Genre: Poetry

Off Topic Writers’ Conference

July/August 2024

The 2024 Off Topic Writers’ Conference was held online and in person on August 3 at the Lakehead University campus in Orillia, Canada. The conference featured craft talks and workshops for poets, fiction writers, and nonfiction writers. The faculty included poet, fiction writer, and creative nonfiction writer Lindsey Harrington and fiction and nonfiction writers Finnian Burnett and Drew Hayden Taylor. Fiction writer K.R. Byggdin delivered the keynote address. The cost of the conference was $75 for in-person attendance and $40 for virtual attendance.

Type: 
CONFERENCE
Ignore Event Date Field?: 
no
Event Date: 
August 3, 2024
Rolling Admissions: 
yes
Application Deadline: 
April 23, 2025
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
April 23, 2025
Free Admission: 
no
Contact Information: 

Off Topic Writers’ Conference, 500 University Avenue, Orillia, ON L3V 0B9, Canada. Marion Lougheed, Off Topic Publishing Founder and Editor. 

Marion Lougheed
Off Topic Publishing Founder and Editor
Contact City: 
Orillia
Country: 
CA
Genre: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction

Arteles Creative Center

July/August 2024

The Arteles Creative Center’s Silence Awareness Existence Residency Program offers one-month residencies to poets, fiction writers, nonfiction writers, and translators from January to March in the countryside region of Hämeenkyrö, Finland. Each resident is provided with a private bedroom and working desk as well as access to shared kitchens, bathrooms, and studio spaces in two residency buildings. The residency also offers access to a range of facilities, including a library, a meditation space, a sauna, and common areas. Two cars are available for transportation and exploration.

Type: 
RESIDENCY
Ignore Event Date Field?: 
no
Event Date: 
January 1, 2025
Rolling Admissions: 
no
Application Deadline: 
July 31, 2024
Financial Aid?: 
yes
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
July 31, 2024
Free Admission: 
no
Contact Information: 

Arteles Creative Center, Hahmajärventie 26, 38490 Haukijärvi, Finland. Amber Harmon, Residency Coordinator. 

Amber Harmon
Residency Coordinator
Contact City: 
Hämeenkyrö, Finland
Genre: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction
Translation

Vashon Artist Residency

July/August 2024

The Vashon Artist Residency offers two- and four-week residencies from January to November to poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, and translators on Vashon Island, a 20-minute ferry ride from Seattle. Residents are provided with a private room, a bathroom, and a shared kitchen, as well as access to a shared studio. Residents are responsible for travel and meal costs. The cost of the residency is determined on a sliding scale based on financial need; the full price is $1,875 for four weeks and $1,125 for two weeks.

Type: 
RESIDENCY
Ignore Event Date Field?: 
no
Event Date: 
January 1, 2025
Rolling Admissions: 
no
Application Deadline: 
August 23, 2024
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
April 23, 2025
Free Admission: 
no
Contact Information: 

Vashon Artist Residency, 23125 Kingsbury Road SW, Vashon, WA 98070. (206) 408-7099. Heather Dwyer, Executive Director.

Heather Dwyer
Executive Director
Contact City: 
Vashon
Contact State: 
WA
Contact Zip / Postal Code: 
98070
Country: 
US
Genre: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction
Translation

Jackson Hole Writers Conference

July/August 2024

The 2024 Jackson Hole Writers Conference was held from November 1 to November 3 at the Jackson Hole Center for the Arts in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. The conference featured craft classes, lectures, readings, and manuscript critiques for poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers. The faculty included poet Jericho Brown, fiction writer Téa Obreht, and nonfiction writers Kevin Grange, Matteo Pistono, and Katherine E. Standefer. Participating publishing professionals included agent Jane Dystel (Dystel, Goderich & Bourret) and editor Austin Ross (HarperCollins).

Type: 
CONFERENCE
Ignore Event Date Field?: 
no
Event Date: 
November 1, 2024
Rolling Admissions: 
yes
Application Deadline: 
April 23, 2025
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
April 23, 2025
Free Admission: 
no
Contact Information: 

Jackson Hole Writers Conference, P.O. Box 3871, Jackson, WY 83001. Matt Daly, Executive Director. 

Matt Daly
Executive Director
Contact City: 
Jackson Hole
Contact State: 
WY
Contact Zip / Postal Code: 
83001
Country: 
US
Genre: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction

Cape Cod Writers Center Conference

July/August 2024

The 2024 Cape Cod Writers Center Conference was held from August 1 to August 4 at the Emerald Resort/Cape Cod Irish Village hotel in Barnstable, Massachusetts. The conference featured workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, an agent panel, and manuscript mentoring sessions with faculty. The faculty included poet and nonfiction writer Ben Berman; fiction writer Susan Breen; fiction and nonfiction writers Nancy Agabian, Nicole Blades, and Sara Rauch; and nonfiction writers Dorian Fox and David Yoo. Fiction writer William Martin delivered the keynote address.

Type: 
CONFERENCE
Ignore Event Date Field?: 
no
Event Date: 
August 1, 2024
Rolling Admissions: 
no
Application Deadline: 
July 25, 2024
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
April 23, 2025
Free Admission: 
no
Contact Information: 

Cape Cod Writers Center Conference, P.O. Box 408, Osterville, MA 02655.

Contact City: 
Barnstable
Contact State: 
MA
Contact Zip / Postal Code: 
02655
Country: 
US
Genre: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction

Organic Insinuations

The Time Is Now
6.4.24

“All too often, on a ‘poetry scene,’ people prioritise ‘subject matter,’” says John Burnside in a 2023 interview about his writing process by Jesse Nathan published on McSweeney’s Internet Tendency. “I am sure that, as I am working, environmental concerns insinuate their way into the content of a poem organically, as other concerns will—but I would never start from there.” Inspired by the late Scottish poet, who died at the age of sixty-nine on May 29, write a poem that springs not from a predetermined topic or subject matter, but instead allows you to “trust in the sounds, the rhythms that come out of the day-to-day, the sheer immediacy and truth of the quotidian…and the images that lead, sometimes via fairly roundabout paths, to metaphor.” Later, as you reread and revise, what do you discover is the subject of your poem? What might have organically insinuated itself into your poem?

Seeding Black Futures: Ariana Benson and Ashia Ajani

Caption: 

In this virtual reading hosted by the Oak Spring Garden Foundation and Furious Flower Poetry Center, Lauren K. Alleyne introduces Ashia Ajani, who reads from their debut collection, Heirloom (Write Bloody Publishing, 2023), and Ariana Benson, who reads from their debut collection, Black Pastoral (University of Georgia Press, 2023), winner of the 2022 Cave Canem Poetry Prize.

Genre: 
Poetry
Tags: 
Ariana Benson
Black Pastoral
University of Georgia Press
Ashia Ajani
Heirloom
Write Bloody Publishing
Lauren K. Alleyne
Furious Flower Poetry Center
reading
conversation
2024

Ocean Vuong in Conversation With Cathy Park Hong

Caption: 

In this event hosted by the Townsend Center for the Humanities and the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Ocean Vuong talks about his journey through poetry and teaching, how his voice and understanding of genre have changed, and whether or not poetry can change the world in a conversation with Cathy Park Hong. “I’ve always been doubtful of myself, of my work, of my life. But when I’m writing, when I’m inside the poem, I rarely feel true fear,” says Vuong.

Genre: 
Poetry
Fiction
Cross-Genre
Tags: 
Ocean Vuong
Cathy Park Hong
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Townsend Center for the Humanities
interview
conversation
2024

Mot Juste

The Time Is Now
5.28.24

“I told a friend about a spill at the grocery store, which—the words ‘conveyor belt’ vanishing midsentence—took place on a ‘supermarket treadmill,’” writes Madeleine Schwartz in a recent essay published by New York Times Magazine about her experience of negotiating with and toggling between the French and English languages after moving from New York to Paris. In the piece, Schwartz notes that as she became more comfortable with living and thinking in French, she noticed a blurring of her linguistic capabilities, including a muddling of her articulative abilities in English. Think about a time or situation when words have failed you, or you’ve drawn a blank as to the mot juste. Write a poem that traces or enacts a loss of language, perhaps using invented words, phrases, and spellings or experimenting with font sizes, line breaks, and spacing.

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