Writing Conferences
Writing Conferences, Workshops, Retreats, Centers, Residencies,
Book & Literary Festivals
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Most recent update: 2 February 2012
Featured Conference Listings
Tin House Summer
Writers Workshop
The Tin House Summer Writers Workshop is a weeklong intensive of workshops, seminars, panels, and readings led by the editors of Tin House magazine and Tin House Books and their guests – prominent contemporary American writers of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.
July 8-15, 2012
[Read more about this conference]
Algonkian Writer Conferences
Algonkian increases your odds of becoming a published author by showing you how to inhabit that upper percentile taken seriously by pros in the publishing business.
Year-Round, locations vary
[Read more about this conference]
Chautauqua
Writers' Festival: Live and write with award-winning poets,
fiction writers, and nonfiction writers who share their insights on
craft of writing in intensive workshops, readings, panel
discussions, and individual conference designed to ensure
participants personalized attention.
Chautauqua Sumer Workshops: Weekly workshops inspire developing writers to grow in their craft. Intimate groups of no more than 12 active participants assure that each voice is heard and that all work receives individual attention.
Chautauqua Journal: Immerse yourself in the Chautauqua experience from afar with the Chautauqua journal, $14.95 per issue.
visit Chautauqua Writer's Center for more information regarding any of the above.
The
Creativity Workshop
New York, Prague, Dubai, Crete, Barcelona, Provence, Florence
“I produced as much poetry in the 5 day Crete Workshop as I did in a month in a conventional poetry workshop.“ Sally Naylor, Poet, Chattanooga, TN
In The Creativity Workshop we use many different techniques to help you find your way through the novel, essay, poem, memoir, or script you are writing or hope to write. You will do free writing, guided visualizations, collaborative writing, journaling, memoir and even some rudimentary drawing, collage and photography.
Read more about The Creativity Workshop
Colrain Poetry Manuscript Conference
The Colrain Poetry Manuscript Conference provides the faculty, connections, and tools necessary to set poets with a book-length (including chapbook-length) manuscript on a path towards publication.
Year-Round
[Read more about this conference]
Art and Craft:
the Northwestern Summer Writers' Conference
Choose from a wide range of writers’ workshops, gain insight from daily faculty panel discussions, submit your work for manuscript consultations, and hone your craft in a constructive, supportive environment.
2012 dates TBA
[Read more about this conference]
Winter
Poetry & Prose Getaway
NOT YOUR TYPICAL WRITERS' CONFERENCE. Energize your writing with challenging and supportive workshops that focus on starting new material. Advance your craft with feedback from our award-winning faculty.
2013 dates TBA
[Read more about this conference]
Alabama
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Montevallo Literary Festival
April 13, 2012
Alabama Writers Symposium
April 26-28, 2012
The Alabama Writers' Conclave
July 20-22, 2012
Slash Pine Poetry Festival
2012 dates TBA
Limestone Dust Poetry Festival
2012 dates TBA
Auburn Writers Conference
2012 dates TBA
Alaska
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Kachemak Bay Writers' Conference
June 8-12, 2012
Wrangell Mountains Writing Workshop
2012 Theme: Dancing the Great Divide
July 27 - August 2, 2012
Wrangell Mountains Poetry Workshop
2012 Theme: Strangeness: A Poetry Workshop in Accuracy's Paradox
August 12-17, 2012
Alaska Writers Conference
2012 dates TBA
Arizona
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Desert Nights, Rising Stars Writers Conference
February 23-26, 2012
Writing It Real
March 1-4, 2012
Tucson Poetry Festival
April 6-7, 2012
Northern Arizona Book Festival
May 19, 2012
University of Arizona Poetry Center Summer Residency Program
Application Deadline: January 27, 2012
June 1 - August 31 (annual)
Women Writing the West Annual Conference
October 19-21, 2012
Casa Libre en la Solana
Year-Round
University of Arizona Poetry Center
Year-Round
Wrangling with Writing
2012 dates TBA
Write Now!
