Best Writing Residencies in 2024 for Emerging Writers
If you have a busy schedule, finding the time to write in peace and quiet can be rather difficult. So if you find yourself in need of a break from the hustle and bustle to finish your writing projects, consider applying for a writing residency. These programs offer writers a dedicated space and time to focus on their work, away from the distractions of everyday life.
The benefits of a writing residency are many. For one, it can provide writers with the much-needed time and space to focus on their work. In addition, residencies can offer writers a chance to connect with other writers, learn from experienced mentors, and receive feedback on their work. Finally, residencies can be a great way to get away from the hustle and bustle of everyday life and immerse oneself in the creative process.
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To find the right residency for you. We’ve compiled a list of all the top writing residencies in 2024. Just use our filtering tool below to find the perfect one for you; no matter where you are in the world, you’ll find a residency that fits your needs.
Wurlitzer Foundation Artist Residency Program
$30 application fee
The HWF grants rent-free and utility-paid housing on the foundation campus, providing artists with their own fully furnished home (casita) and a peaceful setting in which to pursue their creative endeavors. The HWF places no expectations or requirements on the artists in residence; It is the gift of time and space. In addition to the artist casitas, the HWF campus includes the Commons House w/ WiFi*, Library, The Main House, and laundry facilities.
Jentel Artist Residency
$30 application fee
The Jentel Artist Residency Program offers dedicated individuals a supportive environment in which to further their creative development. Here artists and writers experience unfettered time to allow for thoughtful reflection and meditation on the creative process in a setting that preserves the agricultural and historical integrity of the land.
GlogauAIR Residency
€300-€1,500 per month
Artists in GlogauAIR’s on-site Residency Program live and work in one of thirteen studios. They receive curatorial and technical support, as well as a diverse program that aims to help them in their professional careers; encouraging not only the development of the artist’s work but also the opportunity to share ideas and opinions with the other artists.
Loghaven Artist Residency
$20 application fee
Loghaven Artist Residency’s mission is to serve artists by providing them with a transformative residency experience and continued post-residency support. The residency is located on ninety acres of woodland in Knoxville, Tennessee Artists live in five historic log cabins that have been both rehabilitated and modernized to create an ideal setting for reflection and work, and they have access to new, purpose-built studio space. The residency is completely funded. All Loghaven Fellows are awarded stipends to support the creation of new work during the residency.
Anaphora Writing Residency
$2,400
Anaphora Writing Residency is a ten-day program designed exclusively for writers of color. The residency offers workshops, readings, craft talks, and discussions with professionals from the literary and publishing industry. The goal of the program is to nurture emerging and established writers of color, to create opportunities for publication, and establish a wide network of support for writers of different backgrounds.
Hambidge Creative Residency Program
$250 per week
The oldest residency program in the Southeast, Hambidge provides a self-directed program that honors the creative process and trusts individuals to know what they need to cultivate their talent, whether it’s to work and produce, to think, to experiment or to rejuvenate. Residents’ time is their own; there are no workshops, critiques, nor required activities.
The National Centre for Writing (NCW) Residency program offers residencies for writers and translators, in collaboration with various partners and funders. Residencies are hosted in the Cottage, part of the Dragon Hall campus, and typically last between one week and one month.
Art Omi Writers Residency
Free application
Art Omi Writers hosts authors and translators from around the world for residencies throughout the spring and fall. The program’s strong international emphasis provides exposure for global literary voices and reflects the spirit of cultural exchange that is essential to Art Omi’s mission.
Millay Arts Residency
$45 application fee
Millay Arts hosts 6-7 multidisciplinary artists for month-long stays at Steepletop, the historic estate of poet/activist Edna St. Vincent Millay. With the gift of time and space, Artists-in-Residence dive deeply into their creative process and projects.
Tusen Takk Foundation Residency
$20 application fee
Tusen Takk’s residencies are geared for artists to explore new ideas or expand current work. They look for ideas and work that will affirm and enrich the human spirit, giving form to chaos and perception to beauty.
