The Mount’s Writers-in-Residence Program Application Deadline Nears
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LENOX, Mass. — The 2016 Edith Wharton Writers-in-Residence, a two- to three-week residency offering writers the opportunity to work and create in the house Wharton built as a writer’s retreat, will accept applications through Sept. 2.
The program is open to writers of demonstrated accomplishment who are currently working on a new piece of writing. Additional information including submission guidelines can be found online.
New this year, The Mount will be offering residency for up to three women writers. Each resident will receive a work space at The Mount, a $1,000 food and travel stipend, and lodging for the duration of their residency. Residents must provide their own transportation. Residencies will be held in February or March of 2017. Each residency will be scheduled so that there is some overlap between the writers. This "mini" writers' colony will give the residents a community of support and camaraderie.
This past March, The Mount hosted their first round of writers: Koren Zailckas, Claire McMillan, and Yvonne Puig. When asked what this time has meant to her, Zailckas said, "With zero hyperbole, my residency at the Mount was the best thing that ever happened to me or my writing process. Looking out on the same view that Edith did, that's part of it. The Mount offers something else as well—something, dare I say, otherworldly. We writers-in-residence instinctively started calling it 'the Edith magic.'"
The Edith Wharton Writers-in-Residence is made possible through the generous support of an anonymous donor. Funding for the program has been secured through Spring 2018.
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