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 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 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 Fall Into Focus Residency Program offers one- or two-month residencies to poets, fiction writers, nonfiction writers, and translators from September to November in the countryside region of Hämeenkyrö, Finland....
read more Event Date: September 1, 2024
Application Deadline: May 2, 2024
Financial Aid Deadline: May 2, 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 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...
read more Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The Cambridge Writers’ Workshop Budapest and Prague Writing Retreat will be held from July 19 to July 27 in the historic city centers of Budapest and Prague. The retreat features 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 Celia and Wally Gilbert Artist-in-Residence Program offers residencies of one to three weeks year-round to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers looking to ìexplore the scientific process and interact with international...
read more Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The Civitella Ranieri Foundation “Forms of Wonder” workshop will be held from November 16 to November 25 at the 15th-century Civitella Ranieri Castle in Umbria, Italy. The workshop features writing sessions, craft lectures, and excursions to...
read more Event Date: November 16, 2024
Application Deadline: June 1, 2024
Craigardan offers two-week to one-month residencies year-round to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers at Craigardan, a nonprofit arts and agricultural academic center in Keene, located on Hurricane Mountain in the Adirondack...
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Creekside Arts offers three-week residencies from May 18 to June 10 to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers on the coastal redwoods of Freshwater, California. Residents are provided with a private room, kitchen, bathroom, and...
read more Event Date: May 18, 2024
Application Deadline: February 15, 2024
The Cuttyhunk Island Writers’ Residency for fiction writers will be held from September 11 to September 18 at the Avalon Inn on Cuttyhunk Island, seven nautical miles off the coast of southeastern Massachusetts. The residency offers workshops,...
read more Event Date: September 11, 2024
Application Deadline: May 15, 2024
Financial Aid Deadline: May 15, 2024
The Djerassi Resident Artists Program offere four- and five-week residencies from mid-March through mid-November to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers on a 583-acre ranch located approximately 40 miles south of San Francisco...
read moreThe Edith Wharton–Straw Dog Writers Guild Writers-in-Residence Program offered one-week residencies during the month of March to nine emerging poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers at the Mount, Edith Wharton’s former home in...
read more Event Date: March 1, 2024
The Essere Writer & Artist Residency, which will be held from September 21, 2024, to October 5, 2024, offers two-week residencies in the medieval Camporsevoli estate in the Cetona province of Tuscany, Italy. The residency features programming...
read more Event Date: September 21, 2024
Application Deadline: January 15, 2024
Financial Aid Deadline: January 15, 2024
Event Horizon offers residencies of two weeks to three months year-round to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers on five acres of olive groves in Crete, Greece. Residents are provided with lodging on site or in nearby affiliate...
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The Fiction Meets Science Residency offers up to two residencies of three to ten months annually to fiction and nonfiction writers at the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg Institute for Advanced Study in Delmenhorst, Germany. Residents are provided with...
read more Application Deadline: May 15, 2024
The Foreword Writing and Publishing Retreat will be held from September 22 to September 28 at a chalet in Chamonix, France, a resort area at the base of Mont Blanc, the highest summit in the Alps, near the junction of France, Italy, and...
read more Event Date: September 22, 2024
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Franconia Sculpture Park offers eight residencies of two weeks in January and October to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers at an outdoor sculpture park located in the St. Croix River Valley, in Shafer, Minnesota. Residents...
read more Event Date: January 10, 2024
The Good Hart Artist Residency offers two- to three-week residencies year-round to artists and writers, including poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers, in the woods bordering the “Tunnel of Trees” Scenic Heritage Route in Good...
read more Application Deadline: January 8, 2024
The 2023 Guanajuato Writing Retreat: Writing—and Living—Boldly was held from November 5 to November 12 at the Florecer Casitas in Guanajuato, the hilly capital city of the Guanajuato state, in Mexico’s high plateau region. The retreat (limited to...
read moreHambidge offers twelve residencies of two to eight weeks to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers on 600 forested acres in the Blue Ridge Mountains of northern Georgia. Each resident is provided with a private cottage, which...
read more Event Date: September 1, 2024
Application Deadline: April 15, 2024
Financial Aid Deadline: April 15, 2024
Headlands Center for the Arts offers four- to ten-week residencies from mid-June to mid-November to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers in the coastal wilderness of the Marin Headlands outside San Francisco. Residents are...
read more Event Date: June 15, 2024
Application Deadline: June 10, 2024