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Contact: PO Box 221086, Anchorage, AK 99522
Location: 645 W. 3rd Avenue, Anchorage, Alaska

Dates:

throughout year

Tuition:

$29 to $249

Genres:

Children's Literature Creative Nonfiction Fiction Playwriting Screenwriting Poetry

Description:

The 49 Alaska Writing Center supports Alaska writers at every stage of their professional development while building an audience for Alaska literature. More information...

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Contact: 463 West Street, 1028H, , New York, NY 10014
Location: Assisi, Italy

Dates:

July 20 - August 16. 1-4 weeks

Tuition:

$2350/1wk;$4145/2 wks; $5490/3 wks;$6825/4 wks

Genres:

Poetry Playwriting Fiction Creative Nonfiction Screenwriting

Description:

“Art Workshop International is a sublime merge of Vacation (sunflower fields, Umbrian plains, like-minded travelers, ambling to and fro, dinners on the terrace) and Creativity (painting, reading, poetry, good teachers), a fine way to focus and let go.” - Frank McCourt More information...

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1414 Art Center Avenue, New Smyrna Beach, FL 32168

Dates:

5 residencies per year

Tuition:

$850

Genres:

Children's Literature Creative Nonfiction Fiction Playwriting Screenwriting Poetry

Description:

Since 1982, Atlantic Center's residency program has provided artists from all artistic disciplines with spaces to live, work, and collaborate during three-week residencies. More information...

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AWP Conference Services, Mail Stop 1E3, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 22030

Dates:

Annually Mid-Winter or Early Spring

Tuition:

See website for registration fees

Genres:

Children's Literature Creative Nonfiction Fiction Playwriting Poetry Screenwriting

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The Annual Conference typically features 400 presentations: readings, lectures, panel discussions, and Forums plus hundreds of book signings, receptions, dances, and informal gatherings. The conference attracts more than 5,000 attendees and more than 500 publishers. More information...

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Department of Professional Studies, Emerson College, 120 Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02116

Dates:

June 24-30, 2012

Tuition:

$1995

Genres:

Playwriting Poetry Creative Nonfiction Fiction

Description:

The Boston Summer Writers’ Conference focuses on the craft of writing and the development of a unique voice & style. The conference includes workshops, panel discussions, author readings, open-mic sessions, and a keynote address. More information...

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Chateau du Ligny, 2 rue Georges Clémenceau, Les Brouzils, France 85260

Dates:

May, June, July, August, September

Tuition:

varies

Genres:

Children's Literature Creative Nonfiction Fiction Playwriting Screenwriting Poetry

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Workshops and accredited seminars for poets, journalists, memoirists, fiction writers, screenwriters and creators of children's entertainment. Individual retreats, mentorships and fellowships also available. More information...

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Contact: 224 NW 13th Ave, Suite 304, Portland, OR 97209
Location: 31500 Blue Lake Drive, Sisters, OR 97759

Dates:

January-March

Tuition:

$35 application fee

Genres:

Creative Nonfiction Screenwriting Poetry Fiction Playwriting Children's Literature

Description:

Every winter we invite artists from all over the world to our Caldera Arts Center near Sisters, Oregon, for monthlong residences.Artists are provided private A-frame cabins and share access to wet and dry studios, a darkroom, a kiln, editing facilities, and rehearsal and performance space. More information...

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340 Montgomery St., Syracuse, NY 13202

Dates:

Year-round

Tuition:

$15-$125 for most workshops, $2300 for two-year DWC PRO program

Genres:

Poetry Fiction Playwriting Creative Nonfiction

Description:

The YMCA's Downtown Writer's Center is the Central New York region's only community center for the literary arts, featuring a wide variety of workshops, readings and other events throughout the year. More information...

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Address:

14 Harrison Street, New York, NY 10013

Dates:

June, July, August, September (Annually)

Tuition:

N/A

Genres:

Poetry Fiction Playwriting Creative Nonfiction

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A no-fee, one-month residency program for playwrights, poets, fiction and non-fiction writers. Criteria is, simply, talent and need. More information...

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24 Pearl Street Provincetown MA 02657

Dates:

June 17-August 24, 2012

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Poetry Fiction Creative Nonfiction Playwriting

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The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown offers summer workshops in creative writing and the visual arts, taught by award-winning faculty. More information...

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513 S. Presa, San Antonio, TX 78205

Dates:

Year-round programs and Summer Literary Festival

Tuition:

Varies

Genres:

Poetry Fiction Creative Nonfiction Playwriting Screenwriting

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Gemini Ink nurtures writers and readers and builds community through literature and the related arts. More information...

