The stars must have aligned. Someone in one of my online groups asked if anyone knew of a list of residencies that both 1) charge no application fees and 2) charge no fees for participation. And I had a free chunk of time once I finished a bunch of deadlines. And I thought that I’d go through my records and maybe come up with just such a list.
If you have comments/corrections/additions to share, please let me know.
Many thanks,
Erika
Last updated: January 2019
- (The) A-Frame Residency
- Andrews Forest Writing Residency
- Art Omi Writers Residencies
- Badlands National Park Artist-in-Residence Program
- Bandelier National Monument Artist-in-Residence Program
- Berlin Prize Fellowships
- Berton House Writers’ Retreat (for Canadian writers)
- Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area Artist-in-Residence Program
- Camargo Foundation Core Program
- Centre Culturel Irlandais Residencies (for writers who are Irish citizens “or normally resident in Ireland”)
- Château de Lavigny International Writers’ Residence
- Collaborative Retreat at the Cabin at Shotpouch Creek
- Craigardan Writer’s Residency (scroll down for info on the funded fellowships)
- Denali National Park and Reserve Artist-in-Residence Program
- Fairhope Center for the Writing Arts
- (Gaia) Fenna Memorial Fellowship (Minnesota residents only)
- Fondation Jan Michalski Residencies for Writers
- Gladstone Library Writer in Residence Programme
- Harpers Ferry National Historical Park Artist in Residence program
- Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum Writer-in-Residence program (link is for 2019 info)
- Herbert Hoover National Historic Site Artist-in-Residence program
- Hinge Arts Residency
- Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore Artist-in-Residence Program
- Isle Royale National Park Artist-in-Residence Program
- Kentucky Foundation for Women/Hopscotch House Residencies (for Kentucky residents)
- Lanesboro Artist Residency Program (for residents of Minnesota and the five boroughs of New York City)
- Lerman Trust/Soaring Gardens Artists’ Residency
- Logan Nonfiction Fellowship
- Manassas National Battlefield Park Artist-in-Residence Program
- (The) Mastheads Writers’ Residencies
- New York Mills Arts Retreat
- Ox-Bow Residencies
- Prairie Ronde Artist Residency
- Residency 108
- (Constance) Saltonstall Foundation Residencies (New York State residents only)
- Sleeping Bear Dunes National Park Artist-in-Residence Program
- SPACE Residency Program
- (Marguerite and Lamar) Smith Fellowship for Writers
- (Lillian E.) Smith Writer-in-Service Award
- (Eliza) So Fellowship
- (Wallace) Stegner House Residency (the “grant” program provides one free residency for a Canadian author)
- (Robert Louis) Stevenson Fellowship (for writers living in Scotland)
- Stomping Ground Creative Residency Program
- Sunny Point Artist-in-Residence Program
- Turkey Land Cove Foundation Residencies (women only)
- Unruly Retreat
- Villa Sträuli Studios/Sulzberg Foundation
- Wellstone Center in the Redwoods (click “Fellowships” for sponsored residencies; the “Residencies” tab will lead you to residencies that don’t charge application fees, but do charge for the residencies.)
- Weymouth Center for the Arts and Humanities (if you are “a North Carolina native, current resident or [someone with a] direct tie to North Carolina”)
- Wolff Cottage Writer-in-Residence Program (Fairhope Center for the Writing Arts)