Wolf House Residency
January 13 - 19, 2025
Writing By Writers offers a one-week, residency at The Wolf House in NE Minneapolis, Minnesota. The Wolf House Residency is open to writers of all genres: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, screenplay, playwriting, and beyond. Lodging is provided free of charge, however residents are responsible for their own meals, transportation and personal needs while at the residency. Residencies are intended for writers only. No spouses, children or friends are allowed.
Big Bend Residency
March 21 - April 4 2025
Writing By Writers offers a two-week dog-friendly residency at a Sears Kit House in Marathon, Texas near Big Bend National Park. Writers may apply as an individual or with co-applicants for a 3-bedroom house. The Big Bend Residency is open to writers of all genres: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, screenplay, playwriting, and beyond. Lodging is provided free of charge, however residents are responsible for their own meals, transportation and personal needs while at the residency. Residencies are intended for writers only. No spouses, children or friends are allowed.
Faulkner Gulf Coast Residency
April 5 - April 11, 2025
Writing By Writers offers a week-long residency in Pass Christian, Mississippi about an hour outside of New Orleans. The Faulkner Gulf Coast Residency is open to writers of all genres: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, screenplay, playwriting, and beyond. Lodging is provided free of charge, however residents are responsible for their own meals, transportation and personal needs while at the residency. Residencies are intended for writers only. No spouses, children or friends are allowed.
Hemingway House Residency
April 16 - 30, 2025
Writing By Writers offers a two-week residency at the Hemingway House in Ketchum, Idaho. The Hemingway House Residency is open to writers of all genres: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, screenplay, playwriting, and beyond. Lodging is provided free of charge in a studio apartment that was formerly the 3-bay garage of Ernest Hemingway’s Ketchum home. During the residency, the writer will be asked to do one public program at the Library – such as a public reading, book discussion, or writing workshop. Residents are responsible for their own meals, transportation and personal needs while at the residency. Residencies are intended for writers only. No spouses, children or friends are allowed. The home is on the National Register of Historic Places. As such, pets are not allowed on the premises. ​The studio apartment is being provided courtesy of The Community Library. Amenities include Wi-Fi, washer/dryer, full kitchen, free parking on premise, and heating/air-conditioning.
Baja Residency
July 6 - 20, 2025
Writing By Writers offers a two-week residency at Casita de Catarina on the beach in the Loreto, Baja California Sur, Mexico. The Baja Residency is open to writers of all genres: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, screenplay, playwriting, and beyond. Lodging is provided free of charge, however residents are responsible for their own meals, transportation and personal needs while at the residency. Residencies are intended for writers only. No spouses, children or friends are allowed.
Soul Land Residency
2025 (Week TBD by owner and winner)
Writing by Writers offers a one-week residency at The Soul Land Retreat in Pioneertown, California, near Joshua Tree National Park. Writers-in-residence stay in an original 1950's homestead cabin that has been completely renovated, nestled among giant boulders on 10 acres of land with immediate access to hiking trails. Soul Land is open to writers of all genres: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, screenplay, playwriting, and beyond. Lodging is provided free of charge, however residents are responsible for their own meals, transportation, and personal needs while at the residency. The cabin includes a mini fridge and coffee/tea making facilities, with full access to the kitchen in the main house. This residency is intended for a solo writer only. No spouses, children or friends are allowed. Please note: host may have dogs on the property at times.
San Juan Mountains Residency
2025 (TBD by owner and winner)
Writing by Writers offers a winter two-week residency and a summer two-week residency in a dog-friendly house in Rico, Colorado. The exact dates to be determined between the winner(s) and the owner. Writers may apply as an individual or with a co-applicant for this 2-bedroom house. The San Juan Mountains Residency is open to writers of all genres: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, screenplay, playwriting, and beyond. Lodging is provided free of charge, however residents are responsible for their own meals, transportation and personal needs while at the residency. Residencies are intended for writers only. No spouses, children or friends are allowed.
Application Details
Applications for all 2025 Residences will open on September 1, 2024 and are due October 15, 2024. Selections will be made by November 15, 2024. Applications open September 1st and close October 15th every year for the following calendar year residencies. Applicants will be asked to provide a brief statement of intent telling us what you hope to accomplish during this residency, a short writing sample (10 pages prose or 5 poems) and a $50.00 tax deductible application fee. The application fee is critical in helping fund fellowships at future Writing By Writers workshops. Once you apply you will receive an immediate email confirmation of your application. Sometimes these go into your junk or bulk mail folder. If this happens, please add info@writingxwriters.org to your safe senders list to make sure you get our acceptance notification!
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Pam Houston
Winners are selected by Pam Houston. Pam Houston is the author of the memoir Deep Creek: Finding Hope In The High Country, as well as two novels, Contents May Have Shifted and Sight Hound, two collections of short stories, Cowboys Are My Weakness and Waltzing the Cat, and a collection of essays, A Little More About Me, as well as a book of essay between Pam and environmental activist Amy Irvine, called Airmail: Letters of Politics, Pandemics and Place. Her stories have been selected for volumes of The O. Henry Awards, The Pushcart Prize, Best American Travel Writing, and Best American Short Stories of the Centuryamong other anthologies. She is the winner of the Western States Book Award, the WILLA Award for contemporary fiction, the Evil Companions Literary Award and several teaching awards. She teaches in the Low Rez MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts, is Professor of English at UC Davis, and co-founder and creative director of the literary nonprofit Writing By Writers. Pam’s passions include Icelandic Horses (especially the ones who live in Iceland, where she goes as often as possible,) Irish Wolfhounds, travel, mentoring and teaching, particularly teaching writing about the more than human world. She lives on a homestead at 9,000 feet near the headwaters of the Rio Grande in Colorado with her husband Mike and two dogs, a quarter horse, a miniature donkey, four Icelandic ewes, four hens and a rooster. Her forthcoming book, Without Exception: Reclaiming Abortion, Personhood and Freedom, will be published in September 2024.