Conferences and Residencies Database

The 17th National Black Writers Conference (NBWC) was held from March 20 to March 23 at Medgar Evers College, City University of New York. This year’s conference was themed “All That We Carry: Where Do We Go From Here?” and drew its name from the...

The 37th annual New York State Summer Writers Institute will be held from June 23 to July 20 at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs. The program will feature two- and four-week workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction for in-person...

The 2023 North Carolina Writers’ Network Fall Conference was held from November 3 to November 5 at the Hilton Charlotte University Place hotel in Charlotte, North Carolina. The conference featured classes in poetry, fiction, and creative...

The 2023 North Carolina Writers’ Network (NCWN) Squire Summer Writing Workshops was held from July 20 to July 23 at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem. The conference featured workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, as well as...

The Orion Environmental Writers’ Workshop will be held from June 16 to June 21 at the Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, New York. The program features workshops (limited to 12 participants each), faculty readings, panels on publishing, and...

Poetry by the Sea: A Global Conference will be held from May 21 to May 24 at Mercy by the Sea, a retreat center and private beach in Madison, Connecticut. The conference features workshops, seminars, readings, and panels. The faculty includes...

The 2024 Red Clay Writers Conference, sponsored by the Georgia Writers Association, was held on April 20 at Kennesaw State University. The conference featured writing workshops and panels on literary journals and publishing for poets, fiction...

The 34th annual Sewanee Writers’ Conference will be held from July 16 to July 28 on the campus of the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee. The conference features workshops, special topics classes, lectures, one-on-one meetings with...

Squam 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...

The 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...

The 2024 Writer’s Hotel Maine “Mini MFA” All-Genre Writers Conference will be held from June 5 to June 11 at the Spruce Point Inn in Boothbay Harbor, Maine. The conference features a full-manuscript pre-conference reading with two sets of...

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-...