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Address:

190 University Drive, Amherst, MA 01002

Dates:

Various throughout the year

Tuition:

$2,000 double accommodation,
$2,200 single (when available)

Genres:

Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Playwriting, Children's Literature

Description:

Amherst Writers & Artists trains participants to lead writing groups using the AWA writing group method developed by Pat Schneider and described in her book Writing Alone and With Others (Oxford University Press, 2003). More information...

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Address:

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

Dates:

July 24 - August 20, 2008 (1 & 2 week sessions)
Application Deadline: June 24, 2008

Tuition:

$2400 - $3960

Genres:

Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Playwriting

Description:

Live and work in a 12th century Italian hill town. Critiques, lectures, field trips, visiting artists. Three-star hotel, air-conditioned, room and bath, two meals, studio space. More information...

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Block Island Poetry Project, P.O. Box 464, Block Island, RI 02807

Dates:

April 3-May 4, 2008
Application deadline: March 31

Tuition:

Varies

Genres:

Poetry, Nonfiction

Description:

6 separately themed interactive poetry workshops which branch out into numerous other mediums and areas of interest: social action, earth medicine, mythology and wilderness, etc. More information...

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Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT 05753

Dates:

August 15-26, 2007
Application deadline: March 1 for financial aid; March 20 for general applicants

Tuition:

$2,260

Genres:

N/A

Description:

The Bread Loaf Writers' Conference is an 11-day program that takes place in Vermont in mid to late August. More information...

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Address:

Contact: Cape Cod Writers' Center, Inc., P O Box 408, Osterville, MA 02655
Location: 39 Prospect Avenue, Craigville, MA 02632

Dates:

August 19-24, 2007
3rd week of August each year

Tuition:

Conference: Contact CCWC
Young Writers: Free

Genres:

Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Children's Literature

Description:

Join other published and aspiring writers in a friendly atmosphere at an ideal location to concentrate on your writing. The conference is held at the Craigville Beach Conference Center that overlooks beautiful Nantucket Sound. The Young Writers' Workshop is held during the week of the CCWC Annual Summer Conference for serious writers, 12 to 16 years old. More information...

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Address:

Colgate University, Office of Summer Programs, 13 Oak Drive, Hamilton, NY 13346

Dates:

June 22-28, 2008
Application Deadline: May 1, 2008

Tuition:

$495 - $1245 depending on program. Discounts for early applications and conference alumni.

Genres:

Poetry, Fiction

Description:

Whether you are a veteran writer or novice, the Conference offers you consultations, workshops, craft talks, panel discussions, readings, and informal conversations that will sustain your long-range efforts or help you get started. Bring a story, an article, a book in progress, some poems or a novel, and work with us on developing narrative strategies, verse techniques, methods of research, and more. More information...

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Address:

Concord Poetry Center, 40 Stow Street, Concord, MA 01742

Dates:

June 27-30, 2008
July 25-28, 2008
August 22-25, 2008

Tuition:

See website

Genres:

Poetry

Description:

The Colrain Poetry Manuscript Conference provides the faculty, connections, and method necessary to produce the first poetry conference realistically designed to set poets with a manuscript-in-process on a path towards publication. More information...

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Address:

YMCA, 340 Montgomery St., Syracuse, NY 13202

Dates:

Year-round

Tuition:

$12 - $265

Genres:

Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Playwriting

Description:

The DWC is the community center for the literary arts in the Central New York State region, and offers 15-20 visiting author readings and 30-40 creative writing workshops each year. More information...

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Address:

14 Harrison Street, New York, NY 10013

Dates:

June, July, August, September (Annually)
Application Deadline: March 1st, 2008 (Postmark)

Tuition:

N/A

Genres:

Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Playwriting

Description:

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

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Address:

P.O. Box 74, 24 Blue Moon Road, Franconia, NH 03580

Dates:

June 30 - July 4, 2008
Application Deadline: Accepting applications from December 1, 2007 until three weeks before conference begins

Tuition:

$600

Genres:

Poetry

Description:

Baron Wormser, conference director; Dawn Potter, poet/teacher in residence; guest poets: Alice B. Fogel, Shara McCallum, Mekeel McBride, and J. D. Scrimgeour. More information...

