Genre: Creative Nonfiction

The Fine Arts Work Center’s 2025 weeklong summer workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction were held at the center from June 15 to August 16 in Provincetown, Massachusetts.

The 2025 Orion Environmental Writers’ Workshop was held from June 15 to June 20 at the Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, New York.

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, 2025, on the university’s campus in the seventh arrondissement of Paris. The faculty included poet and fiction writer Siân Melangell Dafydd; poet, fiction writer, and nonfiction writer Biswamit Dwibedy; poet and nonfiction writer Lisa Robertson; and fiction writer Amanda Dennis. The cost of tuition was €2,224 (approximately $2,289) for auditors or €4,448 (approximately $4,577) for transferable academic credit.

The 2025 Elk River Writers Workshop was held from August 10 to August 15 at Chico Hot Springs, a historic retreat in Pray, Montana, near Yellowstone National Park. The program featured workshops, craft talks, outings, lectures, panel discussions, and campfire readings for poets, fiction writers, and nonfiction writers. The faculty included poets Kimberly Blaeser and Angie Trudell Vasquez, poet and memoirist Deborah A. Miranda, novelists Debra Magpie Earling and Oscar Hokeah, and memoirist Thomas C. Gannon. Tuition, which included meals, was $1,700; some scholarships were available.