Soapstone Writing Residencies We will be accepting applications this summer for residencies from November, 2009 to November 2010.
Applications must be postmarked no earlier than July 1 and no later than August 1.
A committee made up of different writers each year reads the applications and selects residents. All applicants are notified by mid-September. In the event of a cancellation, the space is offered to applicants who were not initially awarded residencies.
Women may apply in pairs or singly; those applying in pairs should each send a separate application. Each application will be considered on its own merits. If only one of the applicants in a pair is offered a residency, she will be paired up with another writer.
Please be sure to read Is Soapstone for You? before applying for a residency.
"I managed to stay at my desk for double my usual time, and was able to do a lot of very difficult ground work for the last quarter of a long novel. I’m hugely grateful for the concentrated intensely focused time that Soapstone gave me at a crucial juncture in this book."
—Marjorie Sandor