Writers Residency Program
Locations: OAXACA, MEXICO — CUSCO, PERU — NAPLES, ITALY
Missed the December 15 Deadline for All Dates in 2023 & 2024?
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This comprehensive, customized residency program offers competitive professional opportunities for emerging and mid-career, national and international writers, journalists, playwrights, translators, and graduate students age 20 and over.
Missed the December 15 Deadline for All Dates in 2023 & 2024?
E-mail Us Today at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. for an Extension (Limited Time).

This comprehensive, customized residency program offers competitive professional opportunities for emerging and mid-career, national and international writers, journalists, playwrights, translators, and graduate students age 20 and over.
We welcome writers from diverse genres: poetry, prose, drama, screen and playwriting, children’s literature, journalism including magazine articles and editorials; as well as translators and editors who are interested in creating work while experiencing specific cultural expressions from Mexico and/or Peru. Each residency is unique, based on the residency research needs and the writer’s proposal. Residents are chosen on the basis of artistic merit and evaluation of the proposed project.
Writers-in-Residence Megan Gette (USA) and Mariana Robles (Mexico)

Writer-in-Residence Melissa Herrera (USA)
RESIDENCY DURATION
Flexible sessions of 3 to 6 weeks. Dates are not predetermined but are proposed by the applying writer.
WHAT THIS COMPREHENSIVE MENTORED, NON-INSTRUCTIONAL RESIDENCY PROGRAM INCLUDES
WHAT THIS COMPREHENSIVE MENTORED, NON-INSTRUCTIONAL RESIDENCY PROGRAM INCLUDES
Staff Support:
- Each resident writer meets weekly with our directorial and curatorial staff for personalized mentoring, research assistance/resources, project guidance, and critique
- Furnished, private bedroom
- Meals and 24-hour access to stocked kitchen and dining room
- Wireless Internet
- Use of Arquetopia’s residency common spaces
- Shared, serviced bathrooms with modern fixtures and showers
- Housekeeping
- Downtown arrival pickup and departure dropoff transportation provided
- Though cheap, everyday public transportation is also available from the residency vicinity into the city, Arquetopia also provides scheduled transportation into downtown Oaxaca once per week by van
- Personal workspace with desk or table provided
Accommodation, Meals, and Airport Transportation (Cusco):
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Furnished, private bedroom
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Meals and 24-hour access to stocked kitchen and dining room
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Wireless Internet
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Use of Arquetopia’s residency common spaces
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Shared, serviced bathrooms with modern fixtures and showers
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Housekeeping
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Arrival pickup and departure dropoff transportation provided at Cusco Airport
- Personal workspace with desk or table provided
Accommodation and Meals (Naples):
- Furnished, private bedroom
- Meals and 24-hour access to stocked kitchen and dining room
- Wireless Internet
- Use of Arquetopia’s residency common spaces
- Shared, serviced bathrooms with modern fixtures and showers
- Housekeeping
Workspace (Naples):
- Personal workspace with desk or table provided
RESIDENCY PROGRAM TUITION INFO & APPLICATION DEADLINES
E-mail This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. for program tuition info and application deadlines for this program.