Genre: Poetry

Chuckanut Writers Conference

The 2025 annual Chuckanut Writers Conference, cohosted by the Narrative Project, Sidekick Press, and Village Books and Paper Dreams, will be held on June 27 and June 28 at Sehome High School in Bellingham, Washington. The conference features workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, as well as keynote addresses, craft talks, author panels, an open mic, a faculty reading, and breakout sessions that combine lecture, discussion, and generative writing sessions.

Type: 
CONFERENCE
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no
Event Date: 
June 27, 2025
Rolling Admissions: 
yes
Application Deadline: 
June 20, 2025
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
June 20, 2025
Free Admission: 
no
Contact Information: 

Chuckanut Writers Conference, 2700 Bill McDonal Parkway, Bellingham, WA 98225.

Contact City: 
Bellingham
Contact State: 
WA
Contact Zip / Postal Code: 
98225
Country: 
US
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Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction

The Frost Place

May/June 2025

The Frost Place Poetry Seminar will be held online from August 3 to August 7. The seminar features poetry workshops, craft talks, and faculty and student readings. The faculty includes poets Patrick Donnelly, Kathy Fagan, and Deborah Paredez. The cost of the conference is $700. To apply, submit three poems of any length with a $25 application fee (waived for returning participants) by July 1. Visit the website for complete guidelines. 

Type: 
CONFERENCE
Ignore Event Date Field?: 
no
Event Date: 
August 3, 2025
Rolling Admissions: 
no
Application Deadline: 
July 1, 2025
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
June 20, 2025
Free Admission: 
no
Contact Information: 

The Frost Place, P.O. Box 74, Franconia, NH 03580. (603) 823-5510. Patrick Donnelly, Program Director.

Patrick Donnelly
Program Director
Contact City: 
Online
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Poetry

Anne LaBastille Memorial Writing Residency

May/June 2025

The Adirondack Center for Writing will offer a two-week residency from September 21 to October 5 to six poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers at a lodge on Twitchell Lake in the Adirondack Mountains in New York. Three residents will be chosen from the Adirondack region and three will be chosen from anywhere else in the world. Residents are each provided with a private room and bathroom, work space, and meals. There is no cost to attend the residency, but residents are responsible for travel expenses to and from Twitchell Lake.

Type: 
RESIDENCY
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no
Event Date: 
September 21, 2025
Rolling Admissions: 
ignore
Application Deadline: 
June 20, 2025
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
June 20, 2025
Free Admission: 
yes
Contact Information: 

Anne LaBastille Memorial Writing Residency, Adirondack Center for Writing, P.O. Box 956, Saranac Lake, NY 12983. (518) 354-1261. Nathalie Thill, Executive Director. 

Nathalie Thill
Executive Director
Contact City: 
Twitchell Lake
Contact State: 
NY
Contact Zip / Postal Code: 
12983
Country: 
US
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Genre: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction

New York State Summer Writers Institute

May/June 2025

The 39th annual New York State Summer Writers Institute will be held from June 22 to July 19 at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs. The program features two- and four-week workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. The faculty includes poets Peg Boyers, Henri Cole, Megan Fernandes, Sandra Lim, and Rosanna Warren; fiction writers Elizabeth Benedict, Adam Braver, Vinson Cunningham, Amy Hempel, Binnie Kirshenbaum, Claire Messud, Susan Minot, and Rick Moody; and creative nonfiction writers Phillip Lopate and Thomas Chatterton Williams.

Type: 
CONFERENCE
Ignore Event Date Field?: 
no
Event Date: 
June 22, 2025
Rolling Admissions: 
yes
Application Deadline: 
June 20, 2025
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
June 20, 2025
Free Admission: 
no
Contact Information: 

New York State Summer Writers Institute, Skidmore College, Office of Special Programs, 815 North Broadway, Saratoga Springs, NY 12866. (518) 580-5593. Christine Merrill, Senior Program Coordinator. 

Christine Merrill
Senior Program Coordinator
Contact City: 
Saratoga Springs
Contact State: 
NY
Contact Zip / Postal Code: 
12866
Country: 
US
Genre: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction

Salty Quill Writers’ Retreat for Women

May/June 2025

The Salty Quill Writers’ Retreat for Women offers one-week residencies three times a year to twelve poets, fiction writers, nonfiction writers, and translators who identify as women at McGee Island, a 110-acre private island located three miles east of Port Clyde, Maine. Residents are provided with lodging at a turn-of-the-century oceanfront summer cottage in single- or shared-occupancy rooms, three chef-prepared meals a day, transportation to and from the island, and the opportunity to participate in after-dinner readings and critiques as well as kayaking, hiking, and taking a sauna.

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

Salty Quill Writers’ Retreat for Women, 11 Willow Street, Hull, MA 02045. Pamela Loring, Cofounder and Program Director. 

