Genre: Creative Nonfiction

Pattis Family Foundation Creative Arts Book Award

Interlochen Center for the Arts
Entry Fee: 
$0
Deadline: 
June 1, 2024
A prize of $25,000 and a weeklong residency at Interlochen Center for the Arts in Interlochen, Michigan, will be given annually for a book of fiction or nonfiction published in the previous two years “that inspires, illuminates, or exemplifies the creative process.” The winner will also participate in an event cohosted by the National Writers Series in Traverse City, Michigan, in April 2025. Using only the online submission system, submit a book of any length published in 2022 or 2023 by June 1. There is no entry fee. Visit the website for the required entry form and complete guidelines.

Robert Traver Fly-Fishing Writing Award

John D. Voelker Foundation
Entry Fee: 
$25
Deadline: 
May 31, 2024
A prize of $2,500 and publication in American Fly Fisher as well as on the John D. Voelker Foundation and the American Museum of Fly Fishing websites will be given annually for a short story or an essay that “embodies the implicit love of fly fishing…and the natural world in which it takes place.” Using only the online submission system, submit up to 3,000 words of prose with a $25 entry fee by May 31. Visit the website for complete guidelines.

Agents & Editors Conference

May/June 2024

The Writers’ League of Texas (WLT) 2024 Agents & Editors Conference will be held from June 21 to June 23 at the Hyatt Regency on Lady Bird Lake in Austin, Texas. The conference features presentations, panels, authors in conversation, and a keynote address for fiction and creative nonfiction writers.

Type: 
CONFERENCE
Ignore Event Date Field?: 
no
Event Date: 
June 21, 2024
Rolling Admissions: 
yes
Application Deadline: 
May 20, 2024
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
May 20, 2024
Free Admission: 
no
Contact Information: 

Agents & Editors Conference, Writers’ League of Texas, 611 South Congress Avenue, Suite 200 A-3, Austin, TX 78704. (512) 499-8914. Becka Oliver, Executive Director. 

Becka Oliver
Executive Director
Contact City: 
Austin
Contact State: 
TX
Country: 
US
Genre: 
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction

Anne LaBastille Memorial Writing Residency

May/June 2024

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 residents will be chosen from the Adirondack region and the other three from anywhere else in the world. Residents are each provided with a private room and bathroom, work space, and meals. There is no cost to attend the residency, but residents are responsible for travel expenses to and from Twitchell Lake.

Type: 
RESIDENCY
Ignore Event Date Field?: 
no
Event Date: 
September 22, 2024
Rolling Admissions: 
no
Application Deadline: 
May 19, 2024
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
May 20, 2024
Free Admission: 
yes
Contact Information: 

Anne LaBastille Memorial Writing Residency, Adirondack Center for Writing, P.O. Box 956, Saranac Lake, NY 12983. (518) 354-1261. Nathalie Thill, Executive Director. 

Nathalie Thill
Executive Director
Contact City: 
Twitchell Lake
Contact State: 
NY
Contact Zip / Postal Code: 
12983
Country: 
US
Add Image: 
Genre: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction

Salty Quill Writers’ Retreat for Women

May/June 2024

The Salty Quill Writers’ Retreat for Women offers one-week residencies three times a year to twelve poets, fiction writers, nonfiction writers, and translators who identify as women at McGee Island, a 110-acre private island located three miles east of Port Clyde, Maine. Residents are provided with lodging at a turn-of-the-century oceanfront summer cottage in single- or shared-occupancy rooms, three chef-prepared meals a day, transportation to and from the island, and the opportunity to participate in after-dinner readings and critiques and to wander trails, kayak, or enjoy a sauna.

Type: 
RESIDENCY
Ignore Event Date Field?: 
no
Event Date: 
September 7, 2024
Rolling Admissions: 
yes
Application Deadline: 
May 20, 2024
Financial Aid?: 
yes
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
June 15, 2024
Free Admission: 
no
Contact Information: 

Salty Quill Writers’ Retreat for Women, 11 Willow Street, Hull, MA 02045. Pamela Loring, Cofounder and Program Director.

Pamela Loring
Cofounder and Program Director
Contact City: 
McGee Island
Contact State: 
ME
Country: 
US
Genre: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction
Translation

Renaissance House Residency Program

May/June 2024

The Renaissance House Residency Program offers residencies of one to two weeks in July to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers at the former writing barn of Dorothy West in Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts. The residencies include workshops, lectures, and time to write. Visiting writers include fiction and nonfiction writer Jill Nelson; nonfiction writers Nancy Slonim Aronie, Cole Brown, Jessica B. Harris, and Susan Klein; and scholar Salem Mekuria.

