The 17th annual Poetry at Round Top Festival will be held from April 20 to April 22 at the Round Top Festival Institute campus in Round Top, Texas. The program features workshops, readings, lectures, craft talks, and panel...
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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 ninth annual Poetry in the Park Workshop, sponsored by the Utah State Poetry Society, the Zion Park Forever Project, and the Zion Canyon Field Institute, was held on March 2 at Zion National Park near Springdale, Utah. The...
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Poets & Writers Live: Inspiration was held from January 14, 2017, to January 15, 2017, at the San Francisco Art Institute in San Francisco. The conference featured publishing panels, craft talks, readings, multimedia...
read moreThe seventh annual Poets on the Coast weekend writing retreat for women poets was held from September 8 to September 10 at the Country Inn in the historic river town of La Conner, Washington. The retreat included a poetry...
read moreThe 15th annual Power of Words Conference will be held from October 12 to October 14 on the Goddard College campus in Plainfield, Vermont. The conference features workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, as well as performances,...
read more Event Date: October 12, 2018
Prairie Center of the Arts offered residencies from July through September to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers in...
read moreThe 2018 Printers Row Lit Fest will be held from June 9 to June 10 in the Printers Row neighborhood of Chicago. The festival features readings, author conversations, book signings, a poetry slam, and a book fair. All events are...
read more Event Date: June 9, 2018
The fifth annual Publish and Promote Your Book Conference for fiction writers and creative nonfiction writers will be held on June 23 at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York. The conference features panels on book publishing and...
read more Event Date: June 23, 2018
The Ragdale Foundation offers residencies of 18 and 25 days year-round to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers on 50 acres of prairie in Lake Forest, Illinois, 30 miles north of Chicago. Residents are provided...
read moreThe 31st annual Rally of Writers Conference was held on April 14 on the West Campus of Lansing Community College in Lansing, Michigan. The conference featured workshops, craft and publishing talks, and readings in poetry,...
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Readercon 29 will be held from July 12 to July 15 at the Quincy Marriott in Quincy, Massachusetts. The conference, devoted to “imaginative literature,” features panel discussions, talks, author readings, author signings, and a book fair....
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The Red Gate Residency Program offers residencies of one month to six months to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers in loft spaces and apartments in Beijing. Residents are provided with housing and work space. The residency...
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The 2018 Redrock Creative Writing Seminar will be held on March 3 at the St. George Community Building in St. George, Utah, approximately 40 miles west of Zion National Park. The seminar features classes and readings in poetry, fiction, and...
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The Renaissance House Residency Program, sponsored by the Helene and Dorothy West Foundation for Artists in Need, offers residencies of one to four weeks during the month of February in Palm Springs, California, to poets, fiction writers, and...
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The Renaissance House Residency Program, sponsored by the Helene and Dorothy West Foundation for Artists in Need, offers residencies of one to two weeks from June to September to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction...
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The Rensing Center offers residencies of three weeks to three months to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers in the Southern Appalachian foothills of Pickens, South Carolina. Residents are provided with lodging and work space...
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The fifth annual Ridgefield Writers Conference was held from September 22 to September 23 at the Ridgefield Library in Ridgefield, Connecticut. The conference featured workshops in fiction and creative nonfiction, panel discussions, and...
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The Roads to Write Retreat will be held from June 2 to June 10 on scenic byways through Utah, Nevada, and Arizona. The retreat, meant to inspire “growth, community, art, and the written word,” features tours of the Grand Canyon, Lake Powell,...
read more Event Date: June 2, 2018
Rocky Mountain National Park offered two-week residencies from June through September to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers in the historic cabin of the late author and editor William Allen White, situated among the Rocky...
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ROOSTERGNN Global News Network (RGNN) offers residencies of one month to one year to English- and Spanish-language poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers in the barrio de Salamanca neighborhood of central Madrid. Writers will...
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The Rutgers-New Brunswick Writers' Conference will be held from June 2 to June 3 at the Rutgers University Continuing Education Center in Somerset, New Jersey. The conference features workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative...
read more Event Date: June 2, 2018
The 2017 Sag Harbor Creative Nonfiction Writers Conference was held from November 2 to November 5 in Sag Harbor, New York. The conference featured workshops in essay, biography, memoir, and narrative nonfiction, as well as talks by agents and...
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Les Amis de la Maison Baldwin offers a thirty-day residency between late March and early May to an emerging poet, fiction writer, or creative nonfiction writer at James Baldwin’s former home in Saint-Paul de Vence, France. The resident is...
read more Application Deadline: January 15, 2018
The 15th annual Saints and Sinners Literary Festival was held from May 23 to May 25 in various venues in New Orleans. The festival, which "brings the LGBT literary community together to celebrate the literary arts," featured readings, panels,...
read moreSalem Art Works offered a two-week residency from July 7 to July 20 for fiction writers in Salem, New York. Fiction and creative nonfiction writers working on novels or memoirs were eligible. The residency included workshops on outlining a novel...
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