Pamela Loring
Cofounder and Program Director
Contact City: 
McGee Island
Contact State: 
ME
Country: 
US
Genre: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction
Translation

Vasto Arts Workshop

May/June 2025

The 2025 Vasto Arts Workshop will be held from September 6 to September 13 at the liberty-style Villa Monteferrante in the town of Vasto, Italy, which overlooks the Adriatic Sea. Programming includes workshops, a guided tour of Vasto’s historic center, and visits to local artists’ studios for poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, and translators. The faculty includes poet and fiction writer Carolyn Marie Souaid and fiction writer and creative nonfiction writer Christopher DiRaddo.

Type: 
CONFERENCE
Ignore Event Date Field?: 
no
Event Date: 
September 6, 2025
Rolling Admissions: 
no
Application Deadline: 
July 1, 2025
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
June 20, 2025
Free Admission: 
no
Contact Information: 

Vasto Arts Workshop, Villa Monteferrante, Via Francesco Paolo Tosti 6, 66054 Vasto, Italy. Luigi Monteferrante, Director.

Luigi Monteferrante
Director
Contact City: 
Vasto
Country: 
IT
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Genre: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction
Translation

Summer Fishtrap Gathering of Writers

May/June 2025

The 38th annual Summer Fishtrap Gathering of Writers will be held from July 7 to July 13 at Wallowa Lake Lodge on the shores of Wallowa Lake, Oregon. The weeklong conference features generative writing workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, as well as panel discussions, craft talks, open mics, and readings. The faculty includes poets Charles Goodrich and Anis Mojgani, fiction writers Nina McConigley and Joe Wilkins, and creative nonfiction writers Erica Berry and Stephanie Elizondo Griest. Fiction and nonfiction writer Beth Piatote will deliver the keynote address.

Type: 
CONFERENCE
Ignore Event Date Field?: 
no
Event Date: 
July 7, 2025
Rolling Admissions: 
no
Application Deadline: 
July 7, 2025
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
June 20, 2025
Free Admission: 
no
Contact Information: 

Summer Fishtrap Gathering of Writers, P.O. Box 38, Enterprise, OR 97828. (541) 426-3623. Shannon McNerney, Executive Director.

Shannon McNerney
Executive Director
Contact City: 
Wallowa Lake
Contact State: 
OR
Contact Zip / Postal Code: 
97846
Country: 
US
Genre: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction

Chesapeake Writers’ Conference

May/June 2025

The twelfth annual Chesapeake Writers’ Conference will be held from June 22 to June 28 on the St. Mary’s College campus in St. Mary’s City, Maryland. The conference features lectures, craft talks, readings, panel discussions, and daily workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. The faculty includes poet Heather Green, fiction writer Jerry Gabriel, and creative nonfiction writers Eva Freeman and Angela Pelster. The cost of tuition is $850; the cost of tuition with college course credit is $1,450.

Type: 
CONFERENCE
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no
Event Date: 
June 22, 2025
Rolling Admissions: 
ignore
Application Deadline: 
June 20, 2025
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
June 20, 2025
Free Admission: 
no
Contact Information: 

Chesapeake Writers’ Conference, St. Mary’s College, Montgomery Hall, 47645 College Drive, St. Mary’s City, MD 20686. Crystal Oliver, Conference Director.

Crystal Oliver
Conference Director
Contact City: 
St. Mary’s City
Contact State: 
MD
Contact Zip / Postal Code: 
20686
Country: 
US
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Genre: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction

Poetry in the Park: Aleena Ahmed, Ajamou Butler, Steven Espada Dawson, and Margaret Rozga

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In this Poetry in the Park event in Milwaukee’s Juneau Park hosted by Juneau Park Friends and Woodland Pattern, poets Aleena Ahmed, Ajamou Butler, Steven Espada Dawson, and Margaret Rozga read a selection of poems. Dawson, author of Late to the Search Party (Scribner, 2025), is featured in Literary MagNet in the May/June issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

Genre: 
Poetry
Tags: 
Aleena Ahmed
Ajamou Butler
Steven Espada Dawson
Margaret Rozga
Woodland Pattern
Late to the Search Party
Literary MagNet
May/June 2025

Loghaven Artist Residency

May/June 2025

Loghaven offers residencies of two to six weeks year-round to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers in five rehabilitated historic log cabins and newly built facilities on ninety acres of woodland in Knoxville, Tennessee. The residency includes an $850 weekly stipend for supplies and expenses, a travel subsidy on a sliding scale from $400 to $800, and up to $200 in reimbursement for shipping materials.

Type: 
RESIDENCY
Ignore Event Date Field?: 
yes
Event Date: 
June 20, 2025
Rolling Admissions: 
no
Application Deadline: 
July 15, 2025
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
June 20, 2025
Free Admission: 
yes
Contact Information: 

Loghaven Artist Residency, 1001 Loghaven Drive, Knoxville, TN 37920. (865) 617-0353.

Contact City: 
Knoxville
Contact State: 
TN
Contact Zip / Postal Code: 
37920
Country: 
US
Genre: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction

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