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Our goal is to have as comprehensive a list as possible of literary festivals and conferences devoted to women authors or focuses on women authors.
If a festival or conference is missing from our list, or find broken/dead links, incorrect information, typos, etc., please let us know about it using the form at the bottom of the page.
If a festival or conference is missing from our list, or find broken/dead links, incorrect information, typos, etc., please let us know about it using the form at the bottom of the page.
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All About Women celebrates International Women's Day with a full day of discussions and events. Sydney, Australia.
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Meet the Asian women writers who are making an impact in the world. Singapore.
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The Berkshire Festival of Women Writers inspires, nourishes and strengthens women’s creative voices by offering stimulating workshops and events year-round designed to encourage women and girls to engage with one another and their communities, and develop as creative leaders. Berkshire County, Massachusetts and the adjacent Berkshire region.
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BinderCon is a writing conference and community for women and gender variant writers. Born out of a community of over 37,000 writers, our conference is a uniquely powerful, supportive, and career-changing event.
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Bristol Women’s Literature Festival brings together the country’s best women writers, academics and feminist commentators to the Watershed for a weekend of thought-provoking discussion, debate and activity. Bristol, England.
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A festival showcasing and celebrating women's writing. Brontë Parsonage Museum, Haworth, West Yorkshire.
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The C.D. Wright Women Writers Conference focuses on women-identifying writers from all genres and all experience levels, from journalism to mass market books to literary endeavors, and beyond.
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The Feminist Writers Festival (FWF) was established in 2016 to support and promote feminist writers in Australia by hosting a biennial feminist writers festival and a range of one-off events throughout Australia.
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Join us for authors and their stories. Berkeley, California.
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The Golden Crown Literary Society's annual conference is the premier lesbian literary event for both authors and readers. In a different city each year, the event brings together readers, fans, writers, editors and publishers to celebrate the best in lesbian-themed literature.
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The Hedgebrook Women Playwrights Festival has proudly supported the creation and development of hundreds of new theatrical works by some of the most exciting playwrights of our time.
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The Heriones Festival celebrates the talents of women writers who reclaim, restore, and reimagine women’s stories. Australia.
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The Festival of Women Writers has become a highly anticipated event, unique among cultural happenings in the Catskill Region, especially in Delaware County.
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Over two dozen workshops ranging from three to six days in length and spanning fiction, poetry, memoir, creative nonfiction, screenwriting, playwriting, writing as performance, social justice, multi-genre, and mixed media.
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Feature authors from a wide variety of genres. University of Louisville.
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Events about crime novels, crime audio, crime television and true crime. London.
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A festival showcasing women authors. Long Beach, California.
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A festival showcasing women authors. Pasadena, California.
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The Festival showcases the rich diversity of genres in which contemporary Australian women writers explore issues of personal, social and political concern. Australia.
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Brings women from around the country to celebrate our stories and our lives. Through writing, reading, listening, and sharing, we will discover how personal narrative is a healing art, how we can gather our memories, how we can tell our stories. We welcome readers, writers, storytellers, and any woman with a past, present, and future. There will be opportunities to explore difficult or hidden issues, expand our relationships with other women, and discover different modes and media—such as art, dance, and drama—for sharing our stories. Come, learn, share, celebrate with us as we honor our stories!
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Women Reading Aloud Writer’s Weekend Retreat is devoted to women writers who are looking for time to write in a nurturing environment.
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Annual conference celebrating women writing in the western United States.
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The WFWA Retreat is a craft and networking event. It’s an opportunity to talk about women’s fiction – both the writing and marketing aspects – with like-minded writers in a relaxed atmosphere.
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Present the work of contemporary female authors from a variety of backgrounds and life experiences at a yearly conference. Santa Barbara, California.
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Women Writers Fest, by SheThePeople.TV is a day-long festival that puts the spotlight on authors, writers, bloggers, and editors, featuring firebrand panellists from across genres. Throughout the festival, we’ll be celebrating female creativity and artistic achievements while discovering some of the best contemporary women authors around in India.
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Welcome women of color writers! We can often find it a lonely and daunting experience as we seek to make our contributions in fields dominated by white men, whether in academia or other genres of fiction or non-fiction. Let us come together as women of color to share our writing work in progress, celebrate our diverse voices, confront our common barriers, and build a sisterly community of support for the challenges ahead.
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The xx women’s writing festival showcases writing by and for women from Wales and the world. Cardiff, Wales.
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As a young woman between the ages of 18 and 35-ish, you’re a unique kind of writer. Your needs and aspirations are different from those of writers who are either of a different generation or are, well, male. You aspire to write about the issues and challenges that face your contemporaries, your world. That means finding forms and structures that are different from what has come before. If that resonates, this retreat is for you.
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