Conferences & Retreats

The Black Fly Writers Retreat is an inspiring four-day, three-night weekend of workshops, readings, and writing.

The Harvest Writers Retreat is a long weekend of workshops, seminars, readings, and writing at the stunning and historic Santosha, an inn and retreat center in a newly renovated Gilded Age estate in Kingfield, two hours from Portland and ninety minutes from Bangor.

MWPA’s PITCH offers writers the chance to pitch their manuscripts or book proposals to agents from leading NYC-based literary agencies and editors from some of Maine’s largest publishers.

The 2023 Maine Crime Wave will be a full day of panels, a keynote talk, book signings, a contest, and much more IN PERSON on Saturday, June 9 and 10 on the USM Campus in Portland.