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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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 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...
read more Event Date: August 1, 2024
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
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...
read more Event Date: February 10, 2024
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
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...
read more Event Date: February 1, 2024
Application Deadline: January 15, 2024
The 22nd annual Under the Volcano Master Classes and Guided Residency will be held from January 10, 2025, to January 25, 2025, in Tepoztlán, Mexico, a village located one hour south of Mexico City. The program features master classes in poetry...
read more Event Date: January 10, 2025
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Financial Aid Deadline: September 1, 2024
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...
read moreThe 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...
read more Event Date: January 1, 2025
Application Deadline: August 23, 2024
The 29th annual Vermont College of Fine Arts (VCFA) Postgraduate Writers’ Conference was held from August 3 to August 9 on the Champlain College campus in Burlington, Vermont. Designed for writers with graduate degrees or equivalent experience,...
read more Event Date: August 3, 2024
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Financial Aid Deadline: August 2, 2024
The Vermont Studio Center (VSC) 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...
read more Application Deadline: October 1, 2024
Financial Aid Deadline: October 1, 2024
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 at Mt. San Angelo in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Residents are...
read more Application Deadline: May 15, 2024
Financial Aid Deadline: May 15, 2024
The Visual Arts Center of Richmond (VACR) offers an 11-month residency from September 1, 2024, to July 31, 2025, to a poet, fiction writer, or nonfiction writer at the Virginia Dairy building in Richmond’s historic Fan District. Writers who have...
read more Event Date: September 1, 2024
Application Deadline: April 1, 2024
The U.S. Forest Service, the National Park Service, and the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service offer one- to two-week residencies from June through August to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers to take part in stewardship...
read more Event Date: June 1, 2024
Application Deadline: March 1, 2024
The Washington Island Literary Festival, sponsored by Write On, Door County, was held from September 19 to September 21 at the Trueblood Performing Arts Center and other venues in Washington Island, Wisconsin. The festival featured workshops,...
read more Event Date: September 19, 2024
The 2022 Lighthouse Sessions Men’s Retreat was held from August 14 to August 19 for poets, fiction writers, nonfiction writers, and translators at the Whitehead Light Station, a lighthouse in Tenants Harbor, Maine. The retreat featured daily...
read moreThe 2024 Willamette Writers Conference was held online and in person at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Downtown Portland from July 31 to August 4. The conference featured workshops, keynotes, panels, pitch sessions, and critiques for poets, fiction...
read more Event Date: July 31, 2024
Application Deadline: August 1, 2024
Willapa Bay AiR offers monthlong residencies from April through October to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers on 16 wooded acres near Oysterville, Washington. Residents are provided with a private cottage with living and work...
read more Event Date: April 1, 2025
Application Deadline: August 31, 2024
The 31st annual Winter Poetry & Prose Getaway will be held from January 17, 2025, to January 20, 2025, at the Seaview Hotel near Atlantic City. The program, sponsored by Murphy Writing of Stockton University, offers small intensive workshops...
read more Event Date: January 17, 2025
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Financial Aid Deadline: January 17, 2025
The Wonder Mountain Desert Cabin, sponsored by You Joy Life, offers two-week residencies year-round to poets, fiction writers, nonfiction writers, and translators at the Wonder Mountain Open Source Center, 15 miles northeast of Joshua Tree...
read more Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The 2023 Wordplay festival was held on July 8 in and around Open Book, a literary center in Minneapolis, with some panels livestreamed for a virtual audience. The festival featured panel discussions, author interviews, interactive activities for...
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The 39th annual Write on the Sound conference was held in person at the Frances Anderson Center in Edmonds, Washington, from October 4 to October 6; online preconference sessions were held on September 28. The conference featured craft sessions,...
read more Event Date: October 4, 2024
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Writeaways offered a weeklong Writeaway in New Mexico residency from May 18 to May 25 to poets, fiction writers, and nonfiction writers (including creative nonfiction writers) in Casa Bellisima, an adobe home with mountain views near the village...
read more Event Date: May 18, 2024
Application Deadline: March 1, 2024
WriterCon 2023 was held from September 1 to September 4 at the Renaissance Waterford Hotel in Oklahoma City. The conference featured over 70 presentations from more than 60 authors, editors, agents, and publishers, opportunities for pitching and...
read more Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
A residency of two weeks or one month in November is offered to a poet, a fiction writer, or a nonfiction writer at a private apartment in Brooklyn, New York. The resident is provided with some meals. Writers over the age of 24 who are not...
read moreThe Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow offers residencies of two days to three months year-round to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers in Eureka Springs, Arkansas. Residents are provided with a private room and bathroom, work...
read more Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The 2023 Wyoming Writers Conference was held from June 2 to June 4 at the Historic Plains Hotel in Cheyenne, Wyoming. The conference featured workshops in craft, marketing, and productivity for poets, fiction writers, and nonfiction writers, as...
read more Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions