Thriller Guy has a goddamn cold. First one in ten years and
it’s really kicking his butt. So rather than ranting on and on, he’s going to
pass along a valuable document, shut down the computer and go back to his
armchair. But first…
A fun fact to know and use for thriller writers. A Pipe Hitter
is a term used by special forces to describe someone, either friend or foe, who
is willing to do anything to achieve
his mission. Anything.
Regular readers of this blog know that writer Allen Appel is
a big fan of the artist fellowship writing program at the Virginia Center for
Creative Arts. In the last 2+ years Appel has completed two novels, doing most
of the original draft work while in residence at VCCA. Many of the other
artists there spend much of their year travelling from one of these residencies
to another. A web search will turn up lots of possibilities, but Thriller Guy
offers this list for writers in particular. Note that many of them pay travel
expenses and some also offer stipends as well. Read the list, dream and maybe
even apply.
You’re
welcome.
James Merrill House, located in Stonington, Connecticut, offers
one four and a half residency between mid-January and the end of May, and three
or four shorter residencies of 2 to 6 weeks during the months between Labor Day
and mid-January. The fellowship provides living and working space to a writer
in search of a quiet setting to complete a project of literary or academic
merit. The Writer-in-Residence program includes a US$5000 stipend for the
extended term with smaller stipends offered for the brief residencies.
Applications close 15 January.
Philip Roth Residence
in Creative Writing
This
residency is hosted by Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. Named
for the University’s renowned literary alumnus and initiated in the fall of
1993, the Philip Roth Residence in Creative Writing offers up to four months of
unfettered writing time for a writer working on a first or second book. The
program provides lodging in Poets’ Cottage and a stipend of US$4000.
Applications close on 1 February.
This program is offered by The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. It
offers residencies to mid-career professionals in the arts and humanities,
including writers. The residencies last between one and three months and take
place at The Dora Maar House in Ménerbes, France. For fellowships between
1 July and 15 December 2015, applications must be submitted by 15 February.
Each year Can Serrat Centre near Barcelona, Spain, offers two
writers a full stipend which entitles them to a 30-day residency including free
accommodation, breakfasts and dinners. The residency is open to writers in all
fields regardless of nationality or age. All chosen candidates have the
opportunity to do a reading / exhibition at the centre. There are two selection
rounds: the first closes on 1 March and the second on 1 August.
This month-long
residency offers eight established writers of non-fiction an opportunity
to develop a major essay, memoir, or feature piece for a CA$2000 commission.
Held at The Banff Centre’s Leighton Artists’ Colony studios, it enables
writers to work on their manuscripts during individual consultations with
faculty and during round-table discussions. Participants are required to arrive
with a fully reported and typed first draft of their project, and must complete
a final, publishable draft of between 5000 and 7500 words by the time they
leave. Past participants of the program have represented
thought-provoking writers across Canada, however international applications are
equally welcomed. The application deadline is 18 March.
Jack Kerouac Writer in
Residence Project
The
Kerouac Project provides four residencies a year to writers living anywhere in
the world. Each residency consists of approximately a three-month stay in
Orlando, Florida, in the cottage where Jack Kerouac wrote his novel Dharma Bums. Utilities and a food stipend of US$800 are included. The
Project also offers opportunities for residents to participate in readings,
workshops and to interact with the central Florida writing community.
Applications for the 2015-2016 residencies close on 31 March and results will
be announced in May.
Danish Centre for
Writers and Translators
Since
1999 the Danish Centre for Writers and Translators has offered writers,
translators and illustrators free working residencies at the old manor Hald
Hovedgaard, situated 10 kilometres from the town of Viborg, in the middle of
Denmark.The Centre offers four-week residencies to published international
authors who have had at least two books of fiction or poetry
published. Applications are expected to open in March and close in April.
Norman Mailer Center
and Writers Colony
The
Norman Mailer Center and Writers Colony offers Summer Fellowships for fiction,
nonfiction and poetry writers during the second half of 2015 at the
University of Utah in Salt Lake City. Five applicants (including one from
the State of Utah) will be chosen for this in-residence program. Each
successful fellow receives full tuition and housing for the entire three-week
period of their stay. Applications close in April.
Centre d’Art Marnay Art Centre
The Centre d’Art Marnay Art Cenre offers residencies year-round
to writers and other artists in the Champagne-Ardenne region of northern
France. The program aims to support residents in their ‘creative explorations,
investigations, and professional growth, within an environment of communication
and exchange.’ Residents are housed in seven recently renovated
studios. The centre offers two scholarships for two-month retreats, one is
co-sponsored by UNESCO and the other sponsored by the Ténot Foundation. General
applications are considered on a rolling basis.
