Genre: Poetry

Creekside Arts offers three-week residencies from mid-May to early June to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers among the coastal redwoods of Freshwater, California. Residents are provided with a private room, kitchen, and bathroom in a cottage, cabin, tiny house, or Airstream trailer, a studio, and access to collaborative work spaces where gatherings are held with other residents, permanent members of the Creekside Arts community, and artists from the larger Humboldt County. Residents are responsible for most meals and for transportation to and from the residency.

The 2026 Bread Loaf Translators’ Conference will be held from June 14 to June 20 in the Green Mountains of Ripton, Vermont. The conference, designed for both emerging and established translators, features translation workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, as well as lectures, craft classes, meetings with editors and agents, and readings by faculty and guests. The faculty includes translators Hosam Aboul-Ela, Kazim Ali, Jennifer Croft, Mónica de la Torre, Anton Hur, and Damion Searls. Tuition, which includes lodging and meals, is $2,915.

The Southern Vermont Writers’ Conference will be held from April 12 to April 17 at the Inn at Manchester in Manchester, Vermont. The program includes workshops, generative writing sessions, private writing time, and afternoon salons for poets, fiction writers, and nonfiction writers. The faculty includes poet Justen Ahren, fiction writer Chris Wells, and nonfiction writer Sari Botton. Tuition, which includes all lunches and dinners, is $1,275. Lodging at the conference hotel, which includes breakfast, is available at a nightly rate of $155. Writers registered by March 31.