Genre: Poetry

The Writer’s Hotel Maine All-Genre “Mini MFA” Writers Conference

The 2026 Writer’s Hotel Maine All-Genre “Mini MFA” Writers Conference will be held from June 10 to June 16 at the Sebasco Harbor Resort in Phippsburg, Maine. The conference features a full-manuscript pre-conference reading with two sets of editorial comments, workshops, and attendee and faculty readings. One-on-one agent pitching as well as pitching practice sessions will take place post-conference via Zoom on June 27.

Type: 
CONFERENCE
Ignore Event Date Field?: 
no
Event Date: 
June 10, 2026
Rolling Admissions: 
no
Application Deadline: 
February 9, 2026
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
December 19, 2025
Free Admission: 
no
Contact Information: 

The Writer’s Hotel Maine All-Genre “Mini MFA” Writers Conference, P.O. Box 472, Brunswick, ME 04011. Shanna McNair, Founding Director.

Shanna McNair
Founding Director
Contact City: 
Phippsburg
Contact State: 
ME
Contact Zip / Postal Code: 
04562
Country: 
US
Genre: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction

Aldo and Estella Leopold Residency

January/February 2026

The Aldo and Estella Leopold Residency offers monthlong residencies in July and November to poets, fiction writers, and nonfiction writers in the late environmental essayist Aldo Leopold’s cabin in Tres Piedras, New Mexico. Writers exploring “the relevance of Aldo Leopold’s ideas to 21st century cultural and environmental issues” and/or “committed to reshaping the cultural story about the relationship between humans and nature” are eligible. An additional residency in July is offered in a single-room casita overlooking the Galisteo Basin Preserve in Galisteo, New Mexico.

Type: 
RESIDENCY
Ignore Event Date Field?: 
no
Event Date: 
July 1, 2026
Rolling Admissions: 
no
Application Deadline: 
February 16, 2026
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
December 19, 2025
Free Admission: 
yes
Contact Information: 

Aldo and Estella Leopold Residency, P.O. Box 40122, Albuquerque, NM 87196. (973) 476-9112. Nina Simon, Program Director. 

Nina Simon
Program Director
Contact City: 
Tres Piedras
Contact State: 
NM
Contact Zip / Postal Code: 
87577
Country: 
US
Genre: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction

Bread Loaf Translators’ Conference

January/February 2026

The 2026 Bread Loaf Translators’ Conference will be held from June 14 to June 20 in the Green Mountains of Ripton, Vermont. The conference, designed for both emerging and established translators, features translation workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, as well as lectures, craft classes, meetings with editors and agents, and readings by faculty and guests. The faculty includes translators Hosam Aboul-Ela, Kazim Ali, Jennifer Croft, Mónica de la Torre, Anton Hur, and Damion Searls. Tuition, which includes lodging and meals, is $2,915.

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

Bread Loaf Conferences, Bread Loaf Translators’ Conference, Middlebury College, 204 College Street, Middlebury, VT 05753. (802) 443-5286. Jason Lamb, Coordinator.

Jason Lamb
Coordinator
Contact City: 
Ripton
Contact State: 
VT
Contact Zip / Postal Code: 
05753
Country: 
US
Genre: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction
Translation

Playa Flamingo Writing Residency in Costa Rica

January/February 2026

The Playa Flamingo Writing Residency, sponsored by Atmosphere Press, offers two five-day residencies from May to August to poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, and translators at the Punta Plata condominium in Playa Flamingo, a white sand beach located in Guanacaste, Costa Rica. The residency features space and time to write and an online reading in which residents present their work. Residents are provided with a two-bedroom condo that includes two bathrooms, a full kitchen, a patio, private beach access, and a shared outdoor pool.

Type: 
RESIDENCY
Ignore Event Date Field?: 
no
Event Date: 
May 1, 2026
Rolling Admissions: 
no
Application Deadline: 
February 28, 2026
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
December 19, 2025
Free Admission: 
yes
Contact Information: 

Playa Flamingo Writing Residency in Costa Rica, 7107 Foxtree Cove, Austin, TX 78750. (518) 764-1918. Lisa Mottolo, Assistant Editor of Atmosphere Press.

Lisa Mottolo
Assistant Editor
Contact City: 
Guanacaste
Country: 
CR
Genre: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction
Translation

Shannaghe Residency Program

January/February 2026

The Shannaghe Residency Program offers two- and four-week residencies from April through November to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers at the Shannaghe residence, a renovated house barn in Belfast, Maine. Residents are provided with private accommodations, which include a room, a work space, a kitchen, and two bathrooms. The cost of the residency is $100 per week.

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

Shannaghe Residency Program, 121 City Point Road, Belfast, ME 04915. (312) 802-2989. Lee Reilly, Director.

Lee Reilly
Director
Contact City: 
Belfast
Contact State: 
ME
Contact Zip / Postal Code: 
04915
Country: 
US
Genre: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction

On a Winter’s Night

The Time Is Now
12.3.24

“You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino’s new novel, If on a winter’s night a traveler. Relax. Concentrate. Dispel every other thought. Let the world around you fade,” wrote Italo Calvino on the first page of his 1979 novel, translated from the Italian by William Weaver. Calvino’s postmodern structure comprises twenty-two sections, with each odd-numbered passage narrated by a second-person “you” (you, the reader; you, a character). Each even-numbered passage, in turn, is the start of a new work, a fictional book that the “you” character discovers and reads, only to find that it ends abruptly and picks up in the next even-numbered passage as an entirely different work. Taking a cue from this puzzle of an approach, compose a poem that alternates between two narratives united by a winter’s night. How might a second-person “you” character be utilized in your poem? Is there an emotional progression connected to the accumulation of images and themes?

After: Poetry Destroys Silence

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Watch the trailer for After: Poetry Destroys Silence, a cinematic performance film directed by Richard Kroehling and starring Cornelius Eady, Edward Hirsch, Melissa Leo, Géza Röhrig, and a cast of celebrated award-winning poets who respond to the Holocaust and talk about the importance and necessity for poetry in a world that still grapples with genocide.

Genre: 
Poetry
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After: Poetry Destroys Silence
movie trailer
documentary
Cornelius Eady
Melissa Leo
Géza Röhrig
Edward Hirsch
2024

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