http://www.lakeforest.edu/academics/programs/engl/andnow/
http://www.215festival.com/
http://www.agnesscott.edu/writersfestival/p_writersfestival.asp
Annual, three-day conference held in July.
http://www.alabamawritersconclave.org/
Annual, three-day conference held in May.
http://www.ascc.edu/Default.asp?DivisionID='678'
http://aabookfestival.org/
Annual, one-week conference held in July. Scholarships available.
http://www.antiochwritersworkshop.com
Annual, one-day festival held in April.
http://www.azbookfestival.org/
Annual four-day conference held in March, featuring readings, writing classes, panels on publishing and the writing life, and conversations and interviews with famous and emerging artists.
http://www.asu.edu/pipercwcenter/conference/
http://www.arkansasliteraryfestival.org/
http://www.geocities.com/penwomen/
One-week conference held every other year in August.
http://www.aroomofherown.org/retreats.html
Three-day conference held every other year in April, focusing on the intersection of religion and the arts.
http://www.baylor.edu/ifl/index.php?id=23246
Writers’ retreat offering one- to four-week residencies for writers (poetry, fiction, non-fiction) and visual artists (painters and sculptors).
http://artcroft.org/
http://www.augustaarts.com/ArtsintheHeart.htm
Annual festival of the literary, visual, and performing arts.
http://www.artscape.org
http://arts.cpcc.edu/festival/literary
Annual five-day festival held in June, featuring workshops, readings, talks, Q&As, panels, and consultations, as well as guest authors, editors, agents, and publishing insiders.
http://www.aspenwriters.org/summer.html
http://aipf.org/
Annual, three-day conference held in early or mid spring.
http://www.awpwriter.org/conference/index.php
http://www.backspacewritersconference.com:80/
Annual, three-day festival held in September.
http://www.bop.org/index.cfm?page=events&id=9
http://hiwasseecollege.org/ac/batcreekreview/
http://www.thevillagebookshop.com/Writers_Festival.htm
Annual, three-day festival held in April.
http://www.bethesda.org/specialevents/litfest/litfest.htm
http://www.blackwriters.org/
http://www.blowinupaspot.com/
http://bluemetropolis.org/Festival
Annual fall conference.
http://www.brmaa.net/writers_conference.htm
http://www.brattleboroliteraryfestival.org/
Annual eleven-day conference held in August, featuring workshops, lectures, and classes.
http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/blwc/
http://www.brooklynbookfestival.org/
Annual conference for young writers held at Bucknell University.
http://www.bucknell.edu/x3724.xml
http://www.burlingtoncityarts.com/programs/burlingtonliteraryfestival/
Annual one-week conference held in August.
http://www.capecodwriterscenter.com/
http://cmlitfest.org/
http://www.carrboropoetryfestival.org/
http://ccbookfestival.org/
http://www.charlotteliteraryfestival.com/
Annual, three-day festival held in June.
http://writers.ciweb.org/writers-festival/
Annual, one-week conference held in June.
http://people.colgate.edu/cvwritersconference/
Weekend conferences designed to set poets with a manuscript-in-process on a path towards publication.
http://www.concordpoetry.org/Colrain/
Annual series of five-day workshops held in July and August.
http://schools.cranbrook.edu/programs/retreat/
Annual two-day conference held in September.
http://www.communityprograms.net/wc/wcindex.htm
http://www.literaryfestival.org/
http://english.louisiana.edu/deep-south/DeepSouth.html
http://www.denmanislandwritersfestival.com/
Annual, three-day fall festival held at Southern Illinois University Carbondale.
http://www.siu.edu/~groots/dkawards.html
http://www.diamondliteraryfestival.org/
Annual, five-day conference held in June.
http://www.learnmore.duke.edu/summeracademy/
http://www.edenmillswritersfestival.ca/
http://www.fandm.edu/pawritershouse.xml
http://www.ehc.edu/litfest/
Annual, five-day conference held in May.
