Alaska
Arizona
Wrangling with Writing – Sept 26 – 27
Casa Libre en la Solana – Year Round
California
Fisherman’s Wharf Writers Conference – Oct 21 -25
The Pacific Coast Children’s Writers Workshop – Aug 21 -23
Women Writing the West Annual Conference – Sept 11-13
Southern California Writers Conference – L.A. – Sept 25 -27
Central Coast Writers’ Conference – Oct 2,3
Central Coast Book & Author Festival – Oct 4
Litquake – Oct 9-17
Jack London Writers Conference – Oct 10,11
Tomales Bay Writers’ Workshop – Oct 21 – 25
The Creativity Workshop – Carmel – Nov 6-9
Connecticut
Washington D.C.
The Hyman S. & Freda Bernstein Jewish Literary Festival – Oct 18-28
Florida
Atlantic Center for the Arts – Year Round
The Studios of Key West – Year Round
Sanabel Island Writers Conference – Nov 5-8
Other Words – Nov 6-8
Miami Book Fail International – Nov 8-15
Georgia
Southern Women Writers Conference – Sept 24-26
Chattahoochee Valley Writers’ Conference – Sept 25, 26
Georgia Literary Festival – Oct 16 -18
Dahlonega Literary Festival & Writer’s Conference – Nov 7-8
Hawaii
Hawaii Writers Conference & Retreat – Aug 28 – Sept 3, Sept 4 -7
Idaho
Sun Valley Writers Conference – Aug 21 -24
Illinois
Writers in the Heartland – Sept – Oct
The Ragdale Foundation – Year Round
Writer’s Studio – Year Round
Kansas
The Great Manhattan Mystery Conclave – Oct 30 – Nov 1
Kentucky
Writers Retreat Workshop – Aug 21 -30
Kentucky Women Writers Conference – Sept 10 -12
Carnegie Center for Literacy & Learning – Year Round
Louisiana
Fall in Love with Romance Readers Luncheon 2009 – www.heartla.com – Oct 3
Maine
The Salt Institute for Documentary Studies – Sept – Dec
MWPA Fall Writing Retreat – Sept 11 -13
Main Literary Festival – Nov 6-8
Maryland
Baltimore Book Festival – Sept 25 -27
F. Scott Fitzgerald Literary Conference – Oct 17
The Writer’s Center – Year Round
Massachusetts
Colrain Poetry Manuscript Conference – Aug 14 -17, Sept 18-21, Oct 23-26
Cape Cod Writers’ Center- Annual Summer Writers’ Conference & Young Writers Workshop – Aug 15-22
Patchwork Farm Retreat – Stump Sprouts – Oct 1-4
Massachusetts Poetry Festival – Oct 15-18
Amherst Writers & Artists – Year Round
New England Crime Bake – Nov 13-15
Somerville News Writers Festival – Nov 14
Michigan
Ludington Writers Conference – Sept 17-19
Springfed Arts – Writers’ Retreat – Oct 8-11
The Box Factory for the Arts – Year Round
Springfed Arts – Lamb’s Retreat for Songwriters – Nov 5-8, 12-15
Minnesota
The Loft Literary Center – Year Round
Fall Harves Workshop – Midwest Fiction Writers – Crowne Plaza Hotel, Bloomington – www.midwestfiction.com – Sept 26
Mississippi
Missouri
Flathead River Writers Conference – Oct 1-5
Montana
Montana Festival of the Book – Oct 22-24
Nebraska
Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts Residencies – Year Round
New Hampshire
Star Island Retreat – Aug 31 – Sept 4
New Jersey
The Poetry Center – Year Round
NJRW Put Your Heart in a Book Conference – www.NJRomanceWriters.org – Oct 23-24
New Mexico
New York
Millay colony for the Arts – Apr – Dec
The Edward F. Albee Foundation – May – Oct
Fort Green Park Summer Literary Festival – Jul 11- Aug 15 (workshops) Aug 22 (festival)
STARt Your Engines: Rev Up Your Writing Career – Owego Treadway Inn – www.starrwa.org – Sept 12
Brooklyn Book Festival – Sept 13
Writing By Degrees – Sept 24-26
&Now Festival of Innovative Writing & the Literary Arts – Oct 14-17
The Downtown Writer’s Center – Year Round
Gotham Writers’ Workshop – Year Round
Writer’s Seminar in New York – Nov 18-21
North Carolina
Carolina Mountains Literary Festival – Sept 11,12
The Writers’ Workshop of Asheville – Year Round
Fearless Writing Retreat – Lake Logan – Nov 9-15
Ohio
Readers and Writers Holiday – Columbus – www.cofw.org- Sept 18-19
Novelist’s Boot Camp – www.ovrwa.com – Nov 14
Oregon
The Margery Davis Boyden Wilderness Writing Residency – Apr – Oct
Wordstock – Oct 8-11
Fishtrap, Inc. – Year Round
The Nature of Words – Nov 4-8
Pennsylvania
Stillwater Poetry and Music Festival – Sept 12
Founders Workshops – Year Round
Rhode Island
Star Island Writing Retreat – Aug 31 – Sept 4
South Dakota
John R. Milton Writers’ Conference – Oct 29-31
Tennessee
Writing the Breakout Novel with Donald Maass – Sept 21 -27
Gemini Ink – Year Round
SMU Continuing Studies Creative Writing Program – Year Round
Texas
NTRWA Writers Roundup – www.ntrwa.org – Nov 6-7
Utah
Heart of the West – Romance in the Mountains – www.utahrwa.com/HOWConference – Oct 9-10
Vermont
Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference – Aug 12 -23
Burlington Book Festival – Sept 24-27
Brattleboro Literary Festival – Oct 2 -4
Great Rivers Arts Institute – Literary Arts Programs – Year Round
Virginia
Fall for the Book – Sept 21-26
James River Writers – Oct 9-10
Emory & Henry College Literary Festival – Oct 29,30
The Porches Writing Retreat – Year Round
Washington
Orca Island Writers Festival – Sept 17-20
Write on the Sound – Oct 2 -4
20th Anniversary Emerald city Writers Conference – www.gsrwa.org – Oct 9-11
West Virginia
West Virginia Book Festival – Oct 10,11
Wisconsin
Spring Green Literary Festival – Sept 11,12