thrillers, mysteries
2012 dates TBA
Arkansas
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Arkansas Literary Festival
April 12-15, 2012
The Oxford American Summit for Ambitious Writers
2012 dates TBA
California
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Writers Studio at UCLA Extension
February 9-12, 2012
San Francisco Writers Conference
February 16-20, 2012
Southern California Writers' Conference - San Diego
February 17-20, 2012
Fisherman's Wharf Writers Conference
February 22-26, 2012
Big Sur Writing Workshops
Children's Books
March 2-4, 2012
Women's Literary Festival
May 5, 2012
Santa Barbara Writers Conference
June 9-14, 2012
Book Passage Children's Writers & Illustrators Conference
Children's Books
June 21-24, 2012
Squaw Valley Community of Writers [con]
Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Memoir, Screenwriting
Application deadline: April 2, 2012
June 23-30 [poetry], July 7-14 [writers & screenwriting workshops], 2012
Voices Summer Writing Workshop
Fiction, Poetry, Memoir, LBGTQ Narrative
Application deadline: April 16, 2011
June 24-30, 2012
Idyllwild Arts: Summer Writing Programs
July 11-22, 2012
Book Passage Mystery Writers Conference
Mysteries
July 19-22, 2012
Napa Valley Writers' Conference
July 22-27, 2012
Mendocino Coast Writers Conference
July 26-28, 2012
Book Passage Travel, Food & Photographers Conference
Travel Writing, Photography
August 9-12, 2012
Central Coast Writers' Conference
Fiction, Nonfiction, Memoirs, Freelancing, Poetry, Children's/YA, Screenwriting
September 21-22, 2012
Southern California Writers' Conference - L.A.
September 21-23, 2012
Central Coast Book & Author Festival
September 23, 2012
Pacific Coast Children's Writers Workshop & Retreat
Children's Books
October 5-7, 2012
Litquake
October 5-13, 2012
SDSU Writers' Conference
Fiction, Nonfiction, Screen-writing, Children's Books
January 25-27, 2013
Algonkian Writer Conferences
Algonkian increases your odds of becoming a published author by showing you how to inhabit that upper percentile taken seriously by pros in the publishing business.
Year-Round
[Read more about this conference]
Sacramento Poetry Center
Year-Round
International Women's Writing Guild
Early Spring in California "Voices" Conference
2012 dates TBA
Santa Barbara Summer Poetry Workshop
2012 dates TBA
North Coast Redwoods Writers' Conference
2012 dates TBA
Colorado
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Aspen Winter Words
January - April 2012
Northern Colorado Writers Conference
March 30-31, 2012
Lighthouse Lit Fest
June 1-16, 2012
Naropa University Summer Writing Program
June 11 - July 8, 2012
Aspen Summer Words Writing Retreat & Literary Festival
[listed under PROGRAMS link]
June 17-22, 2012
PubWest Conference
October 25-27, 2012
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
Year-Round
Scribes & Scribblers Creative Writing Camps for Kids
2012 dates TBA
Connecticut
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Yale Writers' Conference
June 12-22, 2012
Wesleyan Writers Conference
June 14-17, 2012
Sunken Garden Poetry Festival
June - July, 2012
International Women's Writing Guild Summer Conference
2012 dates TBA
Washington D.C.
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Split This Rock Poetry Festival
March 22-25, 2012
Conversations & Connections: Practical Advice on Writing
April 21, 2012
Algonkian Writer Conferences
Algonkian increases your odds of becoming a published author by showing you how to inhabit that upper percentile taken seriously by pros in the publishing business.
