Writing By Writers

10/16/2026

Join Pam Houston in the French Alps on a Writing Adventure this June! Part workshop, part residency and all adventure, the Mont Blanc Writing Adventure is broken into two, week-long sessions working with faculty member Pam Houston. Week 1 will feature opportunities for generative writing exercises and manuscript critique. Week 2 will offer writing prompts and a daily check-in. Come for one or stay for both. The Chamonix Valley is filled with cafes, rock-climber bars, and secluded alpine meadows where you can hide out and lose yourself in your work. It also offers world-class hiking, easily accessed from various lifts throughout the valley so you can start your adventure on top of the world. We accept applications on a rolling basis and expect this workshop to fill early.

FELLOWSHIP DEADLINE JANUARY 1ST!

https://www.writingxwriters.org/montblanc

10/09/2026

ONLINE CLASS: Storytelling for the Armchair Traveler with Kim Culbertson. How to build compelling stories from the places we’ve been. Tuesday November 10th, 5 - 7pm PT over Zoom

https://www.writingxwriters.org/online-classes

​Kim has made a habit of working her travels into her novels and flash fiction – see Instructions for a Broken Heart (which won the Northern California Book Award for YA) and The Wonder of Us, which The Horn Book Guide named a “Summer of Change” selection. In this workshop, she’ll provide examples of how to turn places you love and have been to into powerful stories as well as provide prompts for generative exercises for your WIP and original flash fiction and short stories. Bring your writerly passport!

Travel warning: this workshop will focus heavily on setting, character, and conflict!

09/28/2026

ONLINE CLASS: Putting Pressure on Characters with faculty Becky Mandelbaum Thursday April 8th, 5 - 7pm PT.
https://www.writingxwriters.org/online-classes

Pressure is at the heart of any great story, but sometimes we instinctively protect our characters from experiencing it. In this class we’ll look at how to apply pressure to our characters through interiority, setting, dialogue, other characters, and plot, taking guidance from examples in popular movies, TV shows, and fairy tales. We’ll practice together with in-class exercises and you’ll leave with prompts for applying pressure in your own work.

​Becky Mandelbaum is the author of THE BRIGHT SIDE SANCTUARY FOR ANIMALS, an Indie Next pick, and BAD KANSAS, which received the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, the High Plains Book Award for First Book, and was a Kansas Notable Book. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, One Story, The Sun, The Missouri Review, The Georgia Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, The Rumpus, Necessary Fiction, Hobart, Prairie Schooner, Electric Literature, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, and has been featured on Medium. Arts organizations including Hedgebrook, Writing by Writers, The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, Lighthouse Works, and the Washington Arts Commission have supported her work. She is the winner of a Pushcart Prize and was named a finalist for the Disquiet Literary Prize in Fiction, the Missouri Review Editor’s Prize in Fiction, the Nelson Algren Award, and the Joyland Open Border Fiction Prize. Originally from Kansas, she now lives in Bellingham, Washington

09/22/2026

Joshua Tree Residency
2027 (1 - 2 weeks TBD by owner and winners)
Application Deadline: October 15, 2026

Writing by Writers offers a one to two week residency (depending on time of year) in this 900 square foot, funky and fun desert home on 5 acres of beautiful land with mountain views and a cactus garden in Twentynine Palms California. The recently renovated house features a large and fully finished screened in porch plus two additional studio “guest units”—a shipping container home with compostable toilet and its own kitchen, and a small vintage trailer, both hooked up to the main water and electricity. The residency accommodates 3 people and is open to writers of all genres: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, screenplay, playwriting, and beyond. Lodging is provided free of charge, however residents are responsible for their own meals, transportation and personal needs while at the residency.

09/20/2026

Lamb Creek Residency
2027 (10 days TBD by owner and winner)
Application Deadline: October 15, 2026

Writing by Writers offers a 10 day residency at the off-grid Lamb Creek Retreat in the chimney stack of Idaho, two hours north of Spokane, WA. Writers may apply with co-applicants for a 2-bedroom house. The Lamb Creek Retreat Residency is open to writers of all genres: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, screenplay, playwriting, and beyond. Lodging is provided free of charge, however residents are responsible for their own meals, transportation and personal needs while at the residency. There is modern day power and plumbing at the cabin, but no internet and little cell reception. Both of these connections can be arranged at the public library, 1.5 miles down the road.

09/18/2026

Big Bend Residency
September 9 - 19, 2027
Application Deadline October 15, 2026
https://www.writingxwriters.org/residencies

Writing By Writers offers a two-week dog-friendly residency at a Sears Kit House in Marathon, Texas near Big Bend National Park. Writers may apply with co-applicants for a 3-bedroom house. The Big Bend Residency is open to writers of all genres: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, screenplay, playwriting, and beyond. Lodging is provided free of charge, however residents are responsible for their own meals, transportation and personal needs while at the residency.

09/16/2026

Baja Residency
July 11 - 25, 2027
Application Deadline October 15, 2026
https://www.writingxwriters.org/residencies

Writing By Writers offers a two-week residency at Casita de Catarina on the beach in the Loreto, Baja California Sur, Mexico. The Baja Residency is open to writers of all genres: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, screenplay, playwriting, and beyond. Lodging is provided free of charge, however residents are responsible for their own meals, transportation and personal needs while at the residency.

09/14/2026

Lewis Creek Residency
December 2026 - May 2027 (One Week TBD by owner and winner)Application Deadline: October 15, 2026
https://www.writingxwriters.org/residencies

Writing by Writers offers a one-week residency in a cabin on 20 acres of walking and snowshoe trails in Charlotte, Vermont. Lewis Creek is open to writers of all genres: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, screenplay, playwriting, and beyond. Lodging is provided free of charge, however residents are responsible for their own meals, transportation, and personal needs while at the residency. The cabin includes a full mini kitchen, living room, queen bed, 3/4 bath (built in 2020), propane fireplace, screened porch, two writing desks and Wifi. This residency is intended for a solo writer.

09/13/2026

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You’re years into a new book, and it’s just not working. But there’s something about it you can’t let go of. In this class, we’ll discuss how to unravel, resee, reclaim, and rebuild—all the while holding onto the heart of the manuscript. There’s an art to the overhaul. You’re not sta...

09/12/2026

ShineMaker Residency
May 15 - 29, 2027
Application Deadline: October 15, 2026
https://www.writingxwriters.org/residencies

Writing by Writers offers a two-week, dog-friendly residency in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Writers may apply with co-applicants for a 3-bedroom house. Residency is open to writers of all genres: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, screenplay, playwriting, and beyond. Lodging is provided free of charge, however residents are responsible for their own meals, transportation and personal needs while at the residency. Residencies are intended for writers only.