Margery Davis Boyden Wilderness Writing Residency
$30 application fee
The Margery Davis Boyden Wilderness Writing Residency, administered by PEN Northwest, offers a seven-month residency from April through October to a poet or prose writer, or pair of writers, at Dutch Henry Homestead in the Rogue River Canyon of southwest Oregon.
33OC: Spring Artist Residency
€300 per month
The Artist Residency program was conceived of as a regenerative intercultural meeting place, where international artists can share experiences and sensibilities. The residency is aimed particularly at international artists who are enthusiastic about working within Toffia’s environment.
GlogauAIR Residency
€300-€1,500 per month
Artists in GlogauAIR’s on-site Residency Program live and work in one of thirteen studios. They receive curatorial and technical support, as well as a diverse program that aims to help them in their professional careers; encouraging not only the development of the artist’s work but also the opportunity to share ideas and opinions with the other artists.
Loghaven Artist Residency
$20 application fee
Loghaven Artist Residency’s mission is to serve artists by providing them with a transformative residency experience and continued post-residency support. The residency is located on ninety acres of woodland in Knoxville, Tennessee. Artists live in five historic log cabins that have been both rehabilitated and modernized to create an ideal setting for reflection and work, and they have access to new, purpose-built studio space. The residency is completely funded. All Loghaven Fellows are awarded stipends to support the creation of new work during the residency.
La Baldi Residency
Free application
Cultivate is pleased to announce La Baldi Residency for artists, writers, and researchers. The multi-disciplinary residency welcomes individuals and collaborative teams. Located in the historic village of Montegiovi, Italy, in southern Tuscany, the self-directed international residency is an opportunity to experiment, develop ideas and projects, dream, explore, rejuvenate, research, and investigate the land and culture of this special area.
33OC: Spring Artist Residency
€300 per month
The Artist Residency program was conceived of as a regenerative intercultural meeting place, where international artists can share experiences and sensibilities. The residency is aimed particularly at international artists who are enthusiastic about working within Toffia’s environment.
Art Omi Writers Residency
Free application
Art Omi Writers hosts authors and translators from around the world for residencies throughout the spring and fall. The program’s strong international emphasis provides exposure for global literary voices and reflects the spirit of cultural exchange that is essential to Art Omi’s mission.
Jentel Artist Residency
$30 application fee
The Jentel Artist Residency Program offers dedicated individuals a supportive environment in which to further their creative development. Here artists and writers experience unfettered time to allow for thoughtful reflection and meditation on the creative process in a setting that preserves the agricultural and historical integrity of the land.
Loghaven Artist Residency
$20 application fee
Loghaven Artist Residency’s mission is to serve artists by providing them with a transformative residency experience and continued post-residency support. The residency is located on ninety acres of woodland in Knoxville, Tennessee. Artists live in five historic log cabins that have been both rehabilitated and modernized to create an ideal setting for reflection and work, and they have access to new, purpose-built studio space. The residency is completely funded. All Loghaven Fellows are awarded stipends to support the creation of new work during the residency.
Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts Residency
Free application
Each year, the Saltonstall Foundation awards free, stipend-supported, accessible residencies to artists and writers who are residents of New York State and Indian Nations therein.
StudioWorks Artist Residency
$25 application fee
The StudioWorks Artist-in-Residence Program at the Tides Institute & Museum of Art (TIMA) offers residency opportunities to visual artists from the U.S. and abroad to deepen and develop their practice within a community setting. Their studios, museum and housing are located within the historic downtown and working waterfront of Eastport, Maine and overlook the U.S./Canada boundary.
Craigardan Writer’s Residency
$700 per week
The Literary Arts Residency is a unique opportunity for writers to fully immerse themselves in an exquisite retreat environment conducive to working with no distraction. They welcome applications from emerging and accomplished writers of all genres who would benefit from a focused amount of un-guided time to create a new work, complete a project, conduct research, or simply find inspiration amid the beauty of the Adirondack Mountains.
