{{Infobox recurring event | name = Milford Writer's Workshop (or more properly Milford Writers' Conference) | logo = | logo_alt = | logo_caption = | logo_size = | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | status = Active | genre = Conference | date = | begins = | ends = | frequency = Annually | venue = Various | location = Milford, Pennsylvania, United States (before 1972) Various locations, United Kingdom (1972–2019, 2021–) | coordinates = | country = | years_active = | first = 1950s | founder_name = Damon Knight, among others | last = | prev = 2019 | next = 2021 | participants = Science fiction writers | attendance = | capacity = | area = | budget = | activity = Writers' workshop | leader_name = | patron = | organised = | filing = | people = | member = | sponsor = | website = }} The Milford Writer's Workshop, or more properly Milford Writers' Conference', is an annual science fiction writer's event founded by Damon Knight, among others, in the mid-1950s, in Milford, Pennsylvania. It was so named because Knight, Judith Merril, and James Blish lived in Milford when it was founded. It moved to the United Kingdom in 1972 and has run successfully ever since on an annual basis. Description Judith Merril, James Blish, and Damon Knight founded the Milford Writer's Conference in 1956. It is both a residential workshop and a writers' conference in which published science fiction writers convene over the course of a week to intensively critique stories and samples from novels (usually works in progress) and to workshop ideas on all aspects of SF writing. It is a peer-to-peer conference with no teachers or students. Milford and related entities like Science Fiction Forum'' presaged the creation of the Science Fiction Writers of America in 1965 and that decade's New Wave movement. In 1972, Blish set up the United Kingdom Milford SF Writers' Conference, which initially met in Milford on Sea, Hampshire. Since then it has been held in various locations, latterly Devon until 2001, York in 2002 and 2003, and (since 2004) at Trigonos Conference Centre in North Wales, usually in mid September. The conference went on hiatus in 2020, due to the Coronavirus lockdown. Honorary committee An honorary committee is elected annually at the AGM held during the Milford week. The