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Yale Writers' Workshop 2024 Course Descriptions

On-campus workshop june 1 - june 8.

In the on-campus Workshop you will participate in workshops, lectures, individual conferences and readings intended to broaden your understanding of the craft of writing. This is an immersive experience on Yale’s lovely New Haven campus. The writing conversations extend from the classroom to the dining hall. Visiting faculty will deliver craft talks to all workshop participants. Because we write to be read, we will have panels of agents and editors to provide insight into the publishing process and the realities of the writer’s life. Writers are invited to participate in open mics and a formal reading of their work. During the session, faculty will hold half-hour, one-to-one meetings with participants. Plus, participate in an experiential writing adventure.

Virtual Workshop June 9 - June 15

The one-week Workshop is intended for writers concentrating on a specific genre. Over seven days, you will meet in a seminar with fellow writers, led by a faculty member established in the field. The seminar will include exercises and readings as well as discussion of student work with eye toward revision. During the week, faculty will hold half-hour, one-to-one meetings with participants. Plus, the one-week workshop includes an agent panel and meetings for writers with completed manuscripts! You are invited to participate in open mics and a formal reading of their work.

Workshops 2023 

  •  Children and Young Adult
  •  Short Story/Novel Excerpt
  •  First Ten Pages
  •  Personal Essay/Memoir
  •  Write Here, Write Now

Alumni Workshop: Work-in-Progress Intensive June 1- June 15

Offered for YWW alumni only, this two-week workshop allows alumni to work with an instructor on a work in progress.

The application for Yale Writers' Workshop 2019 is now open.
The workshop was wonderful and I felt my writing improve immensely over the week. Jotham was a great teacher and his feedback was clear and concise, which made it easy to grow as a writer.

Sybil Baker

In addition to workshopping each participant’s story or novel excerpt, we will also have mini-craft sessions, where we work on and discuss issues such as reading like a writer, dialogue, scene building, as well as short story and novel structure and development. We’ll also work on writing exercises and revision strategies to take with you after you leave YWW. Short stories and novel excerpts are welcome.

Jotham Burrello

Read, Workshop, Revise, Repeat. A writer’s workshop is a laboratory to experiment and take risks on the page. In this seminar writers will complete assigned craft exercises and read stories prior to arriving in New Haven. During the first three sessions the group will discuss submitted manuscripts, journal, daydream, and then dedicate time to revision exercises and craft discussions, with a special emphasis on characterization and voice. Writers will leave with a revision strategy for their manuscript, and a toolbox of techniques to help write the next one. Short stories and novel excerpts welcome.

Molly Gaudry

For this workshop, you may submit a wide range of fiction forms—traditional short stories or novel chapters, stories toward a novel-in-stories, interconnected flash fictions, flash fictions that stand alone, even fragmented or braided narratives. Submit a manuscript of up to 4500 words, and plan to read and discuss a variety of published works as models for your own revisions. You will leave our time together eager to get back to work on your own revisions, able to apply knowledge and skills developed at Yale to your future writing projects, and with a clearer understanding of the functional relationship between form and content.

Jennifer Maritza McCauley

In this short story workshop, group members will read contemporary short fiction and craft essays that address memory, point of view, character motivation and plot. They’ll also share their work with peers and learn about revision strategies and new approaches to the short story form. Workshop members will hone their creative voices in a fun, productive and collaborative environment.

In this class, we'll study the art and craft of fiction writing by examining published works as well as the writing of students in the class. Every writer in the class will submit a work of 4500 words or less -- a short story or an excerpt of a novel -- and we'll workshop these with an eye towards voice, style, story, character, and the more ineffable qualities that make writing truly great. You'll come away with a clear plan for what comes next for this piece and your writing life in general.

Non-fiction

Mary collins.

Use the power of literary nonfiction to process your life, your ideas, and our changing society. This workshop will highlight fundamental storytelling techniques, the unique challenges you face when writing about yourself (and people you know!) and how to control voice (including humor). We'll workshop your submission but also your revision in a quick-paced, high-energy environment. The course can accommodate students working on book-length memoir or narrative nonfiction as well as those new to the form and experimenting with the art of the essay or short pieces of nonfiction.

"Journalism is about the facts. Fiction is about the truth." This quote has been attributed to Ernest Hemingway who was both a journalist and a novelist. Creative nonfiction is about the facts AND the truth and this creative nonfiction workshop will focus on craft, language, the essay, memoir, and more, with exercises designed to generate new work.

Kirsten Bakis

This unique two-week workshop is designed for writers working on book-length material. The cohort of just eight writers will meet and write together for two weeks. This program is open to YWW alumni only.  In week one, writers will critique 7000 words from their fellow writers’ manuscripts. Exercises and readings will be assigned prior to arrival. Week two will be generative, a mini-retreat if you will, with writers developing new material, and reading back at least 1500 words in session. The cohort will meet virtually to discuss progress, and strategies to completing confident first drafts.

Sergio Troncoso

Our Work-in-Progress Intensive Workshop will focus on a detailed review of fiction and nonfiction manuscripts that are part of book-length work, including novel and memoir chapters, short stories and essays, and other fictional and nonfictional narratives. Writers will receive practical critiques to create tailored strategies for rewriting and restructuring their work. The class will work collaboratively on exercises to sharpen writing skills as well to create new work. We will examine what makes a great sentence and paragraph, and consider narrative voice, narrative suspense, and metaphor. As homework, we will also be reading accomplished writers to study their craft. Our goals? Dedicate ourselves to creating a community in the service of the writing craft, while all workshop members receive the individual time and focus necessary to take their writing to the next level.

Write Here, Write Now

Patricia ann mcnair.

Whether you are new to the writing workshop experience or are coming back to it after time away, the process-based activities in this course will help you identify and discover the stories you have to tell and to write. If you are eager to make new work or to reinvigorate on-going or left-behind projects, this workshop is for you. Drawing from memory, imagination, and observation, you will discover your unique material and a variety of ways of telling, structure, and form. And you will write! From autobiographical pieces to imagined new worlds, these explorations will feed the muse. Workshop members will receive an assignment to complete and email to instructor before the workshop begins. Time on campus will primarily be spent creating. You will write new pages and develop strategies to keep going. There will be NO critique of peers' work prior to arrival, although we will share new work for directed peer response. Open to all levels.

Children and Young Adult

Sarah darer littman.

"Any book that can help you survive the slings and arrows of adolescence is a book to love for life.” Libba Bray.

In a supportive environment, you’ll be asked to get in touch with your inner adolescent. We’ll discuss Dr. Rudine Syms Bishop’s concept of providing young people with "Windows, Mirrors, and Sliding Glass Doors”  and explore how structure, voice, point of view, pacing, and most importantly, authenticity combine to hook the reader. Participants in past workshops have continued to work together as critique groups, providing an ongoing source of feedback and encouragement.

First Ten Pages: Fiction and Memoir

Latanya mcqueen.

The first five to ten pages of a novel or memoir often determine whether an agent, editor, or reader wants to see more of your work. Whether you are just beginning a project or revising the manuscript for the fifth time, chances are your first ten pages could still use revision and feedback at the sentence and content level. In addition to getting feedback on your own work, we will look at openings of published novels and memoirs, and discuss what makes those openings work. Both genres share many successful craft fundamentals. We will also spend time in class sessions discussing and applying revision strategies for the beginning of your work.

Personal Essay / Memoir

Mishka shubaly.

We understand fiction to be made-up and nonfiction to be true. But any linear narrative is a human construction, as life explodes constantly in all directions. Any first person narrative is a distorted, imperfect retelling from one limited perspective. To make it more confusing, Grace Paley's fiction and Lucia Berlin's autofiction overflow with truth while Mary Karr's and Harry Crews' memoirs seem too wild or too evocative to be true. Where's the line? How much can we get away with? How can anyone tell “true” stories? This workshop will locate the emotional heart of your narrative, then identify and amplify the truth that spills from it. We’ll be aided in our quest by readings across genre, songs, jokes, and other real-life texts.

Short Stories / Novel Excerpts

Louis bayard.

I sometimes liken the writer’s workshop process to poking your head under the hood of the car (something I would be helpless at doing in the real world) and getting the engine to run. The engine in this analogy is the story, and the mission is to make the story hum and sing. That's my way of saying I'm not an academic or a theorist, but I'm ready to roll up my sleeves if you are.

Christina Chiu

Every writer knows a story needs a beginning, middle, and end—what we refer to as the ARC of the narrative. But what does that mean when it comes to your particular story and how do you build that arc? We will discuss character and how to use different elements of fiction (dialogue, point of view, setting, etc) to construct scenes that build upon each other, propel the narrative forward, and finally land at what feels like an inevitable and resonant ending. In this online class, you will share chapters or stories in progress to be critiqued in workshop. You will also hone your intuition and learn to trust your writer-editor self in the revision process.

Ethan Rutherford

“The two things I want are interesting language and genuine feeling.” Amy HempelIn

This workshop, open to all forms of fiction, our questions will be: what makes this piece successful?  What makes it interesting / compelling / unique?  What choices is the author making, and to what effect?  We’ll focus on style and structure, look closely at the way language is mobilized, how characters are created, how voice is deployed. Generative writing exercises and revision strategies will be incorporated in every session. The point here is to not only get you writing, but to help you become a better, more thoughtful reader of your own work.

Emily Barton

This generative course will help you jumpstart your writing through a series of low-stakes and playful writing exercises. These encourage your imagination, fine-tune your observational skills, give you puzzles to solve through writing, and offer opportunities to try new forms. The goal is to help you stretch your voice and the ways you tell stories, as well as to offer possibilities for inspiration and exploration. We will not submit and read work in advance, or give or receive critique. Instead, we’ll focuses on writing together, building a creative community, and sharing the results of exercises. Participants will become adept at asking each other the kinds of “Yes! And . . .” questions that can help a creative project get rolling. This class is equally suitable for beginning and experienced writers, and for those working in fiction, nonfiction, and hybrid forms.  

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41 Glorious Writing Conferences in June 2022

Erica Verrillo

Erica Verrillo

Curiosity Never Killed the Writer

J une is bustin’ out all over! This June there are more than three dozen writing conferences. Some conferences and workshops will be held online, but some will be held in person or use a hybrid format as pandemic restrictions ease.

