Conferences and Residencies Database

The Salty Quill Writers’ Retreat for Women offers one-week residencies three times a year to twelve poets, fiction writers, nonfiction writers, and translators who identify as women at McGee Island, a 110-acre private island located three miles...

The Shannaghe Residency Program offers two- and four-week residencies from April through November to poets, fiction writers, and nonfiction writers at the Shannaghe residence, a renovated house barn in Belfast, Maine. Residents are provided with...

The Summer 2024 Sonoma County Writers Camp was held from July 24 to July 28 at the Ratna Ling Retreat Center in Cazadero, California. The retreat featured generative workshops in fiction and creative nonfiction, panels by authors and agents,...

Squam Writes will offer a retreat from June 5 to June 8 to fiction and creative nonfiction writers at Rockywold Deephaven Camps, a historic resort campsite on the shores of Squam Lake in Holderness, New Hampshire. Residents are provided lodging...

Studio Faire offers two- or four-week residencies year-round to artists and writers, including poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, and translators, at an early 19th-century house in Nérac, France. The residency accommodates up to...

Taleamor Park offers two- to four-week residencies from April to September to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers on a working grain farm and nature preserve with walking paths in northwestern Indiana between the towns of La...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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....

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...