If eligible, you may apply to all residencies using this single application.
Application Requirements:
1. Fill out the questionnaire
2. Attach a writing sample from the project you will be working on during the Residency:
- Fiction and Nonfiction: One unpublished writing sample, 6,000 words or less. A short story/essay or a portion of a novel/NF project may be submitted.
- Poetry: Up to six unpublished poems totaling no more than 20 pages.
- Translation: Please follow the requirements for the genre in the original language and submit your translation and the original text.
- Graphic Novel: Up to 30 unpublished pages from the project. Please email workshop@tinhouse.com if you are unable to upload your file.
3. Provide an Artist Statement
4. Provide Residency Plans
General Eligibility Requirements
- Working on a full-length manuscript (or a novella/chapbook) in any genre.
- You must be 21 or older by the time of your Residency.
- Former Scholars/Faculty are eligible to apply. Former Residents are not.
- International writers may apply.
Parents Residency (June 2025): This residency is open to writers with children 18 years of age or younger (as of March 1st, 2024).
General Residency (July 2025): This Residency is open to any author working on a full-length manuscript.
First Book Residency (August 2025): This Residency is intended for debut writers who have not yet published a full-length book. Applicants may be under contract but cannot be scheduled to publish their debuts until 2026. Chapbooks and self-published works do not count towards this requirement.