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Hedgebrook, 2197 Millman Road, Langley, WA 98260

Dates:

February thru November:
Hedgebrook Master Class - Karen Joy Fowler June 19-26
Hedgebrook Master Class - Victoria Redel Nov 3-10
Hedgebrook Master Class - Claire Dederer Nov 13-20

Tuition:

residencies are free; $2200 for Master Classes

Genres:

Children's Literature Creative Nonfiction Fiction Playwriting Screenwriting Poetry

Description:

Hedgebrook is a 22-year-old writer's colony with a residency program exclusively supporting the work of emerging and established women writers. We also offer Master Classes: a week in residence with a celebrated teacher leading focused workshops and one-on-one feedback sessions, for women writers to hone their craft in retreat. More information...

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Iowa Summer Writing Festival, C215 Seashore Hall, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52245

Dates:

June and July

Tuition:

$560 per weeklong workshop, $280 per weekend workshop

Genres:

Children's Literature Creative Nonfiction Fiction Poetry Playwriting Screenwriting

Description:

The Iowa Summer Writing Festival offers 135 weeklong and weekend workshops across the genres. Writers at all levels are welcome. There are no requirements beyond the desire to write. More information...

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Island Institute, P.O. Box 2420, Sitka, AK 99835

Dates:

September, November, January, and April each academic year

Tuition:

N/A

Genres:

Fiction Playwriting Screenwriting Poetry Creative Nonfiction

Description:

The Island Institute's Writers' Residencies provide opportunities for four writers to each spend a month in Sitka, Alaska, pursuing their own work and getting to know this unique island community in the forested coastal mountains of Southeast Alaska. More information...

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Mailing: 320 Hull Street #136, Richmond, VA 23224 Location: The Library of Virginia, 800 East Broad Street, Richmond, VA 23219

Dates:

October 7-8, 2011

Tuition:

$190 includes breakfast and lunch; early bird discount for registrations received by Sept. 1, 2011

Genres:

Poetry Fiction Creative Nonfiction Playwriting Screenwriting Children's Literature

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Two days of cross-genre discussions and panels on the ups and downs of the writing life with one-on-one meetings with literary agents. More information...

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801 3rd Corso, Nebraska City, NE 68410

Dates:

Year round

Tuition:

$35 application fee

Genres:

Children's Literature Creative Nonfiction Fiction Playwriting Poetry Screenwriting

Description:

The Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts in Nebraska City, NE offers 2 to 8 week residencies year-round for writers, visual artists and music composers. Housing, studio space, $100/week stipend are provided. Approximately 55 residencies are awarded each year. More information...

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Lighthouse Writers Workshop, 2123 Downing St., Denver, CO 80205

Dates:

Year-round

Tuition:

Varies

Genres:

Poetry Screenwriting Children's Literature Creative Nonfiction Fiction Playwriting

Description:

Lighthouse Writers Workshop is an independent literary center in the heart of downtown Denver. Housed in the historic Thomas Hornsby Ferril house that saw literary lions like Dorothy Parker, Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg, and others come together in the great tradition of writerly togetherness. We believe that writers need other writers, and that while the art of creative writing may be solitary, community serves a necessary function. We run year-round workshops (from intro-level to master classes), a summer Lit Fest, an annual retreat in Grand Lake, and much more. Our students have published with HarperCollins, Random House, Little, Brown, and elsewhere, and have won Colorado Book Awards and have been finalists for such awards as the PEN/Hemingway. Our faculty have won NEA and Stegner Fellowships, Provincetown Fellowships, Colorado Book Awards, and lots of other great stuff. But mostly, we just hire awesome writers who love to teach. We tend to attract awesome writers who love to be part of something. In the end, that's what makes it all work. More information...

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Open Book, 1011 Washington Ave S, Ste 200, Minneapolis, MN, 55415

Dates:

year-round

Tuition:

sliding fee based on household income

Genres:

Children's Literature Creative Nonfiction Fiction Playwriting Poetry Screenwriting

Description:

The Loft supports the artistic development of writers, fosters a writing community and builds an audience for literature. The Loft serves 600,000 individuals each year with classes and festivals writers at all levels of development; in-person and broadcast readings and spoken word performances featuring national and local writers; programming by and for teens; age specific activities for children and families; and fellowships, mentorships, and career initiative awards for Minnesota writers. More information...

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978 Middle Road, PO Box 536, LaPointe, WI 54850

Dates:

May-October

Tuition:

$425-$600 for 5-day workshop

Genres:

Poetry Screenwriting Children's Literature Creative Nonfiction Fiction Playwriting

Description:

Between May and November, the school offers week long workshops taught by nationally recognized instructors in writing, painting, photography, quilting and other genres. MISA is situated on a peaceful prairie meadow farm with its own modern lodging facilities. More information...

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Chair, PEN Northwest, 23030 W. Sheffler Road, Elmira, OR 97437

Dates:

April through October, 2013 or 2014

Tuition:

Resident performs one hour a day of routine caretaking and receives a stipend of $5,000

Genres:

Children's Literature Creative Nonfiction Fiction Playwriting Poetry Screenwriting

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A seven-month residency, for any kind of writer at any stage of career, in a remote but comfortable cabin in the Rogue River backcountry of southwestern Oregon. Caretaking duties required. $5,000 stipend. See website for complete information. More information...

