Genre: Poetry

Vashon Artist Residency

July/August 2024

The Vashon Artist Residency offers two- and four-week residencies from January to November to poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, and translators on Vashon Island, a 20-minute ferry ride from Seattle. Residents are provided with a private room, a bathroom, and a shared kitchen, as well as access to a shared studio. Residents are responsible for travel and meal costs. The cost of the residency is determined on a sliding scale based on financial need; the full price is $1,875 for four weeks and $1,125 for two weeks.

Type: 
RESIDENCY
Ignore Event Date Field?: 
no
Event Date: 
January 1, 2025
Rolling Admissions: 
no
Application Deadline: 
August 23, 2024
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
June 6, 2025
Free Admission: 
no
Contact Information: 

Vashon Artist Residency, 23125 Kingsbury Road SW, Vashon, WA 98070. (206) 408-7099. Heather Dwyer, Executive Director.

Heather Dwyer
Executive Director
Contact City: 
Vashon
Contact State: 
WA
Contact Zip / Postal Code: 
98070
Country: 
US
Genre: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction
Translation

Jackson Hole Writers Conference

July/August 2024

The 2024 Jackson Hole Writers Conference was held from November 1 to November 3 at the Jackson Hole Center for the Arts in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. The conference featured craft classes, lectures, readings, and manuscript critiques for poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers. The faculty included poet Jericho Brown, fiction writer Téa Obreht, and nonfiction writers Kevin Grange, Matteo Pistono, and Katherine E. Standefer. Participating publishing professionals included agent Jane Dystel (Dystel, Goderich & Bourret) and editor Austin Ross (HarperCollins).

Type: 
CONFERENCE
Ignore Event Date Field?: 
no
Event Date: 
November 1, 2024
Rolling Admissions: 
yes
Application Deadline: 
June 6, 2025
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
June 6, 2025
Free Admission: 
no
Contact Information: 

Jackson Hole Writers Conference, P.O. Box 3871, Jackson, WY 83001. Matt Daly, Executive Director. 

Matt Daly
Executive Director
Contact City: 
Jackson Hole
Contact State: 
WY
Contact Zip / Postal Code: 
83001
Country: 
US
Genre: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction

Concord Free Public Library Writer-in-Residence Program

July/August 2024

The Concord Free Public Library Writer-in-Residence Program offers a six-month residency from January to June to a poet, fiction writer, or creative nonfiction writer at the historic Concord Free Public Library (CFPL) in Concord, Massachusetts. The writer-in-residence is given a $10,000 stipend with the expectation that they will spend an average of eight hours a week at the library for the duration of the program and will develop public programming.

Type: 
RESIDENCY
Ignore Event Date Field?: 
no
Event Date: 
January 1, 2025
Rolling Admissions: 
no
Application Deadline: 
July 15, 2024
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
June 6, 2025
Free Admission: 
yes
Contact Information: 

Concord Free Public Library Writer-in-Residence Program, 129 Main Street, Concord, MA 01742. (978) 318-3383. Ricky Sirois, Assistant Library Director.

Ricky Sirois
Assistant Library Director
Contact City: 
Concord
Contact State: 
MA
Contact Zip / Postal Code: 
01742
Country: 
US
Genre: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction

Cape Cod Writers Center Conference

July/August 2024

The 2024 Cape Cod Writers Center Conference was held from August 1 to August 4 at the Emerald Resort/Cape Cod Irish Village hotel in Barnstable, Massachusetts. The conference featured workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, an agent panel, and manuscript mentoring sessions with faculty. The faculty included poet and nonfiction writer Ben Berman; fiction writer Susan Breen; fiction and nonfiction writers Nancy Agabian, Nicole Blades, and Sara Rauch; and nonfiction writers Dorian Fox and David Yoo. Fiction writer William Martin delivered the keynote address.

