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Essere Writer & Artist Residency

November/December 2024

The Essere Writer & Artist Residency, which was held from May 10, 2025, to May 24, 2025, and again from September 13, 2025, to September 27, 2025, offers two-week residencies at the medieval Camporsevoli estate in the Cetona province of Tuscany, Italy. The residency features programming for poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, and translators, including craft talks by poet John Roedel, fiction and nonfiction writer Danielle Trussoni, and nonfiction writer Jennie Lee, as well as individual mentorship meetings with the guest artists in residence.

Type: 
RESIDENCY
Ignore Event Date Field?: 
yes
Event Date: 
November 27, 2025
Rolling Admissions: 
ignore
Application Deadline: 
November 27, 2025
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
November 27, 2025
Free Admission: 
no
Contact Information: 

Essere Writer & Artist Residency, P.O. Box 39, Kailua, HI 96734. (978) 771-4000. Jennie Lee, Residency Director.

Jennie Lee
Residency Director
Contact City: 
Tuscany
Country: 
IT
Genre: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction
Translation

Anderson Center Artist Residency Program

November/December 2025

The 2026 Anderson Center Artist Residency Program offers residencies of two weeks or one month from June through October to poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, and translators at Tower View, a 350-acre historic estate in Red Wing, Minnesota. Residents are provided with a private room, studio space, and meals. To apply, submit a writing sample of up to 10 pages, an artist statement, and a work plan with a $30 application fee by January 13, 2026. 

Type: 
RESIDENCY
Ignore Event Date Field?: 
no
Event Date: 
June 1, 2026
Rolling Admissions: 
no
Application Deadline: 
January 13, 2026
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
November 27, 2025
Free Admission: 
yes
Contact Information: 

Anderson Center Artist Residency Program, 163 Tower View Drive, P.O. Box 406, Red Wing, MN 55066. (651) 388-2009. Laurel Stinson, Advancement and Residency Director.

Laurel Stinson
Advancement and Residency Director
Contact City: 
Red Wing
Contact State: 
MN
Contact Zip / Postal Code: 
55066
Country: 
US
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Genre: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction
Translation

Hiromi Kawakami and Adam Ehrlich Sachs

Caption: 

In this event, authors Hiromi Kawakami and Adam Ehrlich Sachs discuss writing about specific places, fiction’s relationship to personal truth, and their literary inspirations in a conversation with Motoyuki Shibata, translator and founder of the Japanese journal MONKEY New Writing From Japan. Kawakami’s new novel, Under the Eye of the Big Bird (Soft Skull Press, 2024), ), translated from the Japanese by Asa Yoneda, is featured in Page One in the September/October issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

 

Genre: 
Fiction
Translation
Tags: 
Hiromi Kawakami
Adam Ehrlich Sachs
Motoyuki Shibata
MONKEY New Writing From Japan
Under the Eye of the Big Bird
Soft Skull Press
Japanese
Page One
September/October 2024

Prospect Street Writers House

Prospect Street Writers House offers one- and two-week residencies in January and from May through November to poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, and translators at the Prospect Street residency in the village of North Bennington, Vermont. Residents are provided with lodging in dorm-style bedrooms with a private or shared bathroom and an en suite kitchenette and sitting room, as well as access to shared common spaces, including a kitchen, dining room, great room, library, porch, and half-acre garden with a terrace.

Type: 
RESIDENCY
Ignore Event Date Field?: 
yes
Event Date: 
November 27, 2025
Rolling Admissions: 
yes
Application Deadline: 
November 27, 2025
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
November 27, 2025
Free Admission: 
no
Contact Information: 

Prospect Street Writers House, 20 Prospect Street, North Bennington, VT 05257. (646) 369-0682. Gary Clark, Managing Director.

Gary Clark
Managing Editor
Contact City: 
North Bennington
Contact State: 
VT
Contact Zip / Postal Code: 
05257
Country: 
US
Genre: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction
Translation

American Literary Translators Association Conference

September/October 2025

The 48th annual American Literary Translators Association Conference was held from November 5 to November 8 at the Tucson Marriott University Park Hotel in Tucson. Programming included panels, workshops, bilingual readings, a bookfair, a gathering of the BIPOC Literary Translators Caucus, and opportunities to connect with editors and translators. The conference also featured special events including an awards ceremony and reading at the University of Arizona Poetry Center in Tucson. The 2025 theme was “Visions and Versions.” Poet and translator Karen Emmerich delivered the keynote address.

