2025 Writer-in-Residence Program is Open for Submissions

Millay House Rockland in partnership with the Ellis Beauregard Foundation announced submissions are officially open for the 2025 juried Writer-in-Residence program during an open house at the home that Edna St. Vincent’s Millay was born in—on the author’s birthday. The juried residency competition is again being launched through local media and literary sources and this year 2 winners will be selected—one for October 2025 and the other for July 2026

The final juror is Gretel Ehrlich, essayist and poet. Gretel is the author of three books of narrative essays, a novel, two memoirs, three books of poetry, a biography, a book of ethnology, and a children’s book, among others. Her best-known book is The Solace of Open Spaces, about which Annie Dillard said: Wyoming has found its Whitman.

Ehrlich’s books have received the PEN West Award for Nonfiction, the PEN New England Henry David Thoreau Award for Nature Writing, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award for Distinguished Prose, and a Whiting Award. She has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Her book Facing the Wave was long-listed for a National Book Award in 2013.

Submissions for this Residence close on April 1, 2025.

Gretel Ehrlich

photo Jack Swenson, Expedition Gallery