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Conferences and Residencies Database

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.

Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Barnstable, MA

The 2023 Cape Cod Writers Center Conference was held from August 3 to August 6 at the Resort and Conference Center at Hyannis in Barnstable, Massachusetts. The conference featured workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, an agent...

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Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Pebble Beach, CA
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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,...

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Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Cold Spring HArbor, NY

The 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 ìexplore the scientific process and interact with international...

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Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Chautauqua, NY
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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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Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
St. Mary’s City, MD
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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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Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Online

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...

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Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Poetry
Online

The Colrain Poetry Manuscript Conference will be held online from March 8 to March 11 and from May 10 to May 13. The conference features evaluation and discussion of book-length and chapbook-length poetry manuscripts with poets, editors, and...

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Event Date: March 8, 2024
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Olympic Valley, CA

The Community of Writers offers 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...

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Event Date: June 17, 2024
Application Deadline: March 1, 2024
Financial Aid Deadline: March 1, 2024
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Keene, NY

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...

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Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Freshwater, CA

Creekside Arts offers 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 are provided with a private room, kitchen, bathroom, and...

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Event Date: May 18, 2024
Application Deadline: February 15, 2024
Fiction
Cuttyhunk, MA

The Cuttyhunk Island Writers’ Residency for fiction writers was held from September 13 to September 20 at the Avalon Inn on Cuttyhunk Island, seven nautical miles off the coast of southeastern Massachusetts. The residency offered workshops,...

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Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Online

The 2021 Desert Nights, Rising Stars Writers Conference was held online from February 18 to February 20. The conference featured workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, as well as craft classes, discussions on publishing and the...

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Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Lisbon, Portugal

The 2024 DISQUIET International Literary Program, sponsored by Dzanc Books and Centro Nacional de Cultura, will be held from June 23, 2024, to July 5, 2024, at the Centro Nacional de Cultura in Lisbon, Portugal. The conference features workshops...

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Event Date: June 23, 2024
Application Deadline: December 1, 2023
Financial Aid Deadline: January 5, 2024
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Woodside, CA

The Djerassi Resident Artists Program offere four- and five-week residencies from mid-March through mid-November to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers on a 583-acre ranch located approximately 40 miles south of San Francisco...

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Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Lenox, MA

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...

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Event Date: March 1, 2024
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Pray, MT

The 2024 Elk River Writers Workshop will be held from August 11 to August 16 at Chico Hot Springs, a historic retreat in Pray, Montana, near Yellowstone National Park. The program features workshops, craft talks, outings, lectures, panel...

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Event Date: August 11, 2024
Application Deadline: May 1, 2024
Financial Aid Deadline: April 1, 2024
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation
Tuscany, Italy

The Essere Writer & Artist Residency, which will be held from September 21, 2024, to October 5, 2024, offers two-week residencies in the medieval Camporsevoli estate in the Cetona province of Tuscany, Italy. The residency features programming...

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Event Date: September 21, 2024
Application Deadline: January 15, 2024
Financial Aid Deadline: January 15, 2024
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Crete, Greece
Event Horizon Amphitheatre

Event Horizon offers residencies of two weeks to three months year-round to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers on five acres of olive groves in Crete, Greece. Residents are provided with lodging on site or in nearby affiliate...

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Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Delmenhorst, Germany

The Fiction Meets Science Residency offers up to two residencies of three to nine months annually to fiction and nonfiction writers at the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg Institute for Advanced Study in Delmenhorst, Germany. Residents are provided with...

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Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Provincetown, MA

The Fine Arts Work Center’s (FAWC) annual summer workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction will be held from June 16 to August 16 in Provincetown, Massachusetts. The faculty includes poets Cameron Awkward-Rich, Samiya Bashir,...

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Event Date: June 16, 2024
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Shafer, MN

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...

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Event Date: January 10, 2024
Poetry
Franconia, NH

The Frost Place Poetry Seminar was held from August 2 to August 8 at Robert Frost’s former homestead in Franconia, New Hampshire. The seminar featured poetry workshops, craft talks, readings, and one-on-one meetings with faculty. The faculty...

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Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Spokane, WA

The 26th annual Get Lit! Festival will be held online and in person from April 11 to April 14 at various venues in and around Spokane, Washington. The festival features readings, writing workshops, craft classes, open mics, and panel discussions...

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Event Date: April 11, 2024
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Good Hart, MI

The Good Hart Artist Residency offers two- to three-week residencies year-round to artists and writers, including poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers, in the woods bordering the “Tunnel of Trees” Scenic Heritage Route in Good...

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Application Deadline: January 8, 2024
Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Online

The Gotham Writers Literary/Commercial Fiction Conference was held online from November 18 to November 19. Sponsored by the Gotham Writers Workshop, the event was open to fiction and nonfiction writers as well as graphic novelists and graphic...

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