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Address:

P.O. Box 74, 24 Blue Moon Road, Franconia, NH 03580

Dates:

June 27 - August 2, 2008
Application Deadline: Accepting applications from December 1, 2007 until three weeks before conference begins

Tuition:

$900 participants; $480 auditors

Genres:

Poetry

Description:

One of the country's longest-running poetry conferences, celebrating its 30th Anniversary in 2008, renowned for its setting and very special atmosphere (rigorous and friendly), featuring daily craft talks, workshops, and readings with resident faculty and daily guests. More information...

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Address:

P.O. Box 74, 24 Blue Moon Road, Franconia, NH 03580

Dates:

August 3-8, 2008
Application Deadline: Accepting applications from December 1, 2007 until three weeks before conference begins

Tuition:

$800

Genres:

Poetry

Description:

An intensive look at how the poetry of the past can influence, guide, and challenge contemporary writers: with a select community of poets, time to reconsider your own artistic work in the context of our enormous and complex literary tradition. More information...

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Address:

P.O. Box 74, 24 Blue Moon Road, Franconia, NH 03580

Dates:

April 25 - 27, 2008
Application Deadline: Accepting applications from December 1, 2007 until three weeks before conference begins

Tuition:

$300

Genres:

Poetry

Description:

A weekend immersion for high school poets with prompts, workshops, and readings in an early nineteenth-century inn near Robert Frost's historic home. More information...

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Address:

The Gettysburg Review, Gettysburg College, 300 N. Washington Street, Gettysburg, PA 17325

Dates:

June 4-9, 2008
Application deadline: May 7, 2008

Tuition:

$685

Genres:

Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction

Description:

The conference features small workshops led by award-winning writers who have dedicated their lives to the teaching of poetry and prose. Set in bucolic, convivial, and historic Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. More information...

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Address:

47 Hazel St., Rutland, VT 05701

Dates:

July 30-Aug 3, 2007
Application Deadlines: July 20, 2007

Tuition:

$500

Genres:

Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Children's Literature

Description:

Set on Chipman Pond in Tinmouth Vermont, the conference brings together some of the county's leading writers. Practice the art and craft of writing with nurturing, helpful published writers whose work includes fiction, creative non-fiction, memoir, poetry, TV and film and editorial at a lakeside conference center. Special attention is given to emerging and intermediate writers whose work spans the genres. More information...

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Address:

President, 555 Eight Avenue, #1404, New York, NY 10018-4352

Dates:

January, April, July, September, October

Tuition:

$125 - $545 + $25 registration fee

Genres:

Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction

Description:

Comprehensive classes are available at multiple locations in New York City and online and writingclasses.com. Classes include writing in nearly every genre. More information...

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Address:

250 Hofstra University, Hempstead NY 11549

Dates:

Summer Writing Workshop: July 7-18-2008
Children's Literature Conference: April 26, 2008

Tuition:

Summer Writing Workshop: $550 non-credit, credit students (current Hofstra credit tuition rates)
Children's Literature Conference: $99 non-member $94 SCBWI members

Genres:

Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Playwriting, Children's Literature

Description:

Summer Writing Workshop: Led by master writers, the Summer Writing Workshops operate on the principle that true writing talent can be developed, nutured and encouraged by writer-in-residence mentors. Through instruction, discussion, criticism and free exchange among the workshop members, writers begin to find their voice and style.
Children's Literature Conference: An opportunity for both published and aspiring writers and illustrators to gather with librarians, educators, editors, booksellers, and all others who wish to create or share good children's books. More information...

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Address:

458 Bartlett Hall, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003

Dates:

June 22-28, 2008

Tuition:

$1,100

Genres:

Poetry, Fiction

Description:

The University of Massachusetts MFA Program, one of the nation's oldest and finest creative writing programs, presents the Juniper Summer Writing Institute: a week of intensive writing workshops, craft sessions, Q&As, readings, and manuscript consultation in the beautiful Pioneer Valley. More information...

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Address:

Contact: P.O. Box 172, Underhill Center, VT 05790
Location: Champlain College, 163 S Willard St, Burlington, VT 05401

Dates:

August 10 & 11, 2007
Application Deadline: August 1, 2007

Tuition:

$225

Genres:

Fiction, Nonfiction, Children's Literature

Description:

The conference is designed to assist writers of all levels of expertise to hone their craft under the tutelage of published authors from many genres and book industry professionals. More information...

