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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.

Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Lansing, MI

The 37th annual A Rally of Writers conference was held on April 13 at the West Campus of Lansing Community College in Lansing, Michigan. The conference featured workshops, panel discussions, and readings in poetry, fiction, and creative...

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Event Date: April 13, 2024
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Paducah, KY

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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Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Lošinj, Croatia

The inaugural 2025 Adriatic Writers Conference will be held from May 10 to May 17 at the Hotel Bellevue on Lošinj island in Croatia. Programming includes small-group workshops, craft classes, a one-on-one meeting with a writing instructor, master...

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Event Date: May 10, 2025
Application Deadline: January 1, 2025
Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Austin, TX

The Writers’ League of Texas (WLT) 2024 Agents & Editors Conference was held from June 21 to June 23 at the Hyatt Regency on Lady Bird Lake in Austin, Texas. The conference featured presentations, panels, authors in conversation, and a...

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Event Date: June 21, 2024
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Tres Piedras, NM

The Aldo and Estella Leopold Residency offers monthlong residencies from May through October to poets, fiction writers, and nonfiction writers in the late environmental essayist Aldo Leopold’s cabin in Tres Piedras, New Mexico. Writers exploring...

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Event Date: May 1, 2025
Application Deadline: February 25, 2025
Creative Nonfiction
Columbia County, NY

The 2022 All Write Creative Nonfiction Conference was held from October 19 to October 23 at the Spencertown Academy in Columbia County, New York. The conference featured one-hour workshops to discuss 15 to 20 pages of each writer’s work, an...

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Fiction
Columbia County, NY

The 2023 All Write Fiction Conference will be held from November 9 to November 12 at the Spencertown Academy in Columbia County, New York. The conference features workshops to discuss 15 to 20 pages of each writer’s work, an opening night...

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Translation
Milwaukee, WI

The 47th annual American Literary Translators Association Conference was held from October 25 to October 28 at the Hyatt Regency Milwaukee Hotel in Milwaukee. Programming included panels, workshops, bilingual readings, a bookfair, a gathering of...

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Event Date: October 25, 2024
Application Deadline: September 9, 2024
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Paris, France

The American University of Paris Summer Creative Writing Institute offered workshops to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers from July 1 to July 23 on the university’s campus in the seventh arrondissement of Paris. The faculty...

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Event Date: July 1, 2024
Application Deadline: June 1, 2024
Financial Aid Deadline: March 29, 2024
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Columbus, OH

The Aminah Robinson Writer/Scholar/Researcher Residency, sponsored by the Columbus Museum, offers a three-month residency from May through July to a poet, fiction writer, or nonfiction writer at the Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson home studio in the...

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Event Date: May 1, 2025
Application Deadline: November 1, 2024
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation
Red Wing, MN

The 2024 Anderson Center Artist Residency Program offers residencies of two weeks or one month from August through October to poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, and translators at Tower View, a 350-acre historic estate in Red...

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Event Date: August 1, 2025
Application Deadline: January 14, 2025
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Twitchell Lake, NY

The Adirondack Center for Writing offered 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...

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Event Date: September 22, 2024
Application Deadline: May 19, 2024
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation
Ghent, NY

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,...

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Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation
Hämeenkyrö, Finland

The Arteles Creative Center’s Silence Awareness Existence Residency Program offers one-month residencies to poets, fiction writers, nonfiction writers, and translators from January to March in the countryside region of Hämeenkyrö, Finland. Each...

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Event Date: January 1, 2025
Application Deadline: July 31, 2024
Financial Aid Deadline: July 31, 2024
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Snowmass Village, CO

The 47th annual Aspen Summer Words Writing Conference and Literary Festival was held from June 18 to June 23 at the Viewline, a resort in the mountain town of Snowmass, Colorado, around 15 minutes from downtown Aspen. The conference featured...

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Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Kansas City, MO

The 2024 AWP Conference and Bookfair was held from February 7 to February 10 at the Kansas City Convention Center in Kansas City, Missouri, and included a virtual component comprised of prerecorded and livestreamed events. The conference features...

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Event Date: February 7, 2024
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Atlanta, GA

The fall 2024 Atlanta Writers Conference, sponsored by the Atlanta Writers Club, was held on November 1 and November 2 at the Westin Atlanta Airport Hotel. The conference included a book fair featuring attendees’ books; presentations on the craft...

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Event Date: November 1, 2024
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Cassis, France

The BAU Institute offers a four-week residency from July 22 to August 19 to poets, fiction writers, and nonfiction writers at the Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France, a commune on the Mediterranean coast approximately 30 minutes from Marseille....

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Event Date: July 22, 2025
Application Deadline: February 28, 2025
Creative Nonfiction
New York City, NY

The 2024 Biographers International Organization (BIO) Conference was held on May 16 and May 17 at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York in New York City; select events were also streamed online. The conference featured panels on...

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Event Date: May 16, 2024
Application Deadline: May 17, 2024
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Bogliasco, Italy
Bogliasco

The Bogliasco Foundation offers monthlong 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, seven miles southeast of Genoa...

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Application Deadline: March 7, 2025
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Brattleboro, VT

The 23rd annual Brattleboro Literary Festival was held from October 18 to October 20 in downtown Brattleboro, Vermont. The festival featured readings, panels, and author conversations. Participating writers included poets Sharon Dolin, Jessica...

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Event Date: October 18, 2024
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Ripton, VT

The 2025 Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference will be held from June 15 to June 21 in the Green Mountains of Ripton, Vermont. The conference, designed for poets and prose writers whose work deals with the environment and the natural world...

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Event Date: June 15, 2025
Application Deadline: February 1, 2025
Financial Aid Deadline: February 1, 2025
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation
Ripton, VT

The 2025 Bread Loaf Translators’ Conference will be held from June 15 to June 21 in the Green Mountains of Ripton, Vermont. The conference, designed for both emerging and established translators, features translation workshops in poetry, fiction...

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Event Date: June 15, 2025
Application Deadline: February 1, 2025
Financial Aid Deadline: February 1, 2025
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Ripton, VT

The 2025 Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference will be held from August 13 to August 23 in the Green Mountains of Ripton, Vermont. The conference features workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, as well as lectures; craft classes;...

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Event Date: August 13, 2025
Application Deadline: February 1, 2025
Financial Aid Deadline: February 1, 2025
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Decatur, GA

The ninth annual Broadleaf Writers Conference was held on September 21 and September 22 at the Decatur Library in Decatur, Georgia. The conference featured panels, first page critiques, and workshops for poets, fiction writers, and nonfiction...

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Event Date: September 21, 2024
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions

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