These writing events offer everything a writer might want: intensive workshops, pitch sessions with agents, to how to market yourself and your books, discussions — there is something for everyone.

For a full list of conferences held throughout the year see Writing Conferences . Quite a few offer scholarships, so apply early.

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New York Pitch Conference . June 2–5, 2022 (Zoom) June 16- 19, 2022 (in person): NY, NY. The New York Pitch Conference and writers workshop is held four times a year and features publishing house editors from major houses such as Penguin, Random House, St. Martins, Harper Collins, Tor and Del Rey, Kensington Books and many more who are looking for new novels in a variety of genres, as well as narrative non-fiction. The event focuses on the art of the novel pitch as the best method not only for communicating your work, but for having you and your work taken seriously by industry professionals.

Indiana University Writers’ Conference . June 2–5, 2022, Indiana University in Bloomington. The conference features workshops in poetry and fiction, as well as craft classes, readings, and panels for poets, fiction writers, and nonfiction writers. The cost of the conference is $385, or $635 with a workshop. Lodging and meals are not included; lodging is available in campus dormitories and in the campus hotel. The registration fee is $30; general registration is first come, first served. To attend a workshop, submit 8 to 10 pages of poetry or 15 to 25 pages of prose; admissions are made on a rolling basis.

Wyoming Writers Conference . June 3–5, 2022: Laramie, WY. The conference features workshops in poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and self-publishing, as well as agent and editor pitch sessions, roundtable critiques, and open mics. Participating writers have included poet Jovan Mays, fiction writers Tasha Alexander and Andrew Grant, and nonfiction writer Page Lambert. Participating publishing professionals include editor Eric Campbell (Down & Out Books) and agents Stephanie Hansen (Metamorphosis Literary Agency) and Angie Hodapp (Nelson Literary Agency). Fiction writer Brad Watson will deliver the keynote. The cost of the conference is $235 until May 1 and $275 thereafter, and includes a one-year membership to Wyoming Writers, Inc. Lodging is available at the conference hotel for a discounted rate of $104 per night. Will be conducted online and in person.

Yale Writers’ Conference . June 4–18, 2022: New Haven, CT. The Yale Writers’ Workshop brings together the experience and expertise of leading teachers, authors, editors, agents and publishers in a series of panels and workshops, for the benefit of writers the world over. We are offering three sessions (one on campus and two remote) that will enhance the writing skills of any serious writer. Our faculty provides unique, tailored, and transformative experiences to all participants. Will be conducted online and in person . Application deadline: April 4, 2022. CLOSED

Interlochen Writer’s Retreat . June 5–10, 2022: Interlochen, Michigan. Nestled deep in the woods between two lakes, Interlochen College of Creative Arts’ five-day Writers Retreat is a true writer’s dream. Spend your days writing new material, attending presentations by award-winning faculty, and enjoying lakeside lunches and evening readings while making friends and connections in the literary world. Select your concentration from four unique courses, each grounded in different craft concepts with an emphasis on generating new work — appealing to both advanced and beginning writers alike. Courses include Flipping the Desk; Mixing (& Mashing) It Up: Writing Across Genres; The Devil is in the Details: People, Places, Situations, & Things; and What Ifs & Other Wonderings.

Fine Arts Work Center Summer Workshops (poetry, fiction, art, and creative nonfiction). June 5 — August 19, 2022 Provincetown, Massachusetts. Last year’s faculty included David Baker, Samiya Bashir, Jill Bialosky, Sophie Cabot Black, Gabrielle Calvocoressi, Martha Collins, Kate Daniels, Nick Flynn, Vievee Francis, Gabriel Fried, Jorie Graham, Marie Howe, Major Jackson, Fred Marchant, Gail Mazur, Jane Mead, John Murillo, Eileen Myles, Matthew Olzmann, Gregory Pardlo, Carl Phillips, Rowan Ricardo Phillips, Victoria Redel, Martha Rhodes, Brenda Shaughnessy, Nicole Sealey, Alan Shapiro, Carmen Giménez Smith, Craig Morgan Teicher and many more. See individual workshops for dates.

Odyssey Writing Workshop . June 6 — July 15, 2022. Since its inception in 1996, Odyssey has become one of the most highly respected workshops for writers of fantasy, science fiction, and horror. Deadline April 1.

Pacific University Master of Fine Arts in Writing Residency Writers Conference . June 16–26, 2022: Forest Grove, Oregon. Writers seeking to deepen their craft and expand their professional community are invited to attend the Residency Writers Conference together with MFA students, faculty and guest speakers. Join us for 10 full days of craft talks, workshops, panels, classes, readings and more featuring some of the best minds of the literary world. This residency is a rare opportunity to engage in sustained and meaningful conversation with others who share your passion for the art of writing.

The Writer’s Hotel “Mini MFA” Virtual Writers Conference . June 8–15, 2022. Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry. “This immersive program is a hybrid writers conference that includes two full manuscript readings of up to 100K words. Pre-conference, two TWH Editors read and generate comments (TWH Team Reading) and set up a phone conference to review the edits. Then, you’ll meet your cohort online for the conference part of the program. Writers attend Workshops, Craft Labs and Lectures and Faculty Readings. You’ll also get to pitch to literary agents via Zoom, which we’ve found to be most intimate and successful. All writers will also read their own original work in our TWH Reading Series online. Special to this conference, a second full manuscript Team Reading will also be performed post-conference.” App deadline: April 18, 2022.

Mountain Heritage Literary Festival . June 10–11, 2022: Cumberland Gap, TN. “Every year writers gather at the ancient and beloved Cumberland Gap to celebrate writing, music, and Appalachian heritage. Events include workshops, panels, readings, concerts, lectures, open mic, and more.”

West Virginia Writers Conference . June 10–12, 2022: Ripley, West Virginia. Author readings, contests and sharing your love of writing with others.

Colrain Classic . June 10–13, 2022: Arlington, Vermont. “The Colrain Manuscript Classic is a highly focused, 3.5 day conference designed for poets with manuscripts in progress. The Classic features in-depth pre-conference work and candid, realistic evaluation and feedback from nationally-known poets, editors and publishers. In preparation, participants work at home on pre-conference assignments and then, in the workshop, review, arrange, and winnow their work based on the pre-conference work. In addition to the manuscript preparation workshop and editor sessions, there will be an editorial Q&A, and an after-conference strategy session.” Will be conducted online .

Tinker Mountain Writers’ Workshop . June 12–16, 2022: Roanoke, Virginia. The conference features workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, as well as craft seminars, individual conferences with faculty members, and readings.

Kenyon Review Writers Workshops . June 12–18 and July 10–16, 2022: Gambier, Ohio. Workshops in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction led by an accomplished faculty. Genre workshops (Fiction, Literary Nonfiction, and Poetry) are held for three hours each morning. (See individual workshops for dates.)

Naropa Summer Writing Program . June 12 — July 2, 2022: Boulder, CO. Summer Writing Program of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University.

Writing and Illustrating for Young Readers . June 13–17, 2022: Sandy, Utah. Offers one-, two-, three- and five-day workshops. Morning workshops devoted to individual work; afternoon talks on market, craft, publication; chats w/ editors and agents; keynote; book signing. For those interested, specialized workshops — Boot Camp and Full-Novel classes. Single day programs as well.

Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference . June 13–19, 2022: Ripton, VT. The Bread Loaf Orion Environmental Writers’ Conference is a week-long writers’ conference designed to hone the skills of people interested in producing literary writing about the environment and the natural world. The conference is co-sponsored by the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Orion magazine, and Middlebury College’s Environmental Studies Program. Application Deadline: February 15, 2022 .

Bread Loaf Translators’ Conference . June 13–19, 2022: Ripton, VT. The Bread Loaf Translators’ Conference includes workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, as well as lectures, craft classes, meetings with editors and agents, and readings by faculty and guests. Application deadline: February 15, 2022 .

Breakout Novel Intensive 2.0 . June 13–19, 2022: Virtual conference . “Writers of commercial fiction who wish to soar out of category, as well as literary novelists who want to learn how to make powerful story principles work for them, will find the Breakout Novel Intensive 2.0 an idea-packed and career enriching experience. This workshop is as ideal for those just beginning a new project as it is for those embarking on a revision of a completed work. Breakout fundamentals are also covered: strong characters, inner conflict, personal stakes, plot layers, powerful scenes, micro-tension, practical theme techniques and much more.”

Community of Writers at Squaw Valley: Poetry Workshop . June 18 — June 25, 2022: Olympic Valley, California. “We work together to create an atmosphere in which everyone might feel free to try anything. In the mornings we meet in workshops to read to each other the work of the previous twenty-four hours; each participant also has an opportunity to work with each staff poet. In the late afternoons we gather for a conversation about some aspect of craft. On several afternoons staff poets hold brief individual conferences.” Registration deadline: April 1, 2022 .

Community of Writers Workshop in Fiction . July 18–25, 2022: Olympic Valley, California. These workshops assist serious writers by exploring the art and craft as well as the business of writing. The week offers daily morning workshops, craft lectures, panel discussions on editing and publishing, staff readings, as well as brief individual conferences. The morning workshops are led by staff writer-teachers, editors, or agents. There are separate morning workshops for Fiction and Narrative Nonfiction/ Memoir. In addition to their workshop manuscript, participants may have a second manuscript read by a staff member who meets with them in an individual conference. During the week, a portion of our workshops is devoted exclusively to nonfiction. Memoir, narrative nonfiction, and essays are invited. Literary criticism and scholarly work will not be considered. Nonfiction applicants can use the same general form for submission.

Colgate Writers’ Conference . June 19–25, 2022: Hamilton, New York. Morning craft talks & workshops. Individual consultation with workshop instructor in the afternoon. Late afternoon participant readings and talks on publishing, storytelling. Evening readings by instructors & guests. Late night social events. “Bring a story, a book in progress, some poems, or a novel, and work with us on developing narrative strategies, verse techniques, and methods of research. Members of the publishing profession will also be here to discuss marketplace tactics.”

Chesapeake Writers’ Conference at St. Mary’s College of Maryland . June 19–25, 2022: St. Mary’s City, Maryland. “Join us on Maryland’s Western Shore-for the 8th Annual Chesapeake Writers’ Conference for a week of craft talks, lectures, panel discussions, and readings, as well as daily workshops in fiction, poetry, screenwriting, translation, songwriting, or creative nonfiction.

