Accepting Applications for emerging writers for the Edith Wharton

Type: Exhibition

The Edith Wharton & Straw Dog Writers Guild Writers-in-Residence Program 2024

The Mount, Edith Wharton’s former home in Lenox, Massachusetts, in partnership with Straw Dog Writers Guild, offers one-week residencies during March 2025 for nine emerging writers, three writers each for three weeks (poets, fiction, creative non-fiction writers, screen-or playwrights). Selected writers will receive a $500 stipend, travel reimbursement, workspaces at The Mount, and lodging at a neighboring Inn.

When:
Week 1: Sunday, March 2 to Saturday, March 8, 2025
Week 2: Sunday, March 9 to Saturday, March 15, 2025
Week 3: Sunday, March 16 to Saturday, March 22, 2025

Where:
Residents will work at The Mount in Lenox, MA.

Application Fee: $25
Fee waived for members of The Mount and Straw Dog Writers Guild, or for financial hardship

Important Dates:
Application opens September 1, 2024
Application deadline October 1, 2024
Finalists announced on November 15, 2024
Residents announced on December 13 2024

Questions? Contact Sarah Margolis-Pineo, Public Programs Director at The Mount, programs@edithwharton.org or 413-551-5110.

Application opens September 1, 2024 and will be available soon.
APPLICATIONS LIMITED TO THE FIRST 300 SUBMISSIONS