Genre: Poetry

Atlanta Writers Conference

March/April 2026

The spring 2026 Atlanta Writers Conference, sponsored by the Atlanta Writers Club, will be held on May 1 and May 2 at the Westin Atlanta Airport Hotel. The conference includes a book fair featuring attendees’ books, presentations on the craft and business of writing, agent and editor pitch sessions, query letter critiques, manuscript excerpt critiques, author coaching, and Q&A panels for poets, fiction writers, and nonfiction writers. Virtual participation will be available for all agent and editor pitch sessions, query letter critiques, and manuscript excerpt critiques.

Type: 
CONFERENCE
Ignore Event Date Field?: 
no
Event Date: 
May 1, 2026
Rolling Admissions: 
no
Application Deadline: 
March 30, 2026
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
March 15, 2026
Free Admission: 
no
Contact Information: 

Atlanta Writers Conference, 8080 Jett Ferry Road, Atlanta, GA 30350. (404) 632-3525. George Weinstein, Conference Director.

George Weinstein
Conference Director
Contact City: 
Atlanta
Contact State: 
GA
Contact Zip / Postal Code: 
30337
Country: 
US
Genre: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction

Get Lit! Festival

March/April 2026

The 28th annual Get Lit! Festival will be held online and in person from April 17 to April 19 at various venues in and around Spokane, Washington. The festival features readings, craft classes, panel discussions, and a bookfair for poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers. Participating writers include poets Melissa Kwasny, Mita Mahato, Prageeta Sharma, and Maya Jewell Zeller; fiction writers Lindsey Drager, Leyna Krow, M.L. Smoker, and Zoe B. Wallbrook; and nonfiction writers Ren Cedar Fuller, John Messick, Erica Watson, and Lauren W. Westerfield.

Type: 
FESTIVAL
Ignore Event Date Field?: 
no
Event Date: 
April 17, 2026
Rolling Admissions: 
yes
Application Deadline: 
March 15, 2026
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
March 15, 2026
Free Admission: 
yes
Contact Information: 

Get Lit! Festival, Get Lit! Programs, 601 E Riverside Avenue, Room 440, Spokane, WA 99202. (509) 828-1435. Kate Peterson, Director.

Kate Peterson
Director
Contact City: 
Spokane
Contact State: 
WA
Contact Zip / Postal Code: 
99202
Country: 
US
Genre: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction
Tags: 
literary festivals

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: 
March 15, 2026
Rolling Admissions: 
yes
Application Deadline: 
March 15, 2026
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
March 15, 2026
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
Add Image: 
Barn apt
Genre: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction

Orion Environmental Writers’ Workshop

March/April 2026

The Orion Environmental Writers’ Workshop will be held from June 14 to June 19 at the Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, New York. The program features workshops, faculty readings, panels on publishing, and conversations with faculty members and Orion editors for poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers “seeking to reflect their environments through their work.” The faculty includes poets Michael Kleber-Diggs and Roger Reeves, fiction and nonfiction writer Isle McElroy, and nonfiction writers Hannah Dela Cruz Abrams, Erica Berry, Maria Pinto, and Nick Triolo.

Type: 
CONFERENCE
Ignore Event Date Field?: 
no
Event Date: 
June 14, 2026
Rolling Admissions: 
no
Application Deadline: 
March 15, 2026
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
March 15, 2026
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

Nobody’s Fool

The Time Is Now
2.18.25

In a recent video, Maggie Millner, Yale Review senior editor and author of Couplets: A Love Story (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023), speaks about her favorite love poems, including June Jordan’s short poem “Resolution #1,003,” which she says “illustrates the way that love between two people can inspire a politics, a kind of political vision.” Spend some time thinking about the relationships in your life and who might inspire in you a sort of political vision. Write a poem that captures how to “love who loves me” and “stay indifferent to indifference,” as Jordan writes in her poem. How might the circumstances, breadth, and boundaries of your adoration for someone be political?

Poetry by the Sea: A Global Conference

March/April 2026

Poetry by the Sea: A Global Conference will be held from May 19 to May 22 at Mercy by the Sea, a retreat center and private beach in Madison, Connecticut. The conference features workshops, seminars, readings, and panels. The faculty includes poets Chad Abushanab, Austin Allen, Melissa Balmain, Anna M. Evans, Nicole Caruso Garcia, David Groff, Jennifer Michael Hecht, David M. Katz, Joshua Mehigan, and Clare Rossini. Participating publishing professionals include editors Kai Coggin (SWWIM) and Allison Joseph (Crab Orchard Review).

