Genre: Poetry

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 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, office, porch, and a half-acre garden with a terrace.

The ninth annual Iota Short Forms Conference was held from October 20 to October 23 at the Cobscook Institute in Trescott, Maine, and its surrounding fifty acres of forest and former farmland. The conference featured writing classes, readings, workshops, an open mic, and craft talks oriented toward forms of short prose writing, including essays, prose poems, short stories, flash fiction and nonfiction, micro essays, and more. The faculty included fiction and nonfiction writer Ann Hood and nonfiction writer Penny Guisinger.

Sarasvati Creative Space offers residencies of one week to four months year-round to poets, fiction writers, nonfiction writers, and translators at the 17-acre Camp Wonder Wander in the rural hills of Lewis County, Tennessee, near the Buffalo River. 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 also available based on the writer’s needs.