http://www.umt.edu/ewi
Annual festival held in September.
http://www.fallforthebook.org
Annual four-day conference held in May, featuring workshops, readings by faculty and students, social interaction with other students and faculty, and uninterrupted time to write on the wooded campus of Oakland University.
http://www2.oakland.edu/english/farfield
Annual, week-long and weekend workshops available in June, July, and August.
http://www.fawc.org
Annual, one-week conference held in July.
http://www.fishtrap.org
http://www.flanked.org/conference.html
http://www.fccj.org/wf/index.html
Annual, three-day conference held in June.
http://www.foothill.edu/la/conference/
http://www.nywriterscoalition.org/litfest.htm
http://www.georgialiteraryfestival.org/
Biennial, four-day festival held in September in Waterloo, NJ, featuring special events for students and teachers, and some of the top American poets reading and leading workshops.
http://www.grdodge.org/poetry/main.htm
http://www.ewu.edu/getlit/
Annual one-week workshop held in August, focusing on the relationship between art and religious faith.
http://www.imagejournal.org/glen/
Annual series of ten-week workshops available in January, April, June, and September.
http://www.writingclasses.com
http://www.greatlakeswritersfestival.org/
Annual, one-week conference held in August.
http://www.glcc.org
Annual, five-day conference held in August.
http://www.vermontwriters.com
http://www.gritlit.ca/
Annual series of five-day workshops held in June.
http://www.guadalupeculturalarts.org
Annual, four-day conference held in October.
http://www.csu.edu/GwendolynBrooks/
http://www.halifaxwritersfest.com/
Annual, one-week conference held in June.
http://www.hambidge.org
Annual five-day conference held in July, featuring intensive writing, conversation, panels, and readings.
http://www2.yc.edu/content/HASSAYAMPA/
Annual, one-week conference held at Portland State University.
http://www.haystack.pdx.edu
http://www.hplitfest.org/
Annual, twelve-day conference held in July.
http://www.hofstra.edu/Academics/CCEPA/Univcollege/ccepa_summerwriting.cfm
Annual, five-day conference held in July for African-American writers, sponsored by Virginia Commonwealth University.
http://www.hurston-wright.org/hw_writers_week.shtml
http://www.theaterj.org/center-for-arts/literary/jewish-literary-festival/
Annual, two-day conference held in September.
http://www.idahowritersleague.com/Conference.html
Annual, one-week conference held in July.
http://www.idyllwildarts.org
Annual, five-day conference held in July.
http://www.csuohio.edu/poetrycenter/imagination/imagoverview.htm
Annual six-day conference held in June, featuring workshops, classes, panels, individual presentations, readings and outings.
http://www.indiana.edu/~writecon/
Annual, one-week conference held in June.
http://www.iwwg.com/index.php?section=events
The International Writers' Workshop is the first program of its kind in West Africa. The workshop will be held from July 27 to August 7, 2008. Classes will be taught by Chris Abani (fiction), Camille Dungy (poetry), and Shane Book (nonfiction).
http://www.theinternationalworkshops.com
Annual one-week or weekend festival held in June and July, featuring 130 workshops across a spectrum of genres, including novel, short fiction, poetry, essay, memoir, humor, playwriting, writing for children, etc.
http://www.uiowa.edu/~iswfest
Annual conference held in June.
http://jacksonholewritersconference.com/
http://jrwf.org/jrw_programs/conference/index.htm
Annual eight-day workshop held in June for high school writers, featuring workshops, tutorials, group talks, and readings.
http://www.denison.edu/english/reynolds.html
http://www.umass.edu/english/eng/mfa/JuniperFestival.htm
Annual six-day workshop held in June, featuring workshops, craft sessions, readings, and manuscript consultation.
http://www.umass.edu/juniperinstitute
http://www.kansascitylitfest.org/
Annual eight-day workshop held in June, focusing the generation and revision of significant new work.
http://www.kenyonreview.org
Annual three-day conference held in January, featuring workshops, lectures, readings, and panel discussions.