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816-A Orapax Street, Norfolk, VA 23507

Dates:

We have class sessions in the winter/spring (Feb.-April), summer (June-Sept.), and fall (Oct.-Dec.)

Tuition:

varies, $125-$215, $40 -$45 (one meeting). Returning student discounts apply.

Genres:

Children's Literature Creative Nonfiction Fiction Playwriting Screenwriting Poetry

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The Muse Writers Center--a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation--is dedicated to broadening community awareness and support of the literary arts. We offer writing classes and seminars for beginning, experienced, and professional writers, house a resource center for area writers, and host reading series and other special events. More information...

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Naropa University, 2130 Arapahoe Avenue, Boulder, CO 80302

Dates:

June 11–July 8, 2012

Tuition:

Non-credit $475 per week, BA & MFA Credit: TBA

Genres:

Creative Nonfiction Fiction Poetry Playwriting Screenwriting

Description:

The Summer Writing Program is a four-week-long convocation of students, poets, fiction writers, scholars, translators, performance artists, activists, Buddhist teachers, musicians, printers, editors and others working in small press publishing. Programming includes workshops, lectures, panels, readings, special events and more. More information...

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Center for Black Literature, Medgar Evers College, 1650 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11225

Dates:

N/A

Tuition:

$10/$5

Genres:

Fiction Creative Nonfiction Playwriting Poetry Children's Literature

Description:

The Center for Black Literature (CBL) at Medgar Evers College is pleased to announce that Nobel Prize winning author, Toni Morrison will be Honorary Chair for the Tenth National Black Writers Conference (NBWC) at Medgar Evers College, March 26 - 28, 2010. The conference, to be held on the Medgar Evers College campus in Brooklyn, NY, will feature discussions, youth workshops, talkshops, author readings and signings More information...

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Contact: P.O. Box 21591, Winston-Salem, NC 27120
Location: Hilton New Bern/Riverfront, 100 Middle St., New Bern, NC 28560

Dates:

July 14-17, 2011

Tuition:

$75 for 1 year; $55 for 65+, full-time students.

Genres:

Poetry Fiction Creative Nonfiction Children's Literature Playwriting

Description:

Founded in 1985, the North Carolina Writers’ Network serves writers in all genres, at all stages, no matter their level of skill or experience, throughout the state and beyond. More information...

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1903 W. Michigan Ave., B2425 Ellsworth, Kalamazoo, MI 49008-5245

Dates:

June 30 to July 27, 2012

Tuition:

TBD

Genres:

Creative Nonfiction Fiction Playwriting Screenwriting Poetry

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Western Michigan University's Prague Summer Program offers 4-week creative writing workshops and literature and Jewish studies courses at Charles University in the Czech Republic each July that are eligible for 3 to 4 hours of 5000-level academic credit. More information...

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Sewanee Writers' Conference, Gailor Hall 123W, 735 University Ave., Sewanee, TN 37383-1000

Dates:

July 24 through August 5, 2012

Tuition:

$1,700

Genres:

Poetry Playwriting Fiction

Description:

The Sewanee Writers' Conference gathers a distinguished faculty to provide instruction and criticism through workshops and craft lectures in fiction, poetry, and playwriting. More information...

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Contact: MSC09 5370, 1 University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131
Location: Mabel Dodge Luhan House, Taos, NM

Dates:

August 5-11, 2012

Tuition:

$2,250

Genres:

Poetry Creative Nonfiction Screenwriting Fiction Playwriting

Description:

The retreat encourages individuals – doctors, nurses, ethicists, psychologists, and anyone who is interested – to pursue writing in a communal environment that provides maximum space for personal exploration and growth. Participants are invited to bring along work-in-progress (both scholarly and creative), ideas for writing they want to begin, or simply a desire to write. More information...

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UMHB Box 8008, 900 College St, Belton, TX 76513

Dates:

Early January (1st or 2nd weekend) each year

Tuition:

$100

Genres:

Creative Nonfiction Fiction Playwriting Poetry

Description:

The Writers' Festival is hosted by the literary journal Windhover at the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor in Belton, Texas. Writers from across the country gather to read and develop their writing with other writers. More information...

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Address:

4508 Walsh Street, Bethesda, MD 20815

Dates:

Year 'round

Tuition:

Varies

Genres:

Children's Literature Creative Nonfiction Fiction Playwriting Poetry Screenwriting

Description:

The Writer’s Center cultivates the creation, publication, presentation, and dissemination of literary work. More information...

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2728 N. Hampden Court, #1605, Chicago, IL 60614

Dates:

August 31 to September 7, 2012 and October 5-12, 2012

Tuition:

no tuition; $15.00 application fee

Genres:

Children's Literature Creative Nonfiction Fiction Playwriting Screenwriting Poetry

Description:

A one week residency during September or October on a 32 acre wooded site in Gilman, IL, conducive to fostering creative work by Midwest writers in all genres. For further information about applying, see writersintheheartland.org. More information...