Year-Round, locations vary
[Read more about this conference]
Hurston/Wright Writers' Week
2012 dates TBA
Hyman S. & Freda Bernstein Jewish Literary Festival
2012 dates TBA
Delaware
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Florida
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Florida Writers' Conference
Narrative, Journalism, Literary Writing
February 16-18, 2012
The Writers Institute - Florida Center for the Literary Arts
Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Plot
May 2-5, 2012
Tallahassee Festival of Books & Writers Conference
May 4-6, 2012
Miami Book Fair International
November 11-18, 2012
Key West Literary Seminar
January 10-13, 2013
Atlantic Center for the Arts
Year-Round
The Studios of Key West [cen/res]
Residency application deadline: January 1 - March 15, 2012
Year-Round
Sanibel Island Writers Conference
2012 dates TBA
Other Words [con]
2012 dates TBA
Blue Flower Arts Winter Writers' Conference
2013 dates TBA
Writers in Paradise [con]
2013 dates TBA
Palm Beach Poetry Festival
2013 dates TBA
Georgia
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Savannah Book Festival
February 15-19, 2012
Agnes Scott College Writers' Festival
March 29-30, 2012
Southeastern Writers Association Writers Workshop
June 15-19, 2012
Black Writers Reunion & Conference
August 29-31 [con], September 1-3 [ret], 2012
Marguerite & Lamar Smith Fellowship for Writers [res]
Application deadline: April 1, 2012
September - November, 2012
Southern Women Writers Conference
September 20-23, 2012
Scribblers' Retreat Writers' Conference
September 27-29, 2012
Chattahoochee Valley Writers' Conference
September 2012
Georgia Literary Festival
November 9-10, 2012
Dahlonega Literary Festival & Writer's Conference
November 2012
National Black Arts Festival
From website: We invite you to join us and experience the dance, music, film, theatre, visual arts and literary arts of Africa and the African Diaspora.
2012 dates TBA
Hawaii
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Volcano Art Center
Year-Round
Idaho
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Sun Valley Writers' Conference
Fiction, Nonfiction, Journalism, Poetry, Filmmaking.
August 17-20, 2012
Illinois
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Madeline P. Plonsker Emerging Writer's Residency
Application deadline: April 1 (annual)
February - March or March - April
Lake Forest Literary Festival
February 27-29, 2012
AWP Conference
February 29 - March 3, 2012
Writers in the Heartland [res]
September - October
The Chicago School of Poetics
Year-Round
Ragdale [ret]
Year-Round
Writer's Studio [cen]
Year-Round
Gwendolyn Brooks Conference
for Black Literature & Creative Writing
2012 dates TBA
DePaul Summer Writing Conference
2012 dates TBA
Art and Craft:
the Northwestern Summer Writers' Conference
Choose from a wide range of writers’ workshops, gain insight from daily faculty panel discussions, submit your work for manuscript consultations, and hone your craft in a constructive, supportive environment.
2012 dates TBA
[Read more about this conference]
Millikin University Literary Festival
2012 dates TBA
Indiana
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Indiana University Writers' Conference
Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction
June 3-7, 2012
Midwest Writers Conference
July 26-28, 2012
Iowa
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Mission Creek Festival
March 27- April 1, 2012
Herbert Hoover Artist-in-Residence Program
Application deadline: February 24, 2012
May - September
The Iowa Writers' Workshop Summer Program
Poetry, Fiction
Application deadline: March 1, 2012
May 14 - June 1, June 5 - July 27, 2012
Iowa Summer Writing Festival
June - July 2012
Iowa Young Writers' Studio
Application deadline: February 11, 2012 (postmark)
June 17-30, July 8-21, 2012
David R. Collins Writers' Conference
Novel, Nonfiction, Poetry
June 28-30, 2012
Iowa City Book Festival
July 13-15, 2012
Lutheran Festival of Writing
Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction
2013 dates TBA
Kansas
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Campbell Conference
Science Fiction
July 5-8, 2012
Kentucky
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Kentucky Writers Conference
April 20, 2012
Southern Kentucky Book Festival
April 21, 2012
Kentucky Women's Book Festival
May 19, 2012
Writers Retreat Workshop
June 15-23, 2012
Kentucky Women Writers Conference
September 21-22, 2012
Carnegie Center for Literacy & Learning
Year-Round
Louisiana
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Tennessee Williams / New Orleans Literary Festival
