Rockland Residency

The Rockland Residency offered three-week residencies from October 8, 2025, to October 29, 2025 and from January 8, 2026, to January 29, 2026, to poets, fiction writers, nonfiction writers, and translators in the Rockland Woods, located on the Kitsap Peninsula across the Salish Sea from Seattle. Writers who were at least 25 years old and were not enrolled in a creative writing program were eligible. Residents were provided with private or shared living and working spaces in several facilities, including lodge bedrooms, canvas tents (available only during the fall), a lodge basement with sliding doors and a lake view, a 1948 vintage trailer with a writing table and bed, a barn studio apartment, and other barn-style studios. Each resident was assigned lodging according to availability and stated living and working needs. Lodging at the residency was free; the fee to cover the cost of family-style meals for the duration of the residency was $300 per resident. To apply for either the fall or winter residency, writers submitted 5 to 20 pages of poetry, prose, or work in translation with a $25 application fee by March 31. Visit the website for an application form and complete guidelines.