Clarion West Speculative Fiction Writers Workshop . June 19 — July 30, 2022: Seattle, Washington. “Every summer, Clarion West holds an intensive six-week workshop in Seattle’s University District, geared to help you prepare for a professional career as a writer of speculative fiction. Each workshop is limited to 18 students, and each week features a different instructor, a highly regarded author or editor offering their unique perspective on the field. Short fiction is the workshop’s focus, with an emphasis on science fiction, fantasy, and horror. Come prepared to write several new stories, to experiment and take artistic risks, and to give and receive constructive criticism.

Hurston/Wright Summer Writers Week . June 19 — June 24, 2022: Virginia Tech. For more than 20 years, the Hurston/Wright Summer Writers Workshop has offered a safe space for Black writers in intensive workshop sessions and master classes. Workshops are led by award-winning writers who are influencing today’s literature. The program features critiques, craft talks, writing time and public readings. Hurston/Wright workshops serve emerging and experienced writers who are starting projects, developing projects or seeking to polish projects. More than a thousand writers have participated in workshops since the first session in 1996.

Orion Environmental Writers’ Workshop . June 19 — June 24, 2022: The Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, New York. This program is for writers who want to learn how to write an Orion essay, short story, or poem; for writers who seek to become better advocates for the environment through their writing; for poets who are drawn to writing about nature and culture; for teachers and scholars who wish to write for a more general readership; and for environmental professionals who want to bring better writing skills to bear on their work. The program will feature small writing workshops dedicated to poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, as well as faculty readings and lectures, student readings, and presentations on publishing.

Juniper Institute for Young Writers . June 19–25, 2022: Amherst, MA. For high school students . Daily workshops in poetry, fiction, & nonfiction; interactive craft sessions that include discussions & writing exercises; evening readings by faculty & writers-in-residence. Workshops and craft sessions are led by MFA candidates from the renowned University of Massachusetts MFA Program for Poets and Writers who design curricula especially for the Institute setting.

Stonecoast Writers’ Conference . June 20–25, 2022, Portland, ME. Workshops in poetry, short fiction, novel, and nonfiction/memoir, and a mixed-genre Creative Writing Bootcamp. The Stonecoast Writers’ Conference is open to students of all experience levels. However, admission is selective. Writing sample and deposit required.

Minnesota Northwoods Writers Conference . June 20–26, 2022: Bemidji, Minnesota. Fiction, Non-fiction, Poetry, Publishing. Faculty: Kimberly Blaeser (Poetry), Douglas Kearney (Poetry), Joni Tevis (Creative Nonfiction), Benjamin Percy (Fiction), and Aimee Nezhukumatathil (Poetry/Prose Hybrid). And the renowned poet and essayist Claudia Rankine will be our Distinguished Visiting Writer!

Western Writers of America Convention . June 22–25, 2022: Great Falls, Montana. Children’s, Fiction, Marketing, Non-fiction, Publishing, Young Adult. History presentations at the convention include Cats in the Old West, Border Wars/Law and Order, Mark Twain Literary Contributions, and more. Other sessions will take place related to the craft of writing, book marketing, and research sources and techniques.

Chautauqua Writers’ Festival . June 22–25, 2022: Chautauqua, New York. In addition to the Festival’s tradition of intensive workshops and one-on-one conferences with award-winning contemporary authors, attendees can also attend panel conversations, breakout sessions, and a keynote address. The 2022 theme is “Writing Resilience,” and these various conversations will draw fruitful and urgent connections between the personal, the political, and the craft of writing. All of these features are included in the cost of Standard Registration and available as an option to any workshop participant.

Fordham University Retreat . June 22–26, 2022: New York City. “In order to help mentor the next generation of Asian American writers, Kundiman sponsors an annual Retreat in partnership with Fordham University. During the Retreat, nationally renowned Asian American poets and writers conduct Master Classes and manuscript consultations with fellows. Readings, writing circles and informal social gatherings are also scheduled. Through this Retreat, Kundiman hopes to provide a safe and instructive environment that identifies and addresses the unique challenges faced by emerging Asian American writers.”

Jackson Hole Writers Conference , June 23–25, 2022: Jackson Hole, WY. You will have ample opportunity to share your work with a distinguished faculty as well as writers from Massachusetts to Florida, from Texas to Washington. Serious writers pour into Jackson Hole each June looking for a fresh, but critical eye on their work. This event usually has at least 4 agents to pitch.

David R Collins Conference Faculty & Workshops . June 23–25, 2022: Rock Island, IL. Daily workshops, critiques, pitches, evening events, keynote. Will be held online and in person .

In Your Write Mind Workshop . June 23–26, 2022: Greensburg, Pennsylvania. Special Guest: L. Marie Wood. Agents: Eva Scalzo (Speilburg Literary Agency) and Erin Clyburn (Howland Literary). Editors: Miranda Hill (Berkley-Penguin Publishing Group) and John Edward Lawson (Raw Dog Screaming Press). Artist: Greg Chapman. Business and Craft Tracks. Pitch Sessions. Book Signing. Networking. Author Readings. Writing Sprints. Critique Groups. And more! Will be held online and in person .

Chanticleer Authors Conference . June 23–26, 2022: Bellingham, Wash. Sessions with a special focus on the business of being a working writer on topics such as marketing, publicity, platform, sales tools & strategies, publishing, production, distribution, organization, storycraft, editing, and more. Will be held online and in person.

Bookstock Literary Festival . June 24–26, 2022: Woodstock, Vermont. From Poets & Writers : “The festival features workshops, readings, discussions, and a book fair for poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers. Participating writers have included poets Benjamin Aleshire, Laura Foley, Pamela Harrison, April Ossmann, and Elizabeth Powell; fiction writers Jean Hanff Korenlitz and Roland Merullo; and nonfiction writers Jabari Asim, Bruce Coffin, and Sarah Prager. All events and workshops are free and open to the public.”

Weekend Writeaways at Home . June 24–26, 2022: Online (?) “This weekend-long format has all the elements of a typical Writeaway, combined with a few twists to bring the liveliness of an in-person Writeaway to Zoom. And we limit each Weekend Writeaways at Home to eight writers, to ensure you get plenty of attention. The weekend includes writing time, workshops, exercises to inspire you, craft discussions, brainstorming, consultations, readings and optional cocktails and meals (with drink and dinner recipes from New Mexico, Italy and France sent to you in advance!)”

Writers’ League of Texas . June 24–26, 2022: Austin, Texas. “For writers with finished manuscripts, the conference’s one-on-one consultations with agents and editors offer a unique opportunity to pitch their work directly to publishing professionals. For writers working toward a completed manuscript, the conference’s genre meet-ups, panels, presentations, and general sessions offer an abundance of useful information and a friendly, relaxed atmosphere for informal chats with agents, published authors, and fellow writers from all genres and backgrounds. Confirmed participating agents include Erica Bauman (Aevitas Creative Management), Jan Baumer (Folio Literary Management), Danielle Bukowski (Sterling Lord Literistic), Heather Carr (The Friedrich Agency), Caroline Eisenmann (Frances Goldin Literary Agency), Paloma Hernando (Einstein Literary Management), Lynn Johnston (Lynn Johnston Literary), Alex Kane (WME), Julia Kardon (HG Literary), James Mustelier (The Bent Agency), Aemilia Phillips (Stuart Krichevsky Literary Agency), Anna Sproul-Latimer (Neon Literary). Confirmed Keynote: Jami Attenberg. Additional agents, editors, and authors will be added soon.

Hurston/Wright Summer Writers Week . June 26 — July 1, 2022: Rutgers. For more than 20 years, the Hurston/Wright Summer Writers Workshop has offered a safe space for Black writers in intensive workshop sessions and master classes. Workshops are led by award-winning writers who are influencing today’s literature. The program features critiques, craft talks, writing time and public readings. Hurston/Wright workshops serve emerging and experienced writers who are starting projects, developing projects or seeking to polish projects. More than a thousand writers have participated in workshops since the first session in 1996.

New York State Summer Writers Institute at Skidmore College . June 27 — July 22, 2022: Saratoga Springs, NY. Since 1987, the Institute has been offering students the opportunity to learn from an extraordinary faculty of distinguished writers led by director Robert Boyers. The program is an offshoot of the New York State Writers Institute created by Albany native and Pulitzer Prize-winning author William Kennedy. The curriculum is designed for college-aged students and adults, and the new virtual format will retain many of the Institute’s hallmark features:

  • Creative writing workshops in poetry, fiction and non-fiction
  • Small classes that offer individualized attention and workshop student writings
  • Public readings and afternoon Q & A sessions with world-renowned guest writers
  • Private tutorial sessions for student fiction manuscripts, book-length poetry, or non-fiction (available for an additional fee)
  • Option to enroll for one-week, two-week, or four-week sessions
  • Optional undergraduate credit for eligible students enrolled in one genre for four weeks
  • Merit Scholarships for tuition

Will be held online .

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Jami Attenberg

Jami Attenberg has written about food, travel, books, relationships, and urban life for the New York Times magazine , the New Yorker, the Wall Street Journal, the Sunday Times (London), the Guardian , and others. She is a New York Times bestselling author of seven books of fiction, including The Middlesteins and All Grown Up , and, most recently, a memoir, I Came All This Way to Meet You . Her work has been published in sixteen languages. She is also the founder of the annual #1000WordsofSummer project, and maintains the popular Craft Talk newsletter year-round. She lives in New Orleans, Louisiana.

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Conor Bracken

Conor Bracken is the author of The Enemy of My Enemy is Me (Diode Editions, 2021), as well as the translator of Mohammed Khaïr-Eddine’s Scorpionic Sun (CSU Poetry Center, 2019) and Jean D’Amérique’s No Way in the Skin Without This Bloody Embrace (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2022), a finalist for the 2023 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation. His work has received support from the Community of Writers, Bread Loaf, the Frost Place, Inprint, Cornell’s Institute for Comparative Modernities, and the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and has appeared (or will soon) in places like BOMB, Image, jubilat, New England Review, the New Yorker, Ploughshares, Sixth Finch , and West Branch . He teaches writing at the Cleveland Institute of Art.

