Writer and Artist's residencies

October 12, 2023 9:33 PM

I'm interested in potentially applying for writer and artist's residencies, ideally in non-US places (I'm a US citizen). I would like to lay the groundwork for this now.

I'm interested in hearing about places to learn about residencies, about specific residencies, and anything else someone who hasn't done this before should know. I see this as a future timeline thing in my life, not necessarily an immediately thing.

posted by azalea_chant to Travel & Transportation (5 answers total)

Did not know this was a thing but it turns out there are pages of results just for NZ.
posted by gible at 10:38 PM on October 12, 2023

Have a look at Fogo Island / Shorefast Foundation in PEI, they accept non-Canadian applications afaik.

The few NZ ones I know of are citizen/ residents only, but I only know of a few.
posted by unearthed at 3:00 AM on October 13, 2023

I like the directory at Res Artis. Two others I keep bookmarked are Transartists and Arts Letters and Numbers.
posted by xo at 4:29 AM on October 13, 2023

The Big Artist Opportunities List by Everest Pipkin

Poets and Writers: Conferences and Residencies

Bomb Magazine, Fall 2023 Residencies


I had great luck using Google search operators. Try this to include several word variants:

(list | database | spreadsheet) (writing | writer's | writer) (residency | residencies)

You can also append "after:YEAR" to filter results by date. For example:

(list | database | spreadsheet) (artist | art) (residency | residencies) after:2018

posted by lloquat at 1:53 PM on October 13, 2023

If you speak a little Spanish you could try the Poco a Poco residency in Oaxaca.
posted by egeanin at 9:05 AM on October 16, 2023