Writer and Artist Residencies
An updated list
Hello new and returning Bookish subscribers,
I published a shorter version of this residency list a little less than two years ago, but I’ve since learned of a few more residencies, and several are presently open for applications. The time seemed right for an update.
Many writers and artists, especially those with familial or work-related obligations that make it difficult to get writing or artmaking done at home, opt to apply for residencies that might range from a few days to as many as two months.
Some of the residencies you’ll find contact information for below are generously funded and require a small fee from the writer or artist; others don’t have as much of an endowment to support fellows, and those receiving residencies will, in some cases, need to pay for most of the room and board-related expenses from their own pockets.
U.S. writers and artist residencies:
- Craigardan, 9216 New York 9N, Elizabethtown, NY 12932, (518) 242-6535, info@craigardan.org. Craigardan is an international, interdisciplinary residency in the Adironracks. Waitlist applications for the summer 2025 residency are still being accepted.
- Djerassi Resident Artist Programs, 2325 Bear Gulch Rd, Woodside, CA 94062, (650) 747-1250
- Dorland Mountain Arts, 36701 Highway 79 South, Temecula, CA 92592 (mailing address: P.O. Box 6, Temecula, CA 92593), (951) 302-3837
- Edward Albee Foundation, 91 Fairview Avenue, Montauk, NY, 11954. Use this form to contact the foundation with questions. Note: they are accepting applications now through March 16, 2025.
- Hedgebrook Residency, Whidbey Island, PO Box 1231, Freeland, WA 98249-9911, (360) 321-4786, hedgebrook@hedgebrook.org (this is a women-only residency; women-identifying applicants are considered).
- Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, 218 Los Pandos Rd, Taos, NM 87571, (575) 758-2413
- Jentel Artist Residency, 30 Lower Piney Road, Banner, WY 82832, (307) 737-2311, jentel@jentlarts.org
- MacDowell Residency, 100 High St., Peterborough, NH 03458, (603) 924-3886
- Millay Residency, 45 East Hill Rd, Austerlitz, NY 12017, (518) 392-3103
- Montello Foundation, 195 Chrystie St, #809H, New York, NY 10002, (347) 645-6510. Note: the residencies are in Nevada - more about the location here.
- Ragdale Foundation, 1260 Green Bay Road, Lake Forest, IL 60045, (847) 234-1063, ext. 28. Applications are open through Thursday, May 1 for 2026 residencies.
- Residency on the Farm, Southwest WI (Blanchardville area). Use this form to contact the residency staff with any questions. Summer residency applications are open now. Questions can also be emailed to welcome@residencyonthefarm.org
- Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts, 435 Ellis Hollow Creek Rd, Ithaca, NY 14850, (607) 539-3146, artscolony@saltonstall.org
- Vermont Studio Center, 80 Pearl St., Johnson, VT 05656, (802) 635-2727, info@vermontstudiocenter.org
- Ucross Foundation, 30 Big Red Lane, Clearmont, WY 82835; (307) 737-2291, info@ucross.org
- Yaddo, 312 Union Ave, Saratoga Springs, NY 12866; (518) 584-0746
A residency in Mexico:
- Camino al Arte, San Miguel de Allende, info@caminoalarte.org, +52 415 167 1255 (Mexico), +1 646 327 3774 (USA); Summer 2025 applications are due April 11. More information is accessible here.
A residency in Scotland:
Hawthornden Castle Literary Retreat, Lasswade EH18 1EG, United Kingdom, +44 131 440 2180
A residency in France:
La Muse Artists and Writers Retreat, 1 rue de la Place, 11380 Labastide-Esparbairenque, France, +33 6 07 84 06 63
Postscript:
Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Geraldine Brooks has a new book out, the memoir Memorial Days, which I reviewed recently for Newcity Lit. Brooks was at home in Martha’s Vineyard on Memorial Day 2019 when she received a call informing her that her husband of 35 years, Tony Horwitz, had died suddenly in Washington D.C. while on tour to promote his new book.
If you’re in the Los Angeles area, please join Kurt Baumeister and me on Wednesday, March 12, 6 PM, at Village Well Books in 9900 Culver Blvd., Culver City. We’ll be discussing his engrossing, darkly comic, and politically prescient new novel Twilight of the Gods.
Hi Christine—thanks for this list! I’d like to suggest Craigardan.org in the Adirondacks as an addition, for a highly subsidized interdisciplinary residency program in a glorious mountaintop location, with individual artist studios and food shares from its own farm. It’s really special.
What a generous act. Thank you!