March 21-25, 2012
Louisiana Conference on Literature, Language & Culture
March 29-31, 2012
Saints & Sinners: An Alternative Literary Festival
LGBT Literature
2013 dates TBA
Maine
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The Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
Nonfiction
February - May; September - December
Stonecoast Writers' Conference
Poetry, Short Fiction, Novel, Nonfiction
July 15-21, 2012
Maryland
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Bethesda Literary Festival
Novel, Journalism, Poetry, Nonfiction
April 20-22, 2012
Baltimore Book Festival
September 28-30, 2012
The Writer's Center
Year-Round
F. Scott Fitzgerald Literary Conference
Fiction, Poetry, Memoir, Nonfiction, Travel, Mystery, Screenwriting, Children’s Literature
2012 dates TBA
Baltimore Writers' Conference
Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, Drama
2012 dates TBA
Massachusetts
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Massachusetts Poetry Festival
April 20-22, 2012
Newburyport Literary Festival
April 27-28, 2012
The Glen Workshop
June 10-17, 2012
Fine Arts Work Center Summer Workshops
June 17 - August 24, 2012
Juniper Summer Writing Institute [con]
June 24-30, 2012
Cape Cod Writers' Center Annual Summer Writers' Conference & Young Writers' Workshop
August 5-10, 2012
Patchwork Farm Retreat
September 27-30, 2012
New England Crime Bake
Mysteries
November 9-11, 2012
Amherst Writers & Artists
Year-Round
The Norman Mailer Center [res/ret/wkshp]
Year-Round
Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill
Poetry, Travel, Blogging
Year-Round
Colrain Poetry Manuscript Conference
The Colrain Poetry Manuscript Conference provides the faculty, connections, and tools necessary to set poets with a book-length manuscript on a path towards publication.
Year-Round
[Read more about this conference]
Michigan
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Writing the Midwest: A Symposium of Scholars and Writers
May 10-12, 2012
Bear River Writers' Conference
May 31 - June 4, 2012
Springfed Arts - Lamb's Retreat for Songwriters
Songwriting
Nov 1-4, 8-11, 2012
The Box Factory for the Arts [cen]
Year-Round
Ludington Visiting Writers
Year-Round
Ann Arbor Book Festival Writer's Conference
2012 dates TBA
Rustbelt Roethke Writers' Retreat
2012 dates TBA
Minnesota
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Prairie Gate Literary Festival
March 30-31, 2011
The Loft Literary Center
Year-Round
Mississippi
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Yoknapatawpha Summer Writers' Workshop
Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction
June 8-10, 2012
Mississippi Writers Guild Conference
August 3-4, 2012
Missouri
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Missouri Writers Guild Conference
April 20-22, 2012
Mark Twain Creative Writing Workshop
June 4-22, 2012
New Letters Weekend Writers Conference
June 22-24, 2012
Montana
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Environmental Writing Institute
Environmental Writing
October 3-7, 2012
Montana Festival of the Book
October 4-6, 2012
Flathead River Writers Conference
2012 dates TBA
Nebraska
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Nebraska Summer Writers' Conference
Novels, Memoirs, Poetry, Fiction
June 9-15, 2012
Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts Residencies
Year-Round
Nevada
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Las Vegas Writer's Conference
April 19-21, 2012
PSWA Conference
Crimes/Mystery Fiction, Nonfiction
July 12-15, 2012
New Hampshire
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Odyssey: The Fantasy Writing Workshop
Fantasy
Application deadline: April 7, 2012
June 11 - July 20, 2012
The Frost Place
Poetry
June 24-28 [con], July 15-21 [con/fest], August 8-13 [seminar], 2012
Star Island Retreat
September 3-7, 2012
Live Free & Write
Poetry, Memoir
2012 dates TBA
New Jersey
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Ocean View Poetry Getaway [ret]
April 13-15, 2012
Rutgers Camden Summer Writers' Conference
June 18-27, 2012
The Poetry Center at Passaic County Community College
Year-Round
Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival
2012 dates TBA
WAMFEST: The Words & Music Festival
2012 dates TBA
Quickie Poetry Getaway
2012 dates TBA
Winter
Poetry & Prose Getaway
NOT YOUR TYPICAL WRITERS' CONFERENCE. Energize your writing with challenging and supportive workshops that focus on starting new material. Advance your craft with feedback from our award-winning faculty.
