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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, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Tenants Harbor, ME

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...

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Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Oysterville, WA

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...

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Event Date: April 1, 2025
Application Deadline: August 31, 2024
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation
Twentynine Palms, CA

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...

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Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Southern Pines, NC

Writeaways offered a weeklong retreat from February 24 to March 3 to poets, fiction writers, and nonfiction writers (including creative nonfiction writers) at the Weymouth Center for the Arts & Humanities, a 26-acre estate in Southern Pines,...

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Event Date: February 24, 2025
Application Deadline: February 1, 2025
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Brooklyn, NY

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...

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Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Eureka Springs, AR

The 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...

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Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Saratoga Springs, NY

Yaddo offers two- to eight-week residencies year-round to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers on a 400-acre estate in Saratoga Springs, New York. Residents are provided with a private bedroom, work space, and meals. To apply...

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Event Date: May 1, 2025
Application Deadline: January 10, 2025
Financial Aid Deadline: January 10, 2025

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