Genre: Fiction

Writeaways

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
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Event Date: 
August 8, 2025
Rolling Admissions: 
ignore
Application Deadline: 
August 8, 2025
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
August 8, 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

Southern Vermont Writers’ Conference

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
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yes
Event Date: 
August 8, 2025
Rolling Admissions: 
ignore
Application Deadline: 
August 8, 2025
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
August 8, 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

Shannaghe Residency Program

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
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no
Event Date: 
April 1, 2025
Rolling Admissions: 
ignore
Application Deadline: 
August 8, 2025
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
August 8, 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

Adriatic Writers Conference

The inaugural 2025 Adriatic Writers Conference was held from May 10 to May 17 at the Hotel Bellevue on Lošinj island in Croatia. Programming included small-group workshops, craft classes, a one-on-one meeting with a writing instructor, master classes, and generative writing sessions for fiction writers and memoirists. The faculty included fiction and creative nonfiction writers Jo Piazza and Kristin Vuković and memoirist Rosie Schaap. The cost of the conference, which included lodging in the conference hotel, daily breakfast, and a welcome and farewell dinner, was $3,500.

Type: 
CONFERENCE
Ignore Event Date Field?: 
yes
Event Date: 
August 8, 2025
Rolling Admissions: 
ignore
Application Deadline: 
August 8, 2025
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
August 8, 2025
Free Admission: 
no
Contact Information: 

Adriatic Writers Conference, Čikat Street 9, 51550 Mali Lošinj, Croatia. Kristin Vuković, Founder. 

Kristin Vuković
Founder
Contact City: 
Lošinj, Croatia
Contact Zip / Postal Code: 
51550

Poured Over With Karl Ove Knausgaard

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In this episode of Poured Over: The Barnes & Noble Podcast with host Jenna Seery, Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgaard talks about how his novel The Morning Star (Penguin Press, 2021) unexpectedly became a longer series and how he wrote the many characters and perspectives in the third book of the series, The Third Realm (Penguin Press, 2024).

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Meat Me

12.4.24

Restaurants in Dhaka have begun serving human meat in the world of Bangladeshi author Mojaffor Hossain’s short story “Meet Human Meat,” translated from the Bengali by Mohammad Shafiqul Islam. The characters in the story discuss this new trend with matter-of-factness, talking about logistics like supply and demand, how it’s advertised on menus, where the humans are sourced, the various modes of preparation, and dish accompaniments. Hossain uses this satirical conceit to touch upon larger topics, such as the Rohingya refugee crisis with restaurants serving “the meat of Rohingyas.” Write a short story that hinges on an outrageous idea, using it as a conceit for larger themes you’re interested in exploring. You may find that setting your story in a universe in which something taboo is commonplace and unremarkable will allow you some unexpected creative freedom.

Percival Everett on Late Night

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In this Late Night With Seth Meyers interview, Percival Everett talks about how Mark Twain, among others, influenced the sense of irony in his writing and how a game of tennis impacted the premise of his novel James (Doubleday, 2024), for which he won the 2024 National Book Award in fiction.

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Written in the Cards

11.27.24

Fools and lovers, emperors and empresses, devils and death, chariots and towers, moons and stars: The cards of a tarot deck are filled with scenes and images of a colorful assortment of characters, arcane symbols, flora and fauna, and celestial ephemera that can spark one’s imagination. In Chelsey Pippin Mizzi’s guidebook Tarot for Creativity: A Guide for Igniting Your Creative Practice (Chronicle Books, 2024), the symbols and archetypes on each of the seventy-eight cards are described in a way to fuel creativity and experimentation. Consider this creative connection to tarot and write a story in which one of your characters stumbles upon an errant tarot card at a crucial moment of indecision. Search online or through a book for a tarot card that resonates with the tone or theme of your narrative. What is depicted on the card and how does your character read into the imagery?

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