2013 dates TBA
[Read more about this conference]
New Mexico
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National Latino Writers Conference
May 16-19, 2012
Las Dos Brujas
Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry
June 3-9, 2012
Taos Summer Writers' Conference
Fiction, Memoir, Poetry, Craft Lessons
July 15-22, 2012
The Glen Workshop
July 29 - August 5, 2012
Taos Writing Retreat for Health Professional
2012 dates TBA
A Room Of Her Own Retreat
2012 dates TBA
New York
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Crime Fiction Academy
Crime Fiction
February 20 - May 21, 2012
The Creativity Workshop
New York, Prague, Dubai, Crete, Barcelona, Provence, Florence
“I produced as much poetry in the 5 day Crete Workshop as I did in a month in a conventional poetry workshop.“ Sally Naylor, Poet, Chattanooga, TN
In The Creativity Workshop we use many different techniques to help you find your way through the novel, essay, poem, memoir, or script you are writing or hope to write. You will do free writing, guided visualizations, collaborative writing, journaling, memoir and even some rudimentary drawing, collage and photography.
Read more about The Creativity Workshop
March 16-19, June 8-11, 2012
Millay Colony for the Arts - Workshop Retreats
April 14-15 & 28-29, May 5-6, May 30 - June 2, June
16-17,
August 30 - September 2, 2012
PEN World Voices
April 16 - May 1, 2012
Sarah Lawrence College Poetry Festival
April 20-22, 2012
ASJA Writers Conference
April 26-28, 2012
Backspace Writers Conference
May 24-26, 2012
Writers in New York
Poetry, Fiction
May 29 - June 21, 2012
The Edward F. Albee Foundation [res]
Application deadline: January 1, 2012
May - October
The New School Summer Writers Colony
June 4-21, 2012
Chautauqua Writers' Festival
June 14-17, 2012
Vassar College & New York Stage and Film's
Powerhouse Apprentice Training Program
Drama, Screenwriting
June 15 - July 29, 2012
Colgate Writers' Conference
Fiction, Poetry, Novel, Memoir
June 17-23, 2012
Sarah Lawrence College Summer Writers Seminar
Application deadline: April 16, 2012 (postmark)
June 24-29, 2012
New York State Summer Writers Institute
July 2-27, 2012
Hofstra University Summer Writing Workshops
July 9-20, 2012
Southampton Creative Writing Workshops
Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Children's Literature, Drama, Screenwriting
July 11-15, 18-29, 2012
Slice Literary Writers Conference
July 20-21, 2012
Brooklyn Book Festival
September 23, 2012
Algonkian Writer Conferences
Algonkian increases your odds of becoming a published author by showing you how to inhabit that upper percentile taken seriously by pros in the publishing business.
Year-Round
[Read more about this conference]
Adirondack Center for Writing
Year-Round
The Asian American Writers' Workshop [cen]
Year-Round
The Downtown Writer's Center
Poetry, Fiction, Memoir, Drama, Nonfiction, Screenwriting
Year-Round
Founders Workshops
Year-Round
Millay Colony for the Arts - Residencies
Dates vary, see website
New York Writers Workshop [cen]
Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction
Year-Round
Millbrook Book Festival
2012 dates TBA
One Story Workshop for Writers
2012 dates TBA
Fort Green Park Summer Literary Festival
2012 dates TBA
Astoria/LIC International Film Festival
2012 dates TBA
International Women's Writing Guild Big Apple Conference
2012 dates TBA
Writer's Seminar in New York
2012 dates TBA
E-Poetry: International Digital Language & Arts Festival
2013 dates TBA
North Carolina
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Southern Writers Symposium
March 17, 2012
Visiting Writers Spring Literary Festival
March 18-22, 2012
North Carolina Writers' Network Conferences
April 28, 2012
Raleigh Review Writer's House
Poetry, Fiction, Memoir
May 5-6, 2012
Wildacres Writers Workshop
July 1-7 [ret], 7-14 [wkshp], 2012
Squire Summer Writing Residency
July 19-22, 2012
Carolina Mountains Literary Festival
September 6-8, 2012
Fearless Writing Retreat - Lake Logan
September 30 - October 7, 2012
The Writers' Workshop of Asheville
Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, Drama, Journal Writing, Children's Books, Screenwriting
Year-round
North Dakota
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University of North Dakota Writers Conference
March 27-31, 2012
Ohio
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Ohio University's Spring Literary Festival
Poetry, Fiction and Nonfiction.
