St. Pete Lit offered a two-week residency from April 8, 2018 to April 22, 2018, to a poet, fiction writer, or nonfiction writer at the Crafstman House in St. Petersburg, Florida. The resident was provided with a private room, work space, and...
read more Application Deadline: December 15, 2017
The 2018 Longleaf Writers Conference, formerly the Seaside Writers Conference, will be held from May 13 to May 20 in Seaside, Florida. The conference features workshops, craft seminars, lectures, sunset receptions, bonfire readings, and one-on-...
read more Application Deadline: April 15, 2018
The 2018 Lorca’s Granada Retreat was held from May 14 to May 28 in Granada, Spain. The retreat offered time to write, one-on-one consultations, and local excursions for published poets, fiction writers, and nonfiction writers writing in any...
read moreThe 2017 Louisiana Book Festival was held on October 28 at the State Library of Louisiana, the State Museum, and the Louisiana State Capitol in Baton Rouge. The festival featured lectures, panel discussions, book signings, and readings by authors...
read moreThe MacDowell Colony offers residencies of up to two months year-round to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers on a 450-acre estate in Peterborough, New Hampshire. Writers are provided with lodging, meals, and studio space....
read more Application Deadline: January 15, 2019
The 2018 Manhattanville College Summer Writers’ Week was held from June 18 to June 22 at Manhattanville College in Purchase, New York, 30 miles north of New York City. The conference featured workshops in poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and...
read moreThe inaugural Marfa Poetry Festival was held from August 9 to August 13 in Marfa, Texas. The festival, organized by Canarium Books and hosted by the Marfa Book Company and Hotel Saint George, featured readings, a book fair, poetry-related film...
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The 2019 Martha’s Vineyard Summer Writers’ Conference will be held from June 9 to June 15 and from June 16 to June 22 on the island of Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts. The conference features weeklong seminars with daily workshops in poetry and...
read more Event Date: June 9, 2019
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Financial Aid Deadline: February 1, 2019
The Massachusetts Poetry Festival was held from May 4 to May 6 in downtown Salem. The festival featured workshops, panels, readings, music, visual arts presentations, and a book fair featuring small presses and literary magazines. Participating...
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The 2018 Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference was held from July 20 to July 22 at the Hilton Dallas/Fort Worth Lakes Executive Conference Center in Grapevine, Texas. The conference, whose theme this year was “Are You Not Entertained? Real...
read moreThe 29th annual Mendocino Coast Writers Conference was held from August 2 to August 4 at Mendocino Middle School in Mendocino, California. The conference featured workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, as well as...
read more Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The 2017 Mesa Book Festival was held on December 9 in downtown Mesa, Arizona. The conferences features presentations, readings, visits with authors, and a poetry open mic. Participating authors includes fiction writers Marcia Fine, Marsha Ward,...
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The 35th annual Miami Book Fair was held from November 11 to November 18 at the Wolfson Campus of Miami Dade College in downtown Miami. The festival featured readings in English, Spanish, French, and Haitian Creole by more than...
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The Mill House Residency, hosted by Writing By Writers, offers residencies from November 2 to November 16 to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers in Bend, Oregon. Up to six are provided with private lodging in a one- or two-...
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The Millay Colony offers two- and four-week residencies from April through November to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers at Steepletop, the former estate of Edna St. Vincent Millay in Austerlitz, New York....
read more Application Deadline: March 1, 2019
The Mineral School offers two-week residencies from June 17 to July 1, from July 15 to July 29, and from August 19 to September 2 to eight poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers in Mineral, Washington, near Mount Rainier....
read more Application Deadline: February 15, 2018
Financial Aid Deadline: February 15, 2018
The 2019 Minnesota Northwoods Writers Conference will be held from June 17 to June 23 on the Bemidji State University campus beside Lake Bemidji, 220 miles north of Minneapolis. The conference features workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative...
read more Event Date: June 17, 2019
Application Deadline: May 1, 2019
Financial Aid Deadline: January 25, 2019
The Mokulē‘ia Writers Retreat was held from May 6 to May 11 in Waialua, Hawaii, at Camp Mokulē‘ia on the North Shore of O‘ahu. The retreat featured workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, as well as readings, one-on-one...
read moreThe 38th annual Napa Valley Writers’ Conference was held from July 29 to August 3 at Napa Valley College, situated among the hills and vineyards of St. Helena, California. The conference featured workshops in poetry and fiction, craft lectures,...
read moreThe 2018 National Black Writers Conference was held from March 22 to March 25 at the Center for Black Literature at Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn, New York. The conference featured panels, roundtable discussions, readings, film screenings, and...
read more Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The New Orleans Writers' Residency offers residencies from July 10 to August 7 to six poets, fiction, and nonfiction writers in the New Marigny neighborhood in New Orleans. Residents are provided with shared lodging in a restored nineteenth...
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