Genre: Creative Nonfiction

The Salty Quill Writers’ Retreat for Women offers one-week residencies three times a year to twelve poets, fiction writers, nonfiction writers, and translators who identify as women at McGee Island, a 110-acre private island located three miles east of Port Clyde, Maine. Residents are provided with lodging at a turn-of-the-century oceanfront summer cottage in single- or shared-occupancy rooms, three chef-prepared meals a day, transportation to and from the island, and the opportunity to participate in after-dinner readings and critiques and to wander trails, kayak, or enjoy a sauna.

The Cambridge Writers’ Workshop Budapest and Prague Writing Retreat will be held from July 19 to July 27 in the historic city centers of Budapest and Prague. The retreat features writing and publishing workshops, craft seminars, and generative writing sessions for poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers. The faculty includes poets and prose writers Rita Banerjee and Diana Norma Szokolyai. The cost of the retreat is $4,800, which includes tuition, lodging at Hotel Oktogon in Budapest and Falkensteiner Hotel in Prague, daily breakfast, and special meals.

In Cahoots offers residencies of one or two weeks year-round to poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, and scholars in the countryside of Petaluma, California, in scenic Sonoma County. Residents are provided with individual cottages, each with a private kitchen, bathroom, and studio for writing. The cost of the residency is $950 for one week or $1,600 for two weeks. To apply for residencies between January and May 2025, submit one to three writing samples totaling no more than 10 pages, a project proposal, and a curriculum vitae with a $25 application fee by June 1.

Loghaven offers residencies of two to six weeks year-round to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers in five rehabilitated historic log cabins and newly built facilities on ninety acres of woodland in Knoxville, Tennessee. The residency includes an $850 weekly stipend for supplies and expenses, a travel subsidy on a sliding scale from $400 to $800, and up to $200 in reimbursement for materials shipping.