May 9-11, 2012
River Teeth Nonfiction Conference
Priority deadline: April 1, 2012 / Registration deadline: May 4, 2012
May 18-20, 2012
The Kenyon Review Writers' Workshop
June 16-23, 2012
The Jonathon R. Reynolds Young Writers Workshop
Application Deadline: March 5, 2012
June 17-24, 2012
The Kenyon Review Young Writers' Workshop
June 24 - July 7, July 15-28, 2012
Antioch Writers' Workshop
July 7-13, 2012
Imagination Conference
Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, Drama, Screenwriting.
2012 dates TBA
Oklahoma
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Oklahoma Writers Federation (OWFI) Conference
May 3-5, 2012
Nimrod Literary Awards Conference for Readers & Writers
Fiction, Poetry, Memoir, YA Fantasy, Nonfiction
2012 dates TBA
Oregon
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The Margery Davis Boyden Wilderness Writing Residency
Application deadline: Postmark December 1, 2011 - March 1, 2012
April - October
Writing the Breakout Novel with Donald Maass
April 19-25, 2012
Write to Publish "Oolicon"
2012 Theme: Step into Genre
April 28, 2012
Tin House Summer
Writers Workshop
The Tin House Summer Writers Workshop is a weeklong intensive of workshops, seminars, panels, and readings led by the editors of Tin House magazine and Tin House Books and their guests – prominent contemporary American writers of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.
July 8-15, 2012
[Read more about this conference]
Pacific Northwest Children's Book Conference
Picture Books, Historical Fiction, Mysteries, Biography
July 19-22, 2012
Willamette Writers Conference
August 3-5, 2012
wordstock [fest]
October 11-14, 2012
The Nature of Words [con/fest]
November 7-11, 2012
Crow Arts Manor [cen]
Year-Round
Fishtrap [con/res/fest/wkshp]
Year-Round
Pennsylvania
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Undergraduate Literature & Creative Writing Conference
February 20, 2012
The Write Stuff [con]
March 16-17, 2012
Philadelphia Book Festival
April 16-21, 2012
Pennwriters Conference
May 18-20, 2012
WCU Poetry Conference
June 6-9, 2012
The Gettysburg Review Conference for Writers
Poetry, Prose
Application deadline: May 23, 2012
June 6-11, 2012
Bucknell Seminar for Younger Poets
Application deadline: January 31, 2012
June 10 - July 1, 2012
Summer Advanced Writers Workshops
Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry
Application deadline: May 1, 2012
June 24-30, 2012
Founders Workshops
Year-Round
Rhode Island
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Ocean State Summer Writing Conference
poetry, fiction, nonfiction
June 21-23, 2012
South Carolina
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Crazyhorse Writers Conference
Poetry, Prose
March 15-18, 2012
Fearless Writing Retreat - Seabrook Island
April 12-15, 2012
The Southeast Writers Conferences & Book Expo
Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Drama
May 4-5, 2012
Hub-Bub Artists-in-Residence Program
Application deadline: February 15 (annual)
June 15 - May 15 (annual)
Writing in Place [con]
Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction
July 13-15, 2012
South Dakota
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John R. Milton Writers' Conference
2012 dates TBA
Tennessee
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Southern Literary Festival
March 29-30, 2012
The Mountain Heritage Literary Festival
June 15-17, 2012
Sewanee Young Writers' Conference
July 1-14, 2012
Sewanee Writers' Conference
Fiction, Poetry, Playwriting.
