Genre: Creative Nonfiction

The 2025 Macondo Writers Workshop was held from July 21 to July 27 at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. The program featured writing workshops, seminars, and free public readings for poets, fiction writers, and nonfiction writers who also identify as social activists. The faculty included poet Kevin Young; poet and fiction writer Benjamin Alire Sáenz; poet, fiction writer, and nonfiction writer Cristina Rivera Garza; and nonfiction writer Sarah Schulman. The cost of the program, which includes room and board, was $830.

The annual Tinker Mountain Writers’ Workshop was held from June 8 to June 12 at the Hollins University campus in Roanoke, Virginia. The conference featured generative manuscript workshops and tutorials in poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and multigenre work, as well as craft talks, individual conferences with faculty members, readings, and social events. The faculty included poet and nonfiction writer James McKean; fiction writers Amanda Cockrell, Dorothy Hassan, Fred G. Leebron, Daniel Mueller, and Rachele Salvini; and nonfiction writer Kristin Dombek.

The Tin House Summer Workshop was held from July 13 to July 20, 2025, at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. The program featured workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction (8 to 10 participants per class), as well as one-on-one meetings with faculty, agents, and editors; craft lectures; author conversations; generative exercises; readings; and karaoke. The faculty included poet, fiction writer, and nonfiction writer Billy-Ray Belcourt; fiction writer Danielle Evans; fiction and nonfiction writer Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah; and nonfiction writer T Kira Māhealani Madden.

The Community of Writers offered workshops in poetry from June 21 to June 27, 2025, and in fiction and nonfiction (including creative nonfiction) from July 7 to July 14, 2025, in Olympic Valley, near Lake Tahoe in California’s Sierra Nevada. The program featured workshops, craft talks, publishing panels, readings, and one-on-one conferences with faculty. The faculty included poets Anthony Cody, Forrest Gander, Brenda Hillman, Jane Miller, Gregory Pardlo, and Evie Shockley; fiction writers Lou Berney, Venita Blackburn, Kirstin Chen, Rickey Fayne, Jamie Ford, Katy Hays, Louis B.