The Anderson Center Artist Residencies
$30 application fee
The Anderson Center at Tower View provides residencies of two to four weeks’ duration from May through October each year to enable artists, writers, musicians, and performers of exceptional promise and demonstrated accomplishment to create, advance, or complete work. There are typically 5 residents at the Anderson Center at a time, and the organization hosts approximately 35-40 residents each year.
The Playa Flamingo Writing Residency, sponsored by Atmosphere Press, offers a five-day residency from May to August to a poet, fiction writer, nonfiction writer, or translator at the Punta Plata condominium in Playa Flamingo, a white sand beach located in Guanacaste, Costa Rica.
Creekside Arts Residency
$1,500
This is a unique opportunity for authors to reflect, create and explore in an inspiring setting among the Redwoods of Northern California.
33OC: Spring Artist Residency
€300 per month
The Artist Residency program was conceived of as a regenerative intercultural meeting place, where international artists can share experiences and sensibilities. The residency is aimed particularly at international artists who are enthusiastic about working within Toffia’s environment.
Wurlitzer Foundation Artist Residency Program
$30 application fee
The HWF grants rent-free and utility-paid housing on the foundation campus, providing artists with their own fully furnished home (casita) and a peaceful setting in which to pursue their creative endeavors. The HWF places no expectations or requirements on the artists in residence; It is the gift of time and space. In addition to the artist casitas, the HWF campus includes the Commons House w/ WiFi*, Library, The Main House, and laundry facilities.
Another Chicago Magazine Residency
$20 application fee
Another Chicago Magazine will award a free multi-week residency in Belfast, Maine. The recipient will be a nonfiction writer whose work brings uncommon insight, incisive language, and strong storytelling to the subject at hand, which could be anything that blends the political and personal, or summons justice, or dives deep into individual experience, but always with larger contexts in mind.
Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts
$175 per week
The Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts awards up to seventy juried residencies per year to established and emerging visual artists, writers, composers, and interdisciplinary artists from across the country and around the world. Residencies are available for 2 to 8 weeks stays.
Loghaven Artist Residency
$20 application fee
Loghaven Artist Residency’s mission is to serve artists by providing them with a transformative residency experience and continued post-residency support. The residency is located on ninety acres of woodland in Knoxville, Tennessee. Artists live in five historic log cabins that have been both rehabilitated and modernized to create an ideal setting for reflection and work, and they have access to new, purpose-built studio space. The residency is completely funded. All Loghaven Fellows are awarded stipends to support the creation of new work during the residency.
GlogauAIR Residency
€300-€1,500 per month
Artists in GlogauAIR’s on-site Residency Program live and work in one of thirteen studios. They receive curatorial and technical support, as well as a diverse program that aims to help them in their professional careers; encouraging not only the development of the artist’s work but also the opportunity to share ideas and opinions with the other artists.
The Anderson Center Artist Residencies
$30 application fee
The Anderson Center at Tower View provides residencies of two to four weeks’ duration from May through October each year to enable artists, writers, musicians, and performers of exceptional promise and demonstrated accomplishment to create, advance, or complete work. There are typically 5 residents at the Anderson Center at a time, and the organization hosts approximately 35-40 residents each year.
Miss Sarah: Fellowship for Black Women
Free application
The “Miss Sarah” Fellowship for Black Women Writers aims to provide Black women writers a restful environment conducive to reflection and writing. It also offers uninterrupted, independent time to plant the seed of an idea for a new writing project or to develop or complete a project underway.
Hambidge Creative Residency Program
$250 per week
The oldest residency program in the Southeast, Hambidge provides a self-directed program that honors the creative process and trusts individuals to know what they need to cultivate their talent, whether it’s to work and produce, to think, to experiment or to rejuvenate. Residents’ time is their own; there are no workshops, critiques, nor required activities.
Nieman Foundation Fellowship
Free application
A Nieman Fellowship is an extraordinary, transformative learning opportunity open to journalists working in all media in every country around the world. Those selected for the program spend two full semesters at Harvard auditing classes with some of the university’s greatest thinkers, participating in Nieman events and collaborating with peers.