Type: 
CONFERENCE
Ignore Event Date Field?: 
no
Event Date: 
August 1, 2024
Rolling Admissions: 
no
Application Deadline: 
July 25, 2024
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
June 6, 2025
Free Admission: 
no
Contact Information: 

Cape Cod Writers Center Conference, P.O. Box 408, Osterville, MA 02655.

Contact City: 
Barnstable
Contact State: 
MA
Contact Zip / Postal Code: 
02655
Country: 
US
Genre: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction

Organic Insinuations

The Time Is Now
6.4.24

“All too often, on a ‘poetry scene,’ people prioritise ‘subject matter,’” says John Burnside in a 2023 interview about his writing process by Jesse Nathan published on McSweeney’s Internet Tendency. “I am sure that, as I am working, environmental concerns insinuate their way into the content of a poem organically, as other concerns will—but I would never start from there.” Inspired by the late Scottish poet, who died at the age of sixty-nine on May 29, write a poem that springs not from a predetermined topic or subject matter, but instead allows you to “trust in the sounds, the rhythms that come out of the day-to-day, the sheer immediacy and truth of the quotidian…and the images that lead, sometimes via fairly roundabout paths, to metaphor.” Later, as you reread and revise, what do you discover is the subject of your poem? What might have organically insinuated itself into your poem?

Seeding Black Futures: Ariana Benson and Ashia Ajani

Caption: 

In this virtual reading hosted by the Oak Spring Garden Foundation and Furious Flower Poetry Center, Lauren K. Alleyne introduces Ashia Ajani, who reads from their debut collection, Heirloom (Write Bloody Publishing, 2023), and Ariana Benson, who reads from their debut collection, Black Pastoral (University of Georgia Press, 2023), winner of the 2022 Cave Canem Poetry Prize.

Genre: 
Poetry
Tags: 
Ariana Benson
Black Pastoral
University of Georgia Press
Ashia Ajani
Heirloom
Write Bloody Publishing
Lauren K. Alleyne
Furious Flower Poetry Center
reading
conversation
2024

Ocean Vuong in Conversation With Cathy Park Hong

Caption: 

In this event hosted by the Townsend Center for the Humanities and the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Ocean Vuong talks about his journey through poetry and teaching, how his voice and understanding of genre have changed, and whether or not poetry can change the world in a conversation with Cathy Park Hong. “I’ve always been doubtful of myself, of my work, of my life. But when I’m writing, when I’m inside the poem, I rarely feel true fear,” says Vuong.

Genre: 
Poetry
Fiction
Cross-Genre
Tags: 
Ocean Vuong
Cathy Park Hong
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Townsend Center for the Humanities
interview
conversation
2024

Mot Juste

The Time Is Now
5.28.24

“I told a friend about a spill at the grocery store, which—the words ‘conveyor belt’ vanishing midsentence—took place on a ‘supermarket treadmill,’” writes Madeleine Schwartz in a recent essay published by New York Times Magazine about her experience of negotiating with and toggling between the French and English languages after moving from New York to Paris. In the piece, Schwartz notes that as she became more comfortable with living and thinking in French, she noticed a blurring of her linguistic capabilities, including a muddling of her articulative abilities in English. Think about a time or situation when words have failed you, or you’ve drawn a blank as to the mot juste. Write a poem that traces or enacts a loss of language, perhaps using invented words, phrases, and spellings or experimenting with font sizes, line breaks, and spacing.

Night at the Museum

The Time Is Now
5.21.24

If you could spend a night at any museum, which would you choose, and why? The French publisher Editions Stock has a series of books that begins with this premise—each author selects a museum, arrangements are made for an overnight stay, and a book is written about the experience. In Jakuta Alikavazovic’s Like a Sky Inside, translated from the French by Daniel Levin Becker, she spends a night at the Louvre in Paris, where childhood memories of visits with her father are vividly recalled. “From March 7 to 8, 2020, I spent the night in the Louvre, alone. Alone and at the same time anything but,” writes Alikavazovic. Write a poem that imagines a night at a museum of your choosing, anywhere in the world. What memories will you excavate from this imagined, solitary experience?

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