July 24 - August 5, 2012
Killer Nashville Mystery & Thriller Conference
Mysteries, Thrillers
August 24-26, 2012
The Southern Festival of Books
October 12-14, 2012
Conference on Southern Literature
2013 dates TBA
Texas
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The Writers' Festival [con]
February 9-11, 2012
Highland Park Literary Festival
February 16-17, 2012
Houston Indie Book Festival
April 14, 2012
Poery at Roundtop [fest]
May 4-6, 2012
Patchwork Farm Retreat near Austin
May 17-20, 2012
DFW Writers' Conference
May 19-20, 2012
National Black Book Festival
June 8-10, 2012
Writers' League of Texas Agents Conference
June 22-24, 2012
Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Writers Conference
July 20-22, 2012
Austin International Poetry Festival
September 27-30, 2012
Gemini Ink [cen]
Year-Round
SMU Continuing Studies Creative Writing Program
Year-Round
Boldface: A Conference for Emerging Writers
2012 dates TBA
Writers' League of Texas Summer Writing Retreat
Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry
2012 dates TBA
Utah
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Writers at Work
Novel, Advanced Fiction, Generative Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Young Adult Fiction, Children's Writing
June 6-10, 2012
Vermont
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New England Young Writers' Conference
May 17-20, 2012
Wildbranch Writing Workshop
Nature/Environmental Writing
Application deadline: April 12, 2012
June 24-30, 2012
Green Mountain Writer's Conference
July 30 - August 3, 2012
Postgraduate Writers' Conference
August 13-19, 2012
Bread Loaf Writers' Conference
Application deadline: March 1, 2012
August 15-25, 2012
Brattleboro Literary Festival
October 12-14, 2012
Vermont Studio Center Artists & Writers Residencies
Application deadline: February 15, 2012
Year-Round
Burlington Book Festival
2012 dates TBA
Virginia
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Lex Allen Literary Festival
March 10, 2012
Virginia Festival of the Book
March 21-25, 2012
Tinker Mountain Writers' Workshop
June 10-15, 2012
Hampton Roads Writers' Conference
September 20-22, 2012
Fall for the Book [fest]
September 26-30, 2012
James River Writers [con]
October 20-21, 2012
The Porches Writing Retreat
Year-Round
TCC Literary Festival
2012 dates TBA
Emory & Henry College Literary Festival
2012 dates TBA
Washington
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Mid-Columbia Literary Festival
February 7 - June 7, 2012
Whidbey Island Writers Conference
March 3-4, 2012
The Get Lit! Literary Festival
April 11-15, 2012
Field's End Writers' Conference
April 28, 2012
Travel & Words
Travel Writing, Journalism
April 29-30, 2012
Chukanut Writers Conference: Inspiration into Action
June 22-23, 2012
Centrum's Port Townsend Writers' Conference
July 8-22, 2012
PNWA Summer Writers Conference
July 19-22, 2012
LiTFUSE: A Poets' Workshop
September 21-23, 2012
Write on the Sound [con]
October 6-7, 2012
West Virginia
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West Virginia Writers' Workshop
July 19-22, 2012
West Virginia Book Festival
October 13-14, 2012
West Virginia Writers Conference
2012 dates TBA
Wisconsin
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UWM Spring Writers Festival [con]
March 9-11, 2012
The Writers' Institute [con]
Poetry, Screenplays, Novels, Nonfiction
April 12-15, 2012
Write-by-the-Lake Writer's Workshop & Retreat
June 18-22, 2012
UW Madison School of the Arts at Rhinelander [con]
July 22-27, 2012
Wyoming
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Ucross Foundation Residency Program
Deadlines: March 1 (Fall), October 1 (Spring)
Spring; Fall
Jackson Hole Writers Conference
June 28-30, 2012
Great Lakes Writers Festival
2012 dates TBA
Canada
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gritLIT - Hamilton's Literary Festival
