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27th Annual Taos Storytelling Festival

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Join us in beautiful Taos, New Mexico, for SOMOS’ 27th Annual Storytelling Festival on Saturday, October 11th, 2025. Participate in a two-hour workshop with featured teller, Eldrena Douma, an afternoon storyswap, and the main event at 6pm. Tellers include Eldrena Douma, Sage Vogel, Celinda Reynolds Kaelin, and musician Chuy Martinez. FMI: view flyer or visit our website.

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Wildacres Writers 2025: Commercial Fiction Workshop Registration Open

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Registration Open Now
Writers take all sorts of classes on craft: character building, plotting, thematic elements, etc. BUT what you need to know beyond that is THE INDUSTRY. If you want to see your book on the bookstore shelves, you have to be a student of the business of publishing.

Whether you’re just getting started or you have a completed draft, knowing how to pitch and present your novel is imperative! Your query and first 10 pages are your foot in the publishing door.

Thinking you don’t need that yet because you’re still writing the novel? You know the adage, “Dress for the job you want?” You should be writing for the place on the bookshelf you want.

Start figuring that out for sure now and it will make everything you do in the future easier. So, yeah, this workshop IS for you—whatever stage your novel is in!

View flyer and learn more here.

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9th Annual Taos Writers Conference

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JOIN us for SOMOS’ 9th Annual Taos Writers Conference, in beautiful Taos, New Mexico, July 25th—27th, 2025, featuring keynote speaker, memoirist, & poet, Nick Flynn (Another Bullshit Night in Suck City). Over twenty workshops in every genre. Conference includes receptions, keynote reading, lunch roundtable discussions on publishing, faculty readings, and book sales. FYI: view our flyer, visit our website, or call 575-758-0081.

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Birds & Muses September 2025 Residency Now Enrolling

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Application Deadline: July 15, 2025
Realize your vision with acclaimed novelist, memoirist, editor Kate Moses, as invested in your story & your growth as you are. Taking writers under her wing for 3 decades. Individual mentorships and small group retreats. Now enrolling for September writers’ residency at Hewnoaks in Maine. Substack: The Museletter with Kate Moses. View flyer or visit website to learn more.

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2025 Tremont Writers Conference in Great Smoky Mountains National Park

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Application Deadline: May 15, 2025
Applications are open for the third annual Tremont Writers Conference, taking place this October inside Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Join renowned authors Crystal Wilkinson, David Joy, Karen Spears Zacharias, and Maurice Manning for an intensive five-day retreat for writers of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Financial aid is available. Learn more and apply at our website.

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Event :: 2025 Poetry Marathon

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You don’t need running shoes for The Poetry Marathon, an annual, online event focused on generating new work within a set timeline. The challenge is to write 12 poems in 12 hours (a half marathon) or 24 poems in 24 hours (a full marathon) at the rate of one poem per hour.

This free, international event draws hundreds of poets from around the world, and like any endurance challenge, it takes true commitment and perseverance. Do you have what it takes?

This year’s marathon will start at 9AM ET on May 17 and end at either 9PM ET (half) or at 9AM ET on May 18 (full). Half Marathon participants can also choose to start at 9PM ET on May 17 and take the overnight shift until 9AM ET. The organizers post optional prompts on the hour, and participants can post their poems immediately, or, if having all-day online access isn’t feasible, the poems can be written on the hour but posted to the community later.

The event will be hosted in a private, member-only space on Circle, a community platform that allows participants to read and respond to one another’s works.

Participants are asked to apply by May 12.

Birds & Muses Literary Mentorship for Women & Nonbinary Writers

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Deadline: Rolling
Realize your vision with acclaimed novelist, memoirist, editor Kate Moses, as invested in your story & your growth as you are. Taking writers under her wing for 3 decades. Recent mentees have won Pushcart Prize, Narrative Prize, Independent Book Publishers Association Medal, finalists for Greywolf Nonfiction Prize, Next Generation Indie Book Award. Substack: The Museletter with Kate Moses. For more information view flyer or visit website.

