The 2023 Orcas Island Lit Fest was held from June 2 to June 3 at the Orcas Center in Eastsound, Washington. The festival featured panel discussions, book signings, author interviews, readings, and live music for poetry, fiction, and creative...
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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 Orion Environmental Writers’ Workshop was held from June 16 to June 21 at the Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, New York. The program featured workshops (limited to 12 participants each), faculty readings, panels on publishing, and conversations...
read more Event Date: June 16, 2024
Application Deadline: May 1, 2024
The Orion in the Wilderness retreat, cosponsored by the Omega Institute, was held from March 8 to March 14 at the American Museum of Natural History’s Southwestern Research Station in Cave Creek Canyon in Portal, Arizona, surrounded by the...
read moreThe 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 Pacific Residency Writers Conference, sponsored by Pacific University’s creative writing MFA program, will be held from January 9, 2025, to January 19, 2025, in the beachside resort town of Seaside, Oregon. The conference features craft talks...
read more Event Date: January 9, 2025
Application Deadline: December 2, 2024
The 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
The 22nd annual Poetry at Round Top Festival was held from April 19 to April 21 at the Round Top Festival Institute campus in Round Top, Texas. The program featured workshops, readings, lectures, craft talks, open mics, and panel discussions. The...
read more Event Date: April 19, 2024
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Poetry by the Sea: A Global Conference was held from May 21 to May 24 at Mercy by the Sea, a retreat center and private beach in Madison, Connecticut. The conference featured workshops, seminars, readings, and panels. The faculty included poets...
read more Event Date: May 21, 2024
Application Deadline: May 10, 2024
The 2023 Poets on the Coast: A Weekend Retreat for Women was held from September 8 to September 10 at the Country Inn in La Conner, Washington. The retreat featured poetry workshops, craft classes, and one-on-one mentoring with faculty. The...
read moreThe 2024 Portland Book Festival, hosted by Literary Arts, was held on November 2 at six partner venues in Portland’s South Park Blocks. The festival’s third annual Cover to Cover program was held from October 28 to November 3 in multiple...
read more Event Date: November 2, 2024
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
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
The 2024 Red Clay Writers Conference, sponsored by the Georgia Writers Association, was held on April 20 at Kennesaw State University. The conference featured writing workshops and panels on literary journals and publishing for poets, fiction...
read more Event Date: April 20, 2024
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Financial Aid Deadline: April 11, 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 Rutgers-New Brunswick Writers’ Conference was held from June 2 to June 3 at the Rutgers University Continuing Education Center in Somerset, New Jersey. The conference featured workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative...
read moreThe 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
The 2024 Sarah Lawrence College Poetry Festival was held from April 19 to April 21 on the Sarah Lawrence College campus in Bronxville, New York, located 30 minutes by train from New York City. The festival featured workshops, readings, panel...
read more Event Date: April 19, 2024
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
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 34th annual Sewanee Writers’ Conference was held from July 16 to July 28 on the campus of the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee. The conference featured workshops, special topics classes, lectures, one-on-one meetings with faculty...
read more Event Date: July 16, 2024
Application Deadline: March 15, 2024
Financial Aid Deadline: March 15, 2024
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