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...
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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.
The spring 2023 Lit Camp was held from June 4 to June 9 at the Bell Valley Retreat Center in Mendocino County, California. The conference included craft talks and writing time for fiction and creative nonfiction writers. The faculty included...
read moreThe Lighthouse Writers Workshop’s 2024 Lit Fest was held from June 7 to June 14 online and at the Lighthouse Writers Workshop headquarters in Denver. The festival featured weekend and weeklong workshops, craft seminars, salons, business panels,...
read more Event Date: June 7, 2024
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Financial Aid Deadline: March 9, 2024
The 2020 Literary Writers Conference was held online from December 2 to December 4. The conference, which was hosted by the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses, featured agent pitch sessions, pitch clinics, a query letter clinic, and...
read moreThe 14th annual LiTFUSE Poets’ Workshop was held from September 24 to September 26 at the Mighty Tieton Warehouse and nearby venues in Tieton, Washington. The workshop featured readings, performances, and master classes for poets. The faculty...
read moreThe 17th annual LiTFUSE UNiTE Poetry Workshop was held from September 22 to September 24 at the Mighty Tieton Warehouse and nearby venues in Tieton, Washington. The workshop featured readings, performances, craft talks, and master classes for...
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
The 2024 Longleaf Writers Conference was held from May 11 to May 18 at the Seaside Academic Village in Santa Rosa Beach, Florida. The conference featured workshops, craft seminars, sunset receptions, bonfire readings, and one-on-one consultations...
read more Event Date: May 11, 2024
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
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 2024 Macondo Writers Workshop was held from July 23 to July 28 at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. The program featured writing workshops, seminars, and free public readings for poets, fiction writers, and nonfiction writers who also...
read more Event Date: July 23, 2024
Application Deadline: February 18, 2024
Financial Aid Deadline: February 18, 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
The 2021 Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing Summer Writers’ Conference was held from June 6 to June 12 and from June 13 to June 19 at the Vineyard Arts Project (VAP) campus in downtown Edgartown on the island of Martha’s Vineyard,...
read moreMASS 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
The 2024 Mendocino Coast Writers’ Conference was held from August 1 to August 3 on the Mendocino Coast in California. The conference featured workshops for poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers, as well as craft seminars, panels...
read more Event Date: August 1, 2024
Application Deadline: June 30, 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 2023 Minnesota Northwoods Writers Conference was held from June 20 to June 25 in Minnesota’s Northwoods at Bemidji State University. The conference featured workshops, craft talks, panels, an evening reading series, and manuscript...
read moreThe 2023 Napa Valley Writers’ Conference was held from July 30 to August 4 on the main campus of Napa Valley College in Napa, California. The conference featured workshops in poetry, fiction, and translation, as well as craft talks and evening...
read moreThe 17th National Black Writers Conference (NBWC) was held from March 20 to March 23 at Medgar Evers College, City University of New York. This year’s conference was themed “All That We Carry: Where Do We Go From Here?” and drew its name from the...
read more Event Date: March 20, 2024
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The 2023 National Black Writers Conference Biennial Symposium was held from March 31 to April 1 in the Edison O. Jackson Auditorium at Medgar Evers College, as well as online. The symposium will featured scholarly presentations, roundtable...
read more Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The 37th annual New York State Summer Writers Institute was held from June 23 to July 20 at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs. The program featured two- and four-week workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction for in-person...
read more Event Date: June 23, 2024
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Financial Aid Deadline: March 15, 2024
The 2024 North Carolina Writers’ Network Fall Conference was held from November 1 to November 3 at the DoubleTree Asheville-Biltmore hotel in Asheville, North Carolina. The conference featured classes in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction,...
read more Event Date: November 1, 2024
Application Deadline: October 25, 2024
Financial Aid Deadline: October 11, 2024
The 2022 North Carolina Writers’ Network Spring Conference was held on April 23, both in person at the University of North Carolina in Greensboro and online. The conference featured classes in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, as well as...
read moreThe 2023 North Carolina Writers’ Network (NCWN) Squire Summer Writing Workshops was held from July 20 to July 23 at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem. The conference featured workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, as well as...
read moreThe 2020 North Carolina Writers’ Network Writingest State Conference was held online from November 10 to November 14. The conference featured classes in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, as well as conversations and panel discussions on...
read moreThe 2024 Off Topic Writers’ Conference was held online and in person on August 3 at the Lakehead University campus in Orillia, Canada. The conference featured craft talks and workshops for poets, fiction writers, and nonfiction writers. The...
read more Event Date: August 3, 2024
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions