Weekend Update: Literary Conferences for 2026
- Richelle Murry
- Dec 13
- 6 min read
Dec. 13, 2025
Hello everyone! Sorry for the late post start, but we all had to finish up our schooling for the fall semester. So we are now setting up for literary conferences that are coming up for 2026.
Poets & Writers have their lists of up coming conferences for next year. To see the whole conferences on here, you will have to have an account. Here...take a look.
Credit Source: Poets & Writers
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Lansing, MI
The 38th annual A Rally of Writers conference was held on April 12 at the West Campus of Lansing Community College in Lansing, Michigan. The conference featured workshops, craft classes, panel discussions, and readings in poetry, fiction, and...
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Paducah, KY
A.I.R. Studio Paducah offers residencies of two weeks to three months year-round to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers in the Lower Town Arts District of Paducah, Kentucky. Residents are provided with a private apartment and...
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Lošinj, Croatia
The Adriatic Writers Conference will be held from May 24 to May 30 at Hotel Bellevue on Lošinj island in Croatia. Programming includes small-group workshops, craft classes, a one-on-one meeting with a writing instructor, master...
Event Date: May 24, 2026
Application Deadline: February 1, 2026
Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Austin, TX
The Writers’ League of Texas (WLT) 2024 Agents & Editors Conference was held from June 21 to June 23 at the Hyatt Regency on Lady Bird Lake in Austin, Texas. The conference featured presentations, panels, authors in conversation, and a...
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Tres Piedras, NM
The Aldo and Estella Leopold Residency offers monthlong residencies in July and November to poets, fiction writers, and nonfiction writers in the late environmental essayist Aldo Leopold’s cabin in Tres Piedras, New Mexico. Writers exploring “the...
Event Date: July 1, 2026
Application Deadline: February 16, 2026
Creative Nonfiction
Columbia County, NY
The 2022 All Write Creative Nonfiction Conference was held from October 19 to October 23 at the Spencertown Academy in Columbia County, New York. The conference featured one-hour workshops to discuss 15 to 20 pages of each writer’s work, an...
Fiction
Columbia County, NY
The 2023 All Write Fiction Conference will be held from November 9 to November 12 at the Spencertown Academy in Columbia County, New York. The conference features workshops to discuss 15 to 20 pages of each writer’s work, an opening night...
Translation
Tucson, AZ
The 48th annual American Literary Translators Association Conference was held from November 5 to November 8 at the Tucson Marriott University Park Hotel in Tucson. Programming included panels, workshops, bilingual readings, a bookfair, a...
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Paris, France
The American University of Paris Summer Creative Writing Institute offered workshops to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers from July 1 to July 23, 2025, on the university’s campus in the seventh arrondissement of Paris. The...
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Columbus, OH
The Aminah Robinson Writer/Scholar/Researcher Residency, sponsored by the Columbus Museum of Art, offers a three-month residency from May through July to a poet, fiction writer, or nonfiction writer at the Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson home and...
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation
Red Wing, MN
The 2026 Anderson Center Artist Residency Program offers residencies of two weeks or one month from June through October to poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, and translators at Tower View, a 350-acre historic estate in Red Wing...
Event Date: June 1, 2026
Application Deadline: January 13, 2026
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Twitchell Lake, NY
The Adirondack Center for Writing offered a two-week residency from September 21 to October 5 to six poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers at a lodge on Twitchell Lake in the Adirondack Mountains in New York. Three residents...
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation
Ghent, NY
Residencies of one week to two months are offered to poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, and translators from late March through early June and from early September through early November at Omi International Arts Center,...
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation
Hämeenkyrö, Finland
The Arteles Creative Center’s Silence Awareness Existence Residency Program offers one-month residencies to poets, fiction writers, nonfiction writers, and translators from January to March in the countryside region of Hämeenkyrö, Finland. Each...
Event Date: January 1, 2026
Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Aspen, CO
The Aspen Literary Festival, sponsored by Aspen Words and presented by Book of the Month, was held from September 26 to September 28 in multiple venues in downtown Aspen, Colorado. Programming included panels, moderated conversations with fiction...
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Baltimore, MD
The 2026 AWP Conference and Bookfair will be held from March 4 to March 7 at the Baltimore Convention Center and will also include a virtual component comprising prerecorded and live streamed events. The conference features panel discussions,...
Event Date: March 4, 2026
Application Deadline: March 4, 2026
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Atlanta, GA
The fall 2025 Atlanta Writers Conference, sponsored by the Atlanta Writers Club, was held on October 24 and October 25 at the Westin Atlanta Airport Hotel. The conference included a book fair featuring attendees’ books; presentations on the craft...
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Cassis, France
The BAU Institute offered a four-week residency from July 22 to August 19 to poets, fiction writers, and nonfiction writers at the Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France, a commune on the Mediterranean coast approximately 30 minutes from Marseille...
Creative Nonfiction
Washington D.C., DC
The 2025 Biographers International Organization (BIO) Conference was held on June 5 and June 6 at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.; select events were also streamed online. The conference theme was “Potomac Fever.” Programming included...
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Sozopol, Bulgaria
The 2026 Black Sea Workshop, sponsored by the Elizabeth Kostova Foundation, will be held from June 26 to July 2 at the Sozopol Art Gallery in Sozopol, Bulgaria. The workshop features time and space to write; workshops; lectures on local history,...
Event Date: June 26, 2026
Application Deadline: March 1, 2026
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Bogliasco, Italy
The Bogliasco Foundation offers monthlong residencies from January to May and from September to December to poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, and translators in the coastal fishing village of Bogliasco, Italy, seven miles...
Event Date: March 21, 2027
Application Deadline: March 6, 2026
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Brattleboro, VT
The 24th annual Brattleboro Literary Festival was held from October 17 to October 19 in downtown Brattleboro, Vermont. The festival featured readings, panels, and author conversations. Participating writers included poets Albert Abonado, Colin...
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Ripton, VT
The 2026 Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference will be held from June 14 to June 20 in the Green Mountains of Ripton, Vermont. The conference, designed for poets and prose writers whose work deals with the environment and the natural world...
Event Date: June 14, 2026
Application Deadline: March 15, 2026
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation
Ripton, VT
The 2026 Bread Loaf Translators’ Conference will be held from June 14 to June 20 in the Green Mountains of Ripton, Vermont. The conference, designed for both emerging and established translators, features translation workshops in poetry, fiction...
Event Date: June 14, 2026
Application Deadline: March 15, 2026
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Ripton, VT
The 2026 Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference will be held from August 12 to August 22 amid the Green Mountains of Ripton, Vermont. The conference features workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, as well as lectures; craft classes;...
Event Date: August 12, 2026
Application Deadline: March 15, 2026
That is it for the time being, but you can check out Poets & Writers on their website: https://www.pw.org/.
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