The 2025 Elk River Writers Workshop will be held from August 10 to August 15 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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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.
Event Date: August 10, 2025
Application Deadline: May 1, 2025
Financial Aid Deadline: April 1, 2025
The Essere Writer & Artist Residency, which will be held from May 10, 2025, to May 24, 2025, and again from September 13, 2025, to September 27, 2025, offers two-week residencies at the medieval Camporsevoli estate in the Cetona province of...
read more Event Date: May 10, 2025
Application Deadline: November 20, 2024
Financial Aid Deadline: November 20, 2024
Event Horizon offers residencies of two weeks to three months year-round to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers on eight acres of olive groves in Crete, Greece. Residents are provided with lodging on site or in nearby...
read more Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The Fiction Meets Science Residency offers up to two residencies of three to ten months annually to fiction and nonfiction writers at the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg Institute for Advanced Study in Delmenhorst, Germany. Residents are provided with...
read more Application Deadline: May 15, 2025
The Fine Arts Work Center’s annual weeklong summer workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction will be held at the center from June 15 to August 16 in Provincetown, Massachusetts. The faculty includes poets Cameron Awkward-Rich, Samiya...
read more Event Date: June 15, 2025
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
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...
read more Event Date: January 10, 2024
The seventh annual Frost Farm Poetry Conference was held from August 16 to August 18 at the Robert Frost Farm in Derry, New Hampshire. The conference featured workshops, readings, and one-on-one consultations for poets. The faculty included poets...
read more Event Date: August 16, 2024
Application Deadline: August 1, 2024
The Gell Writing Residency, sponsored by Writers & Books, offers one- to three-week residencies year-round to poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, and translators at Gell: A Finger Lakes Creative Retreat in Naples, New York,...
read more Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The 27th annual Get Lit! Festival was held online and in person from April 10 to April 13 at various venues in and around Spokane, Washington. The festival featured readings, craft classes, panel discussions, and a bookfair at Montvale Event...
read more Event Date: April 10, 2025
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
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...
read more Application Deadline: January 8, 2025
The 23rd annual Green Mountain Writers Conference was held from August 2 to August 6 at the historic Brandon Inn in Brandon, Vermont, a walkable Vermont village. The program featured workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, as well...
read more Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The 2022 GrubStreet Muse & the Marketplace conference was held virtually with optional in-person events in and around GrubStreet’s Center for Creative Writing in Boston’s Seaport district, as public health guidelines allowed, from April 27 to...
read moreThe Guanajuato Writing Retreat was held from September 22 to September 29 at the Florecer Casitas in Guanajuato, the hilly capital city of Guanajuato state, in Mexico’s high plateau region. The theme for the 2024 retreat was “Renewing Ourselves...
read more Event Date: September 22, 2024
Application Deadline: July 15, 2024
Hambidge offers residencies of two weeks to two months from February through December to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers on 600 forested acres in the Blue Ridge Mountains of northern Georgia. Each resident is provided with...
read more Event Date: February 1, 2025
Application Deadline: January 15, 2025
Financial Aid Deadline: January 15, 2025
The 16th annual Hampton Roads Writers Conference was held from November 7 to November 9 at the Holiday Inn Virginia Beach Norfolk Hotel and Conference Center in Virginia Beach, Virginia. The conference featured agent pitch sessions, critique...
read more Event Date: November 9, 2024
Financial Aid Deadline: October 25, 2024
Headlands Center for the Arts offers four- to ten-week residencies from mid-March to mid-November to poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, and graphic novelists at its retreat center in the coastal wilderness of the Marin Headlands...
read more Application Deadline: June 2, 2025
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. Residents are provided with a...
read more Event Date: June 1, 2025
Application Deadline: February 28, 2025
The 2022 HippoCamp conference was held from August 12 to August 14 at the Downtown Lancaster Marriott in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. The conference featured craft talks, publishing and marketing sessions, panel discussions, a story slam, and...
read moreThe biennial Historical Novel Society (HNS) North America Conference will be held from June 26 to June 28 at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, as well as online. The conference features presentations, panels, pitch sessions with agents and editors, an...
read more Event Date: June 26, 2025
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The 2025 Iceland Writers Retreat will be held from April 23 to April 27 at the Fosshotel in Reykjavík. The retreat features workshops, panels, lectures, receptions, and time to write for fiction and nonfiction writers, as well as literary tours...
read more Event Date: April 23, 2025
Application Deadline: April 16, 2025
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 2025 Indiana University Writers’ Conference will be held from June 5 to June 8 at University of Indiana in Bloomington. The conference features workshops, craft classes, panel discussions, and readings for poets, fiction writers, and creative...
read more Event Date: June 5, 2025
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The tenth annual Inkubator Writing Conference, sponsored by Literary Cleveland, was held on September 20 and September 21 at the Cleveland Public Library in downtown Cleveland. The conference featured workshops, craft talks, panel discussions,...
read more Event Date: September 20, 2024
The ninth annual Iota Short Forms Conference was held from October 20 to October 23 at the Cobscook Institute in Trescott, Maine, and its surrounding fifty acres of forest and former farmland. The conference featured writing classes, readings,...
read more Event Date: October 20, 2024
Application Deadline: September 30, 2024
The 2024 Jackson Hole Writers Conference was held from November 1 to November 3 at the Jackson Hole Center for the Arts in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. The conference featured craft classes, lectures, readings, and manuscript critiques for poets,...
read more Event Date: November 1, 2024
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions