Willapa Bay AiR offers monthlong residencies from April through October to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers on 16 wooded acres near Oysterville, Washington. Residents are provided with a private cottage with living and work...
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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.
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The 28th annual Winter Poetry & Prose Getaway was held from January 14 to January 17 at Seaview Hotel near Atlantic City. The program, sponsored by Murphy Writing of Stockton University, offered workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative...
read moreThe 2021 Wordplay festival was held online from May 2 to May 8. The festival featured three sessions each day: a morning session of programming for children and young adults, an afternoon session on international literature and writing in...
read moreThe 2020 Words and Wanderlust Writing Retreat was held from June 7 to June 13 at the boutique Communal Hotel in Tbilisi, Georgia. The retreat featured guided writing workshops for fiction and nonfiction writers, craft talks, readings, a food and...
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The 36th annual Write on the Sound Writers Conference will be held online from October 1 to October 3. The conference features workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, as well as manuscript consultations, a writing contest, and...
read moreThe 2022 WriterCon will be held from September 2 to September 5 at the Renaissance Waterford Hotel in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The conference features over 70 presentations from authors, editors, agents, and publishers, opportunities for pitching...
read more Event Date: September 2, 2022
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
A residency of two weeks or one month in November is offered to a poet, a fiction writer, or a nonfiction writer at a private apartment in Brooklyn, New York. The resident is provided with some meals. Writers over the age of 24 who are not...
read moreThe Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow offers residencies of one week to three months year-round to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers at a former bed-and-breakfast in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, in the heart of the Ozarks....
read more Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The 47th annual Wyoming Writers Conference was held from June 3 to June 5 at Sheridan College in Sheridan, Wyoming. The conference featured workshops in craft, marketing, and productivity for poets, fiction writers, and nonfiction writers, as...
read moreYaddo offers residencies of two to eight weeks year-round to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers on a 400-acre estate in Saratoga Springs, New York. Residents are provided with a private bedroom, work space, and meals. Writers...
read more Application Deadline: August 1, 2022