Type: 
CONFERENCE
Ignore Event Date Field?: 
yes
Event Date: 
November 27, 2025
Rolling Admissions: 
ignore
Application Deadline: 
November 27, 2025
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
November 27, 2025
Free Admission: 
no
Contact Information: 

American Literary Translators Association Conference, American Literary Translators Association, 5151 E. Broadway Boulevard, Suite 1700 #5003, Tucson, AZ 85711. Katrine Øgaard Jensen, Executive Director. 

Katrine Øgaard
Executive Director
Contact City: 
Tucson
Contact State: 
AZ
Contact Zip / Postal Code: 
85719
Country: 
US
Genre: 
Translation

Sarasvati Creative Space

Sarasvati Creative Space offers residencies of one week to four months between April and November to poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, and translators at the 17-acre Camp Wonder Wander in the rural hills of Lewis County, Tennessee, near the Buffalo River. Limited space is also available between December and March; inquiries can be made via e-mail. Residents are provided with lodging in private bedrooms, some with en suite bathrooms, as well as access to shared kitchen, dining, porch, and laundry spaces. Studios are available based on the writer’s needs.

Type: 
RESIDENCY
Ignore Event Date Field?: 
yes
Event Date: 
November 27, 2025
Rolling Admissions: 
yes
Application Deadline: 
November 27, 2025
Financial Aid?: 
yes
Free Admission: 
no
Contact Information: 

Sarasvati Creative Space, 599 Gaither Hinson Road, Waynesboro, TN 38485. (931) 345-7005. Valerie Sloan, Founder and Director.

Valerie Sloan
Founder and Director
Contact City: 
Lewis County
Contact State: 
TN
Country: 
US
Genre: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction
Translation

Djerassi Resident Artists Program

The Djerassi Resident Artists Program offers monthlong residencies from February through November to poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, and translators on a 583-acre ranch in the Santa Cruz Mountains, approximately 37 miles south of San Francisco. Residents are provided with a private barn loft or studio, which includes a bed, a work space, and a bathroom (which may be shared with one other person) as well as meals.

Type: 
RESIDENCY
Ignore Event Date Field?: 
yes
Event Date: 
November 27, 2025
Rolling Admissions: 
ignore
Application Deadline: 
November 27, 2025
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
November 27, 2025
Free Admission: 
yes
Contact Information: 

Djerassi Resident Artists Program, 2325 Bear Gulch Road, Woodside, CA 94062. Natasha Noel, Communications Lead.

Natasha Noel
Communications Lead
Contact City: 
Woodside
Contact State: 
CA
Contact Zip / Postal Code: 
94062
Genre: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction
Translation

Wonder Mountain Desert Cabin

The Wonder Mountain Desert Cabin offers two-week residencies year-round to poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, and translators at the Wonder Mountain Open Source Center, 15 miles northeast of Joshua Tree National Park on the ancestral homelands of the Serrano, Cahuilla, Chemehuevi, and Mohave (Mojave) Indigenous communities in California. Residents are provided with a private bedroom, desk, and patio in a newly renovated ranch-style house, as well as shared bathrooms.

Type: 
RESIDENCY
Ignore Event Date Field?: 
yes
Event Date: 
November 27, 2025
Rolling Admissions: 
yes
Application Deadline: 
November 27, 2025
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
November 27, 2025
Free Admission: 
no
Contact Information: 

Wonder Mountain Desert Cabin, Wonder Mountain Open Source Space, 5268 Danby Road, Twentynine Palms, CA 92277. (206) 992-3932. Emily Baker, Founder and Director.

Emily Baker
Founder and Director
Contact City: 
Twentynine Palms
Contact State: 
CA
Contact Zip / Postal Code: 
92277
Country: 
US
Genre: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction
Translation

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