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Conferences and Residencies Database

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.

Creative Nonfiction
Paris, France

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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Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Todos Santos, Baja California Sur, Mexico

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...

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Event Date: February 4, 2024
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Townsend, TN

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...

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Event Date: October 23, 2024
Application Deadline: April 30, 2024
Financial Aid Deadline: April 30, 2024
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation
Anchorage, AK

The 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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Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Los Angeles, CA

The Writers Studio, sponsored by the UCLA Extension Writers’ Program, was held from February 23 to February 26 on the UCLA campus in Los Angeles. The conference featured workshops in fiction and creative nonfiction as well as a literary agent...

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Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Tepoztlán, Mexico
Under the Volcano

The 21st annual Under the Volcano Master Classes and Guided Residency was held from January 12, 2024, to January 28, 2024, in Tepoztlán, Mexico, a village located one hour from Mexico City in the foothills of snow-capped volcanoes. The program...

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Event Date: January 12, 2024
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Fiction
Portland, OR

The Underground Workshop was held from June 8 to June 15 in the Pearl District of Portland, Oregon. The workshop, which was open to fiction writers, included workshops, individual manuscript consultations, local excursions, readings, and an...

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Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Burlington, VT
A red building with a green roof on the campus of the Vermont College of Fine Art

The 29th annual Vermont College of Fine Arts (VCFA) Postgraduate Writers’ Conference will be held from August 3 to August 9 on the Champlain College campus in Burlington, Vermont. Designed for writers with graduate degrees or equivalent...

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Event Date: August 3, 2024
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Financial Aid Deadline: August 2, 2024
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation
Portland, OR

The 2023 Willamette Writers Conference was held online and in person at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Downtown Portland, Oregon, from August 2 to August 6. The conference featured workshops, keynotes, panels, pitch sessions, and critiques for poets,...

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Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Atlantic City, NJ

The 30th annual Winter Poetry & Prose Getaway was held from January 12, 2024, to January 15, 2024, at the Seaview Hotel near Atlantic City. The program, sponsored by Murphy Writing of Stockton University, offered small, intensive workshops in...

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Event Date: January 12, 2024
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Edmonds, WA

The 38th annual Write on the Sound conference was held in person at the Frances Anderson Center in Edmonds, Washington, from October 6 to October 8; online preconference sessions were held on September 30. The conference featured craft sessions,...

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Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Oklahoma City, OK

WriterCon 2023 was held from September 1 to September 4 at the Renaissance Waterford Hotel in Oklahoma City. The conference featured over 70 presentations from more than 60 authors, editors, agents, and publishers, opportunities for pitching and...

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Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Cheyenne, WY

The 2023 Wyoming Writers Conference was held from June 2 to June 4 at the Historic Plains Hotel in Cheyenne, Wyoming. The conference featured workshops in craft, marketing, and productivity for poets, fiction writers, and nonfiction writers, as...

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Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions

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