Genre: Creative Nonfiction

Aldo and Estella Leopold Residency

January/February 2025

The Aldo and Estella Leopold Residency offers monthlong residencies from May through October to poets, fiction writers, and nonfiction writers in the late environmental essayist Aldo Leopold’s cabin in Tres Piedras, New Mexico. Writers exploring “the relevance of Aldo Leopold’s ideas to 21st century cultural and environmental issues” and/or “committed to reshaping the cultural story about the relationship between humans and nature” are eligible. An additional residency is offered in a single-room casita overlooking the Galisteo Basin Preserve in Galisteo, New Mexico.

Type: 
RESIDENCY
Ignore Event Date Field?: 
no
Event Date: 
May 1, 2025
Rolling Admissions: 
no
Application Deadline: 
February 25, 2025
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
December 19, 2024
Free Admission: 
yes
Contact Information: 

Aldo and Estella Leopold Residency, P.O. Box 40122, Albuquerque, NM 87196. (973) 476-9112. Nina Simon, Program Director.

Nina Simon
Program Director
Contact City: 
Tres Piedras
Contact State: 
NM
Contact Zip / Postal Code: 
87577
Country: 
US
Genre: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction

Creekside Arts Artist-Residency Program

January/February 2025

Creekside Arts offers three-week residencies from mid-May to early June to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers on the coastal redwoods of Freshwater, California. Residents are provided with a private room, kitchen, bathroom, and studio in a cottage, cabin, tiny house, or Airstream trailer, as well as access to collaborative work spaces where gatherings are held with other residents, permanent members of the Creekside Arts community, and artists from the larger Humboldt County.

Type: 
RESIDENCY
Ignore Event Date Field?: 
yes
Event Date: 
December 19, 2024
Rolling Admissions: 
no
Application Deadline: 
February 15, 2025
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
December 19, 2024
Free Admission: 
no
Contact Information: 

Creekside Arts Artist-Residency Program, 475 Howard Heights Road, Eureka, CA 95503. (707) 998-8452. Marceau Verdiere, Creekside Arts Residency Coordinator.

Marceau Verdiere
Creekside Arts Residency Coordinator
Contact City: 
Freshwater
Contact State: 
CA
Country: 
US
Genre: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction

Hambidge Creative Residency Program

January/February 2025

Hambidge offers residencies of two weeks to two months from February through December to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers on 600 forested acres in the Blue Ridge Mountains of northern Georgia. Each resident is provided with a private cottage, which includes a bedroom, a studio, a full kitchen, and a bathroom. The cost of the residency is $250 per week; meals are included. Limited financial aid scholarships and several merit-based Distinguished Fellowships are available.

Type: 
RESIDENCY
Ignore Event Date Field?: 
no
Event Date: 
February 1, 2025
Rolling Admissions: 
no
Application Deadline: 
January 15, 2025
Financial Aid?: 
yes
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
January 15, 2025
Free Admission: 
no
Contact Information: 

Hambidge Creative Residency Program, P.O. Box 339, Rabun Gap, GA 30568. (706) 746-7324. Beth Loveland, Office and On-site Programs Coordinator. 

Beth Loveland
Office and On-site Programs Coordinator
Contact City: 
Rabun Gap
Contact State: 
GA
Contact Zip / Postal Code: 
30568
Country: 
US
Genre: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction

Shannaghe Residency Program

January/February 2025

The Shannaghe Residency Program offers two- and four-week residencies from April through November to poets, fiction writers, and nonfiction writers at the Shannaghe residence, a renovated house barn in Belfast, Maine. Residents are provided with private accommodations, which include a room, a workspace, a kitchen, and two bathrooms. The cost of the residency is $100 per week.

Type: 
RESIDENCY
Ignore Event Date Field?: 
no
Event Date: 
April 1, 2025
Rolling Admissions: 
no
Application Deadline: 
January 15, 2025
Financial Aid?: 
yes
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
January 15, 2025
Free Admission: 
no
Contact Information: 

Shannaghe Residency Program, 121 City Point Road, Belfast, ME 04915. (312) 802-2989. Lee Reilly, Director.

Lee Reilly
Director
Contact City: 
Belfast
Contact State: 
ME
Contact Zip / Postal Code: 
04915
Country: 
US
Genre: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction

Southern Vermont Writers’ Conference

January/February 2025

The Southern Vermont Writers’ Conference, sponsored by Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning, will be held from March 30 to April 4 at the Equinox Resort & Spa in Manchester, Vermont. The program includes workshops, craft talks, readings, and faculty presentations for poets, fiction writers, and nonfiction writers, as well as a bookseller event at Northshire Bookstore and an author event at the Manchester Community Library featuring fiction and nonfiction writer Megan Mayhew Bergman.

Type: 
CONFERENCE
Ignore Event Date Field?: 
no
Event Date: 
March 30, 2025
Rolling Admissions: 
no
Application Deadline: 
March 1, 2025
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
December 19, 2024
Free Admission: 
no
Contact Information: 

Southern Vermont Writers’ Conference, Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning, P.O. Box 129, Dorset, VT 05251. Kim Place-Gateau and Caren McVicker, Cofounders.

Kim Place-Gateau and Caren McVicker
Cofounders
Contact City: 
Manchester
Contact State: 
VT
Contact Zip / Postal Code: 
05254
Country: 
US
Genre: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction

The Writer’s Hotel Maine All-Genre “Mini MFA” Writers Conference

January/February 2025

The 2025 Writer’s Hotel Maine All-Genre “Mini MFA” Writers Conference will be held from June 4 to June 10 at the Sebasco Harbor Resort in Phippsburg, Maine. The conference features a full-manuscript pre-conference reading with two sets of editorial comments, workshops, and attendee and faculty readings for poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers. One-on-one agent pitching as well as pitching practice sessions will take place post-conference via Zoom on June 28.

Type: 
CONFERENCE
Ignore Event Date Field?: 
no
Event Date: 
June 4, 2025
Rolling Admissions: 
no
Application Deadline: 
February 19, 2025
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
December 19, 2024
Free Admission: 
no
Contact Information: 

The Writer’s Hotel Maine All-Genre “Mini MFA” Writers Conference, P.O. Box 472, Brunswick, ME 04011. Shanna McNair, Founding Director.

Shanna McNair
Founding Director
Contact City: 
Phippsburg
Contact State: 
ME
Contact Zip / Postal Code: 
04562
Country: 
US
Genre: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction

Adriatic Writers Conference

November/December 2024

The inaugural 2025 Adriatic Writers Conference will be held from May 10 to May 17 at the Hotel Bellevue on Lošinj island in Croatia. Programming includes small-group workshops, craft classes, a one-on-one meeting with a writing instructor, master classes, and generative writing sessions for fiction writers and memoirists. The faculty includes fiction and creative nonfiction writers Jo Piazza and Kristin Vuković and memoirist Rosie Schaap. The cost of the conference, which includes lodging in the conference hotel, daily breakfast, and a welcome and farewell dinner, is $3,500.

Type: 
CONFERENCE
Ignore Event Date Field?: 
no
Event Date: 
May 10, 2025
Rolling Admissions: 
no
Application Deadline: 
January 1, 2025
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
December 19, 2024
Free Admission: 
no
Contact Information: 

Adriatic Writers Conference, Čikat Street 9, 51550 Mali Lošinj, Croatia. Kristin Vuković, Founder. 

Kristin Vuković
Founder
Contact City: 
Lošinj, Croatia
Contact Zip / Postal Code: 
51550
Genre: 
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction

Stories for All

The Time Is Now
12.5.24

“As a Palestinian, I have been brought up on stories and storytelling. It’s both selfish and treacherous to keep a story to yourself—stories are meant to be told and retold,” writes the late Refaat Alareer in his collection of poetry and prose, If I Must Die, out now from OR Books. “If I allowed a story to stop, I would be betraying my legacy, my mother, my grandmother, and my homeland.” Taking inspiration from Alareer’s words about the power of storytelling, reflect on a story from your own life that is “meant to be told.” Write a memoiristic piece that uses evocative imagery and dynamic pacing, paying particular attention to elements that might facilitate its oral retelling.

The Grasshopper and the Ant

The Time Is Now
11.28.24

In Aesop’s fable of the grasshopper and the ant, the grasshopper spends the summer playing music, singing, and dancing, while the ants spend all their time working to store up food for the winter. Traditionally, the moral of the story is about the importance of preparation and hard work, as once winter arrives, the grasshopper finds himself hungry and begs the ants for food. The children’s book The Ant or the Grasshopper? (Scribner, 2014) written by Toni Morrison and her son Slade Morrison complicates the conventional reading of the fable and questions the overlapping roles of art, labor, and value. The grasshopper Foxy G asks his ant friend Kid A, “How can you say I never worked a day? ART is WORK. It just looks like play.” Inspired by this spin, write an essay that reflects on how you see the role of the artist functioning in contemporary society. How do writers fit into our culture’s value systems?

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