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Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond

Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond is the author of the children’s picture book Blue: A History of the Color as Deep as the Sea and as Wide as the Sky , illustrated by Caldecott Honor Artist Daniel Minter. Named among the best books of 2022 by NPR, New York Public Library, Chicago Public Library, Kirkus Reviews , and The Center for the Study of Multicultural Literature, Blue  was honored with the 2023 NCTE Orbis Pictus Award® recognizing excellence in the writing of non-fiction for children, and it was nominated for an NAACP Image Award.

Brew-Hammond also wrote the young adult novel Powder Necklace , which Publishers Weekly called “a winning debut”, and she edited Relations: An Anthology of African and Diaspora Voices , of which Kirkus Reviews said in a starred review: “This smart, generous collection is a true gift.” Every month, Brew-Hammond co-leads a writing fellowship whose mission is to write light into darkness. You can keep up with Nana on Instagram at @nanaekuawriter , Twitter at @nanaekua , and Facebook at @nanaekuawriter .

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Joanna Cantor

Joanna Cantor holds an MFA from Brooklyn College and a BA from Colorado College. Her debut novel, Alternative Remedies for Loss , was an Amazon Best Book of the Month for May 2018 and received coverage in Vanity Fair, Real Simple, Nylon , and elsewhere. Her writing has appeared in Literary Hub, Electric Literature, Departures, Fodor’s Travel, Greatist , and Willamette Week . Joanna was a recipient of a Vermont Studio Center Fellowship. She previously taught fiction writing at Catapult and is also a yoga teacher. She lives in Brooklyn. You can keep up with Joanna on Instagram at @joannacantor and on Twitter at @jojannna.

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Elysha Chang

Elysha Chang is a writer and educator based in Brooklyn. Before moving to New York, she taught Asian American Literature and Creative Writing at Villanova University, University of Pennsylvania and Blue Stoop Philadelphia. Her debut novel, A Quitter’s Paradise , is about American immigrant inheritance and was published in 2023. She holds a master of fine arts from Columbia University and has received fellowships from The Center for Fiction and Kundiman.

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Caroline Christopoulos

Caroline Christopoulos is a publicist with Gold Leaf Literary Services, a publicity firm that works exclusively with writers/authors. She also works part-time at Malaprop’s Bookstore/Cafe in Asheville, NC, where she has been a bookseller for twenty-two years and buyer for eighteen. She worked on the steering committee of the Asheville Grown Business Alliance and continues to be on the programming committee for the Carolina Mountains Literary Festival. In addition to bringing authors and their works the attention they deserve, her focus includes strengthening community and promoting local business. She and her husband live in Asheville and New York City with their daughter and their dog, Tiny Cakes.

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Sarah Cypher

Sarah Cypher is a freelance book editor and author of The Skin and Its Girl (Ballantine, April 2023). She holds an MFA from the Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, where she was a Rona Jaffe Graduate Creative Writing Fellow in Fiction, and a BA from Carnegie Mellon University. Her writing has appeared in the Washington Post, Lit Hub , Electric Literature , New Ohio Review, North American Review, Crab Orchard Review , and others, and she has been a resident at the Headlands Center for the Arts and Vermont Studio Center. She grew up in a Lebanese Christian family near Pittsburgh and lives in Washington, D.C., with her wife. You can keep up with Sarah on Instagram at @sarahcypher and on Twitter at @threepenny .

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Kavita Das came to writing ten years ago after working for social change and social justice for fifteen years. She writes about culture, race, gender, and their intersections. Nominated for a Pushcart Prize, Kavita’s work has been published in WIRED, CNN, Teen Vogue, Catapult, Fast Company, Tin House, Longreads, the Atlantic, the Washington Post , Los Angeles Review of Books, Kenyon Review, NBC News Asian America, Guernica, Electric Literature , Colorlines, the Rumpus , and elsewhere. Kavita’s second book Craft and Conscience: How to Write About Social Issues (Beacon Press, October 2022) is inspired by the Writing with Conscience class she created and teaches. Her first book, Poignant Song: The Life and Music of Lakshmi Shankar , was published by Harper Collins India in 2019. In the real world, she lives in New York with her husband, toddler, and hound. And in the virtual world, she can be found on Twitter: @kavitamix and Instagram: @kavitadas and at kavitadas.com .

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Omer Friedlander

Omer Friedlander was born in Jerusalem in 1994 and grew up in Tel-Aviv. He is the author of the short story collection The Man Who Sold Air in the Holy Land , winner of the Association of Jewish Libraries Fiction Award and a finalist for the Wingate Prize. The book was chosen as a Sophie Brody Medal Honor Book and longlisted for the Story Prize. Omer has a BA in English Literature from the University of Cambridge and an MFA from Boston University, where he was supported by the Saul Bellow Fellowship. He was a Starworks Fellow in Fiction at New York University. His collection has been translated into several languages, including Turkish, Dutch, and Italian. His writing has been supported by the Bread Loaf Fellowship and Vermont Studio Center Fellowship. He is currently teaching Creative Writing at the MFA program at Columbia University.

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Miciah Bay Gault

Miciah Bay Gault is the author of the novel Goodnight Stranger (Park Row, 2019), which was nominated for a Shirley Jackson award, longlisted for The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize , and selected for Poets & Writers’ First Fiction roundup.

Miciah is a Breadloaf fellow and a Vermont Arts Council creation grant recipient. Her short fiction and essays have appeared in Tin House, the Sun, Agni, the Southern Review, the Harvard Review, the New York Times ‘ Modern Love’ column, and other places. She teaches in the MFA in Writing program at Vermont College of Fine Arts and is coordinator of the Vermont Book Award.

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David Gordon

David Gordon was born in New York City. He attended Sarah Lawrence College, holds an MA in English and Comparative Literature and an MFA in Writing, both from Columbia University. He is the author of seven published novels and a book of stories.His first novel, The Serialist , won the VCU/Cabell First Novel Award and was a finalist for an Edgar Award. It also won three major literary awards in Japan—Kono Mystery ga Sugoi, Mystery ga Yomitai and Mystery Best 10—becoming the first novel ever to do so—and was made into a feature film. In addition to Japanese, his novels has been translated into Chinese, Korean, French, German, Turkish, Russian and Polish. His most recent book, The Pigeon , is number five in the Joe the Bouncer series. A new novel, a neo-noir called, Behind Sunset , is forthcoming from Mysterious Press, as well as a video game co-written with Hampton Fancher, ( Bladerunner ). His work has appeared in Harpers , Paris Review , the New York Times magazine, the  New York Times Book Review , Fence , Brazenhead Review , Maggot Brain , LitHub , Electric Literature , and others.

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Lauren Harr

Lauren Harr is a publicist with Gold Leaf Literary Services and has worked in the book world for twenty years—as a bookseller in Asheville, NC and Albuquerque, NM, an assistant at literary nonprofits in Santa Fe, an intern at Graywolf Press, and a marketing assistant and publicist at Coffee House Press. She spent eight years at Malaprop’s Bookstore/Cafe where her passions were connecting readers and books and assisting the events program. She lives in Asheville with her husband and daughter and holds an MFA from Spalding University’s School of Creative and Professional Writing.

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Debra Jo Immergut

Debra Jo Immergut is the author of the novels You Again , named a New York Times Best of the Year and shortlisted for the 2021 Gotham Book Prize, and The Captives , a 2019 Edgar Award finalist and published in over a dozen countries. She has also published a collection of short fiction, Private Property . Her essays and stories have appeared in American Short Fiction, Narrative, the New York Times, PANK, Hobart , and elsewhere. A recipient of Michener and MacDowell fellowships, she has an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and lives in western Massachusetts.

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Lucinda Halpern

Lucinda Halpern is a literary agent with nearly 20 years’ experience in both the publicity and agency sides of publishing. Before founding Lucinda Literary, she worked in the Publicity division of HarperCollins, where she assisted on the media campaign for Freakonomics among other New York Times bestsellers. She later took a management role in Sales and Marketing at Scholastic before becoming a marketing consultant for Gretchen Rubin ( The Happiness Project ) and others, and then launching her career as an agent. She has worked with such publishers as HarperCollins, Penguin Random House, Simon & Schuster, Macmillan, and Hachette, and currently represents authors writing in the categories of business, health, lifestyle, popular science, narrative nonfiction, memoir, and upmarket fiction.

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Yahdon Israel

Yahdon Israel, a Senior Editor at Simon & Schuster and founder of Literaryswag, a cultural movement that intersects literature and fashion to make books accessible. He has written for the New Inquiry , LitHub , Poets & Writers , Vanity Fair , and the Atlantic . He teaches Creative Writing at the MFA Program at City College, previously served on the Board of the National Book Critics Circle, and founded the Literaryswag Book Club, a Brooklyn-based subscription service and book club that meets every last Wednesday of the month.

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Josh Krigman

Josh Krigman (he/him) is a writer, teacher, and facilitator in New York City. He has taught creative writing at Hunter College, the United Nations International School, 826NYC, The Writer’s Rock, and for National Geographic Expeditions. He has been awarded residencies from Vermont Studio Center, and his work has appeared in The Summerset Review, Akashic Books, Necessary Fiction , and elsewhere. He received his MFA in fiction from Hunter College. Through Little Nights , he hosts interdisciplinary events designed to make art-making more accessible to new audiences. He is also the co-founder and New York host of Club Motte , an international storytelling series that hosts live events in New York, Oakland, and Berlin.

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Danielle Lazarin

Danielle Lazarin is the author of the short story collection Back Talk . Her fiction and essays can be found in the Southern Review , Colorado Review , Literary Hub , Glimmer Train , the Cut , Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading, and elsewhere. Her work has been honored by the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Glimmer Train Family Matters Award, the Millay Colony for the Arts, The Freya Project, and the Stella Kupferberg Memorial Short Story Prize. She lives and teaches in her native New York, where she is at work on a novel and a story collection.

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Alcy Leyva is a Bronx-born multi-genre writer whose first two books in the Shades of Hell series, And Then There Were Crows and And Then There Were Dragons . His newest book, the silent, subtle, ever-present perils of life , was released October 10th, 2023 by Green Writers Press. He is currently working on his Ph.D. in Creative Writing for the University of Birmingham and currently lives (and works) in New York.

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Bruna Dantas Lobato

Bruna Dantas Lobato is a Brazilian writer and literary translator based in St. Louis. Her fiction has appeared in the New Yorker , A Public Space, the Common , and other publications, and has been recognized with fellowships from Yaddo, A Public Space, NYU, and Disquiet International. Her literary translations include Caio Fernando Abreu’s Moldy Strawberries (Archipelago Books), Stênio Gardel’s The Words that Remain (New Vessel Press), and Giovana Madalosso’s Tokyo Suite (Europa Editions). Other translations from Lobato have appeared in Vogue, Bookforum, BOMB, the Kenyon Review, Harvard Review, the Brooklyn Rail , and the American Scholar , among others. You can keep up with Bruna on Twitter at @bdantaslobato and Instagram @bdantaslobato .

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Melissa Lozada-Oliva

Melissa Lozada-Oliva is the author of peluda , Dreaming of You and Candelaria . Her work has been featured in the Poetry Project, Harper’s Bazaar, NPR , Vogue, Vulture , and BBC Mundo. She received her MFA from New York University in 2020.

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Jessie McCarty

Jessie McCarty (they/them) is an interdisciplinary writer and cataloger specializing in Irish, Southern, and LBGTQ+ folklore through new media and poetry. They are the author of The Bovine Huff , a research chapbook on The Shreveport Yellow Fever Mound in Shreveport, Louisiana and Ireland/Eire’s Tain Bo Cuailnge. The Bovine Huff was awarded the 3rd Best Poetry Book of 2022 in the Chicago Reader . In August 2023, McCarty co-authored the poetry collection Our Fairy Diary with multi-media artist Sarah Haines. This artbook of letters, written between Chicago and Shreveport, functioned as a study in fairy rings as a limited edition of 50. As of September 2023, Our Fairy Diary is sold out.

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David McLoghlin

David McLoghlin is a prize-winning poet and writer of memoir and personal essay. His books are Waiting For Saint Brendan and Other Poems and Santiago Sketches . His third book, Crash Centre , will be published in May 2024 by Salmon Poetry. Apart from a major bursary (grant) for memoir from Ireland’s Arts Council, and a personal essay published in the anthology Others Will Enter the Gates: Immigrant Poets on Poetry, Influences, and Writing in America (Black Lawrence Press), he has published personal essays, short stories and memoir extracts in The Stinging Fly , Poetry Ireland Review and other journals. An essay on being mentored by poet Sharon Olds is forthcoming in This Glistening Verb (University of Michigan Press) as part of their “Under Discussion” series. He is currently at work on a book about his grandfather, the golf architect, Eddie Hackett, widely considered “the Father of Irish Golf Design.” In October 2023 he played one of his grandfather’s designs, Connemara Golf Links, and is writing an immersion piece for Golfer’s Journal in the USA. He has previously taught memoir for The Center for Fiction, and teaches creative writing in Ireland with The American College, Dublin, Poetry as Commemoration and Writers in Schools. While living in New York between 2010 and 2020 he was Resident Writer at Hunts Point Alliance for Children in the South Bronx, and an NYU Teaching Fellow at Coler Specialty Hospital; and a Patrick and Katherine Kavanagh Fellowship Recipient (2023).

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Ruth Mukwana

Ruth Mukwana is a fiction writer. Her work has appeared in several magazines including Bomb , Solstice , and Consequence . Her short story, “ Taboo ” was a runner-up in the Black Warriors Review 2017 fiction contest. She’s the Co-Fiction Editor of Solstice Magazine . She is the Creator and Host of SAHA, Stories and Humanitarian Action, a Podcast that investigates whether fiction can raise awareness on the causes and consequences of humanitarian crises. Her works in progress are a collection of short stories and a novel that follows Queen, a middle-aged woman working for the UN, as she’s forced to confront a past, she wants to forget, and her quest for justice. Told through multiple points of view, the novel interrogates trauma and memory, and resilience and forgiveness. She’s a graduate of the Bennington Writing Seminars (MFA), a 2022 Bennington Alumni Fellow and a 2020 Center for Fiction/Susan Kamil NYC Emerging Fellow, and a former humanitarian worker with the United Nations. She lives in New York with her daughter.

As a fiction writer with an MFA from Bennington College and a humanitarian worker whose work and writing deals with social justice issues, she is passionate about writing for social justice and has a deep familiarity with both the research and questions of craft. Therefore, she offers a wide perspective and comparative approach.

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Zeynep Özakat

Zeynep Özakat was born and raised in Istanbul, Turkey. Her writing has appeared in Glimmer Train Stories , where she won the Fiction Open Contest, in Black Warrior Review, Michigan Quarterly Review , and Gulf Coast Online . She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Syracuse University, where she received The Shirley Jackson Prize in Fiction, The Leonard Brown Prize in Poetry, and a Graduate Dean’s Award for Excellence in Research and Creative Work. She has received scholarships and support from The Disquiet Conference in Lisbon, The Bread Loaf Environmental Writing Conference, The Juniper Summer Writing Institute, and The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, where she was a 2021-2022 Writing Fellow.

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Soraya Palmer

Soraya Palmer is the author of The Human Origins of Beatrice Porter and Other Essential Ghosts . She is a Flatbush-born-and-raised writer and licensed social worker. Her novel was named one of Today’s “38 Best New Books to Read in 2023,” one of the “Buzziest Debut Novels of the New Year” by Goodreads , one of the “Best and Most Anticipated Books of 2023” by Elle magazine, and one of “The Most Anticipated Feminist Books of 2023” by Ms. magazine. Her writing has appeared in Electric Literature , Hazlitt , Ploughshares, and elsewhere. She has been awarded a residency at Blue Mountain Center and graduated from the Virginia Tech MFA program. She lives in Brooklyn with her cat, Nicholas.

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Daniel Saldaña París

Daniel Saldaña París is the author of three novels— Among Strange Victims , Ramifications , and The Dance and the Wildfire —and a collection of personal essays, Planes Flying Over a Monster . His work has been translated into several languages, and he has been included in Bogota39, a list of the Best Latin American Writers Under 40.

The recipient of fellowships and residencies from the Banff Center for the Arts, the Latin American Art Museum of Buenos Aires, Art Omi, and MacDowell, he has been awarded the Eccles Center & Hay Festival Writers Award in the U.K., and his latest novel was a finalist for the Herralde Prize in Spain. He was a 2022-2023 fellow at the NYPL’s Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, and has contributed to publications such as the Guardian , BOMB, Guernica, Aperture, Music & Literature, LitHub, Publisher’s Weekly , and KCRW’s UnFictional , among many others. You can keep up with Daniel on Instagram at @dsparis .

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Dawn Raffel

Dawn Raffel is the author of six books, most recently Boundless as the Sky , a hybrid collection incorporating fiction, image, and early 20th Century history, amid the rise of both fascism and technology. The title novella, set at the 1933 Chicago World’s fair, is told through multiple perspectives, including “ordinary” people and sideshow performers whose voices have been lost to history books. Her previous book, The Strange Case of Dr. Couney , is historical narrative nonfiction based on deep archival research. Other books include a nationally bestselling memoir, The Secret Life of Objects , two story collections and a novel. She has taught creative writing at International Literary Seminars (previously Summer Literary Seminars) in Kenya, Russia, Lithuania, and Canada. You can keep up with Dawn by following her on Instagram at @dawnraffel , or on Twitter at @dawnraffel .

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Juliana Roth

Juliana Roth was selected as a VIDA Fellow with the Sundress Academy for the Arts for her fiction and is currently seeking a home for her novel and collection of short stories. Her writing appears in the Breakwater Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, Irish Pages , and Entropy as well as being produced as independent films that she directs. Her web series, The University , was nominated by the International Academy of Web Television for Best Drama Writing. Currently, she teaches writing at NYU and writes the newsletter Drawing Animals featuring essays, interviews, doodles, and podcast episodes celebrating our interconnection with nonhuman animal life. She also holds a 200-hour yoga teacher certification and is a current Emerging Writer Fellow at The Center for Fiction. She formerly lived out of a backpack in the La Sal Mountains and as a volunteer on an organic farm in Maine.

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Amy Silverberg

Amy Silverberg is a writer and comedian based in Los Angeles. Her short fiction has appeared in Best American Short Stories , the Paris Review , Granta , TriQuarterly , the Los Angeles Review of Books , and elsewhere. Her debut novel First Time, Long Time is forthcoming from Grand Central Publishing/Hachette. She also writes television, most recently The Movie Show on the SYFY Channel. She holds a Ph.D. in Literature & Creative Writing from The University of Southern California, where she currently teaches.

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Eraldo Souza dos Santos

A 2022 LARB Publishing Fellow, Eraldo Souza dos Santos is a Brazilian writer currently based between Paris and São Paulo. His first novel, to be published in 2024, is an autobiography of his illiterate mother and a meditation on the lived experience of Blackness and enslavement in modern Brazil. At the age of seven, his mother was sold into slavery by her white foster sister. It was 1968—eighty years after the abolition of slavery in Brazil and four years into the anti-communist coup d’état, during the month in which the military overruled the Constitution by decree. By weaving in extensive archival research and interviews, the novel narrates their journey to Minas Gerais—where she was born—and Bahia—the Blackest state in Brazil, where she was enslaved on a farm for three years—to investigate why the family that enslaved her has never been brought to justice. It also narrates his grandmother’s journey to search for her missing daughter. In March 2023, he offered a masterclass based on his novel at the prestigious UEA Creative Writing Course. You can keep up with Eraldo on Twitter at @esdsantos .

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Mathangi Subramanian

Mathangi Subramanian is a neurodiverse South Asian American novelist and essayist. Her middle grade book Dear Mrs. Naidu won the South Asia Book award, and her novel A People’s History of Heaven was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and was longlisted for the PEN/Faulkner prize and The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. Her picture book A Butterfly Smile was inducted into the Nobel Museum by economics laureate Dr. Esther Duflo. She is a guest artist at Denver School of the arts and affiliate faculty at the Regis Mile High MFA program. She holds a doctorate in education from Columbia University Teachers College.

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Hannah Tinti

Hannah Tinti is the author of the bestselling novel The Good Thief , which won The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize , and the story collection Animal Crackers , a runner-up for the PEN/Hemingway Award. Her latest novel, The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley , is a national bestseller and is in development for television. She teaches creative writing at New York University’s MFA program and co-founded the Sirenland Writers Conference. Tinti is also the co-founder and executive editor of One Story magazine, which won the AWP Small Press Publisher Award, CLMP’s Firecracker Award, a 2020 Whiting Prize, and the PEN/Magid Award for Excellence in Editing.

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Sofia Warren

Sofia Warren is a cartoonist and writer based in Brooklyn. Her first book, Radical: My Year with a Socialist Senator , was named one of the top graphic novels of 2022 by Forbes , and was a 2023 Finalist for the Pop Culture Classroom Excellence in Graphic Literature award. Sofia has been a contributing cartoonist at the New Yorker since 2017, and her work has also been published in MoMA Magazine, Catapult, Narrative Magazine , and the books Send Help! and Notes from the Bathroom Line . She is a visiting professor at Wesleyan University. You can keep up with Sofia on Instagram at @sofiawarrenart .

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Eleanor Whitney

Eleanor Whitney is a writer, editor, and content marketer. She is the author of Riot Woman , a collection of feminist essays examining the impact of the Riot Grrrl movement, and Quit Your Day Job , a business guide and an accompanying workbook for creative people. Microcosm will publish her fourth book, Spread the Word: Promote Your Book, Find Your Readers, and Build a Literary Community in the fall of 2023.

Throughout her career, Eleanor has worked to build communities, education programs, and marketing content strategies at museums, art organizations, and tech startups, including the Brooklyn Museum and the New York Foundation for the Arts. She holds an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Queens College, a Master’s in Public Administration from Baruch College, and BA in cultural studies from Eugene Lang College. She has taught writing at both Queens College and Eugene Lang College and in community workshops around the country. Hailing from Maine, she divides her time between Brooklyn and the Mojave desert. You can keep up with Eleanor on Instagram at @killerfemme and on Twitter at @killerfemme.

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Diane Zinna

Diane Zinna is the author of the novel The All-Night Sun (Random House, 2020) and Letting Grief Speak: Writing Portals for Life After Loss , a craft book on the art of telling our hardest stories, forthcoming from Columbia University Press in 2024. She has led a free grief writing class called Grief Writing Sundays since the start of the pandemic.

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Courtney Zoffness

Courtney Zoffness is the author of the critically acclaimed memoir-in-essays Spilt Milk , named a best debut of 2021 by BookPage and Refinery29 and a “must-read” by Publishers Weekly . She won the Sunday Times Short Story Award and received fellowships from The Center for Fiction and MacDowell. Her writing has appeared in the Paris Review Daily , the New York Times , Guernica , the Believer , and other venues. She’s an Associate Professor of English at Drew University, where she directs the creative writing program. You can keep up with Courtney on Instagram at @czoffness, and Twitter at @czoffrun .

We kindly ask those attending in-person workshops to review our Health & Safety Protocols before visiting The Center for Fiction. For refunds, please refer to our Refund Policy .

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Writing is more than just putting words on a page. To become a successful author, you need to learn about both the writing and the publishing processes, and network with publishers and other authors. Attending writing conferences and workshops is one of the best ways to accomplish this.

If you’re serious about becoming a successful author, then attending writing conferences and workshops is a must. These events can provide you with the knowledge, skills, and connections you need to take your writing to the next level.

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To find the best writing conferences and workshops to attend in 2024, use our filtering tools below to browse through our list.

Key West Literary Seminar Writers' Workshop Program

Key West Literary Seminar Writers’ Workshop Program

Key West Literary Seminar

Key West Literary Seminar

Winter Poetry & Prose Getaway

Winter Poetry & Prose Getaway

Colrain Classic

Colrain Classic

Writers in Paradise Conference

Writers in Paradise Conference

Digital Book World

Digital Book World

Writing By Writers Get The Lead Out! Generative Workshop

Writing By Writers Get The Lead Out! Generative Workshop

Hay Festival Jericó

Hay Festival Jericó

Hay Festival Medellín

Hay Festival Medellín

Hay Festival Cartagena

Hay Festival Cartagena

National Cowboy Poetry Gathering

National Cowboy Poetry Gathering

Todos Santos Writers Workshop

Todos Santos Writers Workshop

Codex: Biennial Book Art Fair and Symposium

Codex: Biennial Book Art Fair and Symposium

Pubwest

Big Sur Children’s Writers Workshops

The AWP Conference & Bookfair

The AWP Conference & Bookfair

Society of Children's Book Writers & Illustrators Annual Conference

Society of Children’s Book Writers & Illustrators Annual Conference

Writing Day Workshops: Boston

Writing Day Workshops: Boston

San Francisco Writers Conference

San Francisco Writers Conference

Southern California Writers’ Conference

Southern California Writers’ Conference

Southern California Writers Conference - San Diego

Southern California Writers Conference – San Diego

International Writers' Conference & Literary Festival

International Writers’ Conference & Literary Festival

Coastal Magic Convention

Coastal Magic Convention

Writing Day Workshops - Indiana

Writing Day Workshops – Indiana

Gotham Writers Nonfiction Writers Conference

Gotham Writers Nonfiction Writers Conference

Writing Day Workshops - Austin

Writing Day Workshops – Austin

Writing Day Workshops - Houston

Writing Day Workshops – Houston

Breakout Novel Intensive Workshop

Breakout Novel Intensive Workshop

Writing and Well-Being

Writing and Well-Being

Writing Day Workshops - Colorado

Writing Day Workshops – Colorado

Writing Day Workshops - Carolina

Writing Day Workshops – Carolina

Bay To Ocean Writers Conference

Bay To Ocean Writers Conference

The New York Pitch Conference

The New York Pitch Conference

Writing Day Workshops - Alabama

Writing Day Workshops – Alabama

Writing By Writers Boulder Generative Workshop

Writing By Writers Boulder Generative Workshop

Writing Day Workshops - Kansas

Writing Day Workshops – Kansas

Writing Day Workshops - Atlanta

Writing Day Workshops – Atlanta

National Black Writers Conference

National Black Writers Conference

Moravian Writers’ Conference: Voices of War

Moravian Writers’ Conference: Voices of War

Writing Day Workshops - Virginia

Writing Day Workshops – Virginia

The Power of Narrative Conference

The Power of Narrative Conference

Scottish Association of Writers Conference

Scottish Association of Writers Conference

Let's Just Write! An Uncommon Writers Conference

Let’s Just Write! An Uncommon Writers Conference

Liberty States Fiction Writers Conference

Liberty States Fiction Writers Conference

Writing Day Workshops - Chesapeake

Writing Day Workshops – Chesapeake

National Undergraduate Literature Conference

National Undergraduate Literature Conference

Tennessee Mountain Writers

Tennessee Mountain Writers

Writing Day Workshops - San Francisco (Online)

Writing Day Workshops – San Francisco (Online)

Writing Day Workshops - Buffalo

Writing Day Workshops – Buffalo

Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop

Erma Bombeck Writers’ Workshop

Writing Day Workshops - Minnesota

Writing Day Workshops – Minnesota

Writing Day Workshops - Toronto

Writing Day Workshops – Toronto

Festival of Faith & Writing

Festival of Faith & Writing

The Las Vegas Writers Conference

The Las Vegas Writers Conference

Writing Day Workshops - Florida

Writing Day Workshops – Florida

A rally of writers conference.

Chanticleer Authors Conference

Chanticleer Authors Conference

Writing Day Workshops - Kentucky

Writing Day Workshops – Kentucky

Authors' Salon at Clockwork Alchemy

Authors’ Salon at Clockwork Alchemy

Poetry At Round Up Festival

Poetry At Round Up Festival

Writing Day Workshops - Tennessee

Writing Day Workshops – Tennessee

Writing Day Workshops - San Diego

Writing Day Workshops – San Diego

Independent Publishers Book Association University

Independent Publishers Book Association University

Nebraska Writers Guild Conference

Nebraska Writers Guild Conference

Pikes Peak Writers Conference

Pikes Peak Writers Conference

The Creativity Workshop in New York

The Creativity Workshop in New York

Write Now!

