Grants & Scholarships

4Culture
This agency offers grants to for arts and cultural work in King County, Washington, thanks to the local lodging tax.

Artist Trust
This key source of funding and good advice supports the work of many creative folk in Washington State.

Institute of Current World Affairs
With its two-year full fellowships for young professionals (and not-so-professionals) to live, work and write in other countries, this foundation changes lives.

Oberlin College Alumni Association
This association helps Obie alum continue their educations.

Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs, City of Seattle
A dedicated, talented staff foments city-wide creativity, making grants to individual artists and cultural organizations to brew up all kinds of art.

Richard Hugo House
Seattle’s literary center offers a writers-in-residence program, classes for writers and readers aged 9 to 99, a members’ library, performing space for writers and theatre companies, and much more.

Washington State Arts Commission
A variety of Commission programs connect artists and arts organizations to grants and other sorts of support.

Workshops & Conferences

Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference
The best and most beautiful place in the country to learn how the publishing world works and meet some of the writers you most admire.

Fishtrap
This home in the woods for Western writers opens its doors once each summer and winter.

Hassayampa Institute for Creative Writing
A cozy summer conference in the hills of Prescott, Arizona welcomes Southwestern writers each summer.

Interamerican University Studies Institute
A source for all things Spanish, from high school summer programs to post-graduate study in Spanish-English translation, all IUSI programs come with high-quality instruction.

Macondo Workshop
Begun in Sandra Cisneros’s kitchen in 1995, this annual writers’ workshop-gathering-miracle happens almost entirely on volunteer labor and love.

Penland School of Crafts
This is a little corner of heaven in the Blue Ridge Mountains for anyone who makes books, prints, blown glass, sculpture, textiles, pottery, photographs, drawings, or iron/wood sculpture.

Washington State Arts Alliance / Foundation
Their annual Cultural Congress brings individual artists and arts organizations together.

Wesleyan Writers Conference
For more than half a century, writers have come together for a summer week of learning and listening at Wesleyan University.

Residencies

Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Studies
In the delightful river town of Red Wing, Minnesota, this center gives writers, translators, visual artists, composers, dancers, and scholars both space to work and a community with which to share the work.

Blue Mountain Center
By a lake in the Adirondacks, writers, visual artists, composers, and social change activists generate new work and replenish creative wells.

Hedgebrook
This island retreat for women writers and filmmakers is the epicenter of a wonderful word-loving community in Western Washington.

Jack Straw Writers Program
Not a "residency" in the usual sense of the word, Seattle's Jack Straw Productions offers local writers voice and presentation training, as well as print, online, live, and broadcast venues for sharing new work.

Ucross Foundation
Out here on the former headquarters of Wyoming’s Pratt and Ferris Cattle Company, there’s enough space to think big thoughts.

Vermont Studio Center
At the nation’s largest artists’ colony, writers benefit from the visual and creative energy provided by painters and sculptors from all over the world.

Helen Riaboff Whiteley Center of the University of Washington
Perhaps the only year-round writers’ and scholars’ retreat based at a marine biology field station, this center on Washington’s San Juan Island is a reclusive writer’s dream.

Writers’ Room of the Seattle Public Library
They say that Seattle is one of the country’s most literary cities – thanks in large part to our fabulous library system.