Genre: Poetry

Vermont Studio Center

Vermont Studio Center (VSC) offers two-, three-, and four-week residencies year-round to poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, and translators in Johnson, Vermont, a village located in the heart of the northern Green Mountains. VSC offers time and space to write, readings, craft talks, and individual consultations with invited visiting writers. Residents are provided with a private room, a private or shared bathroom, private studio space, and meals as well as shared access to a kitchen and communal spaces.

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RESIDENCY
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Event Date: 
August 15, 2025
Rolling Admissions: 
no
Application Deadline: 
September 30, 2025
Financial Aid?: 
yes
Free Admission: 
no
Contact Information: 

Vermont Studio Center, 80 Pearl Street, P.O. Box 613, Johnson, VT 05656. (802) 635-2727.

Contact City: 
Johnson
Contact State: 
VT
Contact Zip / Postal Code: 
05656
Country: 
US
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A large red building with a gray roof next to a river.
Genre: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction
Translation

REC.ON Ecovillage Artist & Writing Residency

The REC.ON Ecovillage Artist & Writing Residency offers two- to four-week residencies year-round to poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, and translators in the picturesque village of La Mata de Bolaimí near the Sierra María–Los Vélez mountains in Andalucía, Spain. Residents are provided with a private single- or double-occupancy room in a restored rural house and have shared access to a kitchen, a living room, a permaculture garden, and outdoor writing spaces. Residents can also work in the REC.ON gallery, a coworking and exhibition space for focused writing.

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

REC.ON Ecovillage Artist & Writing Residency, Paraje Bolaimí s/n 04820 Vélez Rubio, Almería, Spain. Paulina Bielecka, Owner. 

Paulina Bielecka
Owner
Contact City: 
Vélez Rubio, Almería
Country: 
ES
Genre: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction
Translation

List og Land Northern Lights Residency

The List og Land Northern Lights Residency offers three-week residencies from October 1 to October 24 and from November 1 to November 24 at Laugaból Farm on Arnarfjörður, a fjord in Iceland, to poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, and translators. Residents who lodge at the farmhouse are provided with a double-occupancy room, two shared bathrooms, a full kitchen, a dining room, and a living room.

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

List og Land Northern Lights Residency, Laugaból 0, 466 Bildadalur, Westfjörds, Iceland. (323) 552-1294. Leslie Schwartz, Cofounder.

Leslie Schwartz
Cofounder
Contact City: 
Arnarfjörður
Country: 
IS
Genre: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction
Translation

Kaatsbaan Weekend Retreats

The Kaatsbaan Weekend Retreats offer three-day residencies from October 3 to October 5 and from November 21 to November 23 at Kaatsbaan Cultural Park, a 153-acre artist sanctuary in Tivoli, New York, to poets, fiction writers, creative nonfictions writers, and translators. Residents are provided with private motel-style rooms, which include a desk, an en suite bathroom, and views of the surrounding countryside, in the Dancers’ Inn. Residents may also lodge in a two-bedroom unit at the Gatehouse Apartments, which includes a private entrance and bathroom, a full kitchen, and a living area.

Type: 
RESIDENCY
Ignore Event Date Field?: 
no
Event Date: 
October 3, 2025
Rolling Admissions: 
yes
Application Deadline: 
August 15, 2025
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
August 15, 2025
Free Admission: 
no
Contact Information: 

Kaatsbaan Weekend Retreats, Kaatsbaan Cultural Park, P.O. Box 482, Tivoli, NY 12583. (845) 757-5106, ext. 17. Adam Weinert, Residency and Events Manager.

Adam Weinert
Residency and Events Manager
Contact City: 
Tivoli
Contact State: 
NY
Contact Zip / Postal Code: 
12583
Country: 
US
Genre: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction
Translation

SoCal Poets Lester Graves Lennon and Sehba Sarwar

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In this Poetry.LA video, Altadena co-poets laureate Lester Graves Lennon and Sehba Sarwar read a selection of their poems and speak about how the Eaton Fire has affected their lives and community. Lennon and Sarwar were recently awarded a fellowship from the Academy of American Poets to launch their poetry project “After the Fires: Healing from Histories.”

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Poetry
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Lester Graves Lennon
Sehba Sarwar
poet laureate
Poetry.LA interview series
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2025

The Poem I Wish I Had Read: For What Binds Us

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“There are names for what binds us: / strong forces, weak forces. / Look around, you can see them.” Danusha Laméris reads and talks about “For What Binds Us” by Jane Hirshfield and shares why this poem is meaningful to her for “The Poem I Wish I Had Read” series in this video from the Boutelle-Day Poetry Center at Smith College.

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Poetry
Tags: 
Danusha Laméris
Jane Hirshfield
The Poem I Wish I Had Read Series
Smith College
For What Binds Us

Beyond Stability

The Time Is Now
8.12.25

“I often think of poetry as something that is beyond the true and the false,” says poet and critic Michael Leong on what he feels is true about the art of poetry in a Literary Hub interview with Peter Mishler. “Poetry’s strangeness is so tied up with how it productively messes with what we previously thought were stable truths and stable falsehoods.” Taking inspiration from this notion that poetry exists in a space that is “beyond the true and the false,” write a poem that explores a seemingly stable truth or falsehood, one that you may be interested in interrogating and undermining. Experiment with using surrealist imagery, playing with expanding far out into the white space of the page to stretch further into the incongruity of your subject.

Evaristo Prize for African Poetry

African Poetry Book Fund
Entry Fee: 
$0
Deadline: 
November 1, 2025
A prize of $1,500 is given annually for a group of poems by an African poet who has not published a full-length collection. Writers who were born in Africa, who are nationals or residents of an African country, or whose parents are African are eligible. Using only the online submission system, submit 10 published or unpublished poems of up to 40 lines each by November 1. There is no entry fee. Visit the website for complete guidelines.

Poetry Prize

Lightscatter Press
Entry Fee: 
$30
Deadline: 
September 17, 2025
A prize of $1,000, multimodal publication by Lightscatter Press, and 25 author copies is given annually for a poetry collection or hybrid work by an emerging writer. Heid E. Erdrich will judge. Using only the online submission system, submit a manuscript of 48 to 64 pages with a $30 entry fee (waivers are available upon request and given based on financial need) by September 17. Visit the website for complete guidelines.

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