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...
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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 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...
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The 39th annual New York State Summer Writers Institute will be held from June 22 to July 19 at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs. The program features two- and four-week workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. The faculty...
read more Event Date: June 22, 2025
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The 2025 North Carolina Writers’ Network (NCWN) Squire Summer Writing Workshops will be held from July 24 to July 27 at Davidson College in Davidson, North Carolina. The conference features workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction,...
read more Event Date: July 24, 2025
Application Deadline: July 11, 2025
Financial Aid Deadline: July 11, 2025
The 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
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...
read more Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The Orion Environmental Writers’ Workshop will be held from June 15 to June 20 at the Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, New York. The program features workshops, faculty readings, panels on publishing, and conversations with faculty members and ...
read more Event Date: June 15, 2025
Application Deadline: May 1, 2025
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, was held from January 9, 2025, to January 19, 2025, in the beachside resort town of Seaside, Oregon. The conference featured craft talks,...
read more Event Date: January 9, 2025
Application Deadline: December 2, 2024
The Paris Writer’s Residency will offer a monthlong residency in October to poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, and translators at the American University of Paris. The resident is provided with an en suite single or double room...
read more Event Date: October 1, 2025
Application Deadline: May 1, 2025
The Playa Flamingo Writing Residency, sponsored by Atmosphere Press, offers two five-day residencies from May to August to poets, fiction writers, nonfiction writers, or translators at the Punta Plata condominium in Playa Flamingo, a white sand...
read more Event Date: May 1, 2025
Application Deadline: February 28, 2025
The 23rd annual Poetry at Round Top Festival will be held from April 25 to April 27 at the Round Top Festival Institute campus in Round Top, Texas. The program features workshops, readings, craft talks, open mics, panel discussions, and...
read more Event Date: April 25, 2025
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Poetry by the Sea: A Global Conference will be held from May 27 to May 30 at Mercy by the Sea, a retreat center and private beach in Madison, Connecticut. The conference features workshops, seminars, readings, and panels. The faculty includes...
read more Event Date: May 27, 2025
Application Deadline: May 10, 2025
The 2025 Poets on the Coast: A Weekend Retreat for Women will be held from September 5 to September 7 at the La Conner Inn in La Conner, Washington. The retreat features poetry workshops and one-on-one mentoring with faculty. The faculty includes...
read more Event Date: September 5, 2025
Financial Aid Deadline: July 15, 2025
The 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 2025 Red Clay Writers Conference, sponsored by the Georgia Writers Association (GWA), will be held on April 26 at Kennesaw State University. The conference features writing workshops and panels on literary journals and publishing for poets,...
read more Event Date: April 26, 2025
Application Deadline: April 18, 2025
Financial Aid Deadline: April 18, 2025
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 offered 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