Headlands Center for the Arts offers four- to ten-week residencies from mid-June to mid-November to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers in the coastal wilderness of the Marin Headlands outside San Francisco. Residents are...
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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.
The Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum and Educational Center at Arkansas State University offers a monthlong residency in June to poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, and translators in Piggott, Arkansas. The residency includes a loft...
read more Event Date: June 1, 2024
Application Deadline: February 28, 2024
In Cahoots offers residencies of one, two, or three weeks year-round to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers in the countryside of Petaluma, California, in scenic Sonoma County. Residents are provided with individual cottages,...
read more Application Deadline: October 1, 2024
The Jentel Foundation offers three-week residencies from mid-January to mid-December to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers on a cattle ranch in the Lower Piney Creek Valley, 20 miles southeast of Sheridan, Wyoming. Residents...
read more Event Date: January 15, 2025
Application Deadline: September 15, 2024
The Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts offers two- to eight-week residencies year-round to writers working in all genres, including poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers, in the bur oak forests of Nebraska City, Nebraska...
read more Event Date: January 6, 2025
Application Deadline: September 1, 2024
The La Baldi Residency, sponsored by Cultivate, offers two-week and one-month residencies from April through October to poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, and translators, in Montegiovi, Italy. Residents stay in private lodging...
read moreLoghaven offers residencies of two to six weeks year-round to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers in five rehabilitated historic log cabins and newly built facilities on ninety acres of woodland in Knoxville, Tennessee. The...
read more Application Deadline: July 15, 2024
MacDowell offers residencies of up to six weeks year-round to poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, and translators on 450 acres near Mt. Monadnock in Peterborough, New Hampshire. Residents are provided with a private studio and...
read more Event Date: March 1, 2025
Application Deadline: September 10, 2024
Financial Aid Deadline: September 10, 2024
The Margery Davis Boyden Wilderness Writing Residency, administered by PEN Northwest, offers a seven-month residency from April through October to a poet or prose writer, or pair of writers, at Dutch Henry Homestead in the Rogue River Canyon of...
read more Event Date: April 1, 2025
Application Deadline: March 15, 2024
MASS MoCA Writing Through Art offers a fall retreat for poets from October 31 to November 6 in North Adams, Massachusetts. The retreat includes morning generative workshops with prompts, exercises, discussions, and readings; afternoon visits to...
read more Event Date: October 31, 2024
Application Deadline: July 14, 2024
Financial Aid Deadline: July 14, 2024
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 historic estate of Edna St. Vincent...
read more Event Date: April 1, 2025
Application Deadline: October 1, 2024
Financial Aid Deadline: October 1, 2024
The Ou Gallery’s Ou-telier program offers one- to four-week residencies starting on the 1st and 16th of every month year-round to poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, and translators on Gabriola Island in British Columbia, Canada...
read more Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The Ox-Bow School of Art offered two-, three-, and five-week residencies from September 7 to October 11 to poets, fiction writers, and nonfiction writers on the Ox-Bow campus in Saugatuck, Michigan, located near the shores of Lake Michigan and...
read moreThe Playa Flamingo Writing Residency, sponsored by Atmosphere Press, offers a five-day residency from May to August to a poet, fiction writer, nonfiction writer, or translator at the Punta Plata condominium in Playa Flamingo, a white sand beach...
read more Application Deadline: February 28, 2024
Prospect Street Writers House offers one- and two-week residencies in January and from May through November to poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, and translators at the Prospect Street residency in the village of North...
read more Event Date: January 1, 2025
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The Ragdale Foundation offers residencies of 18 days year-round to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers on 38 acres of prairie in Lake Forest, Illinois, 30 miles north of Chicago. Residents are provided with a private room and...
read more Application Deadline: May 15, 2024
Financial Aid Deadline: May 15, 2024
Red Mountain Press offered two- and four-week residencies from November 14 to December 12 to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers in a private home on Sanibel Island, Florida. Residents were provided with private lodging,...
read moreThe Renaissance House Residency Program offers residencies of one to two weeks in July to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers at the former writing barn of Dorothy West in Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts. The residencies...
read more Event Date: July 1, 2024
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Rockland offers two three-week residencies from October 8, 2024, to October 29, 2024, and from January 8, 2025, to January 29, 2025, to poets, fiction writers, nonfiction writers, and translators in the Rockland Woods, located on the Kitsap...
read more Event Date: October 8, 2024
Application Deadline: March 31, 2024
The Rockvale Writers’ Colony offers one- to three-day retreats and one- to four-week residencies between January and October to poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, and translators on 65 acres of farmland in College Grove,...
read more Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
ROOSTERGNN Global News Network (RGNN) offers residencies of at least ten days to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers year-round in Madrid, Spain, and during the summer in Havana and Trinidad, Cuba. Residents in Spain will be...
read more Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The Salty Quill Writers’ Retreat for Women offers one-week residencies three times a year to twelve poets, fiction writers, nonfiction writers, and translators who identify as women at McGee Island, a 110-acre private island located three miles...
read more Event Date: September 7, 2024
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Financial Aid Deadline: June 15, 2024
Sarasvati Creative Space offers residencies of one week to four months year-round to poets, fiction writers, nonfiction writers, and translators at the 17-acre Camp Wonder Wander in the rural hills of Lewis County, Tennessee, near the Buffalo...
read more Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The Sitka Center for Art and Ecology offers two- to twelve-week residencies from October 2024 to April 2025 to poets, fiction writers, nonfiction writers, and translators at the Center’s adjacent 80-acre property, located within the unique...
read more Event Date: October 1, 2024
Application Deadline: March 15, 2024
The Summer 2024 Sonoma County Writers Camp was held from July 24 to July 28 at the Ratna Ling Retreat Center in Cazadero, California. The retreat featured generative workshops in fiction and creative nonfiction, panels by authors and agents,...
read more Event Date: July 24, 2024
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Financial Aid Deadline: May 24, 2024