Genre: Creative Nonfiction

The Bogliasco Foundation offers monthlong residencies from January to May and from September to December to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers in the coastal fishing village of Bogliasco, Italy, seven miles southeast of Genoa. Residents are provided with a private room, workspace, and meals, and are invited to attend cultural events in Bogliasco and Genoa. There is no cost to attend the residency, but residents are responsible for their own travel expenses.

The 2025 Writer’s Hotel Maine All-Genre “Mini MFA” Writers Conference was held from June 4 to June 10 at the Sebasco Harbor Resort in Phippsburg, Maine. The conference featured a full-manuscript pre-conference reading with two sets of editorial comments, workshops, and attendee and faculty readings for poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers. One-on-one agent pitching as well as pitching practice sessions took place post-conference via Zoom on June 28.

The Shannaghe Residency Program offers two- and four-week residencies from April through November to poets, fiction writers, and nonfiction writers at the Shannaghe residence, a renovated house barn in Belfast, Maine. Residents are provided with private accommodations, which include a room, a workspace, a kitchen, and two bathrooms. The cost of the residency is $100 per week.

The Aldo and Estella Leopold Residency offered monthlong residencies from May through October to poets, fiction writers, and nonfiction writers in the late environmental essayist Aldo Leopold’s cabin in Tres Piedras, New Mexico. Writers exploring “the relevance of Aldo Leopold’s ideas to 21st century cultural and environmental issues” and/or “committed to reshaping the cultural story about the relationship between humans and nature” were eligible. An additional residency was offered in a single-room casita overlooking the Galisteo Basin Preserve in Galisteo, New Mexico.