Genre: Poetry

The 2025 Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference was held from June 15 to June 21 in the Green Mountains of Ripton, Vermont. The conference, designed for poets and prose writers whose work deals with the environment and the natural world, featured workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, as well as lectures; craft classes; meetings with editors, agents, and publishers; and readings by faculty and guests.

The 2025 Juniper Summer Writing Institute was held from June 15 to June 21 at the University of Massachusetts campus in Amherst. The program featured workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, as well as craft seminars, manuscript consultations, and readings. The faculty included poets Tiana Clark, Safia Elhillo, and Sam Sax; fiction writers ’Pemi Aguda, Jessica Anthony, and Jeff Parker; and nonfiction writer Dur e Aziz Amna.

Millay Arts offers two- and four-week residencies from April through November, as well as weeklong group residencies in December, to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers at Steepletop, the historic estate of Edna St. Vincent Millay in Austerlitz, New York. Each residency includes a private room, studio, and meals, as well as access to shared living spaces and the estate’s Alumni and Nancy Graves Memorial libraries.

The 2025 Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference was held from August 13 to August 23 in the Green Mountains of Ripton, Vermont. The conference featured workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, as well as lectures; craft classes; meetings with editors, agents, and publishers; and readings by faculty and guests. The faculty included poets Ishion Hutchinson, Tomás Q. Morín, Valzhyna Mort, V.