The 37th annual A Rally of Writers conference was held on April 13 at the West Campus of Lansing Community College in Lansing, Michigan. The conference featured workshops, panel discussions, and readings in poetry, fiction, and creative...
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Looking to meet up with agents and editors? To join a supportive writing community? Or to find the perfect environment to fuel your writing practice? The Conferences & Residencies database includes details about over two hundred writing conferences, writers residencies, and literary festivals.
A.I.R. Studio Paducah offers residencies of two weeks to three months year-round to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers in the Lower Town Arts District of Paducah, Kentucky. Residents are provided with a private apartment, Wi-...
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The Writers’ League of Texas (WLT) 2024 Agents & Editors Conference was held from June 21 to June 23 at the Hyatt Regency on Lady Bird Lake in Austin, Texas. The conference featured presentations, panels, authors in conversation, and a...
read more Event Date: June 21, 2024
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The 2022 All Write Creative Nonfiction Conference was held from October 19 to October 23 at the Spencertown Academy in Columbia County, New York. The conference featured one-hour workshops to discuss 15 to 20 pages of each writer’s work, an...
read moreThe 2023 All Write Fiction Conference will be held from November 9 to November 12 at the Spencertown Academy in Columbia County, New York. The conference features workshops to discuss 15 to 20 pages of each writer’s work, an opening night...
read moreThe 47th annual American Literary Translators Association Conference will be held from October 25 to October 28 at the Hyatt Regency Milwaukee Hotel in Milwaukee. Programming includes panels, workshops, bilingual readings, a bookfair, a gathering...
read more Event Date: October 25, 2024
Application Deadline: September 9, 2024
The American University of Paris Summer Creative Writing Institute offers workshops to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers from July 1 to July 23 on the university’s campus in the seventh arrondissement of Paris. The faculty...
read more Event Date: July 1, 2024
Application Deadline: June 1, 2024
Financial Aid Deadline: March 29, 2024
The 2023 General Artist Residency Program offers residencies of two weeks or one month during July, September, October, and November to poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, and translators at Tower View, a 350-acre historic estate...
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The Adirondack Center for Writing will offer a two-week residency from September 22 to October 6 to six poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers at a lodge on Twitchell Lake in the Adirondack Mountains in New York. Three of the...
read more Event Date: September 22, 2024
Application Deadline: May 19, 2024
Residencies of one week to two months are offered to poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, and translators from late March through early June and from early September through early November at Omi International Arts Center,...
read moreThe Arteles Creative Center’s Silence Awareness Existence Residency Program offers one-month residencies to poets, fiction writers, nonfiction writers, and translators from January to March in the countryside region of Hämeenkyrö, Finland. Each...
read more Event Date: January 1, 2025
Application Deadline: July 31, 2024
Financial Aid Deadline: July 31, 2024
The 47th annual Aspen Summer Words Writing Conference and Literary Festival was held from June 18 to June 23 at the Viewline, a resort in the mountain town of Snowmass, Colorado, around 15 minutes from downtown Aspen. The conference featured...
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The 2024 AWP Conference and Bookfair was held from February 7 to February 10 at the Kansas City Convention Center in Kansas City, Missouri, and included a virtual component comprised of prerecorded and livestreamed events. The conference features...
read more Event Date: February 7, 2024
The fall 2024 Atlanta Writers Conference, sponsored by the Atlanta Writers Club, will be held on November 1 and November 2 at the Westin Atlanta Airport Hotel. The conference includes a book fair featuring attendees’ books; presentations on the...
read more Event Date: November 1, 2024
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The 2024 Biographers International Organization (BIO) Conference was held on May 16 and May 17 at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York in New York City; select events were also streamed online. The conference featured panels on...
read more Event Date: May 16, 2024
Application Deadline: May 17, 2024
The Bogliasco Foundation offers month-long residencies from January to May and from September to December to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers in the coastal fishing village of Bogliasco, Italy, located seven miles southeast...
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The 23rd annual Brattleboro Literary Festival will be held from October 18 to October 20 in downtown Brattleboro, Vermont. The festival features readings, panels, and author conversations. Participating writers include poets Sharon Dolin, Jessica...
read more Event Date: October 18, 2024
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The 2024 Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference was held from June 11 to June 17 in the Green Mountains of Ripton, Vermont. The conference, designed for poets and prose writers whose work deals with the environment and the natural world,...
read more Event Date: June 11, 2024
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Financial Aid Deadline: February 1, 2024
The 2024 Bread Loaf Translators’ Conference was held from June 11 to June 17 in the Green Mountains of Ripton, Vermont. The conference, designed for both emerging and established translators, featured translation workshops in poetry, fiction, and...
read more Event Date: June 11, 2024
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Financial Aid Deadline: February 1, 2024
The 2024 Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference was held from August 14 to August 24 in the Green Mountains of Ripton, Vermont. The conference featured workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, as well as lectures; craft classes; meetings...
read more Event Date: August 14, 2024
Application Deadline: February 1, 2024
Financial Aid Deadline: February 1, 2024
The ninth annual Broadleaf Writers Conference will be held on September 21 and September 22 at the Decatur Library in Decatur, Georgia. The conference features panels, first page critiques, and workshops for poets, fiction writers, and nonfiction...
read more Event Date: September 21, 2024
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The Museum of Fine Arts in Houston offered residencies of one to three months from July 1 to November 30 to mid-career poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers at the Dora Maar House in Ménerbes, France. Residents were provided...
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Buinho Creative Hub offers residencies of two weeks to three months year-round to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers in the historic town of Messejana, Portugal. Residents are provided with a single- or double-occupancy room...
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The Cambridge Writers’ Workshop Budapest and Prague Writing Retreat was held from July 19 to July 27 in the historic city centers of Budapest and Prague. The retreat featured writing and publishing workshops, craft seminars, and generative...
read more Event Date: July 19, 2024
Application Deadline: June 1, 2024
Financial Aid Deadline: May 15, 2024
The 2020 Cambridge Writers’ Workshop Spring in New Orleans Writing Retreat was held from March 19 to March 22 at the Pelham Hotel, a five-minute walk from the French Quarter. The retreat featured multi-genre and publishing workshops, craft...
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