Genre: Creative Nonfiction

Vermont Studio Center

March/April 2025

The Vermont Studio Center offers two-, three-, and four-week residencies year-round to poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, and translators in Johnson, Vermont, a village located in the heart of the northern Green Mountains. Residents are provided with time and space to write, as well as readings, craft talks, and one-on-one manuscript consultations with invited visiting writers. Residents receive a private room, a private studio, and meals. The cost of the residency is $2,700 for a two-week stay, $3,825 for a three-week stay, and $4,950 for a four-week stay.

Type: 
RESIDENCY
Ignore Event Date Field?: 
yes
Event Date: 
April 25, 2025
Rolling Admissions: 
no
Application Deadline: 
March 31, 2025
Financial Aid?: 
yes
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
March 31, 2025
Free Admission: 
no
Contact Information: 

Vermont Studio Center, 80 Pearl Street, P.O. Box 613, Johnson, VT 05656. (802) 635-2727.

Contact City: 
Johnson
Contact State: 
VT
Contact Zip / Postal Code: 
05656
Country: 
US
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Genre: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction
Translation

Last Dreams

The Time Is Now
4.24.25

In the introduction to his translation of Egyptian author Naguib Mahfouz’s I Found Myself…the Last Dreams, forthcoming in June from New Directions, Hisham Matar writes: “It is clear that Mahfouz, the professed realist, admired dreams, coveted their agile and wandering narratives, their convincing and often unsettling psychological and emotional power, and, perhaps most of all, their economy: how, in an instant, a world is evoked that is—no matter how unlikely or strange—convincingly compelling.” Matar goes on to describe the book’s short vignettes in which Mahfouz recorded his dreams in the last decade of his life. “Almost each starts with ‘I saw myself’ or ‘I found myself.’ And isn’t that the case, that we find or see ourselves in dreams…?” Try your hand at recording your own dreams for a stretch of time, perhaps beginning each entry with “I found myself…” Experiment with arranging them in an order that makes sense to you, through any type of thematic, narrative, or dream logic.

Chuckanut Writers Conference

The 2025 annual Chuckanut Writers Conference, cohosted by the Narrative Project, Sidekick Press, and Village Books and Paper Dreams, will be held on June 27 and June 28 at Sehome High School in Bellingham, Washington. The conference features workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, as well as keynote addresses, craft talks, author panels, an open mic, a faculty reading, and breakout sessions that combine lecture, discussion, and generative writing sessions.

Type: 
CONFERENCE
Ignore Event Date Field?: 
no
Event Date: 
June 27, 2025
Rolling Admissions: 
yes
Application Deadline: 
April 25, 2025
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
April 25, 2025
Free Admission: 
no
Contact Information: 

Chuckanut Writers Conference, 2700 Bill McDonal Parkway, Bellingham, WA 98225.

Contact City: 
Bellingham
Contact State: 
WA
Contact Zip / Postal Code: 
98225
Country: 
US
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Genre: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction

Anne LaBastille Memorial Writing Residency

May/June 2025

The Adirondack Center for Writing will offer a two-week residency from September 21 to October 5 to six poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers at a lodge on Twitchell Lake in the Adirondack Mountains in New York. Three residents will be chosen from the Adirondack region and three will be chosen 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 21, 2025
Rolling Admissions: 
no
Application Deadline: 
May 19, 2025
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
April 25, 2025
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
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Genre: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction

New York State Summer Writers Institute

May/June 2025

The 39th annual New York State Summer Writers Institute will be held from June 22 to July 19 at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs. The program features two- and four-week workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. The faculty includes poets Peg Boyers, Henri Cole, Megan Fernandes, Sandra Lim, and Rosanna Warren; fiction writers Elizabeth Benedict, Adam Braver, Vinson Cunningham, Amy Hempel, Binnie Kirshenbaum, Claire Messud, Susan Minot, and Rick Moody; and creative nonfiction writers Phillip Lopate and Thomas Chatterton Williams.

Type: 
CONFERENCE
Ignore Event Date Field?: 
no
Event Date: 
June 22, 2025
Rolling Admissions: 
yes
Application Deadline: 
April 25, 2025
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
April 25, 2025
Free Admission: 
no
Contact Information: 

New York State Summer Writers Institute, Skidmore College, Office of Special Programs, 815 North Broadway, Saratoga Springs, NY 12866. (518) 580-5593. Christine Merrill, Senior Program Coordinator. 

