Millay House Rockland, in partnership with the Ellis Beauregard Foundation, will offer a one-month, juried residency in October 2024. The competitive application is open to writers of poetry, fiction, non-fiction, plays, or journalism; the residency offers comfortable accommodations in the house where Pulitzer-Prize-winning poet Edna St. Vincent Millay was born.

The Millay House Rockland Writing Residency will give a writer the month of October 2024 to write, plus a stipend of $1,200 for food or other expenses. The writer will be expected to give one public event – a reading, a workshop, or a conversation with students. Applicants must be U.S. citizens and at least 21 years old.

The Millay House is pleased to have the distinguished poet and memoirist, Mark Doty, to make this year’s final selection, following a pre-jurying process that engages a small committee of writers, professors, and publishers to screen the submissions. Mark Doty has been recognized as one of the most accomplished poets in America, and his poetry and non-fiction writing have received numerous awards.

The application deadline is April 1, 2024, however submissions this year are capped at the first 100 to be received. Applications, including 25 double-spaced pages of prose or 10 pages of poetry and a brief outline of the project planned for the residency, must be submitted electronically via: www.millayhouserockland.org/residency. Submissions will open on Edna St. Vincent Millay’s birthday – February 22, 2024. The winner will be announced July 1, 2024.