Genre: Creative Nonfiction

Tremont Writers Conference

March/April 2025

The Tremont Writers Conference will be 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 features workshops, author readings, and craft talks for poets, fiction writers, and nonfiction writers, as well as outdoor activities, including hikes and campfires. The faculty includes poet Maurice Manning, fiction writers David Joy and Karen Spears Zacharias, and nonfiction writer Crystal Wilkinson.

Type: 
CONFERENCE
Ignore Event Date Field?: 
no
Event Date: 
October 22, 2025
Rolling Admissions: 
no
Application Deadline: 
April 30, 2025
Financial Aid?: 
yes
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
April 30, 2025
Free Admission: 
no
Contact Information: 

Tremont Writers Conference, Great Smoky Mountains Institute at Tremont, 9275 Tremont Road, Townsend, TN 37882. (865) 448-6709. Frances Figart and Jeremy Lloyd, Codirectors.

Frances Figart and Jeremy Lloyd
Codirectors
Contact City: 
Townsend
Contact State: 
TN
Contact Zip / Postal Code: 
37882
Country: 
US
Genre: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction

The Writer’s Retreat at Good Contrivance Farm

March/April 2025

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. Workshops and craft classes with visiting faculty are offered outdoors from May to September. The faculty includes poet and nonfiction writer Ross Gay, memoirist R. Eric Thomas, and publishing professional Jane Friedman (Jane Friedman Media).

Type: 
RESIDENCY
Ignore Event Date Field?: 
yes
Event Date: 
May 1, 2025
Rolling Admissions: 
yes
Application Deadline: 
May 1, 2025
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
May 1, 2025
Free Admission: 
no
Contact Information: 

The Writer’s Retreat at Good Contrivance Farm, 2015 Emory Road, Reisterstown, MD 21136. (443) 529-2939. 

Contact City: 
Reisterstown
Contact State: 
MD
Contact Zip / Postal Code: 
21136
Country: 
US
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Barn apt
Genre: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction

American University of Paris Summer Creative Writing Institute

March/April 2025

The American University of Paris Summer Creative Writing Institute will offer workshops to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers from July 1 to July 23 on the university’s campus in the seventh arrondissement of Paris. The faculty includes poet and fiction writer Siân Melangell Dafydd; poet, fiction writer, and nonfiction writer Biswamit Dwibedy; poet and nonfiction writer Lisa Robertson; and fiction writer Amanda Dennis. The cost of tuition is €2,224 (approximately $2,289) for auditors or €4,448 (approximately $4,577) for transferable academic credit.

Type: 
CONFERENCE
Ignore Event Date Field?: 
no
Event Date: 
July 1, 2025
Rolling Admissions: 
no
Application Deadline: 
May 15, 2025
Financial Aid?: 
yes
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
April 15, 2025
Free Admission: 
no
Contact Information: 

American University of Paris Summer Creative Writing Institute, 5 Boulevard de la Tour-Maubourg, 75007 Paris, France. Andrea Christmas, Summer School and Financial Aid Coordinator.

Andrea Christmas
Summer School and Financial Aid Coordinator
Contact City: 
Paris
Contact Zip / Postal Code: 
75007
Country: 
FR
Genre: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction

Orion Environmental Writers’ Workshop

March/April 2025

The Orion Environmental Writers’ Workshop will be held from June 15 to June 20 at the Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, New York.

Type: 
CONFERENCE
Ignore Event Date Field?: 
no
Event Date: 
June 15, 2025
Rolling Admissions: 
no
Application Deadline: 
May 1, 2025
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
May 1, 2025
Free Admission: 
no
Contact Information: 

Orion Environmental Writers’ Workshop, 187 Main Street, Great Barrington, MA 01230. Kathleen Yale, Workshop Manager. 

Kathleen Yale
Workshop Manager 
Contact City: 
Rhinebeck
Contact State: 
NY
Contact Zip / Postal Code: 
12572
Country: 
US
Genre: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction
Tags: 
writing conferences

Red Clay Writers Conference

March/April 2025

The 2025 Red Clay Writers Conference, sponsored by the Georgia Writers Association (GWA), will be held on April 26 at Kennesaw State University. The conference features writing workshops and panels on literary journals and publishing for poets, fiction writers, and nonfiction writers. Participating writers include poets Andrea Jurjević and Joshua L. Martin and novelist and memoirist Garrard Conley. Participating publishing professionals include Kurt Milberger (Kennesaw State University) and Anna Sandy-Elrod (Ghost Peach Press).

Type: 
CONFERENCE
Ignore Event Date Field?: 
no
Event Date: 
April 26, 2025
Rolling Admissions: 
no
Application Deadline: 
April 18, 2025
Financial Aid?: 
yes
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
April 18, 2025
Free Admission: 
no
Contact Information: 

Red Clay Writers Conference, Kennesaw State University, 440 Bartow Avenue, MD 2701, Kennesaw, GA 30144. Gregory Emilio, Executive Director. 

Gregory Emilio
Executive Director
Contact City: 
Kennesaw
Contact State: 
GA
Contact Zip / Postal Code: 
30144
Country: 
US
Genre: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction

You’re the Inspiration

The Time Is Now
2.13.25

In a recent New York Times Magazine interview, Dr. Anna Lembke, a Stanford psychiatrist who studies a variety of addictions from substance abuse to social media, talks about her speculative theory about contemporary society and narcissism. “Our culture is demanding that we focus on ourselves so much that what it’s creating is this deep need to escape ourselves,” she says. Take a break from self-actualization and write an essay that focuses on a close friend or loved one to create a lyrical profile of sorts. If you instinctively relate your observations and memories back to yourself, correct course and try to place the focus as much as possible on someone else. What emerges as a result?

Message of Love

The Time Is Now
2.6.25

Written around 2000 BCE in ancient Mesopotamia, “The Love Song of Shu-Sin” holds the record as the oldest known love poem. Forty centuries later, love poetry continues to be written, in times of joy and sorrow, for all different types of occasions in as many different styles as there are writers. Choose a favorite love poem and spend some time considering the people and things you’ve loved. Write a personal essay that reflects on the elements of the poem that most deeply resonate with you, whether it be the diction, imagery, or sentiments expressed. In what ways does this poem remind you of meaningful relationships in your life? How do these words reflect a message about love?

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