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...
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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 38th annual Summer Fishtrap Gathering of Writers was held from July 7 to July 13 at Wallowa Lake Lodge on the shores of Wallowa Lake, Oregon. The weeklong conference featured generative writing workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative...
read moreThe Sundog Poetry Retreat at Fielder Farm was held from November 3 to November 5 at the 230-acre Fielder Farm in Huntington, Vermont. The retreat featured workshops, craft talks, and readings for poets. The faculty included poets Alison Prine and...
read moreSunlit 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...
read more Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Taleamor Park offers two- to four-week residencies from April to September to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers on a working grain farm and nature preserve with walking paths in northwestern Indiana between the towns of La...
read moreThe ninth annual Taos Writers Conference was held from July 25 to July 27 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...
read moreThe 2025 Texas Book Festival was held on November 8 and November 9 around the Texas State Capitol in downtown Austin. The festival featured panels, discussions, and book signings with more than 250 authors and hosts nearly 100 exhibiting vendors...
read moreThe 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,...
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The Frost Place Poetry Seminar was held online from August 3 to August 7, 2025. The seminar featured poetry workshops, craft talks, and faculty and student readings. The faculty included poets Patrick Donnelly, Kathy Fagan, and Deborah Paredez....
read moreThe 2025 Lab Creative Writing Retreat was held from June 14 to June 21 at the Son Sion villa in the village of Porreres, located on a Mediterranean island 30 minutes south of Mallorca, Spain. Programming included workshops, one-on-one meetings...
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The Studios of Key West offers monthlong residencies to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers at the Old Town campus in Key West, Florida. Residents are provided with private lodging and work space. There is no cost to attend...
read moreThe 2026 Writer’s Hotel Maine All-Genre “Mini MFA” Writers Conference will be held from June 10 to June 16 at the Sebasco Harbor Resort in Phippsburg, Maine. The conference features a full-manuscript pre-conference reading with two sets of...
read more Event Date: June 10, 2026
Application Deadline: February 9, 2026
Good Contrivance Farm, an educational nonprofit, offers residencies of up to four weeks year-round to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers on a Victorian farm in Reisterstown, Maryland, located 24 miles north of Baltimore....
read more Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The Tin House Summer Workshop will be held from July 12 to July 19 at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. The program features poetry, novel, short fiction, and creative nonfiction workshops (eight participants per class) as well as one-on-one...
read more Event Date: July 12, 2026
Application Deadline: February 1, 2026
Financial Aid Deadline: February 1, 2026
The annual Tinker Mountain Writers’ Workshop will be held from June 14 to June 19 at the Hollins University campus in Roanoke, Virginia. The conference features generative and critique workshops as well as craft talks, individual conferences with...
read more Event Date: June 14, 2026
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Financial Aid Deadline: March 2, 2026
The 2026 Todos Santos Writers Workshop Winter Session will be held from January 31, 2026, to February 7, 2026, at La Posada del Molino in Todos Santos, Baja California Sur, Mexico. The workshop offers daily classes and craft seminars in poetry,...
read more Event Date: January 31, 2026
The Tremont Writers Conference was held from October 22 to October 26 at the Great Smoky Mountains Institute at Tremont, located in the eponymous national park six miles southwest of Townsend, Tennessee. The conference featured workshops, author...
read moreThe 2026–2028 Tulsa Artist Fellowship, sponsored by the George Kaiser Family Foundation, offers three-year residencies to poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, and translators at Archer Studios in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Residents receive...
read moreThe Tulsa NightWriters Craft of Writing Conference was held on October 19 and October 20 at Oklahoma State University’s Center for Poets and Writers in Tulsa. The conference featured panel discussions, presentations on the craft and business of...
read more Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The Tusen Takk Foundation offers residencies of three to eight weeks from March to December to poets, fiction writers, and nonfiction writers at the modern Tusen Takk guesthouse on an isolated peninsula on Lake Michigan, approximately 25 miles...
read moreThe 12th annual Tutka Bay Writers Retreat, sponsored by 49 Writers, was held from September 23 to September 25 at Tutka Bay Lodge near Homer, Alaska. The retreat offered an intimate workshop, capped at 15 participants, open to poets, fiction...
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The Writers Studio, sponsored by the UCLA Extension Writers’ Program, was held from August 1 to August 4 on the UCLA campus in Los Angeles. The conference featured workshops in fiction and creative nonfiction as well as a literary agent search...
read more Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The 47th annual UCR Writers’ Week Festival, sponsored by the Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB), was held from February 10 to February 16 at the University of California campus in Riverside (UCR) and online. The festival’s programming...
read moreUcross offers two-, four-, and six-week residencies from February through early June and from August through early December to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers on a 20,000-acre ranch in Ucross, Wyoming, located 27 miles...
read more Event Date: August 1, 2026
Application Deadline: January 15, 2026
The 23rd annual Under the Volcano Master Classes and Guided Residency will be held from January 8, 2026, to January 24, 2026, in Tepoztlán, Mexico, a village located one hour south of Mexico City. The program features master classes in poetry,...
read more Event Date: January 8, 2026
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions