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List of Residencies

Below is a list of residencies as sent to English Grads by our wonderful Elmaz Abinader:

http://mockingbird.creighton.edu/ncw/colonies.htm

http://www.poetryresourcepage.com/colonies.html

http://www.writersunion.ca/iwr.html

http://www.pw.org/links_pages/Conferences_and_Residencies/

http://www.artistcommunities.org/

http://www.resartis.org/

George Bennett Fellowship in Writing

Application Requirements

By December 1, send to:

Bennett Fellowship
Phillips Exeter Academy
Box # 2339
20 Main Street
Exeter, New Hampshire 03833-2460

1. The application, including the names, addresses and telephone number of two people clearly competent to discuss you as a writer and as a person and to judge your qualifications for the Fellowship. Do not have your college or graduate school placement office send the conventional dossier. We will not contact those you name as references unless your manuscript reaches the final stage of competition.
2. A statement of your own testifying to the appropriateness of the Fellowship to your situation. Be specific about the manuscript that possession of the Fellowship would allow you to complete, noting current progress and so forth. 
   
   NOTE: The committee favors applicants who have not yet published a book-length work with a ‘major’ publisher - i.e., a well-financed publisher with national distribution. If your work has enjoyed such publication, your statement should explain why you consider yourself unestablished, as a writer or in the genre represented by your manuscript.
3. Your manuscript: if prose, about 50 typed pages of recent composition (send representative selections from longer works); if poetry, 20 to 30 pages. (Manuscripts not postmarked December 1 or before will be returned.)
4. Five dollars, cash or check payable to Phillips Exeter Academy. If you wish your manuscript returned, also include a self-addressed envelope stamped with adequate postage.

When you have submitted all of the above, you will be informed that your application is complete. A choice will be made, and all entrants notified around March 15.

The manuscripts are the primary basis for the selection of the Fellow, and each manuscript will receive the careful attention of the selection committee, made up of the members of the Academy English Department. We are genuine in our desire to select the most promising candidate, and we are always conscious that the Fellowship is for a writer at the beginning of his or her career and that much of the material we receive is necessarily unfinished.

Visit http://www.exeter.edu/about_us/about_us_537.aspx#APPLICATION_REQUIREMENTS

for more details as well as an engaging essay by Laura Moriarty on her acceptance and subsequent experience.

Application Requirements

By December 1, send to:

Bennett Fellowship
Phillips Exeter Academy
Box # 2339
20 Main Street
Exeter, New Hampshire 03833-2460

1. The application, including the names, addresses and telephone number of two people clearly competent to discuss you as a writer and as a person and to judge your qualifications for the Fellowship. Do not have your college or graduate school placement office send the conventional dossier. We will not contact those you name as references unless your manuscript reaches the final stage of competition.
2. A statement of your own testifying to the appropriateness of the Fellowship to your situation. Be specific about the manuscript that possession of the Fellowship would allow you to complete, noting current progress and so forth. 
   
   NOTE: The committee favors applicants who have not yet published a book-length work with a ‘major’ publisher - i.e., a well-financed publisher with national distribution. If your work has enjoyed such publication, your statement should explain why you consider yourself unestablished, as a writer or in the genre represented by your manuscript.
3. Your manuscript: if prose, about 50 typed pages of recent composition (send representative selections from longer works); if poetry, 20 to 30 pages. (Manuscripts not postmarked December 1 or before will be returned.)
4. Five dollars, cash or check payable to Phillips Exeter Academy. If you wish your manuscript returned, also include a self-addressed envelope stamped with adequate postage.

When you have submitted all of the above, you will be informed that your application is complete. A choice will be made, and all entrants notified around March 15.

The manuscripts are the primary basis for the selection of the Fellow, and each manuscript will receive the careful attention of the selection committee, made up of the members of the Academy English Department. We are genuine in our desire to select the most promising candidate, and we are always conscious that the Fellowship is for a writer at the beginning of his or her career and that much of the material we receive is necessarily unfinished.

Visit http://www.exeter.edu/about_us/about_us_537.aspx#APPLICATION_REQUIREMENTS

for more details as well as an engaging essay by Laura Moriarty on her acceptance and subsequent experience.