http://www.keywestliteraryseminar.org
http://w3.fiu.edu/CRWRITING/Key%20West%20Conference.htm
http://www.mypubliclibrary.ca/litfest.htm
http://www.hollins.edu/news-events/litfest/litfest.htm
http://www.lighthousewriters.com/litfest.htm
Annual, six-day conference plus year-round workshops available.
http://www.lighthousewriters.com
http://www.litfestalberta.org/
http://www.litquake.org/the-festival/
http://www.loft.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=category.display&category_id=208
http://www.maineliteraryfestival.com/
Annual three-week workshop held in June, featuring workshop analysis and private manuscript consultations.
http://www.newletters.org/writingConferences.asp
Annual, four-day conference held on Labor Day weekend.
http://www.mauiwriters.com
Annual, two- or three-day conference held in August.
http://www.mcwc.org
http://www.mendolitfest.org/
Annual, one-week festival held in November.
http://www.miamibookfair.com/
http://www.columbiabasin.edu/home/index.asp?page=1091
http://www.midwestliteraryfestival.com/
Annual, one-week conference held in July.
http://www.midwestwriters.org
http://www.millikin.edu/literaryfestival/index.html
http://www.bookfest-mt.org/
http://www.montevallo.edu/english/MLF/
http://www.lmunet.edu/alumni/festival/index.html
Annual four-day conference held in July, featuring workshops, lectures, and readings.
http://www.napawritersconf.org/
http://www.nbaf.org/events/index.cfm?Fuseaction=literary
http://www.thenatureofwords.org/
Annual, one-week or weekend conference held in July featuring workshops, panels, publishers and agents.
http://www.unl.edu/nsw/
Annual, one-day conference held in July.
http://www.newenglandwriters.org
Annual, weekend conference held in June.
http://www.newletters.org/writingConferences.asp
Annual, two- or four-week conference held in July.
http://www.skidmore.edu/administration/osp/summer_writers_institute/index.htm
http://www.newburyportliteraryfestival.org/
http://www.ncwriters.org/programs/conferences/
http://www.ncwriters.org/programs/conferences/
http://www.northshorewritersfestival.ca/
Annual, three-day festival held in April.
http://www2.nau.edu/community/node/141
Annual series of workshops held at Lewis & Clark College.
http://www.lclark.edu/dept/nwi/workshops.html
http://www.english.ohiou.edu/litfest/
Annual, four-day conference held in September or October.
http://www.okartinst.org
http://www.lib.odu.edu/litfest/
http://www.writersfestival.org/
Annual, three-day conference held in October.
http://www.ozarkcreativewriters.org
http://www.peachtree-city.org/index.asp?NID=507
http://www.pen.org/page.php/prmID/1096
http://www.philadelphiabookfestival.org/
Annual, three-day conference held in April.
http://www.concordpoetry.org/Colrain/index.htm
Annual ten-day conference held in July, featuring workshops, readings, and lectures.
http://www.centrum.org/writing/
Annual one-week conference held in August, featuring workshops, master classes, issues forums, readings by faculty & participants, and individual manuscript consultations.
http://www.tui.edu/current/conferences/pgwc/default.asp
http://www.readingreads.com/
http://www.heritagehousemuseum.org/
http://www.rochesterink.org/
http://www.rockymountainwriters.com/
Annual, weekend conference held in February.
http://www.usi.edu/extserv/ropewalk
Annual one-week conference held in June, featuring workshops with five prominent writers.
http://www.ropewalk.org
Annual one-week conference held in July, featuring professional-level peer workshops.
http://www.svsu.edu/~kerman/Rustbelt
http://www.sasfest.org/
Annual, three-day conference held in January.
http://www.ces.sdsu.edu/writers/
http://www.sfwriters.org/
http://homepage.mac.com/inkwellliterary/Education8.html
http://www.sbbookfestival.org/
Annual, three-day conference held in August.
