Genre: Poetry

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 were 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

Windhover Writers’ Festival

January/February 2025

The Windhover Writers’ Festival was held from February 19 to February 21 at the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor in Belton, Texas. The programming included workshops, faculty readings, panels, and social events for poets, fiction writers, and nonfiction writers. Visiting writers included poet Dana Gioia, fiction writer Katy Carl, and nonfiction writer Daniel Bowman Jr. The cost of registration, which included meals, was $90 ($60 for students). Lodging at the conference hotel was available at a nightly rate of $145. Writers registered by January 31.

Type: 
FESTIVAL
Ignore Event Date Field?: 
no
Event Date: 
February 19, 2025
Rolling Admissions: 
no
Application Deadline: 
January 31, 2025
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
April 24, 2025
Free Admission: 
no
Contact Information: 

Windhover Writers’ Festival, University of Mary Hardin-Baylor, P.O. Box 8450, 900 College Street, Belton, TX 76513. (254) 295-4561. Toby F. Coley, Director.

Toby F. Coley
Director
Contact City: 
Belton
Contact State: 
TX
Contact Zip / Postal Code: 
76513
Country: 
US
Genre: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction

Bread Loaf Translators’ Conference

January/February 2025

The 2025 Bread Loaf Translators’ Conference will be held from June 15 to June 21 in the Green Mountains of Ripton, Vermont. The conference, designed for both emerging and established translators, features translation workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, as well as lectures, craft classes, meetings with editors and agents, and readings by faculty and guests. The faculty includes translators Jennifer Grotz, Anton Hur, Madhu H. Kaza, Aaron Robertson, Damion Searls, and Matvei Yankelevich.

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

Bread Loaf Conferences, Bread Loaf Translators’ Conference, Middlebury College, 204 College Street, Middlebury, VT 05753. (802) 443-5286. Jason Lamb, Coordinator.

Jason Lamb
Coordinator
Contact City: 
Ripton
Contact State: 
VT
Contact Zip / Postal Code: 
05753
Country: 
US
Genre: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction
Translation

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 26, 2025
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
April 24, 2025
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

On a Winter’s Night

The Time Is Now
12.3.24

“You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino’s new novel, If on a winter’s night a traveler. Relax. Concentrate. Dispel every other thought. Let the world around you fade,” wrote Italo Calvino on the first page of his 1979 novel, translated from the Italian by William Weaver. Calvino’s postmodern structure comprises twenty-two sections, with each odd-numbered passage narrated by a second-person “you” (you, the reader; you, a character). Each even-numbered passage, in turn, is the start of a new work, a fictional book that the “you” character discovers and reads, only to find that it ends abruptly and picks up in the next even-numbered passage as an entirely different work. Taking a cue from this puzzle of an approach, compose a poem that alternates between two narratives united by a winter’s night. How might a second-person “you” character be utilized in your poem? Is there an emotional progression connected to the accumulation of images and themes?

After: Poetry Destroys Silence

Caption: 

Watch the trailer for After: Poetry Destroys Silence, a cinematic performance film directed by Richard Kroehling and starring Cornelius Eady, Edward Hirsh, Melissa Leo, Géza Röhrig, and a cast of celebrated award-winning poets who respond to the Holocaust and talk about the importance and necessity for poetry in a world that still grapples with genocide.

Genre: 
Poetry
Tags: 
After: Poetry Destroys Silence
movie trailer
documentary
Cornelius Eady
Edward Hirsh
Melissa Leo
Géza Röhrig
2024

In the Life

The Time Is Now
11.26.24

Anne Sexton’s 1962 ekphrastic poem “The Starry Night,” inspired by Vincent van Gogh’s 1889 painting of the same name, begins with a snippet from a letter written by the painter to his brother: “That does not keep me from having a terrible need of—shall I say the word—religion. Then I go out at night to paint the stars.” Choose a favorite work of visual art by an artist for whom you can find a bit of personal information, whether it’s something they’ve written or details about their daily life, philosophies, thematic interests, or relationships with close ones. How can you connect what you learn about the artist with the artwork itself? Write an ekphrastic poem exploring the emotions and thoughts that come to the surface when you look at the artwork, allowing yourself to incorporate a creative synthesis of their biographical details.

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