Genre: Poetry

Kachemak Bay Writers’ Conference

January/February 2026

The 2026 Kachemak Bay Writers’ Conference will be held from May 16 to May 19 at the Kenai Peninsula College campus in Homer, Alaska, with views of the snowcapped mountain ranges across Kachemak Bay. The conference features craft classes as well as craft conversations, readings, panels, and individual consultations for poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers. The faculty includes poets Elizabeth Bradfield, Donika Kelly, and J. Drew Lanham; fiction writers Jamie Ford, Julia Phillips, and Diane Wilson; and nonfiction writers Bathsheba Demuth, Chris La Tray, and Zoë Schlanger.

Type: 
CONFERENCE
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no
Event Date: 
May 16, 2026
Rolling Admissions: 
no
Application Deadline: 
January 31, 2026
Financial Aid?: 
yes
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
February 28, 2026
Free Admission: 
no
Contact Information: 

Kachemak Bay Writers’ Conference, Kenai Peninsula College, 533 East Pioneer Avenue, Homer, AK 99603. (907) 235-1612. Erin Coughlin Hollowell, Conference Director. 

Erin Coughlin Hollowell
Conference Director
Contact City: 
Homer
Contact State: 
AK
Contact Zip / Postal Code: 
99603
Country: 
US
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Genre: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction
Tags: 
writing conferences

Ucross Residency Program

January/February 2026

Ucross offers two-, four-, and six-week residencies from February through early June and from August through early December to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers on a 20,000-acre ranch in Ucross, Wyoming, located 27 miles southeast of Sheridan. Residents are provided with a private bedroom and studio space, chef-prepared meals, and a $1,500 stipend. To apply for fall 2026 residencies, submit 20 pages of poetry or prose and a project description with a $40 application fee by January 15. Visit the website for more information.

Type: 
RESIDENCY
Ignore Event Date Field?: 
no
Event Date: 
August 1, 2026
Rolling Admissions: 
no
Application Deadline: 
January 15, 2026
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
December 20, 2025
Free Admission: 
no
Contact Information: 

Ucross Residency Program, 30 Big Red Lane, Clearmont, WY 82835. (307) 737-2291. Caitlin Addlesperger, Executive Director.

Caitlin Addlesperger
Executive Director
Contact City: 
Ucross
Contact State: 
WY
Country: 
US
Genre: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction

UCR Writers’ Week Festival

January/February 2024

The 47th annual UCR Writers’ Week Festival, sponsored by the Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB), was held from February 10 to February 16 at the University of California campus in Riverside (UCR) and online. The festival’s programming features author readings and talks, panel discussions, book signings, Q&A sessions, and a Lifetime Achievement Award presentation for poets, fiction writers, nonfiction writers, and translators.

Type: 
FESTIVAL
Ignore Event Date Field?: 
yes
Event Date: 
December 20, 2025
Rolling Admissions: 
ignore
Application Deadline: 
December 20, 2025
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
December 20, 2025
Free Admission: 
yes
Contact Information: 

UCR Writers’ Week Festival, University of California in Riverside, Department of Creative Writing, Interdisciplinary North Building 3012, 900 University Avenue, Riverside, CA 92521. Allison Adelle Hedge Coke, Director.

Allison Adelle Hedge Coke
Director
Contact City: 
Riverside
Contact State: 
CA
Contact Zip / Postal Code: 
92521
Country: 
US
Genre: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction
Translation
Cross-Genre

Margery Davis Boyden Wilderness Writing Residency

January/February 2026

The Margery Davis Boyden Wilderness Writing Residency offers a six- to seven-month residency from April through October to a poet or prose writer, or pair of writers, at Dutch Henry Homestead in the Rogue River Canyon of southwest Oregon. Residents are provided with private lodging, including two small bedrooms, a sleeping loft, a living room with a kitchen, a bathroom, and a roof-deck, on 95 acres of forest and meadow. One hour of general homestead maintenance is required each day. Residents will also receive a stipend of $5,000.

Type: 
RESIDENCY
Ignore Event Date Field?: 
no
Event Date: 
April 1, 2027
Rolling Admissions: 
no
Application Deadline: 
March 15, 2026
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
December 20, 2025
Free Admission: 
no
Contact Information: 

Margery Davis Boyden Wilderness Writing Residency, 5015 52nd Avenue South, Seattle, WA 98144. Langdon Cook, Administrator.

Langdon Cook
Administrator
Contact City: 
Grants Pass
Contact State: 
OR
Contact Zip / Postal Code: 
97526
Country: 
US
Genre: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction

Joy Harjo and Camille T. Dungy on Nature Poems

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In this 2023 National Book Festival event, Joy Harjo, author of Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: Fifty Poems for Fifty Years (Norton, 2022), and Camille T. Dungy, author of Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden (Simon & Schuster, 2023), read from their work and discuss writing about nature in a conversation moderated by NPR’s Ayesha Rascoe. Dungy’s essay “Manifest Some Magic: Get Out of Your Own Way and Do the Darn Thing” is included in the January/February issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

Genre: 
Poetry
Creative Nonfiction
Tags: 
Joy Harjo
Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light
Camille T. Dungy
Soil
National Book Festival
Library of Congress
2023
reading
conversation
nature
January/February 2024

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