Residency & Funding Resources for Parent Writers

Time is money and time for writing can be particularly expensive at a formal residency, especially considering daycare costs back home. I blogged for Minerva Rising about a Do-It-Yourself Residency with a fiction writer at her home in Indianapolis. As two parents who write, the quiet time was incredibly helpful to our writing. If you are thinking about setting up your own, inexpensive writing residency, I hope you'll read through the post and the links.

Here are some more parent-writer-friendly-resources for residencies. What else would you recommend?

Millay Colony’s Virtual Residency

Island Hill House (accepts children/caregivers)

Caldera Residency (accepts children/caregivers)

Sustainable Arts Foundation (grants)

Vermont Studio Center (residency and grant for childcare) 

Blogging @ Minerva Rising

Minerva Rising Literary Journal kindly published three of my miscarriage poems in their recent Mothers issue. This lovely journal "celebrates the creativity and wisdom in every woman" and I'm proud to be blogging for them monthly in 2014. In conjunction with writing and editing my new manuscript about miscarriage, pregnancy and motherhood, Carried, I'll be blogging about writing as a mother.

The first post, Poetry Maker Mommy, went live yesterday. With its title taken from the song Parents are People" from the classic Free to Be You And Me album, I share my guidelines for writing about the bambino.

I hope you'll spend some time on the journal's website and read some of their posted work and subscribe.