Early Career Writers of Poetry 2026

Application Deadline May 27, 2026}
Program Dates Nov 23, 2026 - Dec 04, 2026

The Early Career Writers of Poetry Residency is an energizing, transformative experience, designed to help you take your writing to a new level. This residency offers early career writers the opportunity to work directly with faculty and peers. With one-on-one mentorship sessions, faculty talks, and public events, this residency will help you build both your critical vocabulary and artistic community, making you better critics of your own and others’ work. This flexible, self-directed program allows you to choose the amount of support and programming you are looking for as all literary program elements are optional.

The residency is designed to cater to any new writer of poetry interested in mentorship, public reading opportunities, and feedback from faculty and fellow participants. 

The residency will provide participants with tailored opportunities for professional development and creative growth and is open to writers with:

  • no publications
  • a few publications, or
  • a first book of poetry. 

Participants will benefit most if they are comfortable working autonomously in an unstructured environment. The program suits those focused on:

  • working on a specific project.
  • creating new works.

Scholarships are available.
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This 12-day writing residency supports new writers of poetry at varying levels of accomplishment — from not-yet-published writers to those with one published book. In this self-directed residency, authors will work closely with faculty to expand your practice and focus on improving writing skills.
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