Genre: Creative Nonfiction

The Fine Arts Work Center’s 2025 weeklong summer workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction were held at the center from June 15 to August 16 in Provincetown, Massachusetts.

The American University of Paris Summer Creative Writing Institute offered workshops to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers from July 1 to July 23, 2025, on the university’s campus in the seventh arrondissement of Paris. The faculty included poet and fiction writer Siân Melangell Dafydd; poet, fiction writer, and nonfiction writer Biswamit Dwibedy; poet and nonfiction writer Lisa Robertson; and fiction writer Amanda Dennis. The cost of tuition was €2,224 (approximately $2,289) for auditors or €4,448 (approximately $4,577) for transferable academic credit.

The Paris Writer’s Residency offered a monthlong residency in October to poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, and translators at the American University of Paris. The resident is provided with an en suite single or double room, which includes a work desk, at the Irish Cultural Center in Paris. Some rooms include a private study space, and residents have access to a shared kitchen. Access to the library at the Ecole Normale Supérieure is also offered. The resident receives travel reimbursement of up to €1,500 (approximately $1,544).

The Rockland Residency offered a three-week residency from October 8, 2025, to October 29, 2025, and offers a three-week residency 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.