Story Tree Farm offers six-day retreats from February through November to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers on a five-acre farm outside of Huntsville, Alabama, approximately ninety minutes south of Nashville. Each retreat...
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Conferences and Residencies Database
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 Studios of Key West offers monthlong residencies to emerging and established poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers on the Old Town campus at the historic Armory in Key West, Florida. Residents are provided with private...
read more Application Deadline: May 15, 2018
The 31st annual Summer Fishtrap Gathering of Writers was held from July 9 to July 15 at the Wallowa Lake Camp and Retreat Center in Wallowa Lake, Oregon. The program featured workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction...
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Taleamor Park offers two-week residencies from May through October and residencies of at least two weeks from November to April to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers on a scenic 375-acre working grain farm in northern Indiana...
read more Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The 2018 Texas Book Festival was held from October 27 to October 28 on the State Capitol grounds in Austin, Texas. The festival featured approximately three hundred nationally and critically recognized authors, panels, book signings, discussions...
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The Cabins Collaborative Retreat will be held from September 13 to September 17 in the scenic town of Norfolk in Northwest Connecticut. The retreat features social activities and time to write for poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction...
read more Application Deadline: July 1, 2018
The 2019 Writer’s Hotel NYC Writers Conference will be held from June 5 to June 11 in New York City at the Bryant Park Hotel, the Roger Smith Hotel, the Library Hotel, the Casablanca Hotel, and the Algonquin Hotel. The conference features...
read more Event Date: June 5, 2019
Application Deadline: March 22, 2019
The 17th annual Tin House Summer Writer’s Workshop will be held from July 7 to July 14 at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. The program features workshops in poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and graphic narrative, as well as seminars,...
read more Event Date: July 7, 2019
Application Deadline: April 7, 2019
Financial Aid Deadline: March 10, 2019
The 15th annual Tinker Mountain Writers’ Workshop will be held from June 9 to June 14 on the campus of Hollins University in Roanoke, Virginia. The conference features workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, as well as craft...
read more Event Date: June 9, 2019
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The sixth annual Todos Santos Writers Workshop was held from February 2, 2019, to February 9, 2019, at Casa Dracula, a historic landmark house in Todos Santos, Mexico. The retreat offered daily workshops and seminars in poetry,...
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The 10th annual Tucson Festival of Books was held from March 10 to March 11 on the University of Arizona campus in Tucson. The festival featured workshops in fiction and creative nonfiction, as well as readings, author talks, panels, and a book...
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The Writers Studio, sponsored by the UCLA Extension Writers’ Program, was held from February 7, 2019, to February 10, 2019, on the UCLA campus in Los Angeles. The conference featured workshops in fiction and creative nonfiction...
read moreThe Ucross Foundation offers two- to six-week residencies from March through early June and from mid-August through early December to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers on a working ranch in Ucross, Wyoming...
read more Application Deadline: March 1, 2019
The 16th annual Under the Volcano Master Classes and Residency was held from January 10, 2019, to January 20, 2019, in Tepoztlán, Mexico, a traditional village located in the foothills of volcanoes approximately one hour from...
read more Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The 50th annual University of North Dakota Writers Conference will be held from March 20 to March 22 on the University of North Dakota campus in Grand Forks, North Dakota. The conference features workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative...
read more Event Date: March 20, 2019
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The 24th annual Postgraduate Writers’ Conference will be held from August 12 to August 18 on the Vermont College of Fine Arts campus in Montpelier. Designed for writers with graduate degrees or equivalent experience, the conference features...
read more Event Date: August 12, 2019
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The Vermont Studio Center offers two- to twelve-week residencies year-round to poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, and translators in Johnson, Vermont, a village located in the heart of the northern Green...
read more Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Financial Aid Deadline: February 15, 2019
The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA) offers residencies of two weeks to two months to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers on a 450-acre estate at the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. The...
read more Application Deadline: September 15, 2018
The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts offered summer workshops at Le Moulin à Nef, its studio center in the village of Auvillar, France. The poetry workshop O Taste and See: Writing the Senses in Deep France, taught by Marilyn Kallet, was...
read more Application Deadline: January 31, 2018
The 24th annual Virginia Festival of the Book was held from March 21 to March 25, 2018, in Charlottesville and Albemarle County, Virginia, to celebrate books and promote literacy. The festival featured readings, panels, discussions with writers...
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The U.S. Forest Service, the National Park Service, and the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service offer residencies of one to two weeks from June through August to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers to take part...
read more Application Deadline: March 1, 2019
The 63rd annual Wesleyan Writers Conference will be held from June 12 to June 16 at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. The conference features workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, as well as panel discussions,...
read more Event Date: June 12, 2019
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Financial Aid Deadline: March 15, 2019
Willapa Bay AiR offers monthlong residencies from March through September to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers on 16 wooded acres near Oysterville, Washington, 30 miles north of the Columbia River....
read moreThe 2018 Word of South Festival was held from April 13 to April 15 at Cascades Park in downtown Tallahassee, Florida. The festival, which celebrates the connection between music and literature, featured onstage performances and discussions with...
read moreThe eighth annual WordSpring creative writing conference will be held on April 27 at Butte College in Oroville, California, 75 miles north of Sacramento. The conference features workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. The faculty...
read more Event Date: April 27, 2019
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions