Would
you like a month in south-east France to work on your manuscript? Or perhaps an
idyllic nature preserve in Kentucky would provide you with the inspiration you
need to start a new project?
These
residencies provide writers with a chance to escape daily life’s distractions
and focus on their work. Each residency has its own terms and conditions, so
please read the relevant websites thoroughly before commencing any
applications.
James
Merrill House, located in Stonington, Connecticut, offers one four and a half
months residency between mid-January and the end of May, and three or four shorter
residencies of 2 to 6 weeks during the months between Labor Day and
mid-January. The fellowship provides living and working space to a writer in
search of a quiet setting to complete a project of literary or academic
merit. The Writer-in-Residence program includes a US$5000 stipend for the
extended term with smaller stipends offered for the brief residencies.
Applications close 15 January.
This
residency is hosted by Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. Named
for the University’s renowned literary alumnus and initiated in the fall of
1993, the Philip Roth Residence in Creative Writing offers up to four months of
unfettered writing time for a writer working on a first or second book. The
program provides lodging in Poets’ Cottage and a stipend of US$4000.
Applications close on 1 February.
This
program is offered by The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. It offers residencies
to mid-career professionals in the arts and humanities, including writers. The
residencies last between one and three months and take place at The Dora Maar
House in Ménerbes, France. For fellowships between 1 July and 15 December
2015, applications must be submitted by 15 February.
Each
year Can Serrat Centre near Barcelona, Spain, offers two writers a full stipend
which entitles them to a 30-day residency including free accommodation,
breakfasts and dinners. The residency is open to writers in all fields
regardless of nationality or age. All chosen candidates have the opportunity to
do a reading / exhibition at the centre. There are two selection rounds: the
first closes on 1 March and the second on 1 August.
This
month-long residency offers eight established writers of non-fiction an
opportunity to develop a major essay, memoir, or feature piece for a CA$2000
commission. Held at The Banff Centre’s Leighton Artists’ Colony studios,
it enables writers to work on their manuscripts during individual consultations
with faculty and during round-table discussions. Participants are required to
arrive with a fully reported and typed first draft of their project, and must
complete a final, publishable draft of between 5000 and 7500 words by the time
they leave. Past participants of the program have represented
thought-provoking writers across Canada, however international applications are
equally welcomed. The application deadline is 18 March.
The
Kerouac Project provides four residencies a year to writers living anywhere in
the world. Each residency consists of approximately a three-month stay in
Orlando, Florida, in the cottage where Jack Kerouac wrote his novel Dharma Bums. Utilities and a
food stipend of US$800 are included. The Project also offers opportunities for
residents to participate in readings, workshops and to interact with the
central Florida writing community. Applications for the 2015-2016 residencies
close on 31 March and results will be announced in May.
Since
1999 the Danish Centre for Writers and Translators has offered writers,
translators and illustrators free working residencies at the old manor Hald
Hovedgaard, situated 10 kilometres from the town of Viborg, in the middle of
Denmark.The Centre offers four-week residencies to published international
authors who have had at least two books of fiction or poetry
published. Applications are expected to open in March and close in April.
The
Norman Mailer Center and Writers Colony offers Summer Fellowships for fiction,
nonfiction and poetry writers during the second half of 2015 at the
University of Utah in Salt Lake City. Five applicants (including one from
the State of Utah) will be chosen for this in-residence program. Each
successful fellow receives full tuition and housing for the entire three-week
period of their stay. Applications close in April.
The
Centre d’Art Marnay Art Cenre offers residencies year-round to writers and
other artists in the Champagne-Ardenne region of northern France. The
program aims to support residents in their ‘creative explorations,
investigations, and professional growth, within an environment of communication
and exchange.’ Residents are housed in seven recently renovated
studios. The centre offers two scholarships for two-month retreats, one is
co-sponsored by UNESCO and the other sponsored by the Ténot Foundation. General
applications are considered on a rolling basis.
Built
in 1902, Gladstone’s Library is the UK’s only residential library. The
Library’s Writers in Residence program began in 2011. Four residencies are
offered each year with each writer staying at the Library for a month. The
Writers in Residence are asked to keep a blog about their stay, as well as
running a creative writing workshop. Residents receive full room and board,
reimbursement for travel expenses and a small stipend of £100 per week.
Applications close 30 May.
This
residency for women writers is located on Whidbey Island, about thirty-five
miles northwest of Seattle. The program is open to all women writers, whether
their work has been published yet or not. Applications open in June.
The
Scotland Writing Residency is located in Brora, a coastal village in the east
of Sutherland in the Highland area of Scotland. The writer resides, for one
week during summer or fall, in a furnished and recently renovated, traditional
croft cottage, containing three-bedrooms. The residency does not come with
a cash prize. Applications close 12 August.
Jentel
is located on a 1000 acre working cattle ranch 20 miles southeast of Sheridan,
Wyoming. It offers individuals a supportive environment in which to
further their creative development. Applications for Summer/Fall Residencies
close in January and applications for Winter/Spring Residencies closes on 15
September.
Founded
by artists in 1984, the Vermont Studio Center is the largest international
artists’ and writers’ residency program in the United States.Each month the
Center hosts 16 writers from across the country and around the world, as
well as 24 painters/mixed-media artists, 12 sculptors/mixed-media artists, 2
printmakers and 2 photographers. The residencies take place on a historic
30-building campus along the Gihon River in Johnson, Vermont, and run for
between 2 and 12 weeks. The next three applications rounds in 2015; the
deadlines are 15 February, 15 June and 1 October.
Berton
House is located in Dawson City, Yukon. Professional Canadian writers who
have published at least one book and are established in any creative literary
discipline (fiction, non-fiction, poetry, play/screenwriting, journalism) may
apply for a three-month residency. Applications close in October.
Since
it was founded in 1992 it has hosted hundreds of authors and translators,
representing more than fifty countries, including Gary Shteyngart, Kiran Desai
and Colum McCann. Ledig House located in Ghent, New York, two and a half
hours from New York City and guests may select a residency of one week to two
months. Applications close in October.
This
program offers professional writers, as well as composers and visual and
performing artists, the opportunity to ‘pursue their artistic discipline while
being surrounded by the park’s inspiring landscape’. Selected artists stay in a
historic cabin for two-week periods from June through September. Applications
are expected to close in November.
The Amsterdam
Writers’ Residency was established by the Dutch Foundation for Literature
(Nederlands Letterenfonds). Since it began over eight years ago it has provided
a space for international writers to live and work in the city. Residents are
provided with an apartment located above the Athenaeum Bookshop. Residents
are required to cover their own travel costs, though the program will
actively work with writers to help locate other funding schemes to assist with such
costs.
Cove
Park is a Scottish artists’ retreat located on the Rosneath peninsula, an
hour’s drive west of Glasgow. Literature residencies take place between March
and September and last for between one and three months. Applications are
invited from established writers of short and long fiction; poetry; creative
non-fiction and memoir; work that crosses these genres and also writers who
have made their reputation in one field and wish to develop in another. To be
eligible for consideration, writers must have published at least one
full-length book in their field. Applications close in December.
This
is a unique residency for writers in the crucial early stages of their careers.
Located in Provincetown, Massachusetts, the Work Center provides seven-month
fellowships to twenty fellows each year in the form of living/work space and a
modest monthly stipend. Residencies run from 1 October 30 April. Applications
close on 1 December.
The
Sarabande Writing Residency offers an annual residency of two to six weeks
to a poet, fiction writer, or creative nonfiction writer at Bernheim
Arboretum and Research Forest, a 14,000-acre nature preserve near Louisville,
Kentucky. Residents receive a US$500 travel stipend and a two to six-week stay
in a private, fully equipped cottage on the Bernheim grounds. Residents offer
one public reading or discussion during their tenure and may devote the rest of
their time to writing in Bernheim’s extensive forest, gardens and
arboretum.
Source:
http://www.aerogrammestudio.com
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