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Friday Find: Post-MFA Fellowship Compilation. What next? That question confronts many MFA candidates nearing graduation. The soon-to-be degreed writer has just spent (typically) two years submitting manuscripts to workshops and receiving critiques. She has completed a book-length work and therefore fulfilled the creative thesis requirement. Now she possesses readers' comments on that work, too. Some fellowship and writer-in-residence opportunities allow emerging writers to continue crafting their work, often with both financial and intellectual support.

On this page I will try to keep a comprehensive (and current) list of these opportunities. Please note that I am not intending for this list to focus on relatively short-term residencies, or, with one or two exceptions, on programs that seem to expect writers to have published a book before application. Note also that deadlines (and application fees, when applicable) can vary and may even change within a given fellowship program from year to year.

Good luck! Residency | Ragdale. The Writers' Colony - Home. Alliance of Artists Communities. Writersroom - Homepage. The Spring Creek Project. The Spring Creek Project offers two residency programs: The Cabin at Shotpouch Creek is a two-week residency for two participants applying together. Click here for Collaaborative Retreat Application The Andrews Forest Writers' Residency is 7 to 14 day writer's retreat in the Cascade Range. Click here for Andrews Forest Residency Application To learn more: Andrews Forest Writers' Residency Application deadline for Fall 2013 residencies is May 15, 2013. Collaborative Retreat at Shotpouch Cabin The Collaborative Retreat at the Cabin at Shotpouch Creek is a two-week-long retreat for two participants who wish to pursue a collaborative project, or two participants who each have individual projects and who anticipate a synergistic benefit from each other's presence.

Return to Top The Cabin at Shotpouch Creek At the Spring Creek Project, we believe that the writing life is far richer than the myth of the solitary individual, struggling alone to put words on paper, would suggest. Return to Top. Martha's Vineyard Writers Residency — Providing established and emerging writers of poetry, fiction and non-fiction with time and space to create. The Martha’s Vineyard Writer’s Residency was established in 2007 with a simple mission: to give writers of poetry, fiction, non-fiction, memoir, and plays a place in which to create or complete new works. Residencies will be held April 1st-May 15th, 2014 and September 15th-October 31st, 2014. Writers may chose to stay two to six weeks.

Each resident is given a private room with a bath in an historic inn in Edgartown, Massachusetts, on the island of Martha’s Vineyard. Nine writers at a time are invited to form an intimate community of peers.The colorful gardens, covered porch and ample common rooms provide several venues in which to work, gather, contemplate or simply relax. The cost of the residency is $300.00 per week, due upon acceptance. This includes room but not board. For Writers: Colonies, Residencies, & Retreats - Isak. Writing Residencies. Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts. Talking About Writers' Residencies: An Interview with Stephanie Elizondo Griest. A version of this interview originally appeared in The Practicing Writer, May 2008. by Erika Dreifus Stephanie Elizondo Griest is another practicing writer I've come to know courtesy of e-mail. When she was awarded a residency at the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts last year, Stephanie contacted me, a past KHN resident, with a few questions about my experience there.

But it soon became clear to me that as much as I've learned about residency programs in my life as a practicing writer, Stephanie knows much more! So I asked her if she'd share with all of us some of her insights and advice. First, a bit about our author: Stephanie has mingled with the Russian Mafiya, polished Chinese propaganda, and belly danced with Cuban rumba queens. These adventures inspired her award-winning memoir Around the Bloc: My Life in Moscow, Beijing, and Havana (Villard/Random House, 2004) and guidebook 100 Places Every Woman Should Go (Travelers' Tales, 2007).

SEG: It is like applying to college. Hedgebrook. Yaddo Home. The MacDowell Colony. Vermont Studio Center - Artist Residency Programs, Writers Residency Programs. Conferences and Residencies Database | Application Deadlines. Grants, Fellowships, Residencies for Artists, Writers, Composers, Filmmakers and Performing Artists: Mira's List. Home | ResArtis.