Writing Day Workshops – Philadelphia

The Annual Gold Rush Writers Conference

The Annual Gold Rush Writers Conference

The Lakefly Writers Conference

The Lakefly Writers Conference

Atlanta Writers Conference

Atlanta Writers Conference

Writing Day Workshops - Michigan

Writing Day Workshops – Michigan

Writing Day Workshops - Los Angeles

Writing Day Workshops – Los Angeles

EMWA Cascais Conference

EMWA Cascais Conference

Nonfiction Writers Conference

Nonfiction Writers Conference

Storymakers Conference

Storymakers Conference

The Muse & the Marketplace

The Muse & the Marketplace

Writing Day Workshops - Ohio

Writing Day Workshops – Ohio

Writing Day Workshops - Portland

Writing Day Workshops – Portland

Writing Day Workshops - Seattle

Writing Day Workshops – Seattle

Longleaf Writers Conference

Longleaf Writers Conference

Florida Writing Workshop

Florida Writing Workshop

Fiction Readers Summit

Fiction Readers Summit

Looking Glass Rock Writers' Conference

Looking Glass Rock Writers’ Conference

Biographers International Organization Conference

Biographers International Organization Conference

Word on the Lake Writers' Festival

Word on the Lake Writers’ Festival

Poetry by the Sea: A Global Poetry Conference

Poetry by the Sea: A Global Poetry Conference

Hay Festival Wales

Hay Festival Wales

Asian Festival of Children’s Content

Asian Festival of Children’s Content

The Martha's Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing

The Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing

Thrillerfest

Thrillerfest

Writing the Midwest: A Symposium of Scholars and Writers

Writing the Midwest: A Symposium of Scholars and Writers

North Words Writers Symposium

North Words Writers Symposium

Wyoming Writers Conference

Wyoming Writers Conference

Writing Day Workshops - Pittsburgh

Writing Day Workshops – Pittsburgh

Clarksville Writers Conference

Clarksville Writers Conference

TWH Maine “Mini Mfa” All-Fiction Writers Conference

TWH Maine “Mini Mfa” All-Fiction Writers Conference

Reader & Author Get Together

Reader & Author Get Together

Lit Camp Conference

Lit Camp Conference

Indiana University Writers’ Conference

Indiana University Writers’ Conference

Lit Fest

Paris Cafe Writing

Juniper Summer Writing Institute

Juniper Summer Writing Institute

Writing By Writers Mont Blanc workshop

Writing By Writers Mont Blanc workshop

Bread Loaf Translators’ Conference

Bread Loaf Translators’ Conference

Bread Loaf Environmental Writers' Conference

Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference

Write-to-Publish Conference

Write-to-Publish Conference

Youth Workshops and Activities

Youth Workshops and Activities

Orion Environmental Writers’ Workshop

Orion Environmental Writers’ Workshop

The Creativity Workshop in Barcelona

The Creativity Workshop in Barcelona

Chautauqua Writers’ Festival

Chautauqua Writers’ Festival

Agents & Editors Conference

Agents & Editors Conference

Writing Day Workshops - Milwaukee

Writing Day Workshops – Milwaukee

Writing Day Workshops - Chicago

Writing Day Workshops – Chicago

Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers’ Workshop

Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers’ Workshop

Disquiet International Literary Program

Disquiet International Literary Program

Aspen Summer Words Writing Conference

Aspen Summer Words Writing Conference

Minnesota Northwoods Writers Conference

Minnesota Northwoods Writers Conference

The Creativity Workshop in Florence

The Creativity Workshop in Florence

Information, Medium & Society: International Conference on Publishing Studies

Information, Medium & Society: International Conference on Publishing Studies

Writing Day Workshops - Texas

Writing Day Workshops – Texas

Chuckanut Writers Conference

Chuckanut Writers Conference

The Creativity Workshop in Prague

The Creativity Workshop in Prague

Canterbury Arts Conference

Canterbury Arts Conference

Readercon 33

Readercon 33

Midwest Writers Workshop Super Mini-Conference

Midwest Writers Workshop Super Mini-Conference

International Creative Writing Conference

International Creative Writing Conference

Tin House Summer Writers' Workshop

Tin House Summer Writers’ Workshop

Sewanee Writers Conference

Sewanee Writers Conference

Writing Heights Writers Conference

Writing Heights Writers Conference

Taos Writers Conference

Taos Writers Conference

Imaginarium Convention

Imaginarium Convention

Sun Valley Writers' Conference

Sun Valley Writers’ Conference

Macondo Writers Workshop

Macondo Writers Workshop

Writing Through The Lifespan

Writing Through The Lifespan

Taylor University's ​Professional Writers' Conference

Taylor University’s ​Professional Writers’ Conference

National Writers’ Conference

National Writers’ Conference

Romance Writers of America Annual Conference

Romance Writers of America Annual Conference

Willamette Writers Conference

Willamette Writers Conference

Author Advantage Live

Author Advantage Live

Mendocino Coast Writers' Conference

Mendocino Coast Writers’ Conference

National Book Club Conference

National Book Club Conference

FAPA Conference

FAPA Conference

Swanwick Writers' Summer School

Swanwick Writers’ Summer School

Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference

Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference

When Words Collide

When Words Collide

Nashville’s 18th Annual Writers’ Conference

Nashville’s 18th Annual Writers’ Conference

Bouchercon, the World Mystery Convention

Bouchercon, the World Mystery Convention

Hay Festival Queretaro

Hay Festival Queretaro

Creatures, Crimes & Creativity Con

Creatures, Crimes & Creativity Con

Milford Writer's Workshop

Milford Writer’s Workshop

Kingston WritersFest

Kingston WritersFest

SleuthFest

Writing Sisters Summit in the Hills

Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers

Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers

Western Literature Association Conference

Western Literature Association Conference

The DFW Writers Conference

The DFW Writers Conference

Women Writing the West Annual Conference

Women Writing the West Annual Conference

Orlando Reads Books

Orlando Reads Books

Steamboat Springs Writers Conference

Steamboat Springs Writers Conference

Iota Short Forms Conference

Iota Short Forms Conference

Medical Writing & Communication Conference

Medical Writing & Communication Conference

Surrey International Writers Conference

Surrey International Writers Conference

Hay Festival Arequipa

Hay Festival Arequipa

Kauai Writers Conference

Kauai Writers Conference

Hay Festival Winter Weekend

Hay Festival Winter Weekend

Writing can be a solitary process, but it doesn’t have to be! Attending a writing conference or workshop can help you hone your craft, connect with other writers, and learn from industry professionals. There are many events to choose from in 2024, so you’re sure to find one that suits your interests and schedule.

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EVANSTON WRITERS WORKSHOP Presents

In the trenches with the writer conference 2023  .

November 2-5

Hyatt Regency Deerfield, IL

$100 off registration if you book a room. discount only valid  until room block sells out so register now  .

After a 10 year hiatus we're back and better than ever! In the trenches with the writer is designed to help you take your writing to the next level, we have a weekend of intensive, hands-on workshops taught by best-selling authors and industry professionals.

If getting published is your goal, we have editors presenting workshops on craft, industry and the how-tos of getting published. They will also be holding a panel discussion to address all your burning questions about the publishing process. Best of all, they will taking pitch appointments for those who want them!

Not all the learning is in the classroom. When you're not attending workshops you'll be able to hang-out with other writers, successful authors and editors in a fun and creative atmosphere.

Our conference is multi-genre and is designed to cater to the beginning writer all the way to the most seasoned veteran. After attending our last conference best-selling author Jade Lee exclaimed, "I can't believe how much I learned."

We will be having a raffle this year and you get entries just for registering and a second entry if you book a room. The prizes will be announced at our big awards dinner on Saturday night. 

This year we will also be adding exciting a-la-carte workshops, like small group voice acting classes by television, movie, animation and video game star Carlos Ferro, after which you'll be taking home your own reel!

Guest of Honor

Young Adult

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Soman Chainani

Keynote Speaker

Soman Chainani’s debut series, THE SCHOOL FOR GOOD & EVIL, has sold more than 3.5 million copies, been translated into 32 languages across six continents, and has been adapted into a major motion picture from Netflix that debuted at #1 in over 80 countries at release.  

His book of retold fairytales, BEASTS & BEAUTY, also debuted on the New York Times Bestseller List, his seventh book in a row to do so, and is slated to be a limited television series from Sony 3000, with Soman writing and executive producing. Together, his books have been on the New York Times Bestseller List for 44 weeks.  

A graduate of Harvard University and Columbia University’s MFA Film Program, Soman has been nominated for the Waterstone Prize for Children’s Literature, been named to the Out100, and also received the Sun Valley Writer’s Fellowship.

His latest novel, RISE OF THE SCHOOL FOR GOOD & EVIL, kickstarts a new series under his EverNever World brand, to be continued in its sequel, FALL OF The SCHOOL FOR GOOD & EVIL, coming May 2023.

Featured Guests

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Sherrill Bodine Award Winning Romance  Author

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Carlos Ferro Voice Actor/Author

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Jaime Freveletti Award Winning Crime / T hriller Author

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Jade Lee USA Today Best Selling Romance / Children's Book Author

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Jo dy Nye NY Times and USA Today Best selling   Science Fiction / Fantasy  Author

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Erika Lance Publishe r, 4 Horseman Publications

Maryjanice davidson ny times and usa today best selling  paranormal/  ya / non-fiction author, jill wine-banks n y times and usa today best selling author, msnbc contributor, podcaster.

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The Hyatt offers comfortable and luxurious accommodations at our great rate of $109. Enjoy their spacious and well-appointed rooms, complete with complimentary Wi-Fi. When you book a room, you will also receive $100 off registration if you are staying at the hotel (discount no longer available if the room block is sold out). Their friendly staff is available 24/7 to provide assistance and ensure your stay is enjoyable and worry-free with the convenience  of being on-site for all the festivities.

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Best Workshops for Emerging and Established Writers

The Adroit Journal

Call of the Wild writer Jack London once said, “You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.” When the writers’ block gremlin infiltrates the mind and tangles up the thoughts there into alphabet soup, writers have various ways of swinging at the nasty creature. Some go on runs. Some do some long-overdue cleaning. Some pick up an abandoned hobby. Most writers agree on two most effective ways to break through the block: clench your teeth and put pen to paper, even if what comes resembles nothing less than roadkill; and talk it out, share your ideas, and immerse yourself in the presence of other writers.

The best workshops for emerging and established writers offer an opportunity to do exactly that. Many of those listed below are generative, and participants have the chance to interact with the best practitioners and mentors of their craft, many of whom, I should or can note, are contributors to Adroit . For those with more finished work or manuscripts, there’s a place for you here, too. Several of these writing (and visual arts) programs offer one-on-one mentoring and manuscript consultations, and you’ll get to make connections with a wide range of literary agents, editors, and publishers.

So why wait? Take your club, and let’s get swinging.

Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference

Founded in 1926, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference is the oldest writing conference in America and one of the most prestigious. Emerging writers have a chance to work with established writers in five two-hour small workshops in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. Faculty also hold lectures and one-hour classes on craft. Beyond classes, the conference is filled with readings throughout the day and night, and writers have the opportunity to meet with agents and publishers. The Conference has grown to offer other week-long programs as well, such as the Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference for artists whose work centers around the natural world, Bread Loaf Translators’ Conference , and Bread Loaf in Sicily held in Erice, Sicily. For writers ages 18 and up.

Time and place : Summer 2020 TBA, Bread Loaf Campus of Middlebury College in Ripton, Vermont. Previous faculty : Jericho Brown ( Issue Twenty-Six contributor ), A.E. Stallings, Mary Szybist, Alexander Chee , with guest appearances from Yusef Komunyakaa and Ilya Kaminsky. Tuition : $3,525 general contributors; $3,380 auditors. Includes room and board. Financial aid available.

Created for the cultivation of underrepresented African American poets, Cave Canem holds an annual week-long retreat for 40 poet fellows. The program includes four 3-hour workshops and faculty and visiting poet readings and book signings. In addition, Cave Canem offers free or low-cost workshops at its home in Brooklyn. These workshops convene eight to ten times over a few months and have featured faculty like Angel Nafis and Issue Twenty-Four contributor Cortney Lamar Charleston. The community nurtured by Cave Canem is unparalleled; fellows of the retreat have access to other workshops and programs, and its Brooklyn loft regularly hosts readings by established and emerging Black poets.