O’Brien Fellowship in Public Service Journalism
Free application
O’Brien Fellows complete an in-depth reporting project of their choosing on a topic of state, regional, national or international interest over two academic semesters. In the past, most Fellows have worked from a home base in the O’Brien newsroom in the Diederich College of Communication at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. They accept both remote and residential applications, but give extra weight in the selection process to applicants ready to take up residency in Milwaukee.
Ucross Residency
$40 application fee
Since its founding in 1981 and first residency period in 1983, Ucross has grown into a vital and relevant resource for artists of all backgrounds and disciplines, who come to Ucross from all over the United States and the world. The uninterrupted time and space they offer is increasingly rare, and the connections built within their community are of great importance to artists. They are honored that their artist residency program plays a dynamic, invaluable role in the creative life of their country.
The Anderson Center Artist Residencies
$30 application fee
The Anderson Center at Tower View provides residencies of two to four weeks’ duration from May through October each year to enable artists, writers, musicians, and performers of exceptional promise and demonstrated accomplishment to create, advance, or complete work. There are typically 5 residents at the Anderson Center at a time, and the organization hosts approximately 35-40 residents each year.
MacDowell Residency
$30 application fee
MacDowell provides time, space, and an inspiring environment to artists of exceptional talent. A MacDowell Fellowship, or residency, consists of exclusive use of a studio, accommodations, and three prepared meals a day for up to six weeks. There are no residency fees.
Visual Art Center of Richmond Residency
Free application
The Visual Arts Center of Richmond (VisArts) invites visual artists and writers to apply for the organization’s 11-month residency. Three emerging visual artists and one writer will be invited to spend the year at VisArts making new work which will be included in a group exhibition and reading at VisArts midway through the residency.
33OC: Spring Artist Residency
€300 per month
The Artist Residency program was conceived of as a regenerative intercultural meeting place, where international artists can share experiences and sensibilities. The residency is aimed particularly at international artists who are enthusiastic about working within Toffia’s environment.
Wurlitzer Foundation Artist Residency Program
$30 application fee
The HWF grants rent-free and utility-paid housing on the foundation campus, providing artists with their own fully furnished home (casita) and a peaceful setting in which to pursue their creative endeavors. The HWF places no expectations or requirements on the artists in residence; It is the gift of time and space. In addition to the artist casitas, the HWF campus includes the Commons House w/ WiFi*, Library, The Main House, and laundry facilities.
San José State University Steinbeck Fellowships in Creative Writing
Free application
The Steinbeck Fellows Program, endowed through the generosity of Martha Heasley Cox, offers emerging writers of any age and background the opportunity to pursue a significant writing project during their fellowship tenure.
Art Omi Writers Residency
Free application
Art Omi Writers hosts authors and translators from around the world for residencies throughout the spring and fall. The program’s strong international emphasis provides exposure for global literary voices and reflects the spirit of cultural exchange that is essential to Art Omi’s mission.
Good Hart Artist Residency
$25 application fee
The Good Hart Artist Residency offers 10-21 day residency stays to visual artists, writers, and composers at any stage of their career. Each artist is housed in a private residence with a detached studio and provided with a $500.00 stipend, a kitchen stocked with basic foods, a few home-cooked meals from local hosts, and a quiet setting along the shores of Lake Michigan. Tucked into the woods along the “Tunnel of Trees,” a Scenic Heritage Route, residents can walk into the village of Good Hart, enjoy Lake Michigan and the nearby sand dunes, and explore Northern Michigan’s inland lakes and wetlands. The Good Hart Artist residency generally hosts one resident at a time, offering each artist the time, space, and quiet to focus and create.
The Essere Residency is a program designed to encourage the creative and personal growth of writers and artists at all stages in their career, as well as those exploring new forms of self-expression.
Loghaven Artist Residency
$20 application fee
Loghaven Artist Residency’s mission is to serve artists by providing them with a transformative residency experience and continued post-residency support. The residency is located on ninety acres of woodland in Knoxville, Tennessee. Artists live in five historic log cabins that have been both rehabilitated and modernized to create an ideal setting for reflection and work, and they have access to new, purpose-built studio space. The residency is completely funded. All Loghaven Fellows are awarded stipends to support the creation of new work during the residency.
