Resources for Poets

List of residencies, fellowships, conferences, chapbook competitions, first and second book prizes, book publishers that accept submissions, workshops, retreats, grants/scholarships, and other resources for poets.

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Last updated 4/28/26

Residencies

Adirondack Center for Writing* - Anne LaBastille Memorial Writers Residency (NY, $30 fee, no-cost residency, app 4/13-5/18)

Art Omi: Writers* - Writers Residency (NY, two spring and two fall sessions, free)

Art Omi: Writers - Translation Lab (NY, fall session)

Atlantic Center for the Arts* - Mentoring Artist-in-Residence (FL, 3 weeks, $1350, apply for specific artist, scholarships)

Banff Centre* - Writers Residency (Canada, Winter, Spring, Summer, $65 app fee, $3500, scholarships)

Banff Centre* - Independent Residency (Canada)

Byrdcliffe Arts Colony - Communal Artists-in-Residence Program (NY, $30 app fee, $800)

Camargo Foundation - Residencies (various locations, international)

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory - Celia Wally Gilbert Artist In Residence (1-3 weeks, free, $1000-1500 stipend)

Headlands Center for the Arts* - Artist in Residence (CA, 4-10 weeks, $45 app fee, free)

James Merrill House* - Writer-in-Residence Program (CT, 2-6 weeks, $30 app fee, stipend)

Juniper Institute* - Summer Writing Institute (MA, workshops, craft sessions, readings, weeklong or independent, $20 fee, $2300, scholarships)

Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts - Residency (NE, 2-8 weeks, $35 app fee, stipend, app 3/1 or 9/1)

Margery Davis Boyden - Wilderness Writing Residency (OR, caretaking responsibilities, $30 app fee, app 3/15 or 6/15)

McCormack Writing Center - Residencies (OR, $1200 stipend)

Millay Arts* - Core Residency (NY, $45 app fee, $100, 2-4 weeks, due 3/1 or 10/1, multidisciplinary artists)

Mineral School - Residency (WA, 1-2 weeks, due 5/15)

National Parks Service Arts Foundation* - Artist-in-Residence (various locations)

Ox Bow* - Summer Residency (MI, takes MFA students, 3 weeks, free)

Saltonstall Arts Colony* - Juried Residencies (NY, $0 app fee, free, 1-4 weeks)

Shandaken Projects* - Shandaken: Catskill (NY, free, 1-4 weeks, bookmaking, cultural/queer/climate projects encouraged)

Skidmore College* - NYS Summer Writers Institute (NY, 2-4 weeks, $60 app fee, $2300-4600, scholarships)

Stadler Center* - Philip Roth Residence in Creative Writing (PA, 4 months, $5000 stipend, app due 2/1)

The Mastheads* - July Residency (MA, free, $600 stipend)

The Museum of Fine Arts Houston - Core Residency Program (TX, 23 months, $100,000 stipend)

The Rice Place - Residency (OR, $250-1000/week, donation-based)

The Studios of Key West* - Peyton Evans Artist Residency Program (FL, 1 month, free, year-round)

The Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow (AR, $30 app fee)

Vermont Studio Center - Artist and Writer Residency (VT, 2-4 weeks, $2700-4900)

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts - Residencies (VA or France, $30 app fee, app due 5/15, 9/15, 1/15))

Visual Arts Center of Richmond - Artist and Winter Residency (VA, 11 months, $5000 stipend, app due 3/30)

Voices of the Wilderness* - Artist in Residence Program (AK wilderness)

Watermill Center* - Residencies (NY, 2-4 weeks, $12 app fee, free)

Wild Acres Retreat - Residency Program (NC, 1 week, $30 app fee)

Women's Studio Workshop - Artist’s Book Residency Grant (NY, 8-10 weeks, stipend, print and bind books (50-100 copies))

Fellowships
Emerging Writers

A Public Space* - Writing Fellowship (NY, 7 mo, unpublished)

Cleveland State University Poetry Center* - Anisfield-Wolf Fellowship in Writing & Publishing (OH, 2-year teaching, working toward 1st or 2nd book, paid $50k)

Colgate University* - Olive O’Connor Fellowship (NY, 9 mo)

Emory University Fellowship* (NE, teaching, MFA completed last 5 years)

Fine Arts Work Center* - Fellowship (MA, 7 mo, emerging)

FSG* - Writer’s Fellowship (remote, 12 mo, emerging, free app)

Just Buffalo Literary Center* - Poetry Fellowship (NY)

Kenyon Review* - Developmental Editing Fellowship for Emerging Writers (OH)

Miami Book Fair* - Emerging Writer’s Fellowship (FL)

NYSCA/NYFA* - Artist Fellowship

PEN America* - Emerging Voices Fellowship (CA, 5 mo)

The Poetry Project* - Emerge Surface Be Fellowship (NYC, 9 months)

Poetry Foundation* - Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowships (ages 21-31)

Southern Methodist University* - Hughes Fellowship in Poetry (2-year, paid $60k)