Time and place : June 7–13, 2020, University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg, Pennsylvania. Deadline to apply : December 20, 2019 at 11:59 pm EST, applicants notified April 3, 2020 2020 faculty : Major Jackson, Robin Coste Lewis, Evie Shockley and Frank X Walker. Tuition : $1,050 for tuition and $590 for room and board plus $20 application fee. Financial aid available; some pay as low as $90.

The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown

Located in the beautiful dunes and beaches of Provincetown, Massachusetts, the Fine Arts Work Center is primarily known for its prestigious seven-month Writing and Visual Arts Fellowships, a residency program with monthly stipends and lodging for twenty writers and visual artists to pursue independent projects. The Fine Arts Work Center also offers one-week summer workshops centered around topics such as social justice, silkscreen printmaking, novel writing, and landscape photography; the summer program lasts for eleven weeks in total. For rising artists and writers, five interns have the opportunity to help with behind-the-scenes operations. For those who are unable to commute or want a more flexible program, 24PearlStreet , a yearlong series of online workshops, is a great option without the costs of lodging and travel.

Summer Workshops

Time and place : One week, varies by workshop. Summer 2020 catalog to be released in January. Previous faculty : Hanif Abdurraqib ( Issue Eighteen contributor ), Monica Youn, Joan Wickersham, Alan Shapiro, Pam Houston, David Baker, Constantine Manos.

15-hour writing workshop: $650 20-hour writing workshop: $750 15-hour visual arts workshop: $650 20-hour visual arts workshop: $750

Writing and Visual Arts Fellowship Residency

Time and place : October 1, 2020 – April 30, 2021 Deadlines : Writing: December 2, 2020; Visual Arts: February 1, 2020. Previous fellows : Esther Lin (contributor, Joy Priest, Forrest Gander , Ha Jin, Janet Fish, Yvonne Jacquette.

24PearlStreet Online Writing Program

Time and place : Online, rolling by workshop. Past faculty : Ada Limón , sam sax (Issues Thirteen and Thirty contributor), Jennifer Tseng ( Issue Twenty-Seven contributor ). Tuition : (Not included: $25 registration fee)

One-week workshop: $400 Four-week workshop: $500 Eight-week workshop: $600

Juniper Summer Writing Institute

The Juniper Summer Writing Institute is associated with the MFA Program for Poets & Writers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and accepts applicants for poetry, nonfiction, fiction, and visual art. At a typical day at the Institute, participants generate writing, attend craft sessions or Q&A sessions in the morning, attend workshops in the afternoon, and enjoy readings at night. Past craft sessions have included “Herself Behind Herself Concealed: Forging the Erotic Power of the Feminine” with Safiya Sinclair and “What’s the Point of a Point of View?” with Noy Holland. At an added cost of $300, participants can receive a one-on-one manuscript consultation with a guest writer.

Time and place : Summer 2020 , University of Massachusetts Amherst Past faculty : Ross Gay, Joy Williams, Mitchell S. Jackson , with guest appearances from Safiya Sinclair and Ocean Vuong ( Issue Twelve contributor ) Tuition : $1600. Housing, breakfast, and four dinners not included–see list of accommodations ranging from $25–$184 per weeknight.

Kundiman Retreat and Workshops  

Inspired by Cave Canem , Kundiman started in 2004 as a way to foster Asian American literature and tackle barriers facing Asian American writers. The Retreat gives 36 poetry and fiction writers the chance to receive a manuscript consultation and attend six-person Master Classes, created to help writers generate new work with prompts and craft talks. Fellows are divided into home groups, all of which receive instruction from all six faculty members. To make its resources accessible to the rest of the Asian American literary community, Kundiman hosts readings and workshops across the country, many of which are open to the public. Fellows are also invited to participate in the annual project initiated Poetry Coalition ,  a national alliance of organizations dedicated to promote the cultural importance of poetry; the 2019 project led writing prompts and opportunities to take direct action on topics like immigration, activism, documentation, and solidarity.

Time and place : Summer 2020 TBA, Fordham University Rose Hill campus in New York City Past faculty : Myung Mi Kim, Craig Santos Perez, Tania James, Padma Viswanathan Tuition : $1500 plus $25 application fee.

Lambda Literary Writers Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices

As an advocate for LGBTQ writers, Lambda Literary joins the growing collection of organizations dedicated to empowering minority groups in America. The retreat marks the first workshop ever created exclusively for writers in the LGBTQ community. Fellows have the chance to meet with industry professionals and receive the support of those facing similar societal struggles. For those interested in dabbling in new genres or perfecting one or two, Lambda Literary Writers Retreat boasts a wide variety of categories, such as fiction, genre fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and playwriting.

Time and place : 2020 date and application available December 2019, usually Los Angeles Past faculty : Danez Smith ( Issue Nineteen contributor ), Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Mfoniso Udofia, Linda Villarosa Tuition : $850 for workshops and presentations and $800 for housing and meals plus $25 application fee per workshop

Palm Beach Poetry Festival

The Palm Beach Poetry Festival began in 2004 and has since hosted a wide range of poets at the peak of their profession from all across the United States as well as Israel, Canada, the United Kingdom, Qatar, and Peru. The six-day festival provides a venue for enrichment and collaboration, featuring Q&As, panels, workshops, book signings, readings, and more. Each workshop has a limit of twelve people to facilitate a closer connection to faculty. In addition, the festival offers fellowships: the Langston Hughes Fellowship for one African American poet, CantoMundo Palm Beach Poetry Festival Fellowship for one Latinx poet, and the Palm Beach Poetry Festival Kundiman Fellowship for one Asian American poet.

Time and place : January 20–25, 2020, Old School Square, 51 North Swinton Ave., Delray Beach, FL 33444 Deadlines : November 10, 2019 2020 faculty : Maggie Smith ( Issue Twenty-Two contributor ), Ilya Kaminsky, Reginald Gibbons ( Issue Four contributor ), with guest appearances from Joy Harjo and Patricia Smith Tuition : $950 for 16 hours of workshop, all festival events, and one ticket to the gala plus $25 application fee. $550 for auditors. Housing not included–see list of accommodations nearby.

Sewanee Writers’ Conference

During the 12-day program of the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, writers of all genres experience workshops, craft talks, and an exclusive one-hour meeting with a faculty member to discuss manuscripts. Participants also have the chance to meet with a long list of literary agents, editors, and publishers of publications and presses such as the Kenyon Review , The Paris Review , Crab Orchard Review , and Copper Canyon Press. The conference also offers numerous scholarship opportunities to attend the conference, including the Walter E. Dakin Fellowships and Tennessee Williams Scholarships in addition to over 15 other awards.

Time and place : Summer 2020 TBA, The University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee Past faculty : Tony Earley, Jill McCorkle, Tim O’Brien, Marilyn Nelson, Maurice Manning. Tuition : $1,800 for contributors, $700 for scholars, and no expenses for fellows.

Tin House Workshops

Now celebrating its twentieth year, Tin House also offers a variety of workshops during the year, including its Summer Workshops, Winter Workshops, and YA Fiction Workshop, as well as one-day craft intensives in Portland, Oregon. The workshops are limited to ten students. All participants have a 15 one-on-one with their workshop faculty member and meetings with agents and Tin House editors. For an additional fee from $800 to $1000, participants can also have access to personalized mentorships with faculty to work on a completed poetry or short story collection, novel, or memoir.

Time and place : July 11-19, 2020. Applications open January 1, 2020, Reed College, Portland, Oregon Past faculty : Kevin Young, Natalie Diaz, Jim Shepard, Jo Ann Beard. Tuition : $1600 for tuition and $400 for room and board plus $30 application fee. Scholarships available.

The Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation Workshops

Since 1999, the Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation has coupled literary and artistic excellence with social justice; VONA workshops are the only multi-genre workshops exclusively for writers of color in America. In addition to its traditional summer workshops , VONA now offers one-day or two-day programs across the country in places like Los Angeles, New York City, and New Orleans. Each workshop has as little as six participants and as many as 25 and focuses on specific topics in poetry, playwriting, creative nonfiction, fiction, and hybrid forms. Summer workshops cap out at 10 to 12 participants.

Time and place : Varies by workshop Past and current faculty : Elmaz Abinader, David Mura, Willie Perdomo . Tuition : $135–$460 plus $10 application fee per workshop.

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Writers workshop - writing consultant - 2024-2025 academic year, organization, description, responsibilities, and qualifications.

The Writers Workshop hires graduate student writing consultants each semester. We currently have multiple positions available for 17%, 25%, or 33% teaching assistantships.

Consultants’ primary responsibility is to help writers develop effective writing knowledge and skills through one-to-one tutoring sessions.  Other responsibilities may include developing and facilitating in-class presentations and special topic workshops, creating handouts and other materials, and representing the Workshop at events like career fairs. Consultants are expected to attend a pre-semester orientation and a minimum of five staff meetings during the semester. For further information about the Writers Workshop, please visit our website:  https://writersworkshop.illinois.edu/ . 

Preferred qualifications for this position include:

·         At least one year of prior teaching or tutoring experience, preferably writing-related.

·         Excellent communication skills.

·         The ability to work collaboratively.

Candidates must be in good academic standing. The Workshop sees writers from diverse academic, cultural, and linguistic backgrounds. We are particularly seeking candidates who can bring experience in one or more of these areas:

·         social science, technical, business, and/or legal writing;

·         second language writing;

·         supporting students from marginalized and traditionally underrepresented groups.

Illinois is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, status as a protected veteran, or status a as a qualified individual with a disability or criminal conviction history. Illinois welcomes individuals with diverse backgrounds, experiences, and ideas who embrace and value  diversity and inclusivity .

Compensation

Compensation in the form of a stipend and, for appointments of 25% or more, a tuition waiver, are in compliance with the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the Graduate College. Graduate Hourly positions are compensated $26.77 per hour. The Writers Workshop does not provide appointments of 25% or higher to students in graduate programs that have been designated as cost-recovery, self-supporting, or reimbursable.

Application Procedure

To apply, please submit a 1-2 page academic cover letter, cv (including contact information for at least 2 references), and writing sample; past writing samples have included course papers, journal manuscripts, thesis/dissertation chapters, and so on. Please submit no more than one writing sample.

Please send your materials to Dr. Carolyn Wisniewski, Director of the Writers Workshop, at [email protected] by Friday, March 8.

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