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The 2024 Indiana University Writers’ Conference will be held from June 6 to June 9 in Bloomington, Indiana. The conference features workshops, craft classes, panel discussions, and readings for poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers. The faculty includes poets Jos Charles and torrin a. greathouse, fiction writers Angela Jackson-Brown and Sequoia Nagamatsu, and nonfiction writers T Kira Māhealani Madden and Alex Marzano-Lesnevich. The cost of the conference, including tuition for a workshop and all classes, panels, and readings, is $825.

The 17th National Black Writers Conference (NBWC) was held from March 20 to March 23 at Medgar Evers College, City University of New York.

The 49th annual Southampton Writers Conference will be held from July 10 to July 14 at the Stony Brook Southampton campus in Southampton, New York, located on the Atlantic coast 90 miles east of New York City. The conference features workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, as well as readings and an agent panel. The faculty includes poets Billy Collins and Diana Khoi Nguyen, fiction writer Julia Phillips, fiction and nonfiction writers Matthew Klam and Frederic Tuten, and memoirist Nadia Owusu.

The annual Tinker Mountain Writers’ Workshop will be held from June 9 to June 13 at the Hollins University campus in Roanoke, Virginia. The conference features generative manuscript workshops and tutorials in poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and multigenre work, as well as craft talks, individual conferences with faculty members, readings, and social events. The faculty includes poet Rebecca Lindenberg; fiction writers Rachel Beanland, Amanda Cockrell, Dorothy Hassan, Fred Leebron, Daniel Mueller, and Laura Ruby; and nonfiction writer James McKean.