Deadline: 15 April 2011
Eligibility: no restrictions
Reading Fee: none
Accepts (genre):
Prize/Payment: residency, living accommodations including a kitchen, stipend of $75/week toward food costs
The Island Institute's residencies provide opportunities for at least four writers to each spend a month in Sitka, Alaska, pursuing their own work and getting to know this unique island community in the forested coastal mountains of Southeast Alaska.
Residents' time is largely their own to pursue their work, but each person is expected to take part in four community activities (more if desired). These include two public readings (one at the beginning and one at the end), a writing workshop, and a community discussion on a theme/topic of mutual interest to the writer, the Institute, and the community. Other activities might include talks to school or college classes and radio interviews.
Each resident is provided living accommodations including a kitchen and a stipend of $75/week toward food costs. Travel to and from Sitka, as well as all other incidental costs, are the responsibility of the resident.
Three positions are filled by application. There is a single application deadline of April 15 for positions in September of that year, and January and April of the following year. The November position each year is reserved for an international writer who comes to Sitka from the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa.
The residency program aims to encourage the work of both promising and published writers who share the interests of The Island Institute--the nature of vital communities, the social and ethical web of human relationships and connections to the natural world, the global effort to shape sustainable human cultures.
The next application deadline is April 15, 2011 for positions in September, 2011 and January and April 2012.
More information here.
Eligibility: no restrictions
Reading Fee: none
Accepts (genre):
Prize/Payment: residency, living accommodations including a kitchen, stipend of $75/week toward food costs
The Island Institute's residencies provide opportunities for at least four writers to each spend a month in Sitka, Alaska, pursuing their own work and getting to know this unique island community in the forested coastal mountains of Southeast Alaska.
Residents' time is largely their own to pursue their work, but each person is expected to take part in four community activities (more if desired). These include two public readings (one at the beginning and one at the end), a writing workshop, and a community discussion on a theme/topic of mutual interest to the writer, the Institute, and the community. Other activities might include talks to school or college classes and radio interviews.
Each resident is provided living accommodations including a kitchen and a stipend of $75/week toward food costs. Travel to and from Sitka, as well as all other incidental costs, are the responsibility of the resident.
Three positions are filled by application. There is a single application deadline of April 15 for positions in September of that year, and January and April of the following year. The November position each year is reserved for an international writer who comes to Sitka from the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa.
The residency program aims to encourage the work of both promising and published writers who share the interests of The Island Institute--the nature of vital communities, the social and ethical web of human relationships and connections to the natural world, the global effort to shape sustainable human cultures.
The next application deadline is April 15, 2011 for positions in September, 2011 and January and April 2012.
More information here.
