Genre: Poetry

Bread Loaf Translators’ Conference

January/February 2025

The 2025 Bread Loaf Translators’ Conference will be held from June 15 to June 21 in the Green Mountains of Ripton, Vermont. The conference, designed for both emerging and established translators, features translation workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, as well as lectures, craft classes, meetings with editors and agents, and readings by faculty and guests. The faculty includes translators Jennifer Grotz, Anton Hur, Madhu H. Kaza, Aaron Robertson, Damion Searls, and Matvei Yankelevich.

Type: 
CONFERENCE
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Event Date: 
June 15, 2025
Rolling Admissions: 
ignore
Application Deadline: 
September 17, 2025
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
September 17, 2025
Free Admission: 
no
Contact Information: 

Bread Loaf Conferences, Bread Loaf Translators’ Conference, Middlebury College, 204 College Street, Middlebury, VT 05753. (802) 443-5286. Jason Lamb, Coordinator.

Jason Lamb
Coordinator
Contact City: 
Ripton
Contact State: 
VT
Contact Zip / Postal Code: 
05753
Country: 
US
Genre: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction
Translation

Creekside Arts Artist-Residency Program

January/February 2025

Creekside Arts offered three-week residencies from mid-May to early June to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers on the coastal redwoods of Freshwater, California. Residents were provided with a private room, kitchen, bathroom, and studio in a cottage, cabin, tiny house, or Airstream trailer, as well as access to collaborative work spaces where gatherings are held with other residents, permanent members of the Creekside Arts community, and artists from the larger Humboldt County.

Type: 
RESIDENCY
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yes
Event Date: 
September 17, 2025
Rolling Admissions: 
ignore
Application Deadline: 
September 17, 2025
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
September 17, 2025
Free Admission: 
no
Contact Information: 

Creekside Arts Artist-Residency Program, 475 Howard Heights Road, Eureka, CA 95503. (707) 998-8452. Marceau Verdiere, Creekside Arts Residency Coordinator.

Marceau Verdiere
Creekside Arts Residency Coordinator
Contact City: 
Freshwater
Contact State: 
CA
Country: 
US
Genre: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction

The Writer’s Hotel Maine All-Genre “Mini MFA” Writers Conference

January/February 2025

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.

Type: 
CONFERENCE
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yes
Event Date: 
September 17, 2025
Rolling Admissions: 
ignore
Application Deadline: 
September 17, 2025
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
September 17, 2025
Free Admission: 
no
Contact Information: 

The Writer’s Hotel Maine All-Genre “Mini MFA” Writers Conference, P.O. Box 472, Brunswick, ME 04011. Shanna McNair, Founding Director.

Shanna McNair
Founding Director
Contact City: 
Phippsburg
Contact State: 
ME
Contact Zip / Postal Code: 
04562
Country: 
US
Genre: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction

Playa Flamingo Writing Residency in Costa Rica

January/February 2024

The Playa Flamingo Writing Residency, sponsored by Atmosphere Press, offered two five-day residencies from May to August to poets, fiction writers, nonfiction writers, and translators at the Punta Plata condominium in Playa Flamingo, a white sand beach located in Guanacaste, Costa Rica. The residency featured space and time to write and an online reading in which residents presented their work. Residents were provided with a two-bedroom condo that included two bathrooms, a full kitchen, a patio, private beach access, and a shared outdoor pool.

Type: 
RESIDENCY
Ignore Event Date Field?: 
yes
Event Date: 
September 17, 2025
Rolling Admissions: 
ignore
Application Deadline: 
September 17, 2025
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
September 17, 2025
Free Admission: 
yes
Contact Information: 

Playa Flamingo Writing Residency in Costa Rica, 7107 Foxtree Cove, Austin, TX 78750. (518) 764-1918. Lisa Mottolo, Assistant Editor of Atmosphere Press.

Lisa Mottolo
Assistant Editor
Contact City: 
Guanacaste
Country: 
CR
Genre: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction
Translation

Aldo and Estella Leopold Residency

January/February 2025

The Aldo and Estella Leopold Residency offers 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” are eligible. An additional residency is offered in a single-room casita overlooking the Galisteo Basin Preserve in Galisteo, New Mexico.

Type: 
RESIDENCY
Ignore Event Date Field?: 
no
Event Date: 
May 1, 2025
Rolling Admissions: 
ignore
Application Deadline: 
September 17, 2025
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
September 17, 2025
Free Admission: 
yes
Contact Information: 

Aldo and Estella Leopold Residency, P.O. Box 40122, Albuquerque, NM 87196. (973) 476-9112. Nina Simon, Program Director.

Nina Simon
Program Director
Contact City: 
Tres Piedras
Contact State: 
NM
Contact Zip / Postal Code: 
87577
Country: 
US
Genre: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction

On a Winter’s Night

The Time Is Now
12.3.24

“You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino’s new novel, If on a winter’s night a traveler. Relax. Concentrate. Dispel every other thought. Let the world around you fade,” wrote Italo Calvino on the first page of his 1979 novel, translated from the Italian by William Weaver. Calvino’s postmodern structure comprises twenty-two sections, with each odd-numbered passage narrated by a second-person “you” (you, the reader; you, a character). Each even-numbered passage, in turn, is the start of a new work, a fictional book that the “you” character discovers and reads, only to find that it ends abruptly and picks up in the next even-numbered passage as an entirely different work. Taking a cue from this puzzle of an approach, compose a poem that alternates between two narratives united by a winter’s night. How might a second-person “you” character be utilized in your poem? Is there an emotional progression connected to the accumulation of images and themes?

After: Poetry Destroys Silence

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Watch the trailer for After: Poetry Destroys Silence, a cinematic performance film directed by Richard Kroehling and starring Cornelius Eady, Edward Hirsch, Melissa Leo, Géza Röhrig, and a cast of celebrated award-winning poets who respond to the Holocaust and talk about the importance and necessity for poetry in a world that still grapples with genocide.

Genre: 
Poetry
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After: Poetry Destroys Silence
movie trailer
documentary
Cornelius Eady
Melissa Leo
Géza Röhrig
Edward Hirsch
2024

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