The 34th annual A Rally of Writers conference was held on April 9 at the West Campus of Lansing Community College in Lansing, Michigan. The conference featured workshops, panel discussions, and readings in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction...
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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.
A.I.R. Studio Paducah offers residencies of two weeks to three months year-round to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers in the Lower Town Arts District of Paducah, Kentucky. Residents are provided with a private apartment and...
read moreThe Writers’ League of Texas (WLT) 2022 Agents & Editors Conference was held from June 24 to June 26 at the Hyatt Regency on Lady Bird Lake in Austin, Texas. The conference featured presentations, panels, authors in conversation, a keynote...
read moreThe 2022 All Write Creative Nonfiction Conference was held from October 19 to October 23 at the Spencertown Academy in Columbia County, New York. The conference featured one-hour workshops to discuss 15 to 20 pages of each writer’s work, an...
read moreThe 2023 All Write Fiction Conference will be held from November 9 to November 12 at the Spencertown Academy in Columbia County, New York. The conference features workshops to discuss 15 to 20 pages of each writer’s work, an opening night...
read moreThe 46th annual American Literary Translators Association Conference was held from November 8 to November 11 at the Tucson Marriott University Park Hotel in Tucson. Programming included panels, roundtables, bilingual readings, a bookfair, a...
read moreThe American University of Paris Summer Creative Writing Institute offered workshops to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers from June 28 to July 19 on the university’s campus in the seventh arrondissement of Paris. The faculty...
read moreThe 2023 General Artist Residency Program offers residencies of two weeks or one month during July, September, October, and November to poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, and translators at Tower View, a 350-acre historic estate...
read moreThe Adirondack Center for Writing offered a residency from September 24 to October 8 to six poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers at a lodge on Twitchell Lake in the Adirondack Mountains in New York. Three of the residents were...
read moreResidencies of one week to two months are offered to poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, and translators from late March through early June and from early September through early November at Omi International Arts Center,...
read moreThe 47th annual Aspen Summer Words Writing Conference and Literary Festival was held from June 18 to June 23 at the Viewline, a resort in the mountain town of Snowmass, Colorado, around 15 minutes from downtown Aspen. The conference featured...
read moreThe 2024 AWP Conference and Bookfair will be held from February 7 to February 10 at the Kansas City Convention Center in Kansas City, Missouri, and will also include a virtual component comprised of prerecorded and livestreamed events. The...
read moreThe Fall 2023 Atlanta Writers Conference was held from November 3 to November 4 at the Westin Atlanta Airport Hotel in Atlanta. The conference featured pitch sessions, a workshop on emotional survival skills for writers, a bookfair, and...
read moreThe 2023 Biographers International Organization (BIO) Conference was held from May 19 to May 21 at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York in New York City as well as online. The conference featured panels on current issues in...
read moreThe Bogliasco Foundation offers month-long residencies from January to May and from September to December to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers in the coastal fishing village of Bogliasco, Italy, located seven miles southeast...
read moreThe 22nd annual Brattleboro Literary Festival was held in person in downtown Brattleboro, Vermont, from October 13 to October 15, and was recorded for online presentation. The festival featured readings, panels, and special events. Participating...
read moreThe 2024 Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference will be held from June 11 to June 17 in the Green Mountains of Ripton, Vermont. The conference, designed for poets and prose writers whose work deals with the environment and the natural world...
read moreThe 2024 Bread Loaf Translators’ Conference will be held from June 11 to June 17 in the Green Mountains of Ripton, Vermont. The conference, designed for both emerging and established translators, features translation workshops in poetry, fiction...
read moreThe 2024 Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference will be held from August 14 to August 24 in the Green Mountains of Ripton, Vermont. The conference features workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, as well as lectures; craft classes;...
read moreThe eighth annual Broadleaf Writers Conference was held from September 23 to September 24 at the Decatur Library in Decatur, Georgia. The conference featured panels and workshops for poets, fiction writers, and nonfiction writers, as well as...
read moreThe Museum of Fine Arts in Houston offered residencies of one to three months from July 1 to November 30 to mid-career poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers at the Dora Maar House in Ménerbes, France. Residents were provided...
read moreBuinho Creative Hub offers residencies of two weeks to three months year-round to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers in the historic town of Messejana, Portugal. Residents are provided with private lodging and shared work...
read moreThe Cambridge Writers’ Workshop Paris Writing Retreat was held from July 19 to July 25 in the historic Montparnasse neighborhood of Paris. The retreat featured writing and publishing workshops, craft seminars, and generative writing sessions for...
read moreThe 2020 Cambridge Writers’ Workshop Spring in New Orleans Writing Retreat was held from March 19 to March 22 at the Pelham Hotel, a five-minute walk from the French Quarter. The retreat featured multi-genre and publishing workshops, craft...
read moreThe 2023 Cape Cod Writers Center Conference was held from August 3 to August 6 at the Resort and Conference Center at Hyannis in Barnstable, Massachusetts. The conference featured workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, an agent...
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