James Merrill House Writing Residency
$30 application fee
In recognition of Merrill’s own contributions to Stonington, and his longstanding generosity, the fellowship provides living and working space and a $1,100 stipend to a writer to complete a project of literary or academic merit. Fellows are also hosted by local community members and organizations.
The Anderson Center Artist Residencies
$30 application fee
The Anderson Center at Tower View provides residencies of two to four weeks’ duration from May through October each year to enable artists, writers, musicians, and performers of exceptional promise and demonstrated accomplishment to create, advance, or complete work. There are typically 5 residents at the Anderson Center at a time, and the organization hosts approximately 35-40 residents each year.
33OC: Spring Artist Residency
€300 per month
The Artist Residency program was conceived as a regenerative intercultural meeting place, where international artists can share experiences and sensibilities. The residency is aimed particularly at international artists who are enthusiastic about working within Toffia’s environment.
Art Omi Writers Residency
Free application
Art Omi Writers hosts authors and translators from around the world for residencies throughout the spring and fall. The program’s strong international emphasis provides exposure for global literary voices and reflects the spirit of cultural exchange that is essential to Art Omi’s mission.
Another Chicago Magazine Residency
$20 application fee
Another Chicago Magazine will award a free multi-week residency in Belfast, Maine. The recipient will be a nonfiction writer whose work brings uncommon insight, incisive language, and strong storytelling to the subject at hand, which could be anything that blends the political and personal, or summons justice, or dives deep into individual experience, but always with larger contexts in mind.
James Merrill House Writing Residency
$30 application fee
In recognition of Merrill’s own contributions to Stonington, and his longstanding generosity, the fellowship provides living and working space and a $1,100 stipend to a writer to complete a project of literary or academic merit. Fellows are also hosted by local community members and organizations.
GlogauAIR Residency
€300-€1,500 per month
Artists in GlogauAIR’s on-site Residency Program live and work in one of thirteen studios. They receive curatorial and technical support, as well as a diverse program that aims to help them in their professional careers; encouraging not only the development of the artist’s work but also the opportunity to share ideas and opinions with the other artists.
La Napoule Residency
Free application
La Napoule Art Foundation offers time and space for artists to engage in meaningful work and cultural interchange at the Château de La Napoule, located just outside Cannes, France.
James Merrill House Writing Residency
$30 application fee
In recognition of Merrill’s own contributions to Stonington, and his longstanding generosity, the fellowship provides living and working space and a $1,100 stipend to a writer to complete a project of literary or academic merit. Fellows are also hosted by local community members and organizations.
33OC: Spring Artist Residency
€300 per month
The Artist Residency program was conceived as a regenerative intercultural meeting place, where international artists can share experiences and sensibilities. The residency is aimed particularly at international artists who are enthusiastic about working within Toffia’s environment.
The National Centre for Writing (NCW) Residency program offers residencies for writers and translators, in collaboration with various partners and funders. Residencies are hosted in the Cottage, part of the Dragon Hall campus, and typically last between one week and one month.
Ucross Residency
$40 application fee
Since its founding in 1981 and first residency period in 1983, Ucross has grown into a vital and relevant resource for artists of all backgrounds and disciplines, who come to Ucross from all over the United States and the world. The uninterrupted time and space they offer is increasingly rare, and the connections built within their community are of great importance to artists. They are honored that their artist residency program plays a dynamic, invaluable role in the creative life of their country.
Mt. San Angelo Residencies, VCCA in Virginia
$30 application fee
The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA) provides time and space for national and international writers, visual artists, and composers of talent and promise to bring forth their finest works.
Ralph A. Johnston Memorial Fellowship
$20 application fee
The residency for this fellowship typically runs four months, from September through December, though the length of residency may change for maintenance or program needs. The fellowship is available to writers in any genre, especially poetry, fiction, and non-fiction. Non-fiction should be written for a general audience.
Buinho Creative Hub Residencies
€800 – €900
The Creative Residencies program is an opportunity to live and work in the town of Messejana for a period of up to three months.
