Literary MagNet: Greg Schutz
The author of Joyriders highlights journals and platforms that have offered his short stories a home, including Alaska Quarterly Review and American Short Fiction.
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Genre: Fiction
La Baldi Residency
The La Baldi Residency, sponsored by the arts collective Cultivate, will offer two-week and one-month residencies from April through October to poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, and translators in apartments and a small terratetto house in the historic hilltop village of Montegiovi, Italy. Residents will stay in private lodging with a fully equipped kitchen, a bathroom, and an outside sitting area. Some lodging options include a study. Individual writers and collaborative teams may apply.
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RESIDENCY
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Event Date:
April 1, 2025
Rolling Admissions:
ignore
Application Deadline:
July 26, 2025
Financial Aid?:
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline:
July 26, 2025
Free Admission:
no
Contact Information:
La Baldi Residency, 15504 Moravia Court, Derwood, MD 20855. Susan Main, Cultivate Director.
Susan Main
Cultivate Director
Contact City:
Montegiovi
Country:
IT
Iceland Writers Retreat
The 2025 Iceland Writers Retreat was from April 23 to April 27 at the Fosshotel in Reykjavík. The retreat features workshops, panels, lectures, receptions, and time to write for fiction and nonfiction writers, as well as literary tours of Iceland. The faculty included fiction writers Kevin Chong, Pedro Gunnlaugur Garcia, Meng Jin, Jonas Hassen Khemiri, and Curtis Sittenfeld; fiction and nonfiction writers Jann Arden, Yrsa Daley-Ward, Helen Macdonald, and Danny Ramadan; and nonfiction writers Thordis Elva and Rick Jervis. The cost of the retreat was 310,000 ISK (approximately $2,202).
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RESIDENCY
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Event Date:
July 26, 2025
Rolling Admissions:
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Application Deadline:
July 26, 2025
Financial Aid?:
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline:
July 26, 2025
Free Admission:
no
Contact Information:
Iceland Writers Retreat, P.O. Box 76, 212 Gardabaer, Iceland. Erica Jacobs Green and Eliza Reid, Cofounders.
Erica Jacobs Green and Eliza Reid
Cofounders
Contact City:
Reykjavík
Country:
IS
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Squam Writes Retreat
Squam Writes offered a retreat from June 5 to June 8 to fiction and creative nonfiction writers at Rockywold Deephaven Camps, a historic resort campsite on the shores of Squam Lake in Holderness, New Hampshire. Residents were provided lodging in cottages, cabins, and lodge rooms along the shores of the lake; time to write; and the opportunity to join optional craft-focused workshops led by the codirectors as well as optional peer critique groups. Professional feedback on your writing was available for an additional $75. The faculty included novelists Jilly Gagnon and Melissa Hed.
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RESIDENCY
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Event Date:
July 26, 2025
Rolling Admissions:
ignore
Application Deadline:
July 26, 2025
Financial Aid?:
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline:
July 26, 2025
Free Admission:
no
Contact Information:
Squam Writes Retreat, 18 Bacon Road, Holderness, NH 03245. Jilly Gagnon and Melissa Hed, Codirectors.
Jilly Gagnon and Melissa Hed
Codirectors
Contact City:
Holderness
Contact State:
NH
Country:
US
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Fiction Meets Science Residency
The Fiction Meets Science Residency offers up to two residencies of three to ten months annually to fiction and nonfiction writers at the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg Institute for Advanced Study in Delmenhorst, Germany. Residents are provided with a private apartment and office space at the institute, where they will connect with an interdisciplinary community of guest scientists. Residents are expected to give one lecture or reading and to attend the weekly lectures given by the scientist fellows at the institute.
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RESIDENCY
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yes
Event Date:
July 26, 2025
Rolling Admissions:
ignore
Application Deadline:
July 26, 2025
Financial Aid?:
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline:
July 26, 2025
Free Admission:
no
Contact Information:
Fiction Meets Science Residency, Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg, Lehmkuhlenbusch 4, 27753 Delmenhorst, Germany. Susan M. Gaines, Project Director.
Susan M. Gaines
Project Director
Contact City:
Delmenhorst
Contact Zip / Postal Code:
27753
Country:
DE
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Association of Writers & Writing Programs Conference and Bookfair
The 2025 AWP Conference and Bookfair was held from March 26 to March 29 at the Los Angeles Convention Center and also included a virtual component comprising prerecorded and live streamed events. The conference featured panel discussions, readings, discussion rooms, and a bookfair. Prior to March 25, the cost of the conference for in-person preregistration, including all virtual programming and content, was $375 for nonmembers, $255 for members, $105 for seniors, and $70 for students.
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CONFERENCE
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Event Date:
July 26, 2025
Rolling Admissions:
ignore
Application Deadline:
July 26, 2025
Financial Aid?:
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline:
July 26, 2025
Free Admission:
no
Contact Information:
Association of Writers & Writing Programs Conference and Bookfair, 440 Monticello Avenue, Suite 1802, PMB 73708, Norfolk, VA 23510. (240) 696-8273.
Contact City:
Los Angeles
Contact State:
CA
Contact Zip / Postal Code:
90015
Country:
US
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Chicago Writers Association Conference
The Chicago Writers Association Conference was held from March 21 to March 23 at the Warwick Allerton Hotel in Chicago. The program featured faculty presentations, workshops, panel discussions, master classes, pitch sessions, author interviews, and social events for poets, fiction writers, and nonfiction writers. The faculty included poet Curtis L. Crisler; poet and fiction writer Stuart Dybek; poet, fiction writer, and nonfiction writer Dipika Mukherjee; and fiction writers Ann Garvin, Dana Kaye, Eric Charles May, and Jeremy T. Wilson.
Type:
CONFERENCE
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yes
Event Date:
July 26, 2025
Rolling Admissions:
ignore
Application Deadline:
July 26, 2025
Financial Aid?:
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline:
July 26, 2025
Free Admission:
no
Contact Information:
Chicago Writers Association Conference, P.O. Box 6505, Evanston, IL 60204. (312) 520-5090. Samantha Hoffman, Executive Director.
Samantha Hoffman
Executive Director
Contact City:
Chicago
Contact State:
IL
Contact Zip / Postal Code:
60611
Country:
US
Sitka Center for Art and Ecology Writing Residencies
The Sitka Center for Art and Ecology will offer two- to twelve-week residencies from October 2025 to April 2026 to poets, fiction writers, nonfiction writers, and translators at the center’s adjacent 80-acre property, located within the unique ecosystems of Cascade Head and the Salmon River Estuary in Otis, Oregon. Each resident is provided with a private room, bathroom, and kitchen in a house, as well as private studio space and access to the Hale Reference Library. Residents are responsible for travel and living costs.
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RESIDENCY
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no
Event Date:
October 1, 2025
Rolling Admissions:
ignore
Application Deadline:
July 26, 2025
Financial Aid?:
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline:
July 26, 2025
Free Admission:
no
Contact Information:
Sitka Center for Art and Ecology Writing Residencies, 56605 Sitka Drive, Otis, OR 97368. (541) 994-5485. Maria Elting, Program Manager.
Maria Elting
Program Manager
Contact City:
Otis
Contact State:
OR
Contact Zip / Postal Code:
97368
Country:
US
Edward F. Albee Foundation Residency
The Edward F. Albee Foundation offers monthlong residencies year-round to poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, and translators at the William Flanagan Memorial Creative Persons Center on the eastern terminus of Long Island in Montauk, New York. Residents are provided with en suite bedrooms in a converted horse stable and separate working studios, as well as shared access to a library, a kitchen, and the center’s grounds. There is no cost to attend, although residents are responsible for meals and travel expenses.
Type:
RESIDENCY
Ignore Event Date Field?:
yes
Event Date:
July 26, 2025
Rolling Admissions:
ignore
Application Deadline:
July 26, 2025
Financial Aid?:
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline:
July 26, 2025
Free Admission:
yes
Contact Information:
Edward F. Albee Foundation Residency, 192 Lexington Avenue, Suite 903, New York, NY 10016. (212) 226-2020. Jakob Holder, Executive Director.
Jakob Holder
Executive Director
Contact City:
Montauk
Contact State:
NY
Contact Zip / Postal Code:
11954
Country:
US
Rockland Residency
The Rockland Residency will offer three-week residencies from October 8, 2025, to October 29, 2025, and from January 8, 2026, to January 29, 2026, to poets, fiction writers, nonfiction writers, and translators in the Rockland Woods, located on the Kitsap Peninsula across the Salish Sea from Seattle. Writers who are at least 25 years old and are not enrolled in a creative writing program are eligible.
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RESIDENCY
Ignore Event Date Field?:
no
Event Date:
October 8, 2025
Rolling Admissions:
ignore
Application Deadline:
July 26, 2025
Financial Aid?:
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline:
July 26, 2025
Free Admission:
no
Contact Information:
Rockland Residency, 2615 E Pike Street, Seattle, WA 98122. (206) 799-8209. Jodi Rockwell, Cofounder.
Jodi Rockwell
Cofounder
Contact City:
Kitsap Peninsula
Contact State:
WA
Country:
US
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