March 28 - April 1, 2012
Writing With Style [con]
Application deadlines: February 15 (Spring); June 15 (Fall)
April 15-21; September 9-12, 2012
Blue Metropolis Montreal International Literary Festival
April 18-23, 2012
The Ottawa International Writers Festival
April 26 - May 1, 2012
Sage Hill Writing Experience [con]
May 4-17, July 23 - August 2, 2012
Summer Literary Seminar - Montreal
June 17-30, 2012
The Fernie Writers Conference
July 15-21, 2012
Lakefield Literary Festival
July 20-23, 2012
Winterset in Summer [fest]
August 10-12, 2012
Sunshine Coast Festival of the Written Arts
August 16-19, 2012
WordFest
October 9-14, 2012
Vancouver International Writers & Readers Festival
October 16-21, 2012
Surrey International Writers' Conference
October 19-21, 2012
The Banff Centre
Year-Round
NorthWords Writers Festival
2012 dates TBA
Bayfield Writers' Festival
2012 dates TBA
SFU Summer Publishing Workshops
2012 dates TBA
Eden Mills Writers' Festival
2012 dates TBA
Piper's Frith
2012 dates TBA
Whitehorse Poetry Festival
2013 dates TBA
International
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Patchwork Farm - Lake Atitlan, Guatemala
February 4-11, 2012
Perth Writers Festival - Australia
February 10 - March 3, 2012
San Miguel Writers' Conference - Mexico
February 16-19, 2012
Creativity Workshop - Prague, Czech Republic
March 24-30, 2012
Sirenland Writers Conference - Positano, Italy
March 25 - March 31, 2012
Patchwork Farm - Culebra, Puerto Rico
March 25 - April 1, 2012
Creativity Workshop - Dubai, United Arab Emirates
April 4-10, 2012
Strokestown International Poetry Festival - Ireland
May 4-6, 2012
VCCA Fiction & Poetry Writing Workshops in the South of France
May 14-21 [writing], September 1-8 [song-writing], 2012
Astra Writing in Greece
May 16-26, 2012
Sozopol Fiction Seminars - Bulgaria
Application deadline: March 7, 2012
May 24-27, 2012
Hay Festival - Wales
May 31 - June 10, 2012
&Now Festival of Innovative Writing & the Literary Arts - Paris
June 7-10, 2012
Left Bank Writers Retreat - Paris, France
Application deadline: May 1, 2012
June 17-22, 2012
Writers in Florence - Italy [ret]
June 18 - July 14, 2012
Writers in Paris - France [ret]
June 23 - July 21, 2012
Creativity Workshop - Crete, Greece
June 26 - July 3, 2012
International Conference on the Book - Barcelona, Spain
June 30 - July 1, 2012
Prague Summer Program - Czech Republic
June 30 - July 27, 2012
DISQUIET - Lisbon, Portugal [wkshp]
Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction
July 1-13, 2012
The Writing Workshops in Edinburgh, Scotland
July 1-28, 2012
Paris Writing Workshop - Paris, France
July 1-29, 2012
Creativity Workshop - Barcelona, Spain
July 5-12, 2012
Aegan Arts Circle - Andros, Greece [con]
July 6-13, 2012
The Writing Workshops: Travel Writing & Memoir - Naxos, Greece
July 7-16, 2012
Creativity Workshop - Porto, Portugal
July 15-22, 2012
Art Workshop International - Assisi, Italy
July 18 - August 14, 2012
Creativity Workshop - Florence, Italy
July 24-31, 2012
Patchwork Farm - Cumbrae, Scotland
August 11-18, 2012
Myth, Mountain & Imagination - Wales
August 18-24, 2012
Melbourne Writers Festival - Australia
August 24 - September 2, 2012
Bread Loaf Writers' Conference - Sicily, Italy
September 16-22, 2012
Abroad Writers' Conference
Year-Round, locations vary
Provence Expat Club - Greoux les bains, France [cen]
Year-Round
The Plough Arts Centre - Great Torrington, UK
Year-Round
Writing Workshop: Vitorchiano, Italy
2012 dates TBA
FIU Writers Conference
2012 dates TBA
Summer Literary Seminar - Kenya
2012 dates TBA
Online
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The Chicago School of Poetics
Year-Round
In The Company of Writers.com
Year-Round Webinars
Zoetrope: All-Story Fiction and Screenwriting
Dates vary, see website