Built in 1902, Gladstone’s
Library is the UK’s only residential library. The Library’s Writers in
Residence program began in 2011. Four residencies are offered each year with
each writer staying at the Library for a month. The Writers in Residence are
asked to keep a blog about their stay, as well as running a creative writing
workshop. Residents receive full room and board, reimbursement for travel
expenses and a small stipend of £100 per week. Applications close 30 May.
This residency for women
writers is located on Whidbey Island, about thirty-five miles northwest of
Seattle. The program is open to all women writers, whether their work has been
published yet or not. Applications open in June.
The Scotland Writing
Residency is located in Brora, a coastal village in the east of Sutherland in
the Highland area of Scotland. The writer resides, for one week during summer
or fall, in a furnished and recently renovated, traditional croft cottage,
containing three-bedrooms. The residency does not come with a cash
prize. Applications close 12 August.
Jentel is located on a
1000 acre working cattle ranch 20 miles southeast of Sheridan, Wyoming. It
offers individuals a supportive environment in which to further their
creative development. Applications for Summer/Fall Residencies close in January
and applications for Winter/Spring Residencies closes on 15 September.
Founded by artists in
1984, the Vermont Studio Center is the largest international artists’ and
writers’ residency program in the United States. Each month the Center hosts 16
writers from across the country and around the world, as well as 24 painters/mixed-media
artists, 12 sculptors/mixed-media artists, 2 printmakers and 2
photographers. The residencies take place on a historic 30-building campus
along the Gihon River in Johnson, Vermont, and run for between 2 and 12
weeks. The next three applications rounds in 2015; the deadlines are 15
February, 15 June and 1 October.
Berton House is located
in Dawson City, Yukon. Professional Canadian writers who have published at
least one book and are established in any creative literary discipline
(fiction, non-fiction, poetry, play/screenwriting, journalism) may apply for a
three-month residency. Applications close in October.
Since it was founded in
1992 it has hosted hundreds of authors and translators, representing more than
fifty countries, including Gary Shteyngart, Kiran Desai and Colum McCann. Ledig
House located in Ghent, New York, two and a half hours from New York City
and guests may select a residency of one week to two months. Applications close
in October.
This program offers
professional writers, as well as composers and visual and performing artists,
the opportunity to ‘pursue their artistic discipline while being surrounded by
the park’s inspiring landscape’. Selected artists stay in a historic cabin for
two-week periods from June through September. Applications are expected to
close in November.
The Amsterdam Writers’
Residency was established by the Dutch Foundation for Literature (Nederlands
Letterenfonds). Since it began over eight years ago it has provided a space for
international writers to live and work in the city. Residents are provided with
an apartment located above the Athenaeum Bookshop. Residents are required
to cover their own travel costs, though the program will actively work
with writers to help locate other funding schemes to assist with such
costs.
Cove Park Literature
Residencies
Cove Park is a Scottish
artists’ retreat located on the Rosneath peninsula, an hour’s drive west of
Glasgow. Literature residencies take place between March and September and last
for between one and three months. Applications are invited from established
writers of short and long fiction; poetry; creative non-fiction and memoir;
work that crosses these genres and also writers who have made their reputation
in one field and wish to develop in another. To be eligible for consideration,
writers must have published at least one full-length book in their field.
Applications close in December.
This is a unique residency
for writers in the crucial early stages of their careers. Located in
Provincetown, Massachusetts, the Work Center provides seven-month fellowships
to twenty fellows each year in the form of living/work space and a modest
monthly stipend. Residencies run from 1 October 30 April. Applications close on
1 December.
Sarabande Writing
Residency
The Sarabande Writing
Residency offers an annual residency of two to six weeks to a poet,
fiction writer, or creative nonfiction writer at Bernheim Arboretum and
Research Forest, a 14,000-acre nature preserve near Louisville, Kentucky.
Residents receive a US$500 travel stipend and a two to six-week stay in a
private, fully equipped cottage on the Bernheim grounds. Residents offer one
public reading or discussion during their tenure and may devote the rest of
their time to writing in Bernheim’s extensive forest, gardens and
arboretum.
This is really cool, thank you for the list, with links no less. Hope you feel better. May be going to 'the' range Monday if you are up to it. :)
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