Genre: Poetry

Millay Arts offers two- and four-week residencies from April through November, as well as weeklong group residencies in December, to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers at Steepletop, the former estate of Edna St. Vincent Millay in Austerlitz, New York. Each residency includes a private room, studio, and meals. Residents also have access to shared living spaces, a workstation, and the Alumni and Nancy Graves Memorial libraries.

The 2026 Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference will be held from August 12 to August 22 amid the Green Mountains of Ripton, Vermont. The conference features workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, as well as lectures; craft classes; meetings with editors, agents, and publishers; and readings by faculty and guests. The faculty includes poets Catherine Barnett, Rick Barot, Jericho Brown, Gabrielle Calvocoressi, Camille T.

The Bogliasco Foundation offers monthlong residencies from January to May and from September to December to poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, and translators in the coastal fishing village of Bogliasco, Italy, seven miles southeast of Genoa. Residents are provided with a private room, work space, and meals, and are invited to attend cultural events in Bogliasco and Genoa. There is no cost to attend the residency, but residents are responsible for their own travel expenses.

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