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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.

Poetry
Online

The Frost Place Poetry Seminar will be held online from August 3 to August 7. The seminar features poetry workshops, craft talks, and faculty and student readings. The faculty includes poets Patrick Donnelly, Kathy Fagan, and Deborah Paredez. The...

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Event Date: August 3, 2025
Application Deadline: July 1, 2025
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation
Porreres, Spain

The 2025 Lab Creative Writing Retreat will be held from June 14 to June 21 at the Son Sion villa in the village of Porreres, located on a Mediterranean island 30 minutes south of Mallorca, Spain. Programming includes workshops, one-on-one...

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Event Date: June 14, 2025
Application Deadline: April 15, 2025
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Key West, FL
Outdoor patio potluck at the Studios of Key West

The Studios of Key West offers monthlong residencies to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers at the Old Town campus in Key West, Florida. Residents are provided with private lodging and work space. There is no cost to attend...

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Application Deadline: May 15, 2025
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Phippsburg, ME

The 2025 Writer’s Hotel Maine All-Genre “Mini MFA” Writers Conference will be held from June 4 to June 10 at the Sebasco Harbor Resort in Phippsburg, Maine. The conference features a full-manuscript pre-conference reading with two sets of...

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Event Date: June 4, 2025
Application Deadline: February 19, 2025
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Online

The 2022 Writer’s Hotel “Mini MFA” Conference in Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry was held virtually from June 8 to June 15. The conference featured two full manuscript readings with two sets of editorial comments offered per reading, one pre-...

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Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Reisterstown, MD
Barn apt

Good Contrivance Farm, an educational nonprofit, offers residencies of up to four weeks year-round to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers on a Victorian farm in Reisterstown, Maryland, located 24 miles north of Baltimore....

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Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Portland, OR

The Tin House Summer Workshop will be held from July 13 to July 20 at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. The program features workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction (8 to 10 participants per class), as well as one-on-one meetings...

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Event Date: July 13, 2025
Application Deadline: January 26, 2025
Financial Aid Deadline: January 26, 2025
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Cross-Genre
Roanoke, VA

The annual Tinker Mountain Writers’ Workshop will be held from June 8 to June 12 at the Hollins University campus in Roanoke, Virginia. The conference features generative manuscript workshops and tutorials in poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction...

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Event Date: June 8, 2025
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Financial Aid Deadline: March 3, 2025
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Todos Santos, Baja California Sur, Mexico

The 2025 Todos Santos Writers Workshop Winter Session was held from February 1, 2025, to February 8, 2025, in Todos Santos, Baja California Sur, Mexico. The workshop offered daily classes and craft seminars in poetry, fiction, and memoir; one-on-...

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Event Date: February 1, 2025
Application Deadline: December 1, 2024
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Townsend, TN

The Tremont Writers Conference will be held from October 22 to October 26 at the Great Smoky Mountains Institute at Tremont, located in the eponymous national park six miles southwest of Townsend, Tennessee. The conference features workshops,...

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Event Date: October 22, 2025
Application Deadline: April 30, 2025
Financial Aid Deadline: April 30, 2025
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation
Tulsa, OK

The 2026–2028 Tulsa Artist Fellowship, sponsored by the George Kaiser Family Foundation, offers three-year residencies to poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, and translators at Archer Studios in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Residents receive...

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Application Deadline: May 28, 2025
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Tulsa, OK

The Tulsa NightWriters Craft of Writing Conference was held on October 19 and October 20 at Oklahoma State University’s Center for Poets and Writers in Tulsa. The conference featured panel discussions, presentations on the craft and business of...

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Event Date: October 19, 2024
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Leland, MI

The Tusen Takk Foundation offers residencies of three to eight weeks from March to December to poets, fiction writers, and nonfiction writers at the modern Tusen Takk guesthouse on an isolated peninsula on Lake Michigan, approximately 25 miles...

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Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation
Homer, AK

The 12th annual Tutka Bay Writers Retreat, sponsored by 49 Writers, was held from September 23 to September 25 at Tutka Bay Lodge near Homer, Alaska. The retreat offered an intimate workshop, capped at 15 participants, open to poets, fiction...

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Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Los Angeles, CA

The Writers Studio, sponsored by the UCLA Extension Writers’ Program, was held from August 1 to August 4 on the UCLA campus in Los Angeles. The conference featured workshops in fiction and creative nonfiction as well as a literary agent search...

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Event Date: August 1, 2024
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation, Cross-Genre
Riverside, CA

The 47th annual UCR Writers’ Week Festival, sponsored by the Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB), was held from February 10 to February 16 at the University of California campus in Riverside (UCR) and online. The festival’s programming...

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Event Date: February 10, 2024
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Ucross, WY

Ucross offers two-, four-, and six-week residencies from February through early June and from August through early December to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers on a 20,000-acre ranch in Ucross, Wyoming, located 27 miles...

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Event Date: February 1, 2024
Application Deadline: January 15, 2024
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Tepoztlán, Mexico
Under the Volcano

The 22nd annual Under the Volcano Master Classes and Guided Residency was held from January 10, 2025, to January 25, 2025, in Tepoztlán, Mexico, a village located one hour south of Mexico City. The program featured master classes in poetry and...

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Event Date: January 10, 2025
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Financial Aid Deadline: September 1, 2024
Fiction
Portland, OR

The Underground Workshop was held from June 8 to June 15 in the Pearl District of Portland, Oregon. The workshop, which was open to fiction writers, included workshops, individual manuscript consultations, local excursions, readings, and an...

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Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation
Vashon, WA

The Vashon Artist Residency offers two- and four-week residencies from January to November to poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, and translators on Vashon Island, a 20-minute ferry ride from Seattle. Residents are provided with...

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Event Date: January 1, 2025
Application Deadline: August 23, 2024
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation
Vasto, Italy

The 2025 Vasto Arts Workshop will be held from September 6 to September 13 at the liberty-style Villa Monteferrante in the town of Vasto, Italy, which overlooks the Adriatic Sea. Programming includes workshops, a guided tour of Vasto’s historic...

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Event Date: September 6, 2025
Application Deadline: July 1, 2025
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Burlington, VT
A red building with a green roof on the campus of the Vermont College of Fine Art

The 30th annual Vermont College of Fine Arts (VCFA) Postgraduate Writers’ Conference will be held from August 2 to August 8 on the Champlain College campus in Burlington, Vermont. Designed for writers with graduate degrees or equivalent...

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Event Date: August 2, 2025
Application Deadline: June 1, 2025
Financial Aid Deadline: June 1, 2025
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation
Johnson, VT
A large red building with a gray roof next to a river.

The Vermont Studio Center offers two-, three-, and four-week residencies year-round to poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, and translators in Johnson, Vermont, a village located in the heart of the northern Green Mountains....

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Application Deadline: March 31, 2025
Financial Aid Deadline: March 31, 2025
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Amherst, VA

The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts offers residencies of varying lengths (up to six weeks) year-round to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers on the historic grounds of Mt. San Angelo in the foothills of the Blue Ridge...

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Application Deadline: May 15, 2025
Financial Aid Deadline: May 15, 2025
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Richmond, VA

The Visual Arts Center of Richmond (VisArts) offers an 11-month residency from September 1, 2025, to July 31, 2026, to a poet, fiction writer, or nonfiction writer at the Virginia Dairy building in Richmond’s historic Fan District. The residency...

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Event Date: September 1, 2025
Application Deadline: April 1, 2025

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