Writers Residency Program
Locations: Oaxaca, Mexico — Cusco, Peru — Naples, Italy
All Residency Programs + Dates in 2024 & 2025
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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.
All Residency Programs + Dates in 2024 & 2025
Missed the December 1 Deadline? E-mail Us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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.
As part of Arquetopia’s mission, we promote international experiences in the field of culture by promoting Mexico, Peru, and Italy’s rich and diverse artistic heritage. We are aware that understanding the local cultural context and complexity is key for a successful cultural exchange; therefore, the Writers Residency offers a flexible, mentored program that provides social and cultural research and aesthetic resources. In addition to the individual mentoring provided by our directorial and curatorial staff for personalized research assistance/resources, project guidance, and critique, participants of this program work independently in our spaces. All proposals are welcome.
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, Peru and/or Italy. 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
- 24-hour access to the kitchen for residents to prepare their own meals
- Wireless Internet
- Use of Arquetopia’s residency common spaces
- Shared, serviced (single) 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 and Airport Transportation (Cusco):
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Furnished, private bedroom
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24-hour access to the kitchen for residents to prepare their own meals
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Wireless Internet
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Use of Arquetopia’s residency common spaces
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Shared, serviced (single) 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 (Naples):
- Furnished, private bedroom
- 24-hour access to the kitchen for residents to prepare their own meals
- Wireless Internet
- Use of Arquetopia’s residency common spaces
- Shared, serviced (single) 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.
