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Vermont Studio Center

March/April 2025

The Vermont Studio Center 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. Residents are provided with time and space to write, as well as readings, craft talks, and one-on-one manuscript consultations with invited visiting writers. Residents receive a private room, a private studio, and meals. The cost of the residency is $2,700 for a two-week stay, $3,825 for a three-week stay, and $4,950 for a four-week stay.

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RESIDENCY
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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: 

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

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Johnson
Contact State: 
VT
Contact Zip / Postal Code: 
05656
Country: 
US
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Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction
Translation

Irene Solà: I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Toward Darkness

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In this Green Apple Books event, Irene Solà celebrates the English language release of her third novel, I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Toward Darkness (Graywolf Press, 2025), translated from the Catalan by Mara Faye Lethem, with a reading and discussion with author Shruti Swamy. Solà’s novel is featured in Page One in the July/August issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

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Fiction
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Irena Solà
I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Toward Darkness
Graywolf Press
novel
Shruti Swamy
Page One
July/August 2025
Green Apple Books

All So Different

The Time Is Now
6.25.25

“It was all so different than he expected. / For years he’d been agnostic; now he meditated. / For years he’d dreamed of being an artist living abroad; / now he reread Baudelaire, Emerson, Bishop. / He’d never considered marriage … / Still, a force through the green fuse did drive.” So begins Henri Cole’s poem “At Sixty-Five,” which appears in The Other Love, forthcoming in July from Farrar, Straus and Giroux, a collection in which Cole reflects on the shifting observations of a person as they age and gain new perspective on the passing of time and the accumulation of memories. Write a short story from the point of view of someone older than you, which begins with the sentence “It was all so different than I expected.” Is your inclination to plot out key milestones in your character’s life before you begin writing or to simply see where the character’s meditations take you?

City Lights Live: Jon Hickey

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In this virtual City Lights Live event, Jon Hickey reads from and talks about his debut novel, Big Chief (Simon & Schuster, 2025), in a conversation with author Tomas Moniz. Hickey is featured in “First Fiction 2025” in the July/August issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

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Fiction
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Jon Hickey
Big Chief
Simon & Schuster
debut novel
City Lights Live
Tomas Moniz
First Fiction 2025
July/August 2025

Kyung-Ran Jo on Her Writing Process

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In this Literature Translation Institute of Korea interview, Kyung-Ran Jo talks about how writing helps her preserve a sense of herself and shares her process of starting with a voice before subject matter. Jo’s novel Blowfish (Astra House, 2025), translated from the Korean by Chi-Young Kim, is featured in Page One in the July/August issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

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Fiction
Translation
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Kyung-Ran Jo
Blowfish
Astra House
Chi-Young Kim
Literature Translation Institute of Korea
Korean
novel
Page One
July/August 2025

MacDowell

July/August 2025

MacDowell offers residencies of up to six weeks year-round to poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, and translators on 450 acres near Mt. Monadnock in Peterborough, New Hampshire. Residents are provided with a private studio and work space, as well as three daily chef-prepared meals and access to the James Baldwin Library. Stipends and travel reimbursement grants are available based on financial need.

Type: 
RESIDENCY
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no
Event Date: 
March 1, 2026
Rolling Admissions: 
no
Application Deadline: 
September 10, 2025
Financial Aid?: 
yes
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
September 10, 2025
Free Admission: 
yes
Contact Information: 

MacDowell, 100 High Street, Peterborough, NH 03458. (603) 924-3886, ext. 113. David Macy, Resident Director.

David Macy
Resident Director
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Peterborough
Contact State: 
NH
Contact Zip / Postal Code: 
03458
Country: 
US
Genre: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction
Translation

Desert Nights, Rising Stars Writers Conference

July/August 2025

The Desert Nights, Rising Stars Writers Conference, sponsored by the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing at Arizona State University (ASU), will be held from October 9 to October 11 at the Memorial Union and Old Main buildings on the university’s campus in Tempe, Arizona. The theme for the 2025 conference is “Iconic Stories: Today and Tomorrow.” Programming includes craft talks, classes, generative workshops, panels, readings, and events focused on the business of writing for poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, and translators.

Type: 
CONFERENCE
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no
Event Date: 
October 9, 2025
Rolling Admissions: 
no
Application Deadline: 
July 30, 2025
Financial Aid?: 
yes
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
August 1, 2025
Free Admission: 
no
Contact Information: 

Desert Nights, Rising Stars Writers Conference, c/o Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing, P.O. Box 875002, Tempe, AZ 85827. (210) 294-3669. Sheila Black, Assistant Director.

Sheila Black
Assistant Director
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Tempe
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AZ
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85281
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US
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Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction
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