2027 CONFERENCE
REGISTRATION IS
OPEN NOW!
Seats are Limited!
2027 Workshops
Fiction
creative non-fiction
Poetry
Screenwriting
PLEASE READ!
Registration does not require an application. Simply select an option below and we’ll see you in May 2027. Workshops generally fill by March so don’t miss out!
We are offering early-bird discounts until August 1st!
Please note, housing is provided only for faculty, fellows, and scholars (except for the Longleaf on the Half-Shell Donor package). We recommend booking your housing early in Grayton Beach, Florida. Housing books fast, so please plan ahead.
2027 Open Enrollment OptionS
Longleaf on the Half-Shell Sponsorship
$12,500.00
Perhaps you have always wondered how you can support a literacy and literary arts non-profit but you also want to attend?
This option allows you to create a scholarship or fellowship in your name while also purchasing a ‘special’ registration pass with extra benefits. With our Longleaf on the Half-shell, you will benefit from some face to face time with our faculty, housing alongside faculty/editors/agents/fellows, and you will essentially establish a scholarship or fellowship for the year!
These sponsorships are limited to four individual donors each year.
Registration for this option will close when we hit capacity in the early Fall. This is not an option for groups.
NOTE: Locals who are considering this sponsorship option may contact us directly if housing is not needed during the week–in this case the price for our Longleaf on the Half-Shell is $10,000 total!
These donation prices can be negotiated–we will never turn away someone who wants to help us!
Includes:
Includes:
~$7500 donation to the Longleaf Educational Services and ensures our continued success and existence (average cost per person who attends our conference costs around $4500).
With this option, you will be offered wonderful shared housing with faculty or fellows for the entire conference
One special fine-dining dinner at a local restaurant with other ‘On the Half-shell’ sponsors, faculty, and our featured writers
Up to two Weeklong Writing Workshops in your preferred genre
Up to four agent/editor consultations
All Seminars (10+)
All events and special meals
Beach Yoga
Access to bicycles
Access to all readings and special events
Access to all food and beverage offerings
Beach Bonfire Party
Director’s Dinner Party
Shrimp Boil and Reading
All sunset receptions
All breakfast offerings
Discounts on local food and entertainment with lanyard
Full Conference Registration
Original price was: $1,799.00.$1,615.00Current price is: $1,615.00.
Discounted until August 1st! Register today or miss your spot!
This registration option provides all that our conference has to offer.
Attendees will want to reserve their seat and then use either local rental management companies or VRBO or AirBnB to book your housing for the week in Grayton Beach, Florida.
HOUSING IS NOT PROVIDED.
Arrival is May 8th and departure is May 15th. We will fill up early. Registration will close when we hit capacity in the late winter.
Includes:
ONE agent/editor consultation (if schedule allows, you can purchase more at $69 per session)
Weeklong Writing Workshop in your preferred genre with core faculty (you can purchase an additional workshop for discounted price of $400).
All Seminars (10+)
All events and special meals
Beach Yoga
Access to bicycles
Access to all readings and special events
Access to all food and beverage offerings
Beach Bonfire Party
Director’s Dinner Party
Shrimp Boil and Reading
All sunset receptions
All breakfast offerings
Discounts on local food and entertainment with lanyard
All Conference Pass
Original price was: $950.00.$855.00Current price is: $855.00.
Discounted until August 1st! Register today or miss your spot!
Perhaps you just want to experience all the conference fun but aren’t interested in the pressure of having your written work critiqued in a workshop? This option allows you to attend everything but not join a workshop.
We have many major poets and writers (all the way from beginners to published authors) who take advantage of this so you would be joining an exclusive group! This option provides access to all that the LWC has to offer but does NOT include our workshop experience. This is perfect for those writers and members of the public who just want to experience our conference and social events without the pressure of having your writing evaluated in a writing workshop. Registration will close when we hit capacity in late winter.
Includes:
Access to all events:
All Seminars (10+)
All events and special meals
Beach Yoga
Access to bicycles
Access to all readings and special events
Access to all food and beverage offerings
Beach Bonfire Party
Director’s Dinner Party
Shrimp Boil and Reading
All sunset receptions
All breakfast offerings
Discounts on local food and entertainment with lanyard
Conference Pass enrollees do not get access to Workshops
Donate to the Sybil McLain-Topel Scholarship Fund!
$5.00
Our non-profit organization is a registered 501(3)(c) and we work year around to facilitate and create and nurture literacy and literary programs in the Florida panhandle and throughout the South and elsewhere. All donations are tax deductible, so please give to our cause! You may donate any amount!
