Genre: Poetry

Poetry by the Sea: A Global Conference

March/April 2025

Poetry by the Sea: A Global Conference will be held from May 27 to May 30 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, Oliver de la Paz, Anna M. Evans, David Groff, Didi Jackson, Major Jackson, David M. Katz, Joshua Mehigan, and Clare Rossini. Participating publishing professionals include editors Jennifer Franklin (Hudson Valley Writers Center) and Allison Joseph (Crab Orchard Review).

Type: 
CONFERENCE
Ignore Event Date Field?: 
no
Event Date: 
May 27, 2025
Rolling Admissions: 
no
Application Deadline: 
May 10, 2025
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
May 20, 2025
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

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

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?

Lit Fest

March/April 2025

The Lighthouse Writers Workshop’s 2025 Lit Fest will be held from June 6 to June 13 online and at the Lighthouse Writers Workshop headquarters in Denver. The festival features weekend and weeklong workshops, craft seminars, salons, business panels, and agent consultations for poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers. The faculty includes poets Eduardo C.

Type: 
FESTIVAL
Ignore Event Date Field?: 
no
Event Date: 
June 6, 2025
Rolling Admissions: 
no
Application Deadline: 
March 8, 2025
Financial Aid?: 
yes
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
March 8, 2025
Free Admission: 
no
Contact Information: 

Lit Fest, Lighthouse Writers Workshop, 3844 York Street, Denver, CO 80205. (303) 297-1185. Torin Jensen, Assistant Director of Special Programs.

Torin Jensen
Assistant Director of Special Programs
Contact City: 
Denver
Contact State: 
CO
Contact Zip / Postal Code: 
80205
Country: 
US
Genre: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction

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?: 
no
Event Date: 
March 21, 2025
Rolling Admissions: 
no
Application Deadline: 
March 14, 2025
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
May 20, 2025
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

Sitka Center for Art and Ecology Writing Residencies

March/April 2025

The Sitka Center for Art and Ecology will offer two- to twelve-week residencies from October 2025 to April 2026 to poets, fiction writers, nonfiction writers, and translators at the center’s adjacent 80-acre property, located within the unique ecosystems of Cascade Head and the Salmon River Estuary in Otis, Oregon. Each resident is provided with a private room, bathroom, and kitchen in a house, as well as private studio space and access to the Hale Reference Library. Residents are responsible for travel and living costs.

Type: 
RESIDENCY
Ignore Event Date Field?: 
no
Event Date: 
October 1, 2025
Rolling Admissions: 
no
Application Deadline: 
March 14, 2025
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
May 20, 2025
Free Admission: 
no
Contact Information: 

Sitka Center for Art and Ecology Writing Residencies, 56605 Sitka Drive, Otis, OR 97368. (541) 994-5485. Maria Elting, Program Manager. 

Maria Elting
Program Manager
Contact City: 
Otis
Contact State: 
OR
Contact Zip / Postal Code: 
97368
Country: 
US
Genre: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction
Translation

Atlanta Writers Conference

March/April 2025

The spring 2025 Atlanta Writers Conference, sponsored by the Atlanta Writers Club, will be held on May 2 and May 3 at the Westin Atlanta Airport Hotel. The conference includes a book fair featuring attendees’ books; presentations on the craft and business of writing, including a workshop on intellectual property and legal protection for writers; agent and editor pitch sessions; query letter critiques; manuscript excerpt critiques; and Q&A panels for poets, fiction writers, and nonfiction writers.

Type: 
CONFERENCE
Ignore Event Date Field?: 
no
Event Date: 
May 2, 2025
Rolling Admissions: 
yes
Application Deadline: 
May 20, 2025
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
May 20, 2025
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

Edward F. Albee Foundation Residency

March/April 2025

The Edward F. Albee Foundation offers monthlong residencies year-round to poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, and translators at the William Flanagan Memorial Creative Persons Center on the eastern terminus of Long Island in Montauk, New York. Residents are provided with en suite bedrooms in a converted horse stable and separate working studios, as well as shared access to a library, a kitchen, and the center’s grounds. There is no cost to attend, although residents are responsible for meals and travel expenses.

Type: 
RESIDENCY
Ignore Event Date Field?: 
yes
Event Date: 
May 20, 2025
Rolling Admissions: 
no
Application Deadline: 
March 16, 2025
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
May 20, 2025
Free Admission: 
yes
Contact Information: 

Edward F. Albee Foundation Residency, 192 Lexington Avenue, Suite 903, New York, NY 10016. (212) 226-2020. Jakob Holder, Executive Director.

Jakob Holder
Executive Director
Contact City: 
Montauk
Contact State: 
NY
Contact Zip / Postal Code: 
11954
Country: 
US
Genre: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction
Translation

Elk River Writers Workshop

March/April 2025

The 2025 Elk River Writers Workshop will be held from August 10 to August 15 at Chico Hot Springs, a historic retreat in Pray, Montana, near Yellowstone National Park. The program features workshops, craft talks, outings, lectures, panel discussions, and campfire readings for poets, fiction writers, and nonfiction writers. The faculty includes poets Kimberly Blaeser and Angie Trudell Vasquez, poet and memoirist Deborah A. Miranda, novelists Debra Magpie Earling and Oscar Hokeah, and memoirist Thomas C. Gannon. Tuition, which includes meals, is $1,700; some scholarships are available.

Type: 
CONFERENCE
Ignore Event Date Field?: 
no
Event Date: 
August 10, 2025
Rolling Admissions: 
no
Application Deadline: 
May 1, 2025
Financial Aid?: 
yes
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
April 1, 2025
Free Admission: 
no
Contact Information: 

Elk River Writers Workshop, Elk River Arts & Lectures, P.O. Box 2212, Livingston, MT 59047. Andrea Peacock, Program Manager. 

Andrea Peacock
Program Manager
Contact City: 
Pray
Contact State: 
MT
Contact Zip / Postal Code: 
59065
Country: 
US
Genre: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction

Rockland Residency

March/April 2025

The Rockland Residency will offer three-week residencies from October 8, 2025, to October 29, 2025, and 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.

Type: 
RESIDENCY
Ignore Event Date Field?: 
no
Event Date: 
October 8, 2025
Rolling Admissions: 
no
Application Deadline: 
March 31, 2025
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
May 20, 2025
Free Admission: 
no
Contact Information: 

Rockland Residency, 2615 E Pike Street, Seattle, WA 98122. (206) 799-8209. Jodi Rockwell, Cofounder. 

Jodi Rockwell
Cofounder
Contact City: 
Kitsap Peninsula
Contact State: 
WA
Country: 
US
Genre: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction
Translation

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