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Stories and Songs Writing Retreat – Montana/Yellowstone – Sept. 22-26, 2025

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Registration Deadline: May 15, 2025
Immerse yourself in pristine mountains and write under starry skies. For prose storytellers and songwriters. With novelist/memoirist/essayist Carolyn Flynn, novelist and songwriter Karen Leslie and the award-winning songwriter Clay Mills of Songtown. View our flyer for more information and link to our website.

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A Breakthrough Experience for Writers of Fantasy, Science Fiction, Horror

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Application Deadline: April 1, 2025
Have you ever wished you could attend your own private writing workshop that would teach you exactly what you need to know, at the right pace for you, and provide feedback and guidance in extensive one-on-one sessions? That’s Your Personal Odyssey Writing Workshop. It’s an intensive, personalized, one-on-one online workshop experience combining advanced lectures, expert feedback, and deep mentoring. View flyer for more information and a link to our website.

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Contest and Online Class Opportunity from Black Fox Literary

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Submission Deadline: March 30, 2025
Submit your fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction to Black Fox Literary Magazine’s Winter Prize with theme Rise or Ruin! Deadline: March 30, 2025! Registration is also open for our online January class: Goals, Routines, and Mindset for Writers on January 18, 2025 at 1-3 PM EST. View flyer for more information and a link to our website.

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Apply Now to The Kenyon Review Summer Residential Writers Workshop!

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Application Deadline: February 16, 2025
View our flyer and visit our website to learn more about our week-long residential writers workshops hosted at Kenyon College.

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Phyllis Biffle Elmore and Annmarie Kelly Writing Retreat in France

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Application Deadline: March 1, 2025
We’ll begin each morning in community. What is the heart of your story? Why are you the only one to tell it? Ultimately, we’ll practice writing as healing. This once-in-a-lifetime retreat is for women who long to write achingly beautiful prose in a transcendently beautiful place. Apply now for $900 off with code 25AK. See flyer for more information and link to apply.

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Writing from Atrocity to Healing: A Multi-Genre Virtual Workshop

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This four-session virtual workshop will provide poets and writers of all levels, genres, and backgrounds with the tools to write from their experiences with atrocity, the traumas produced by atrocity, and the healing (personally, communally, nationally) your words can make of it. Featured Speakers include Ellen Bass, Jacqueline Osherow, Joy Ladin, Geoffrey Philp, Jehanne Dubrow, Sam Fleischacker, and Mehnaz Afridi. View flyer for more information and link to registration information.

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The Kenyon Review Summer Residential Writers Workshops Applications Are Open!

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Application Deadline: February 16, 2025
Join us for our week-long, residential writing workshops in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry with acclaimed faculty in beautiful Gambier, Ohio. The Kenyon Review Writing Workshops are generative, focused on giving writers time and space to produce new work. Since 1995, these workshops have provided thousands of writers with a nurturing space to take creative risks and push their writing to the next level. The low student-teacher ratio and supportive, rigorous, and immersive writing community have proved so popular that many students return again and again. View flyer for more info and link to our website.

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Apply to The Kenyon Review’s Winter 2025 Online Adult Writers Workshops!

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Application Deadline: December 10, 2024
Learn more about The Kenyon Review’s Winter Online Adult Writers Workshops and apply on our website! See flyer for more info and link to our website.

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Todos Santos Writers Workshop: Come write with us this winter!

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Registration Deadline: December 1, 2024
Based in the historic pueblo mágico of Todos Santos, Baja California Sur, Mexico, TSWW offers workshops for writers at all levels. Written works are read and critiqued in a supportive, participatory setting, with one-on-one mentoring sessions. Special events include guest speakers, craft discussions, and Fiesta Night featuring regional food and music. Discount for NewPages applicants before October 15. View flyer for a link to our website and to learn more.

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