Includes:
In 2024, Longleaf and the larger artistic communities of South Walton, FL and Chattanooga, TN (among many other loving family members and uncountable friends) lost our good friend Sybil McLain-Topel. For those who knew her, she was a bright light for literature and the arts and for Longleaf in particular she was one of our stalwart loyalists and mentors and friends, and she was a visitor to the conference going back all the way to our first year in 2013.
With the help of Christopher McLain, we decided to honor her memory by creating a new legacy for her support of artists. For 2025 (and with your help) for decades into the future, we are starting this scholarship fund.
Our scholarships are life-changing and they allow emerging writers and poets to surround themselves by like-minded artists for the week of the conference. These scholarships on their own (housing, registration, and the food and beverage we provide) are worth anywhere from $3200-4200 each year (depending on housing costs here on the Emerald Coast). We hope you will give to this wonderful memorial fund!
General Longleaf Fund
$5.00
Our non-profit organization is a registered 501(3)(c) and we work year around to facilitate and create and nurture literacy and literary programs in the Florida panhandle and throughout the South and elsewhere. All donations are tax deductible, so please give to our cause!
Includes:
Running a writer’s retreat and conference in a location on the Emerald Coast can be very expensive. There are myriad expenses that a non-profit (especially one run by volunteers such as ourselves), must face–from accountants to insurance to travel to housing to cold beverages to paying our tremendous visiting writers. The Marilyn Harris Teachers Scholarship and Fellowship came to us through an inheritance built into a will! Reach out if you have questions (our joke is that those cruddy nephews (Jeremy) don’t deserve your money, but we do!
We appreciate any and all support and are always looking for that person who is willing to give of themselves for this important cause. Help us to ensure that we exist in 10, 20, and 100 years! Please reach out to us with any questions!
Donate here and Help Ensure our Future!
Longleaf on the Half-Shell Sponsorship
$12,500.00
Perhaps you have always wondered how you can support a literacy and literary arts non-profit but you also want to attend?
This option allows you to create a scholarship or fellowship in your name while also purchasing a ‘special’ registration pass with extra benefits. With our Longleaf on the Half-shell, you will benefit from some face to face time with our faculty, housing alongside faculty/editors/agents/fellows, and you will essentially establish a scholarship or fellowship for the year!
These sponsorships are limited to four individual donors each year.
Registration for this option will close when we hit capacity in the early Fall. This is not an option for groups.
NOTE: Locals who are considering this sponsorship option may contact us directly if housing is not needed during the week–in this case the price for our Longleaf on the Half-Shell is $10,000 total!
These donation prices can be negotiated–we will never turn away someone who wants to help us!
Includes:
Donate to the Sybil McLain-Topel Scholarship Fund!
$5.00
Our non-profit organization is a registered 501(3)(c) and we work year around to facilitate and create and nurture literacy and literary programs in the Florida panhandle and throughout the South and elsewhere. All donations are tax deductible, so please give to our cause! You may donate any amount!
Includes:
General Longleaf Fund
$5.00
Our non-profit organization is a registered 501(3)(c) and we work year around to facilitate and create and nurture literacy and literary programs in the Florida panhandle and throughout the South and elsewhere. All donations are tax deductible, so please give to our cause!
Includes:
Cancellation Policy
Cancellation Policy
Full Conference Registration requests for cancellation must be submitted before March 15, 2027 in order to receive a full refund (minus $100 processing fee). Any request to cancel after midnight of March 15, 2027, cannot be honored.
Conference Pass requests for cancellation must be submitted before April 1, 2027 in order to receive a full refund (minus $75 processing fee). Any request to cancel after midnight of April 1, 2027, cannot be honored.
All other cancellations will be considered on a case by case basis.
Our cancellation policy is based on the fact that our registrations fill up early and late attempts to cancel impact our workshops and seminars negatively. Often, late cancellations create empty seats that are then not filled.
Ready to Support The Future Of LongLeaf?
You can donate directly to the Longleaf Educational Services (our 501 non-profit) by going to PayPal and submitting a donation of any amount to our account email:
longleafwritersconference@gmail.com
or by sending a check directly to our executive director:
2923 Ames Street
Wheat Ridge, CO 80214
or to our business address:
Longleaf Educational Services
174 Watercolor Way, #266
Suite 103
Santa Rosa Beach, FL, 32459
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