The 2024 Southern Festival of Books: A Celebration of the Written Word, sponsored by Humanities Tennessee, will be held on October 26 and October 27 at the Bicentennial Capitol Mall State Park, Tennessee State Library & Archives, and...
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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.
The Spring Creek Project offers two-week collaborative residencies in August and September to pairs of poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers at the Cabin at Shotpouch Creek in the Oregon Coast Range. The...
read moreSquam Writes offered a retreat from June 8 to June 11 to fiction and creative nonfiction writers at Rockywold Deephaven Camps, a historic resort campsite in Holderness, New Hampshire. Residents were provided lodging in cottages, cabins, and lodge...
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Storyknife offers two- to four-week residencies from April to October to women poets, fiction writers, and nonfiction writers on ten acres of wilderness overlooking the Aleutian Range outside of Homer, Alaska. Each resident is provided with meals...
read more Event Date: April 1, 2025
Application Deadline: August 31, 2024
Financial Aid Deadline: August 31, 2024
Studio Faire offers two- or four-week residencies between April and October to artists and writers, including poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, and translators, at an early 19th-century house in Nérac, France. The residency...
read more Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The Studios of Key West offers monthlong residencies to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers at the Old Town campus in the Duval Street neighborhood in Key West, Florida. Residents are provided with private lodging and work...
read moreThe 36th annual Summer Fishtrap Gathering of Writers was held from July 10 to July 16 at Wallowa Lake Lodge on the shores of Wallowa Lake, Oregon. The weeklong conference featured generative writing workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative...
read moreThe Sundog Poetry Retreat at Fielder Farm was held from November 3 to November 5 at the 230-acre Fielder Farm in Huntington, Vermont. The retreat featured workshops, craft talks, and readings for poets. The faculty included poets Alison Prine and...
read moreSunlit Residency offers weekly residencies of one to three weeks and monthly residencies of up to three months year-round to poets, fiction writers, nonfiction writers, and translators at the Sue-Je Lee Gage Residency for Human Rights and Social...
read more Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Taleamor Park offers two- to four-week residencies from April to September to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers on a working grain farm and nature preserve with walking paths in northwestern Indiana between the towns of La...
read more Event Date: April 1, 2025
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The eighth annual Taos Writers Conference was held from July 19 to July 21 at Society of the Muse of the Southwest, a literary organization in Taos, New Mexico. The conference featured workshops for poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction...
read more Event Date: July 19, 2024
Application Deadline: July 11, 2024
The 2024 Texas Book Festival will be held on November 16 and November 17 in downtown Austin. The festival features panels and discussions with more than 250 authors and hosts nearly 100 exhibitions from magazines, presses, and other literary...
read more Event Date: November 16, 2024
The Cabins retreat was held from June 18 to June 22 in cabins on Tobey Pond in the Great Mountain Forest near Norfolk, Connecticut. The retreat offered collaborative, interdisciplinary presentations and group exercises led by and for attendees,...
read moreThe 2025 Writer’s Hotel Maine “Mini MFA” All-Genre Writers Conference will be held from June 4, 2025, to June 10, 2025, at the Spruce Point Inn in Boothbay Harbor, Maine. The conference features a full-manuscript pre-conference reading with two...
read more Event Date: June 4, 2025
Application Deadline: February 19, 2025
The 2022 Writer’s Hotel “Mini MFA” Conference in Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry was held virtually from June 8 to June 15. The conference featured two full manuscript readings with two sets of editorial comments offered per reading, one pre-...
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Good Contrivance Farm, an educational nonprofit, offers residencies of up to four weeks year-round to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers on a Victorian farm in Reisterstown, Maryland, located 24 miles north of Baltimore....
read more Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The 20th annual Tin House Summer Workshop was held from July 8 to July 16 at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. The program featured workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction (limited to 8 to 10 members per class), as well as one-on-...
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The annual Tinker Mountain Writers’ Workshop was held from June 9 to June 13 at the Hollins University campus in Roanoke, Virginia. The conference featured generative manuscript workshops and tutorials in poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and...
read more Event Date: June 9, 2024
Financial Aid Deadline: March 4, 2024
The Todos Santos Writers Workshop Paris in Spring: A Memoir Intensive was held from May 6 to May 13 in an atelier in the seventh arrondissement of Paris, near the Eiffel Tower and Rodin Museum. The intensive included daily workshops in narrative...
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The 2024 Todos Santos Writers Workshop (TSWW) Winter Session will be held from February 4, 2024, to February 10, 2024, in Todos Santos, Baja California Sur, Mexico. A second optional week of study from February 12, 2024, to February 16, 2024, is...
read more Event Date: February 4, 2024
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The Tremont Writers Conference will be held from October 23 to October 27 at the Great Smoky Mountains Institute at Tremont in a secluded campus in Townsend, Tennessee. The conference features workshops, author readings, and craft talks for poets...
read more Event Date: October 23, 2024
Application Deadline: April 30, 2024
Financial Aid Deadline: April 30, 2024
The Tulsa NightWriters Craft of Writing Conference will be held on October 19 and October 20 at Oklahoma State University’s Center for Poets and Writers in Tulsa. The conference features panel discussions, presentations on the craft and business...
read more Event Date: October 19, 2024
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The Tusen Takk Foundation offers residencies of three to eight weeks from March to December to poets, fiction writers, and nonfiction writers at the modern Tusen Takk guesthouse on an isolated peninsula on Lake Michigan, approximately 25 miles...
read moreThe 12th annual Tutka Bay Writers Retreat, sponsored by 49 Writers, was held from September 23 to September 25 at Tutka Bay Lodge near Homer, Alaska. The retreat offered an intimate workshop, capped at 15 participants, open to poets, fiction...
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The Writers Studio, sponsored by the UCLA Extension Writers’ Program, was held from August 1 to August 4 on the UCLA campus in Los Angeles. The conference featured workshops in fiction and creative nonfiction as well as a literary agent search...
read more Event Date: August 1, 2024
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions