Genre: Fiction

Atticus Hotel Artist-in-Residency Program

The Atticus Hotel Artist-in-Residency Program offers residencies of four days, one week, or two weeks from November 15 to April 1 at the Atticus Hotel in downtown McMinnville, Oregon, to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers. Residents are provided a room with a fireplace, complementary espresso, and other hotel amenities including a fitness room and the option to use the drawing room or board room as a work space. One meal credit a day at the hotel’s onsite Mediterranean-inspired restaurant, Cypress, is provided. Travel and other expenses are not included.

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RESIDENCY
Ignore Event Date Field?: 
no
Event Date: 
November 15, 2026
Rolling Admissions: 
no
Application Deadline: 
July 31, 2026
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
June 11, 2026
Free Admission: 
yes
Contact Information: 

Atticus Hotel Artist-in-Residency Program, 375 NE Ford Street, McMinnville, OR 97128. (503) 472-1975. Erin Stephenson, Co-owner. 

Erin Stephenson
Co-owner
Contact City: 
McMinnville
Contact State: 
OR
Contact Zip / Postal Code: 
97128
Country: 
US

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Teen Life

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Holding Space

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Choose an ordinary setting for a new story: a laundromat, a corner store, a waiting room, a kitchen table. Treat this place not just as background, but as an active force in the lives of your characters. Think about how your characters encounter and become one with this space. How are the lighting choices, particular sounds, and the rhythm of people and objects a factor in shaping the emotions of those who inhabit them? What hidden meaning emerges when you linger on what first seems mundane?

Orhan Pamuk: The Museum of Innocence

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In this Louisiana Channel interview, Nobel Prize–winning author Orhan Pamuk talks about being known as a political writer and how his novel The Museum of Innocence (Knopf, 2009) led to the establishment of a real-life museum of the same name in Istanbul, Turkey, which offers a meditation on memory, objects, and storytelling.

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Dua Lipa on the Power of Translated Fiction

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“There really isn’t anything quite like a book to understand the perspective of others, and translated fiction takes that even further.” In this video, singer, songwriter, and host of the Service95 Book Club podcast Dua Lipa delivers the opening speech for the tenth anniversary of the International Booker Prize about the impact and importance of translated literature.

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