Where Big Books Are Born: Danez Smith on the Millay Colony
The author of Don’t Call Us Dead on the retreat in Austerlitz, New York.
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The author of Don’t Call Us Dead on the retreat in Austerlitz, New York.
The author of The Loss of All Lost Things on the retreat in Cassis, France.
The author of Pure Hollywood on the retreat in Saratoga Springs, New York.
The author of Sweetness #9 on the retreat in Red Wing, Minnesota.
The author of The Ministry of Special Cases on the retreat in New York City.
The author of The Refugees on the retreat in Provincetown, Massachusetts.
The director of the American Academy in Rome and the program’s current literature fellows discuss the opportunities that the Academy’s eleven-month residencies offer emerging writers, as well as exciting new changes to the historic program.
Essayist and novelist Pico Iyer leads a writing workshop at the Tassajara Zen Mountain Center in the Ventana Wilderness of California, helping his pupils to understand the role of silence—and its relationship to language—in their work.
Grant Faulkner, executive director of National Novel Writing Month and the cofounder of 100 Word Story, leads a literary tour of San Francisco, a city of rollicking rogues and home of the Beats.
Whether it’s a daylong festival, a weekend conference, or a four-week residency, there are countless options for writers looking for a retreat. We rounded up more than eighty free conferences, residencies, and festivals across the country so that you can find the literary getaway that’s right for you—at little to no cost.