Wendy Williams

Headline: Memoir Body: Wendy Williams will spend her residency in Marin County, California, where she lived in the ’70s in Synanon, The People Business, a rehabilitation and lifestyle community, which no longer exists. Her memoir of this period, the writing of...

Leslie Williams

Headline: Essays Body: Leslie Williams will attend the Fishtrap Summer Gathering at the Wallawa Lake Lodge, Oregon. While there, she plans to revive a collection of essays addressing her upbringing in the particular madness of the Christian Science church––while...

Grey Traynor

Headline: Comedic Novel Body: Grey Traynor will seek the solitude of a cabin in the woods near Mount Rainier to work on a comedic novel, Return of the Teen Hunk Killer. The novel follows Tabbi Brier, a young trans woman who discovers a crime scene in her suburban...

Nurjan Sterbenz

Headline: Memoir Body: Nurjan Sterbenz will visit the island of Maui, HI, to complete a memoir exploring the silent struggles of immigrant mothers in America, and the path toward healing trauma, reconnecting with self, and creating a more authentic and empowered...

Annie Lighthart

Headline: Collection of Poems Body: Annie Lighthart will visit Esther Island, a tiny island on the east coast, to work on a collection of poems about the body.  Since many of her current poems circle around the idea of islands (the mind as an island in the body, the...