http://www.perielongo.com/sbspw.html
http://www.sbwritersconference.com/
Annual, five-day conference held in July.
http://www.santafewritersconference.com
The Sarah Lawrence College Poetry Festival, the largest free poetry festival in New York State, celebrates its fifth year! The weekend-long event—marked by a spirit of camaraderie and creativity—showcases a number of prominent national and international poets reading alongside faculty and local students. Enjoy readings, craft talks, panel discussions, evening receptions and an open mic from Friday April 25th through Sunday, April 27th, 2008. Confirmed poets include Brenda Shaughnessy, Sage Francis, Sonia Sanchez, Kurt Brown, Alex Lemon, Suzanne Gardinier, Lynn Emanuel, Laure-Anne Bosselaar, Bob Hicok, Tracy K. Smith, Ilya Kaminsky, Matthew Rohrer, Victoria Redel, and Mei-mei Berssenbrugge.
http://www.slc.edu/poetry-festival
http://slc.edu/index.php?pageID=4009#1
Annual twelve-day conference held in July, featuring instruction and criticism through workshops, readings, craft lectures in fiction, poetry, and playwriting, as wells as talks on editing, publishing, and production by writers, critics, agents, and editors.
http://www.sewaneewriters.org/
http://www.thescream.ca/
http://www.shuswapwritersfest.ca/
http://www.sleepinggiantwriters.com/
Annual nine-day conference held in June at Pine Manor College, featuring workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, as well as panel discussions with agents, editors, and publishers.
http://www.pmc.edu/solstice
http://www.heatcityreview.com/somervillenews.htm
Annual, three-day conference held in February in San Diego.
http://www.writersconference.com
Annual three-day festival held in March, featuring workshops, readings, parties, all allowing for interaction between some of the country's best writers and the students and faculty. The Southern Literary Festival for 2007 will be hosted by Rhodes College.
http://www.rhodes.edu/3940.htm
http://smu.edu/english/Events/marshterry/
http://www.berry.edu/academics/humanities/english/
http://txfest.tamu.edu/
Annual series of week-long workshops held in July and August for creative writers, visual artists, and designers.
http://www.cce.umn.edu/splitrockarts
Split This Rock Poetry Festival: Poems of Provocation & Witness will hit the streets of Washington on the fifth anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq, March 20-23, 2008. DC poets Chris August, Kenneth Carroll, Grace Cavalieri, Joel Dias-Porter (aka DJ Renegade), Brian Gilmore, Semezdin Mehmedinović, E. Ethelbert Miller, Princess of Controversy, Susan Tichy, and Belle Waring will be joined on stage by Jimmy Santiago Baca, Lucille Clifton, Mark Doty, Martín Espada, Carolyn Forché, Sam Hamill, Joy Harjo, Galway Kinnell, Naomi Shihab Nye, Sharon Olds, Alix Olson, Alicia Ostriker, Ishle Yi Park, Sonia Sanchez, Patricia Smith, and Pamela Uschuk. Visit the blog for this year's festival at http://www.blogthisrock.blogspot.com:80/.
http://www.splitthisrock.org/
http://www.spoletoarts.com
http://www.springgreenlitfest.org/
Annual series of week-long workshops held during the summer months, featuring craft lectures and staff readings.
http://www.squawvalleywriters.org
Annual conference held in July.
http://www.steamboatwriters.com
Annual, nine-day conference held in July.
http://www.usm.maine.edu/summer/stonecoastwc/
http://www.sumlitsem.org/kenya/
Annual, six-day conference held in June at Sarah Lawrence College.
http://www.slc.edu/index.php?pageID=4008
Annual series of week-long workshops held in July at The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, featuring lectures, panel discussions, readings, and performances.
http://www.naropa.edu/swp
Annual, four-day conference held in August.
http://www.svwc.com
Annual reading series held on Wednesday evenings beginning in June.