Christine Merrill
Senior Program Coordinator
Contact City: 
Saratoga Springs
Contact State: 
NY
Contact Zip / Postal Code: 
12866
Country: 
US
Genre: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction

Salty Quill Writers’ Retreat for Women

May/June 2025

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 as well as kayaking, hiking, and taking a sauna.

Type: 
RESIDENCY
Ignore Event Date Field?: 
no
Event Date: 
September 20, 2025
Rolling Admissions: 
yes
Application Deadline: 
April 25, 2025
Financial Aid?: 
yes
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
June 16, 2025
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

Summer Fishtrap Gathering of Writers

May/June 2025

The 38th annual Summer Fishtrap Gathering of Writers will be held from July 7 to July 13 at Wallowa Lake Lodge on the shores of Wallowa Lake, Oregon. The weeklong conference features generative writing workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, as well as panel discussions, craft talks, open mics, and readings. The faculty includes poets Charles Goodrich and Anis Mojgani, fiction writers Nina McConigley and Joe Wilkins, and creative nonfiction writers Erica Berry and Stephanie Elizondo Griest. Fiction and nonfiction writer Beth Piatote will deliver the keynote address.

Type: 
CONFERENCE
Ignore Event Date Field?: 
no
Event Date: 
July 7, 2025
Rolling Admissions: 
no
Application Deadline: 
July 7, 2025
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
April 25, 2025
Free Admission: 
no
Contact Information: 

Summer Fishtrap Gathering of Writers, P.O. Box 38, Enterprise, OR 97828. (541) 426-3623. Shannon McNerney, Executive Director.

Shannon McNerney
Executive Director
Contact City: 
Wallowa Lake
Contact State: 
OR
Contact Zip / Postal Code: 
97846
Country: 
US
Genre: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction

Biographers International Organization Conference

May/June 2025

The 2025 Biographers International Organization (BIO) Conference will be held on June 5 and June 6 at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.; select events will also be streamed online. The conference theme will be “Potomac Fever.” Programming includes panels on craft and current issues in biography, including archival research; presidents and first ladies; sports; Black music; the use and misuse of artificial intelligence; audio platforms; and navigating problems with sourcing, scandals, and elusive subjects.

Type: 
CONFERENCE
Ignore Event Date Field?: 
no
Event Date: 
June 5, 2025
Rolling Admissions: 
no
Application Deadline: 
June 5, 2025
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
April 25, 2025
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: 
Washington D.C.
Contact State: 
DC
Contact Zip / Postal Code: 
20045
Country: 
US
Genre: 
Creative Nonfiction

Vermont College of Fine Arts Postgraduate Writers’ Conference

May/June 2025

The 30th annual Vermont College of Fine Arts (VCFA) Postgraduate Writers’ Conference will be held from August 2 to August 8 on the Champlain College campus in Burlington, Vermont. Designed for writers with graduate degrees or equivalent experience, the conference features workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, as well as readings, craft talks, and one-on-one consultations with faculty members. Each workshop is limited to five or six participants. The faculty includes poets Kathleen Graber, Tomás Q.

Type: 
CONFERENCE
Ignore Event Date Field?: 
no
Event Date: 
August 2, 2025
Rolling Admissions: 
no
Application Deadline: 
June 1, 2025
Financial Aid?: 
yes
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
June 1, 2025
Free Admission: 
no
Contact Information: 

Vermont College of Fine Arts Postgraduate Writers’ Conference, 36 College Street, Montpelier, VT 05602. Ellen Lesser, Director.

Ellen Lesser
Director
Contact City: 
Burlington
Contact State: 
VT
Contact Zip / Postal Code: 
05401
Country: 
US
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Genre: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction

Buinho Creative Hub Residencies

May/June 2025

Buinho Creative Hub offers residencies of two weeks to two 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 in one of three traditional Portuguese houses, as well as access to private and shared studios. The Buinho residence also features a central studio and backyard workshop. The cost of the residency is €800 to €1,000 (approximately $871 to $1,089) per month, depending on the room; transportation and meals are not included.

Type: 
RESIDENCY
Ignore Event Date Field?: 
yes
Event Date: 
April 25, 2025
Rolling Admissions: 
yes
Application Deadline: 
April 25, 2025
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
April 25, 2025
Free Admission: 
no
Contact Information: 

Buinho Creative Hub Residencies, Rua Nova de São Brás 43, 7600-346 Messejana, Portugal. Carlos Alcobia, General Manager.

Carlos Alcobia
General Manager
Contact City: 
Messejana
Country: 
PT
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Genre: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction

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