Type: 
RESIDENCY
Ignore Event Date Field?: 
no
Event Date: 
July 1, 2024
Rolling Admissions: 
yes
Application Deadline: 
May 20, 2024
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
May 20, 2024
Free Admission: 
no
Contact Information: 

Renaissance House Residency Program, Helene Johnson and Dorothy West Foundation for Artists in Need, 484 West 43rd Street, Suite 37E, New York, NY 10036. (917) 747-0367. Abigail McGrath, Founder.

Abigail McGrath
Founder
Contact City: 
Martha’s Vineyard
Contact State: 
MA
Country: 
US
Genre: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction

Sunlit Residency

May/June 2024

Sunlit 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 Justice in Ithaca, New York. The residency provides time and space to write. The faculty includes fiction writer Nick Kowalczyk and translator Annette H. Levine, both of who live on-site and are available to consult with residents by request. Residents are provided with a private bedroom and full kitchen as well as shared studio space.

Type: 
RESIDENCY
Ignore Event Date Field?: 
yes
Event Date: 
May 20, 2024
Rolling Admissions: 
yes
Application Deadline: 
May 20, 2024
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
May 20, 2024
Free Admission: 
no
Contact Information: 

Sunlit Residency, 232 Valley Road, Ithaca, NY 14850. (607) 229-2683. Annette Levine, Executive Director.

Annette Levine
Executive Director
Contact City: 
Ithaca
Contact State: 
NY
Contact Zip / Postal Code: 
14850
Country: 
US
Genre: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction
Translation

Taos Writers Conference

May/June 2024

The eighth annual Taos Writers Conference will be held from July 19 to July 21 at Society of the Muse of the Southwest, a literary organization in Taos, New Mexico. The conference features workshops for poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, and writers working in hybrid genres, as well as intensive critique sessions, faculty readings, and roundtable discussions with agents and editors. The faculty includes poets Tommy Archuleta, Lauren Camp, Veronica Golos, Valerie Martínez, Sawnie Morris, Susannah W. Simpson, and Catherine Strisik; fiction and nonfiction writers Johnny D.

Type: 
CONFERENCE
Ignore Event Date Field?: 
no
Event Date: 
July 19, 2024
Rolling Admissions: 
no
Application Deadline: 
July 11, 2024
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
May 20, 2024
Free Admission: 
no
Contact Information: 

Taos Writers Conference, P.O. Box 3225, Taos, NM 87571. (575) 758-0081. Jan Smith, Executive Director.

Jan Smith
Executive Director
Contact City: 
Taos
Contact State: 
NM
Contact Zip / Postal Code: 
87571
Country: 
US
Genre: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

May/June 2024

The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts offers residencies of varying lengths (up to six weeks) year-round to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers at Mt. San Angelo in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Residents are provided with private lodging and studio space, meals, and access to the facilities of nearby Sweet Briar College. The residency fee is $75 a day; full fellowships and need-based financial aid are available.

Type: 
RESIDENCY
Ignore Event Date Field?: 
yes
Event Date: 
May 20, 2024
Rolling Admissions: 
no
Application Deadline: 
May 15, 2024
Financial Aid?: 
yes
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
May 15, 2024
Free Admission: 
no
Contact Information: 

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, 154 San Angelo Drive, Amherst, VA 24521. (434) 946-7236.

Contact City: 
Amherst
Contact State: 
VA
Contact Zip / Postal Code: 
24521
Country: 
US
Genre: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction

Biographers International Organization Conference

May/June 2024

The 2024 Biographers International Organization (BIO) Conference will be held on May 16 and May 17 at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York in New York City; select events will also be streamed online. The conference features panels on craft and current issues in biography, including archival research, writing on science, the intersection of art and politics, and the treatment of factors such as race, gender, class, sexuality, intersectionality, and borders in African American and Asian American biography.

Type: 
CONFERENCE
Ignore Event Date Field?: 
no
Event Date: 
May 16, 2024
Rolling Admissions: 
no
Application Deadline: 
May 17, 2024
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
May 20, 2024
Free Admission: 
no
Contact Information: 

Biographers International Organization Conference, Biographers International Organization, P.O. Box 33020, Santa Fe, NM 87594. Michael Gately, Executive Director.

Michael Gately
Executive Director
Contact City: 
New York City
Contact State: 
NY
Contact Zip / Postal Code: 
10016
Country: 
US
Genre: 
Creative Nonfiction

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