Type: 
CONFERENCE
Ignore Event Date Field?: 
no
Event Date: 
May 19, 2026
Rolling Admissions: 
no
Application Deadline: 
May 10, 2026
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
March 15, 2026
Free Admission: 
no
Contact Information: 

Poetry by the Sea: A Global Conference, 63 Parry Drive, Hainesport, NJ 08036. (609) 346-5011. Anna M. Evans, Board President.

Anna M. Evans
Board President
Contact City: 
Madison
Contact State: 
CT
Contact Zip / Postal Code: 
06443
Country: 
US
Genre: 
Poetry

Chicago Writers Association Conference

March/April 2025

The Chicago Writers Association Conference was held from March 21 to March 23 at the Warwick Allerton Hotel in Chicago. The program featured faculty presentations, workshops, panel discussions, master classes, pitch sessions, author interviews, and social events for poets, fiction writers, and nonfiction writers. The faculty included poet Curtis L. Crisler; poet and fiction writer Stuart Dybek; poet, fiction writer, and nonfiction writer Dipika Mukherjee; and fiction writers Ann Garvin, Dana Kaye, Eric Charles May, and Jeremy T. Wilson.

Type: 
CONFERENCE
Ignore Event Date Field?: 
yes
Event Date: 
March 15, 2026
Rolling Admissions: 
ignore
Application Deadline: 
March 15, 2026
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
March 15, 2026
Free Admission: 
no
Contact Information: 

Chicago Writers Association Conference, P.O. Box 6505, Evanston, IL 60204. (312) 520-5090. Samantha Hoffman, Executive Director.

Samantha Hoffman
Executive Director
Contact City: 
Chicago
Contact State: 
IL
Contact Zip / Postal Code: 
60611
Country: 
US
Genre: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction

Paris Writer’s Residency

March/April 2026

The Paris Writer’s Residency will offer a monthlong residency in October to a poet, fiction writer, creative nonfiction writer, or translator at the American University of Paris. The resident is provided with an en suite single or double room, which includes a work desk, at the Irish Arts Centre in Paris. Some rooms include a private study space, and residents have access to a shared kitchen and library at the Ecole Normale Supérieure. The resident receives travel reimbursement of up to €1,500 (approximately $1,750).

Type: 
RESIDENCY
Ignore Event Date Field?: 
no
Event Date: 
October 1, 2026
Rolling Admissions: 
no
Application Deadline: 
May 1, 2026
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
March 15, 2026
Free Admission: 
yes
Contact Information: 

Paris Writer’s Residency, American University of Paris, 147 rue de Grenelle, Paris 75007, France. Amanda Dennis, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and English.

Amanda Dennis
Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and English
Contact City: 
Paris
Contact Zip / Postal Code: 
75007
Country: 
FR
Genre: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction
Translation

A Rally of Writers

March/April 2025

The 38th annual A Rally of Writers conference was held on April 12 at the West Campus of Lansing Community College in Lansing, Michigan. The conference featured workshops, craft classes, panel discussions, and readings in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. Participating writers included poets Dennis Hinrichsen and Ruelaine Stokes; fiction writers Caitlin Horrocks and Alex Kourvo; and nonfiction writer Robert M Weir. Fiction writer Erin Bartels gave the keynote address.

Type: 
CONFERENCE
Ignore Event Date Field?: 
yes
Event Date: 
March 15, 2026
Rolling Admissions: 
ignore
Application Deadline: 
March 15, 2026
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
March 15, 2026
Free Admission: 
no
Contact Information: 

A Rally of Writers, P.O. Box 4253, East Lansing, MI 48823. Rob Edwards, President. 

Rob Edwards
President
Contact City: 
Lansing
Contact State: 
MI
Contact Zip / Postal Code: 
48917
Country: 
US
Genre: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction
Tags: 
writing conferences

American University of Paris Summer Creative Writing Institute

March/April 2026

The American University of Paris Summer Creative Writing Institute will offer workshops to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers from June 30 to July 22 on the university’s campus in the seventh arrondissement of Paris. The cost of tuition is €2,304 (approximately $2,688) for auditors or €4,608 (approximately $5,375) for transferable academic credit. Lodging is available in residence halls in shared apartments or individual studios and is arranged through the university. Apartments include a shared or single bedroom and a shared living room, kitchen, and bathroom.

Type: 
CONFERENCE
Ignore Event Date Field?: 
no
Event Date: 
June 30, 2026
Rolling Admissions: 
no
Application Deadline: 
June 24, 2026
Financial Aid?: 
yes
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
April 15, 2026
Free Admission: 
no
Contact Information: 

American University of Paris Summer Creative Writing Institute, 129 rue de l’Université, Paris, France 75007. Emma Dunne, Summer School Coordinator.

Emma Dunne
Summer School Coordinator
Contact City: 
Paris
Contact Zip / Postal Code: 
75007
Country: 
FR
Genre: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction

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