http://www.hillstead.org/activities/poetry.html
http://www.writersfestival.ca/
Annual one-week conference held in July, featuring week-long and weekend workshops with a choice of twelve instructors.
http://www.unm.edu/~taosconf
http://www.litfest.net/
Annual five-day festival held in March, featuring classes, readings, literary panels, theater, and a book fair.
http://www.tennesseewilliams.net
http://www.wordspacetexas.com/
http://www.tcc.edu//LiteraryFestival/index.htm
Annual one-week workshop held in July, featuring workshops, seminars, panels, and readings at Reed College.
http://www.tinhouse.com/workshop/index.htm
http://tucsonpoetryfestival.org/index.html
Annual, five-day conference held in March.
http://www.undwritersconference.org/
Annual, one-week conference held in July for interdisciplinary artists—visual arts, folk arts, music, drama, writing, photography, and dance.
http://www.dcs.wisc.edu/lsa/soa
http://www4.uwm.edu/sce/program_area.cfm?id=1581
http://www.writersfest.bc.ca/
http://www.villanova.edu/artsci/english/news/festival.htm
Annual, five-day festival held in March.
http://www.vabook.org
Annual one-week workshop held (in back-to-back sessions) during the last week of June and the first week of July at the University of San Francisco for writers of color.
http://www.vona-voices.org
Annual, one-day conference held in June.
http://www.washwriter.org/conference.html
Annual one-week conference held in June, featuring seminars, lectures, readings and optional manuscript critiques, as well as guest editors and agents.
http://www.wesleyan.edu/writing/conference/
Annual, four-day conference held in June.
http://www.wcupa.edu/_ACADEMICS/sch_cas/poetry/conference/index.html
Annual, four-day conference held in March.
http://www.litfestival.org/
http://www.wvhumanities.org/bookfest/bookfest2.htm
http://www.wvwriters.org/conference.html
http://www.as.wvu.edu/wvww/
Annual three-day conference held in March, featuring workshops, panels, keynotes, and more.
http://www.writeonwhidbey.org/Conference/
Annual, one-week retreat followed by one-week conference held in July.
http://www.wildacres.com/
Annual, two-week conference held at the end of June at UMass Boston, featuring workshop classes in poetry, fiction, non-fiction and translation, as well as seminars, consultations and reading series. 2006 Workshop to be held June 19-30. Phone: 617-287-5850. E-mail: michael.sullivan@umb.edu
http://www.joinercenter.umb.edu
http://www.winnipegwords.com/
Annual, three-day conference held in January.
http://www.wintergetaway.com
http://www.wintersetinsummer.ca/
http://www.uky.edu/WWK/kywwc/index.php
http://www.womensliteraryfestival.com/
http://www.wordfest.com/
http://www.gppl.ab.ca/wordspinner/
Annual one-week conference held in June, featuring workshops, panel discussions, lectures, and readings, as well as guest editors, publishers, and agents.
http://www.writersatwork.org
Annual two-day conference held in March, featuring discussions, workshops, and talks by authors, as well as readings and workshops in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction.
http://www.writersatthebeach.com
http://www.writersatwoodypoint.com/writerswp.php?id=index
Annual, nine-week summer workshop.
http://www.ciweb.org
Annual four-day workshop held in February.
http://www.uclaextension.org/writers
Annual three-day conference held in October for graduate creative writing students, featuring panels on pedagogy, theory in the creative writing classroom, the process of editing and submitting work, and the creative writing job market.
http://writingbydegrees.binghamton.edu/
Annual, one-week women’s conference held in August.
http://www.awritersretreat.com
Annual, weekend conference held in February.
http://www.volcanoartcenter.org
Annual five-day workshop held in July, focusing on regional writing.
http://www.writingtheregion.com
Annual, two-day conference held in March.
http://www.bsc.edu/events/writing-today/index.htm
Annual three-day workshop held in June.
http://www.outreach.olemiss.edu/summer/yokna_writers/
Annual series of weekend retreats.
http://www.mro.org/zmm/retreats
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