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Address:

29 Everett St, Cambridge, MA 02138

Dates:

Late July, 2008
Application Deadline: June 1, 2007

Tuition:

$720

Genres:

Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Children's Literature

Description:

The conference combines rigourous workshops, guest speakers, faculty readings, publishing panels, book signings, and receptions with plenty of individualized attention to ensure every participant leaves with new ideas and techniques to improve their writing. More information...

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Address:

Manhattanville College, 2900 Purchase Street, Purchase, NY 10577

Dates:

June 23-27, 2008

Tuition:

$725

Genres:

Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Children's Literature

Description:

25th Anniversary year of intensive week of writing and working closely with renowned writers. Agents/Editors panel, variety of afternoon workhops on craft and the business of writing. For seasoned and aspiring writers. More information...

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The Mllay Colony for the Arts, 454 East Hill Road, Austerlitz, NY 12017

Dates:

April 1 through December 1
Application deadline: October 1

Tuition:

None

Genres:

Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Children's Literature

Description:

The Millay Colony for the Arts is an artists residency program in Austerlitz, New York. More information...

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Address:

30 North Road, NH 03449

Dates:

May 2-4, 2008
Application Deadline: March 22, 2008

Tuition:

$325-$335

Genres:

Poetry, Fiction

Description:

A weekend retreat designed to recharge fiction writers and poets with workshops, readings, music, and nature at Boston University's idyllic Sargent Center for OUtdoor Education in Hancock, NH. More information...

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Address:

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

Dates:

March 28-30, 2008
Application deadline: March 15, 2008 for Early Registration

Tuition:

$60.00 for Early Registration & Talkshops

Genres:

Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Playwriting

Description:

The Conference convenes over 3 days and includes panel discussions, talk shops, and readings on Conference Theme: Black Readers and Writers, Transforming Our Lives, Transforming the World. More information...

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Writing Program, Rm. 503, The New School, 66 W. 12th St., New York, NY 10011

Dates:

June 2-20, 2008

Tuition:

Undergraduate credit tuition: $5,064, Non-credit tuition: $3,645

Genres:

Poetry, Fiction, Children's Literature

Description:

The Summer Writers Colony is an opportunity for students to study writing under the direction of master teachers who are themselves distinguished practitioners and to meet other notable authors, editors, and publishers. More information...

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Address:

Skidmore College, 815 N Broadway, Saratoga Springs, NY 12866

Dates:

June 30 - July 25, 2008

Tuition:

$1120 (2 wks), $2240 (4 wks)

Genres:

Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction

Description:

Under the joint auspices of Skidmore College and the New York State Writers Institute at the University at Albany, the summer program is held on the campus of Skidmore College and will feature creative writing workshops in fiction, non-fiction and poetry. More information...

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Address:

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

Dates:

July 10-13, 2008
Application deadline: June 1, 2008

Tuition:

$400

Genres:

Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction

Description:

The Fourth North Country Institute and Retreat for Writers of Color will be held in Brooklyn New York on the campus of Medgar Evers College. Workshop participants will have an opportunity to study with writers in poetry, fiction or memoir. More information...

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Address:

PO Box 60066, Florence, MA 01062

Dates:

July 12-19, 2008

Tuition:

$1650 before May 15th, $1800 after

Genres:

Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Playwriting, Children's Literature

Description:

8 days & 7 nights on the wee Isle of Cumbrae off the west coast of Scotland, for writing, yoga, meditation, hiking, biking, boating, swimming, relaxing. More information...

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Address:

One College Blvd, Paterson, NJ 07505

Dates:

Year round

Tuition:

NA

Genres:

Poetry

Description:

Poetry Reading every 1st Saturday of the month. (From September thru May) More information...

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Address:

Vermont College, 36 College Street, Vermont College of Fine Arts, Montpelier, VT 05602

Dates:

August 8-14, 2008

Tuition:

$800/875

Genres:

Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction

Description:

The Postgraduate Writers' Conference is open to all experienced writers, with or without graduate degrees. The conference emphasizes process and craft through its unique program that includes intimate workshops limited to 5 to 7 participants; individual consultation with faculty; faculty and participant readings; issues forums and master classes, all in a community of writers who share meals, ideas, and social activities in scenic Vermont. More information...

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Address:

Director, Creative Writing Programs, Pine Manor College, 400 Heath Street, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467

Dates:

June 22-28, 2008

Tuition:

$675

Genres:

Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Children's Literature

Description:

Arguably the most diverse writers' conference in the country, Solstice features a supportive community with workshops and classes in fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and writing for children & young adults. More information...

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MFA program in Writing and Literature, Stony Brook Southampton, 239 Montauk Highway, Southampton, NY 11968

Dates:

July 9-13, July 16-27, July 30-August 3
Application Deadline: May 15 (April 15 for scholarship consideration)

Tuition:

$1275 (non-credit tuition, room & board for 5-day conferences); $2100 (non-credit tuition, room and board for 12-day conference)

Genres:

Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Playwriting, Children's Literature

Description:

The MFA in Writing and Literature at Stony Brook Southampton proudly sponsors the Southampton Writers Conference (7/16 - 7/27). And, introducing two new conference this summer: the Southampton Children's Literature Conference (7/9-7/13) and the Southampton Screenwriting Conference (7/30-8/3). More information...

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Address:

c/o Dept. of English, University of Southern Maine, P.O. Box 9300, Portland, ME 04104-9300

Dates:

July 20-26, 2008
Application Deadline: April 15, 2008

Tuition:

$750-$899

Genres:

Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction

Description:

For twenty-nine years the Stonecoast Writers' Conference has intensive summer workshops on the coast of Maine. More information...

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Address:

Box 225, Vassar College, 124 Raymond Ave, Poughkeepsie, NY 12604

Dates:

June 15-July 29

Tuition:

$3000.00

Genres:

Fiction, Playwriting

Description:

Vassar College & New York Stage and Film's Powerhouse program has fostered the development of new works by some of the country's leading playwrights. More information...

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Wesleyan University, 294 High Street, Middletown, CT 06457

Dates:

June 15-20, 2008

Tuition:

Genres:

Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction

Description:

The Wesleyan Writers Conference, celebrating our 52nd year in 2008, welcomes established writers, new writers and everyone interested in the writer's craft. More information...

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Address:

William Joiner Center, University of Massachusetts Boston, 100 Morrissey Blvd., Boston, MA 02125

Dates:

June 18-29, 2007
Application Deadline: April 15, 2007

Tuition:

$400/2 weeks; $220/1 week

Genres:

Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Playwriting

Description:

A one or two week workshop of working sessions and individual consultations with distinguished writers. More information...

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Address:

300 Pompton Road, Atrium 232, Wayne, NJ 07470

Dates:

April 19, 2008

Tuition:

Free keynote lecture; $40.00 for workshops

Genres:

Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Children's Litearture

Description:

One day program includes a plenary reading/discussion on "The Literature of War," followed by two sessions of small workshops in memoir, fiction, poetry, and other areas. More information...

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Address:

18 N. Richards Avenue, Ventnor, NJ 08406

Dates:

January 18-21, 2008

Tuition:

$375; Rooms from $225 including some meals.

Genres:

Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction

Description:

Join us at the Grand Hotel in Cape May, NJ to begin a few poems or develop your story, novel, creative essay, song, or visual image during the three-day holiday weekend honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Break the winter thaw! More information...

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Address:

The Four Points Sheraton, 3400 Airport Road, Allentown, PA 18109

Dates:

March 28-29, 2008
walk-ins accepted; early bird deadline February 29, 2008

Tuition:

$120 before February 29; $135 after; discounted for members

Genres:

Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Children's Literature

Description:

The Write Stuff, the annual conference of the Greater Lehigh Valley Writers Group, offers the valuable opportunity to spend a day learning from published authors, meeting agents and editors, and networking with other writers. More information...

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Cruise: Port Canaveral, Florida
Retreat: Star Island off the coast of Rye, New Hampshire

Dates:

Cruise: February 10-13, 2008; Application: October 13, 2007
Retreat: September 10-12, 2007; Deadline: September 9, 2007

Tuition:

Cruise: $526+
Retreat: $425+

Genres:

Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction

Description:

Cruise: During a four-day writing cruise to the Bahamas, we will meet daily to write to prompts provided by the workshop leader and to write on topics of our own choosing.
Retreat: Attendees write to prompts provided by workshop leader. More information...