Genre: Poetry

The Rockland Residency offered a three-week residency from October 8, 2025, to October 29, 2025, and offers a three-week residency from January 8, 2026, to January 29, 2026, to poets, fiction writers, nonfiction writers, and translators in the Rockland Woods, located on the Kitsap Peninsula across the Salish Sea from Seattle. Writers who are at least 25 years old and are not enrolled in a creative writing program are eligible.

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

The fall 2025 Atlanta Writers Conference, sponsored by the Atlanta Writers Club, was held on October 24 and October 25 at the Westin Atlanta Airport Hotel. The conference included a book fair featuring attendees’ books; presentations on the craft and business of writing, including a workshop titled AI and Publishing: What You Need To Know, led by fiction writer, business writer, and IT specialist Jeff Lakusta; agent and editor pitch sessions; manuscript sample critiques; query letter critiques; and Q&A panels for poetry, fiction, and nonfiction writers.

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