The 2020 Cambridge Writers’ Workshop Spring in New Orleans Writing Retreat was held from March 19 to March 22 at the Pelham Hotel, a five-minute walk from the French Quarter. The retreat featured multi-genre and publishing workshops, craft...
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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 2024 Cape Cod Writers Center Conference was held from August 1 to August 4 at the Emerald Resort/Cape Cod Irish Village hotel in Barnstable, Massachusetts. The conference featured workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, an...
read more Event Date: August 1, 2024
Application Deadline: July 25, 2024
The 2023 Catamaran Writing Conference was held from July 30 to August 3 at the Robert Louis Stevenson School in Pebble Beach, California. The conference featured small group workshops, lectures, craft talks, and daily excursions for poets,...
read moreThe 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 “explore the scientific process and interact with international...
read more Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The 2023 Chautauqua Writers’ Festival was held from June 21 to June 24 at the historic Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, New York. The conference featured workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, as well as readings and panel...
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The tenth annual Chesapeake Writers’ Conference was held from June 18 to June 24 on the St. Mary’s College campus in St. Mary’s City, Maryland. The conference featured lectures, craft talks, readings, panel discussions, and daily workshops in...
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The 11th annual Chuckanut Writers Conference, cohosted by Whatcom Community College and Village Books in Bellingham, Washington, was held online from June 21 to June 27. The conference featured breakout sessions in poetry, fiction, and creative...
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
The Colrain Poetry Manuscript Conference will be held online from November 15, 2024, to November 18, 2024, and again from January 17, 2025, to January 20, 2025. Each conference features workshop evaluation and discussion of book-length and...
read more Event Date: November 15, 2024
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The Community of Writers offered workshops in poetry from June 17 to June 23 and in fiction and nonfiction (including creative nonfiction) from July 8 to July 15 in Olympic Valley, near Lake Tahoe in California’s Sierra Nevada. The program...
read more Event Date: June 17, 2024
Application Deadline: March 1, 2024
Financial Aid Deadline: March 1, 2024
The Concord Free Public Library Writer-in-Residence Program offers a six-month residency from January to June to a poet, fiction writer, or creative nonfiction writer at the historic Concord Free Public Library (CFPL) in Concord, Massachusetts....
read more Event Date: January 1, 2025
Application Deadline: July 15, 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...
read more Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Creekside Arts offered 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 were 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 was 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 offered workshops,...
read more Event Date: September 11, 2024
Application Deadline: May 15, 2024
Financial Aid Deadline: May 15, 2024
The Desert Nights, Rising Stars Writers Conference, sponsored by the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing at Arizona State University (ASU), was held from October 10 to October 12 at the Memorial Union community center on the university’...
read more Event Date: October 10, 2024
Application Deadline: September 30, 2024
Financial Aid Deadline: September 30, 2024
The 2025 DISQUIET International Literary Program, sponsored by Dzanc Books and Centro Nacional de Cultura, will be held from June 22, 2025, to July 4, 2025, at the Centro Nacional de Cultura in Lisbon, Portugal. The conference features workshops...
read more Event Date: June 22, 2025
Application Deadline: December 2, 2024
Financial Aid Deadline: January 6, 2025
The Djerassi Resident Artists Program offers monthlong residencies from February through November to poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, and translators on a 583-acre ranch in the Santa Cruz Mountains, approximately 37 miles...
read more Event Date: February 1, 2025
Application Deadline: October 1, 2024
The Edith Wharton–Straw Dog Writers Guild Writers-in-Residence Program offers 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, 2025
Application Deadline: October 1, 2024
Financial Aid Deadline: October 1, 2024
The 2024 Elk River Writers Workshop was held from August 11 to August 16 at Chico Hot Springs, a historic retreat in Pray, Montana, near Yellowstone National Park. The program featured workshops, craft talks, outings, lectures, panel discussions...
read more Event Date: August 11, 2024
Application Deadline: May 1, 2024
Financial Aid Deadline: April 1, 2024
The Essere Writer & Artist Residency, which will be held from May 10, 2025, to May 24, 2025, and again from September 13, 2025, to September 27, 2025, offers two-week residencies at the medieval Camporsevoli estate in the Cetona province of...
read more Event Date: May 10, 2025
Application Deadline: November 20, 2024
Financial Aid Deadline: November 20, 2024
Event Horizon offers residencies of two weeks to three months year-round to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers on eight acres of olive groves in Crete, Greece. Residents are provided with lodging on site or in nearby...
read more Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
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 Fine Arts Work Center’s (FAWC) annual summer workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction were held from June 16 to August 16 in Provincetown, Massachusetts. The faculty included poets Cameron Awkward-Rich, Samiya Bashir, Gabrielle...
read more Event Date: June 16, 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 seventh annual Frost Farm Poetry Conference was held from August 16 to August 18 at the Robert Frost Farm in Derry, New Hampshire. The conference featured workshops, readings, and one-on-one consultations for poets. The faculty included poets...
read more Event Date: August 16, 2024
Application Deadline: August 1, 2024