Genre: Poetry

MASS MoCA Writing Through Art Poetry Retreat

May/June 2024

MASS MoCA Writing Through Art offered a fall retreat for poets from October 31 to November 6 in North Adams, Massachusetts. The retreat included morning generative workshops with prompts, exercises, discussions, and readings; afternoon visits to art galleries, studios, and the Berkshires; and a one-on-one manuscript consultation with poet, editor, and retreat director Jan Freeman. Residents had access to the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, the Clark Art Institute, and the Williams College Museum of Art.

Type: 
RESIDENCY
Ignore Event Date Field?: 
no
Event Date: 
October 31, 2024
Rolling Admissions: 
no
Application Deadline: 
July 14, 2024
Financial Aid?: 
yes
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
July 14, 2024
Free Admission: 
no
Contact Information: 

MASS MoCA Writing Through Art Poetry Retreat, c/o Jan Freeman, 1117 West Road, Ashfield, MA 01330. Jan Freeman, Retreat Director.

Jan Freeman
Retreat Director
Contact City: 
North Adams
Contact State: 
MA
Country: 
US
Genre: 
Poetry

Ragdale

May/June 2024

The Ragdale Foundation offers residencies of 18 days year-round to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers on 38 acres of prairie in Lake Forest, Illinois, 30 miles north of Chicago. Residents are provided with a private room and bathroom, a shared kitchen, and meals. The cost of the residency ranges from $630 to $4,500 on an income-based sliding scale. A limited number of fully funded fellowships with stipends of $1,000 or more were available.

Type: 
RESIDENCY
Ignore Event Date Field?: 
yes
Event Date: 
May 29, 2025
Rolling Admissions: 
no
Application Deadline: 
May 15, 2024
Financial Aid?: 
yes
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
May 15, 2024
Free Admission: 
no
Contact Information: 

Ragdale, 1260 North Green Bay Road, Lake Forest, IL 60045. (847) 234-1063, ext. 23. Deanna Miera, Residency Manager.

Deanna Miera
Residency Manager
Contact City: 
Lake Forest
Contact State: 
IL
Contact Zip / Postal Code: 
60045
Country: 
US
Genre: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction

Cambridge Writers’ Workshop Budapest and Prague Writing Retreat

May/June 2024

The Cambridge Writers’ Workshop Budapest and Prague Writing Retreat was held from July 19 to July 27 in the historic city centers of Budapest and Prague. The retreat featured writing and publishing workshops, craft seminars, and generative writing sessions for poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers. The faculty included poets and prose writers Rita Banerjee and Diana Norma Szokolyai. The cost of the retreat was $4,800, which included tuition, lodging at Hotel Oktogon in Budapest and Falkensteiner Hotel in Prague, daily breakfast, and special meals.

Type: 
RESIDENCY
Ignore Event Date Field?: 
no
Event Date: 
July 19, 2024
Rolling Admissions: 
no
Application Deadline: 
June 1, 2024
Financial Aid?: 
yes
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
May 15, 2024
Free Admission: 
no
Contact Information: 

Cambridge Writers’ Workshop Budapest and Prague Writing Retreat, Cambridge Writers’ Workshop, Inc., Artist’s Row, 24 New Derby Street, Salem, MA 01970. (617) 401-8950. Diana Norma Szokolyai, Executive Artistic Director.

Diana Norma Szokolyai
Executive Artistic Director
Contact City: 
Budapest
Country: 
HU
Genre: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction

Renaissance House Residency Program

May/June 2024

The Renaissance House Residency Program offered residencies of one to two weeks in July to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers at the former writing barn of Dorothy West in Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts. The residencies included workshops, lectures, and time to write. Visiting writers included fiction and nonfiction writer Jill Nelson; nonfiction writers Nancy Slonim Aronie, Cole Brown, Jessica B. Harris, and Susan Klein; and scholar Salem Mekuria.

Type: 
RESIDENCY
Ignore Event Date Field?: 
no
Event Date: 
July 1, 2024
Rolling Admissions: 
yes
Application Deadline: 
May 29, 2025
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
May 29, 2025
Free Admission: 
no
Contact Information: 

Renaissance House Residency Program, Helene Johnson and Dorothy West Foundation for Artists in Need, 484 West 43rd Street, Suite 37E, New York, NY 10036. (917) 747-0367. Abigail McGrath, Founder.

Abigail McGrath
Founder
Contact City: 
Martha’s Vineyard
Contact State: 
MA
Country: 
US
Genre: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction

A Few Things

The Time Is Now
4.9.24

“Though you have known someone for more than forty years, though you have worked with them and lived with them, you do not know everything. I do not know everything—but a few things, which I will tell,” writes Mary Oliver about her partner Molly Malone Cook in her book Our World (Beacon Press, 2009), which celebrates their life and home together in Cape Cod through Oliver’s essays and Cook’s photography. Write a poem about someone you have known for a long time, but who is no longer in your life. Begin first by forming two lists: one list for the things you knew about this person and a second list of what you did not know. Select several items from each list and compose a poem that paints a portrait through the lens of your relationship. What are the things that were shared, imparted, revealed, and hidden?

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