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While promoting her book, an author collects personal stories of shelter and storm, curating an accidental anthology that demonstrates how sharing stories fosters community during a time of climate upheaval.
In her foreword to a reissue of Audre Lorde’s 1982 book, Zami: A New Spelling of My Name: A Biomythography, forthcoming this month from Penguin Classics, Evie Shockley writes about Lorde’s version of writing about the self, in which mythologizing becomes a method to explain the inexplicable. Shockley writes: “What biomythography foregrounds is the way myth is central to her writing of her life, her writing for her life, her writing life, her life writing. A myth is a story that explains the nature or origins of a phenomenon—a story that often involves the supernatural.” Write a personal essay that takes inspiration from Lorde’s form and offers context to a particular event from your past by drawing from the lives and stories of people you have known, both in real life and from works of art. Does a supernatural tone arise from this incorporation of mythology to imbue your narrative with a sense of wonder?
Millay House Rockland offers two monthlong residencies, one in October and one in July, to poets, fiction writers, and nonfiction writers in the duplex where the late poet Edna St. Vincent Millay was born in Rockland, Maine. Residents receive a $1,200 stipend from the Ellis-Beauregard Foundation and are provided with a private bedroom, a private bathroom, a study, a porch, and a fully equipped kitchen. Residents are responsible for their meals. During their residency, residents are asked to offer one public event.
Millay House Rockland Writing Residency, P.O. Box 831, Rockland, ME 04841. (619) 840-7201. Melissa McKinstry, Board Member and Writing Residency Coordinator.
The 2026 Himalayan Literature Festival and Writers Workshop, sponsored by White Lotus Book Shop, will be held from May 29 to June 5 at the Malla Hotel in Kathmandu, Nepal. The writers workshop, which takes place from May 29 to June 3, includes two workshops held in temples and Buddhist monasteries, two workshops led by Himalayan shamans, and excursions to historical and cultural sites. The festival, which takes place from June 4 to June 5, features craft talks, reading events, and book launches for poets, fiction writers, nonfiction writers, and translators.
Himalayan Literature Festival & Writers Workshop, White Lotus Book Shop, Hanumanthan, Kupondole, Kathmandu, Nepal. (981) 379-8573. Shreejana Bhandari, Director.
ART | WORK Retreat, sponsored by the 32M Center for Creative Work, offers one- to two-week residencies to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers from mid-May through mid-September in a nineteenth-century mill building on the banks of the Ashuelot river in New Hampshire. Writers have the option of scheduling critique or mentoring sessions with a partnering artist. The residency accommodates two visitors at a time. Each resident is provided with a private studio and bathroom, and a shared kitchen.
Art | Work Retreat, P.O. Box 111, Ashuelot, NH 03441. (603) 239 6830. Julia Ferrari, Director.
“If someone else could do it better, don’t write it.” —Anne Fadiman, author of Frog: And Other Essays
