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ROOSTERGNN Artist Residency
ROOSTERGNN Global News Network (RGNN) offers residencies of at least ten days to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers year-round in Madrid, Spain, and during the summer in Havana and Trinidad, Cuba. Residents in Spain will be provided with lodging in private apartments in central Madrid; residents in Cuba will be provided with lodging with a Cuban host family. The cost to attend the residency is €950 to €1,200. Need-based scholarships of €100 are available. Submit a writing sample of any length, a project proposal, and a résumé or curriculum vitae.
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RESIDENCY
Ignore Event Date Field?:
yes
Event Date:
May 1, 2026
Rolling Admissions:
yes
Application Deadline:
May 1, 2026
Financial Aid?:
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline:
May 1, 2026
Free Admission:
no
Contact Information:
ROOSTERGNN Artist Residency, Calle Juan Bravo 58-60 Madrid, Spain.
Contact City:
Madrid, Spain, and Havana and Trinidad
Country:
CU
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Karl Ove Knausgaard Answers the Proust Questionnaire
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The Backward Index
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Peter Sokolowski, editor-at-large of Merriam-Webster, explains why there is a special set of shelves in the basement of their offices filled with 315,000 words spelled backwards and catalogued. A Q&A with Sokolowski is featured in the January/February issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
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Pratt Institute
MFA Program
Not Genre-Specific
Brooklyn, NY
Application Deadline:
Rolling Admissions
Application Fee:
$50 ($90 for international students)
Affiliated Publications/Publishers:
The program supports a pamphlet publication series. Interested students have the opportunity to curate and edit a pamphlet with the support of fellow student collaborators and a faculty coordinator.
Books Through Bars
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“If you believe in literature...then you believe that some of these books have the power to transform people and the way they see the world.” Danny Schaffer, a member of the Books Through Bars volunteer collective, which matches and sends requested books to incarcerated people, talks about the importance of access to knowledge, history, and literature in the prison system.
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