Genre: Poetry

Writeaways

January/February 2025

Writeaways offered a weeklong retreat from February 24 to March 3 to poets, fiction writers, and nonfiction writers (including creative nonfiction writers) at the Weymouth Center for the Arts & Humanities, a 26-acre estate in Southern Pines, North Carolina. Residents were provided with time and space to write, writing workshops, and private writing consultations. The faculty included poet and fiction writer Mimi Herman and fiction and nonfiction writer John Yewell.

Type: 
RESIDENCY
Ignore Event Date Field?: 
yes
Event Date: 
June 27, 2025
Rolling Admissions: 
ignore
Application Deadline: 
June 27, 2025
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
June 27, 2025
Free Admission: 
no
Contact Information: 

Writeaways, P.O. Box 62012, Durham, NC 27715. Mimi Herman and John Yewell, Codirectors.

Mimi Herman and John Yewell
Codirectors
Contact City: 
Southern Pines
Contact State: 
NC
Contact Zip / Postal Code: 
28388
Country: 
US
Genre: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction

Southern Vermont Writers’ Conference

January/February 2025

The Southern Vermont Writers’ Conference, sponsored by Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning, was held from March 30 to April 4 at the Equinox Resort & Spa in Manchester, Vermont. The program included workshops, craft talks, readings, and faculty presentations for poets, fiction writers, and nonfiction writers, as well as a bookseller event at Northshire Bookstore and an author event at the Manchester Community Library featuring fiction and nonfiction writer Megan Mayhew Bergman.

Type: 
CONFERENCE
Ignore Event Date Field?: 
yes
Event Date: 
June 27, 2025
Rolling Admissions: 
ignore
Application Deadline: 
June 27, 2025
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
June 27, 2025
Free Admission: 
no
Contact Information: 

Southern Vermont Writers’ Conference, Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning, P.O. Box 129, Dorset, VT 05251. Kim Place-Gateau and Caren McVicker, Cofounders.

Kim Place-Gateau and Caren McVicker
Cofounders
Contact City: 
Manchester
Contact State: 
VT
Contact Zip / Postal Code: 
05254
Country: 
US
Genre: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction

Shannaghe Residency Program

January/February 2025

The Shannaghe Residency Program offers two- and four-week residencies from April through November to poets, fiction writers, and nonfiction writers at the Shannaghe residence, a renovated house barn in Belfast, Maine. Residents are provided with private accommodations, which include a room, a workspace, a kitchen, and two bathrooms. The cost of the residency is $100 per week.

Type: 
RESIDENCY
Ignore Event Date Field?: 
no
Event Date: 
April 1, 2025
Rolling Admissions: 
ignore
Application Deadline: 
June 27, 2025
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
June 27, 2025
Free Admission: 
no
Contact Information: 

Shannaghe Residency Program, 121 City Point Road, Belfast, ME 04915. (312) 802-2989. Lee Reilly, Director.

Lee Reilly
Director
Contact City: 
Belfast
Contact State: 
ME
Contact Zip / Postal Code: 
04915
Country: 
US
Genre: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction

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
Ignore Event Date Field?: 
no
Event Date: 
June 15, 2025
Rolling Admissions: 
ignore
Application Deadline: 
June 27, 2025
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
June 27, 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 offers 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 are 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
Ignore Event Date Field?: 
yes
Event Date: 
June 27, 2025
Rolling Admissions: 
no
Application Deadline: 
February 15, 2025
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
June 27, 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

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

Caption: 

Watch the trailer for After: Poetry Destroys Silence, a cinematic performance film directed by Richard Kroehling and starring Cornelius Eady, Edward Hirsh, 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
Tags: 
After: Poetry Destroys Silence
movie trailer
documentary
Cornelius Eady
Edward Hirsh
Melissa Leo
Géza Röhrig
2024

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