Genre: Poetry

Kachemak Bay Writers’ Conference

January/February 2025

The 2025 Kachemak Bay Writers’ Conference will be held from May 17 to May 20 at the Kenai Peninsula College campus in Homer, Alaska, with views of the snowcapped mountain ranges across Kachemak Bay. The conference features craft classes as well as craft conversations, readings, panels, and individual consultations for poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers.

Type: 
CONFERENCE
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no
Event Date: 
May 17, 2025
Rolling Admissions: 
yes
Application Deadline: 
December 20, 2024
Financial Aid?: 
yes
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
February 28, 2025
Free Admission: 
no
Contact Information: 

Kachemak Bay Writers’ Conference, Kenai Peninsula College, 533 East Pioneer Avenue, Homer, AK 99603. (907) 235-1612. Erin Coughlin Hollowell, Conference Director.

Erin Coughlin Hollowell
Conference Director
Contact City: 
Homer
Contact State: 
AK
Contact Zip / Postal Code: 
99603
Country: 
US
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Genre: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction
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Ucross Residency Program

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 southeast of Sheridan. Residents are provided with a private bedroom and studio space, chef-prepared meals, and a $1,500 stipend. To apply, writers submitted 10 pages of poetry or 20 pages of prose, a project description, and contact information for two references with a $40 application fee by January 15. Visit the website for more information.

Type: 
RESIDENCY
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no
Event Date: 
February 1, 2024
Rolling Admissions: 
no
Application Deadline: 
January 15, 2024
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
December 20, 2024
Free Admission: 
yes
Contact Information: 

Ucross Residency Program, 30 Big Red Lane, Clearmont, WY 82835. (307) 737-2291. Tracey Y. Kikut, Program Director.

Tracey Y. Kikut
Program Director
Contact City: 
Ucross
Contact State: 
WY
Country: 
US
Genre: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction

Association of Writers & Writing Programs Conference and Bookfair

The 2024 AWP Conference and Bookfair was held from February 7 to February 10 at the Kansas City Convention Center in Kansas City, Missouri, and included a virtual component comprised of prerecorded and livestreamed events. The conference features panel discussions, readings, discussion rooms, and a bookfair. Prior to February 7, the cost of the conference for in-person preregistration, including all virtual programming and content, is $385 for nonmembers, $300 for members, $105 for seniors, and $70 for students.

Type: 
CONFERENCE
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no
Event Date: 
February 7, 2024
Rolling Admissions: 
ignore
Application Deadline: 
December 20, 2024
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
December 20, 2024
Free Admission: 
no
Contact Information: 

Association of Writers & Writing Programs Conference and Bookfair, 440 Monticello Avenue, Suite 1802, PMB 73708, Norfolk, VA 23510. (240) 696-8273.

Contact City: 
Kansas City
Contact State: 
MO
Contact Zip / Postal Code: 
64105
Country: 
US
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Genre: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction
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Joy Harjo and Camille T. Dungy on Nature Poems

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In this 2023 National Book Festival event, Joy Harjo, author of Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: Fifty Poems for Fifty Years (Norton, 2022), and Camille T. Dungy, author of Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden (Simon & Schuster, 2023), read from their work and discuss writing about nature in a conversation moderated by NPR’s Ayesha Rascoe. Dungy’s essay “Manifest Some Magic: Get Out of Your Own Way and Do the Darn Thing” is included in the January/February issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

Genre: 
Poetry
Creative Nonfiction
Tags: 
Joy Harjo
Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light
Camille T. Dungy
Soil
National Book Festival
Library of Congress
2023
reading
conversation
nature
January/February 2024

UCR Writers’ Week Festival

January/February 2024

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 features author readings and talks, panel discussions, book signings, Q&A sessions, and a Lifetime Achievement Award presentation for poets, fiction writers, nonfiction writers, and translators.

Type: 
FESTIVAL
Ignore Event Date Field?: 
no
Event Date: 
February 10, 2024
Rolling Admissions: 
yes
Application Deadline: 
December 20, 2024
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
December 20, 2024
Free Admission: 
yes
Contact Information: 

UCR Writers’ Week Festival, University of California in Riverside, Department of Creative Writing, Interdisciplinary North Building 3012, 900 University Avenue, Riverside, CA 92521. Allison Adelle Hedge Coke, Director.

Allison Adelle Hedge Coke
Director
Contact City: 
Riverside
Contact State: 
CA
Contact Zip / Postal Code: 
92521
Country: 
US
Genre: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction
Translation
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