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A prize of $1,750; publication in Brooklyn Rail and Moko as well as on the Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival (BCLF) website; and an invitation to partici
The 29th annual Vermont College of Fine Arts (VCFA) Postgraduate Writers’ Conference will be held from August 3 to August 9 on the Champlain College campus in Burlington, Vermont. Designed for writers with graduate degrees or equivalent experience, the conference features workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, as well as readings, craft talks, and one-on-one consultations with faculty members. Each workshop is limited to five or six participants. The faculty includes poets Eduardo C. Corral, Kathleen Graber, A.
Vermont College of Fine Arts Postgraduate Writers’ Conference, 36 College Street, Montpelier, VT 05602. Ellen Lesser, Director.
Spring ephemerals are plants—generally wildflowers native to deciduous forests such as tulips, daffodils, crocuses, and hyacinths—that bloom only for a very short period in the early spring during the brief window of time when the sun’s light and warmth can extend to the forest floor while the trees have bare branches. Once the overhead canopy is full for the season, the flowers usually die back to dormancy with only their underground parts intact for the remainder of the year. Write a short story that revolves around the theme of an occurrence with a similarly limited time span—and one that happens only rarely. Does knowledge of its fleeting nature compel your characters to perceive or value it in different ways? Is there the possibility of a reoccurrence, however infrequently?
Dedicated to “boundary-breaking prose,” Split/Lip Press is on the hunt for work that raises questions about the status quo and fits their punk aesthetic. The press publishes four titles a year, all selected from open submissions.
Buinho Creative Hub offers residencies of two weeks to three months year-round to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers in the historic town of Messejana, Portugal. Residents are provided with a single- or double-occupancy room in one of three traditional Portuguese houses, as well as access to private and shared studios. The Buinho residence also features a central studio and backyard workshop. The cost of the residency is €800 to €1,000 (approximately $872 to $1,090) per month, depending on the room; transportation and meals are not included.
Buinho Creative Hub Residencies, Rua Nova de São Brás 43, 7600-346 Messejana, Portugal. Carlos Alcobia, General Manager.
For this event at the Korea Society in New York, Crystal Hana Kim speaks about writing her second novel, The Stone Home (William Morrow, 2024), in a conversation with author Susan Choi. Kim’s essay “Thinning the Line: On Multilingual Literature, Cultural Memory, and Writing as Translation” appears in the May/June issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
The Cambridge Writers’ Workshop Budapest and Prague Writing Retreat will be held from July 19 to July 27 in the historic city centers of Budapest and Prague. The retreat features writing and publishing workshops, craft seminars, and generative writing sessions for poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers. The faculty includes poets and prose writers Rita Banerjee and Diana Norma Szokolyai. The cost of the retreat is $4,800, which includes tuition, lodging at Hotel Oktogon in Budapest and Falkensteiner Hotel in Prague, daily breakfast, and special meals.
Cambridge Writers’ Workshop Budapest and Prague Writing Retreat, Cambridge Writers’ Workshop, Inc., Artist’s Row, 24 New Derby Street, Salem, MA 01970. (617) 401-8950. Diana Norma Szokolyai, Executive Artistic Director.
The Cuttyhunk Island Writers’ Residency for fiction writers will be held from September 11 to September 18 at the Avalon Inn on Cuttyhunk Island, seven nautical miles off the coast of southeastern Massachusetts. The residency offers workshops, readings, nightly salons, and time to write. The cost of the residency, which includes workshops, meals, and round-trip transportation on the ferry from New Bedford, Massachusetts, is $1,850 with lodging in a shared room and $2,500 with lodging in a single room. To apply, submit up to 15 pages of prose with a $15 application fee by May 15.
Cuttyhunk Island Writers’ Residency, 4 Cemetery Road, Cuttyhunk, MA 02713. Ben Shattuck, Director.
Headlands Center for the Arts offers four- to ten-week residencies from mid-June to mid-November to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers in the coastal wilderness of the Marin Headlands outside San Francisco. Residents are provided with a private bedroom and work space in a shared house, round-trip airfare, five meals per week, and a $1,000 monthly stipend. Writers not currently enrolled in an academic program are eligible.
Headlands Center for the Arts, 944 Ft. Barry, Sausalito, CA 94965. (415) 331-2787, ext. 24. Holly Blake, Senior Residency Manager.
In Cahoots offers residencies of one or two weeks year-round to poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, and scholars in the countryside of Petaluma, California, in scenic Sonoma County. Residents are provided with individual cottages, each with a private kitchen, bathroom, and studio for writing. The cost of the residency is $950 for one week or $1,600 for two weeks. To apply for residencies between January and May 2025, submit one to three writing samples totaling no more than 10 pages, a project proposal, and a curriculum vitae with a $25 application fee by June 1.
In Cahoots Residency, 198 Liberty Road, Petaluma, CA 94952. Macy Chadwick, Founder and Director.
