Ebony Stewart wins the first Playa Flamingo Writing Residency, apply now for next year

Atmosphere Press is proud to announce the winner of the first annual Playa Flamingo Writing Residency! Ebony Stewart, a remarkable poet, performer, and inspiration, will be the first residency attendant at this beautiful space. As one of the most decorated poets in Texas, Ebony is a respected coach and mentor, one of the top touring […]

The Pat Conroy Residency

The Pat Conroy Residency is accepting applications until December 14, 2022. The nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center offers a Writer’s Residency twice annually—typically in early March and early November, conjoined to our March Forth program and our Pat Conroy Literary Festival respectively. The residency is available to writers of all genres, published or unpublished, unless otherwise noted in the specific call […]

The 2013 Squire Summer Writing Residency

NORTH CAROLINA—The 2013 Squire Summer Writing Residency will be July 11–14 on the campus of Western Carolina University in Cullowhee. The Squire Summer Writing Residency is the Network’s smallest and most intensive conference. Admission is limited to the first fifty registrants who sign up for one of three three-day workshops: Poetry with Kathryn Stripling Byer, […]

Fab Fiction Awards: Applications Due July 15

F. Scott Fitzgerald Literary Conference Short Story Contest Deadline: July 15, 2011 Entry Fee: $25     A prize of $1,000, publication in Potomac Review, and an invitation to speak at the F. Scott Fitzgerald Literary Conference will be given annually for a short story. Richard Peabody will judge. Residents of Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, D.C. are eligible. […]

Bard Fiction Prize Deadline July 15

Bard College Bard Fiction Prize Deadline: July 15, 2011        A prize of $30,000 and a one-semester appointment as writer-in-residence at Bard College is given annually to a U.S. fiction writer under the age of 40. The recipient must give at least one public lecture and meet informally with students, but is not expected […]

Lynchburg College Thornton Writer Residency

Lynchburg College Thornton Writer Residency  Deadline: October 15, 2010   www.lynchburg.edu/thornton.xml A fourteen-week residency at Virginia’s Lynchburg College, including a stipend of $12,000, is awarded annually to a fiction writer for the fall term and a poet or creative nonfiction writer for the spring term. The residency also includes housing, some meals, and roundtrip travel expenses. Writers […]