Ou-telier Residency
$1,000-$3,250 CAD
The Ou-telier, is an independent and process based residency; a place for you to decompress, experiment, research, and play.
Vermont Studio Center Residency
$3,000 -$12,000
This residency program welcomes artists and writers working across all mediums and genres for two, three, and four week sessions. Residents enjoy well-lit, private studios within a short walk to residency housing, dining hall, and local amenities. Studio spaces range from 170 – 300 square feet. Accommodations include a private room and shared common areas. The campus features include a print shop, digital lab, and metal, wood, ceramic facility. Studios are open 24 hours a day.
Sarasvati Creative Space
$25 application fee
There are so many benefits one can cherish with a residency, retreat, or sabbatical stay at the Camp. Although this is not a resort because it is a rustic homestead environment with no staff, Val as your host is creating a unique environment so that you can focus on achieving your goals while still asking for your focus and mindfulness on basic habitat contributions during your time.
A.I.R. Studio Paducah Residency
$1,000 per month
A.I.R. Studio Paducah, now in its 18th year as an artist residency program, is situated in the heart of the LowerTown Arts District, Paducah, Kentucky. Since 2004, creatives from around the country and abroad have passed through A.I.R. doors to make the most of the space and a stretch of undistracted time as envisioned by founder Alonzo Davis, himself an artist.
Event Horizon Resicency
Free application
Julienne Dolphin Wilding founded the artist in residency program Event Horizon in March 2018. Event Horizon offers private creative space with off-site rented accommodation and on-site donation based glamping. The studio building is created from used shipping containers and is completely insulated, set in 20,000 Sq m (5 acres) of private land owned by Julienne and is close to the sea.
Taleamor Park Residency
$300-$1800
Taleamor Park offers scheduled solo or duo self-directed residencies with a minimum of two weeks during the months of April through October and six weeks or longer throughout the year.
Gullkistan Residency
€850-€1,450
The main objective of Gullkistan is to provide a home and workspace for creative people of all professions in an international community in the sublime surroundings of south Iceland where they can work on their ideas and become a part of Icelandic culture locally and in a wider spectrum as each one of them prefers.
Rockvale Writers’ Colony Residency
$425 per week
They offer beautiful, private bedroom/bathroom suites. Writers have access to many lovely and functional common areas including a large kitchen, dining / gathering room, writing porches, reading room, library, several outdoor spaces, decks, and gardens. They also have a swimming pool and a tennis court. The 65 acres surrounding the buildings provide ample outdoor space to explore and offer a respite after intense hours of writing.
Studio Faire Residency
€1,100-€2,200
Studio Faire is an artist-run contemporary art space in South West France, providing residencies for visual artists, makers, photographers, designers, musicians, writers, researchers and all other types of creative practitioner.
The Narrows Artist Residency
Free application
The Narrows Artist residency gives creative individuals time and space away from their usual regular routine of life for reflection, research or production.
Tyrone Guthrie Residency
$400-$700
The Tyrone Guthrie Residency, located at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre, offers residential opportunities and workspaces for artists and writers. The residency is open to professional practitioners in all art forms, and residencies can last for a maximum of one month. The residency aims to promote excellence and innovation in the arts.
Let Madrid Inspire You: ROOSTERGNN Residency
Free application
Every Resident works on a self-directed creative project throughout his or her Residency. Candidates should detail their project proposal in the application form. It is not required that residents finish an entire project during their stay at the Madrid Residency; you can work on a project you have started elsewhere, or work on a project in a brainstorming format and continue to work on it after the program.
360 Xochi Quetzal
Free application
The 360 XOCHI QUETZAL Artist and Writer’s Residency Program is located in Ajijic, on Lake Chapala, the largest lake in Mexico, where the perfect year-round climate and stunning lake and mountain views have long established the region as an international artist mecca. Residents will be inspired by the natural beauty, history and culture of this special part of central Mexico.
A writing residency may be just what you need to break through writer’s block and also get some support on your writing journey. Whether you pick a short program or a long one, you can rest assured that you will get the writing time you need to cross the finish line.
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