Millay House Rockland Announcements
Millay House Rockland (MHR) is pleased to announce its newly elected leadership team for 2025: President Meg Weston, Vice-President Steve Cartwright, Treasurer John Gillespie, and Secretary Ann Morris. Looking to the year ahead, MHR anticipates building upon the success of its first full-fledged membership drive and the achievements of its inaugural Writers-in-Residence, reading events and workshop series.
Joining Meg, John, and Ann, members of the MHR Board welcome this “renascence” moment as Vincent Millay’s birthplace once again opens its doors as a home for poetry and the arts in the Rockland-area community: Michelle Gifford, Liz Kalloch, Diane Norton, Cyndi Reeves, Austin Rodenbiker, Jefferson Navicky, and Mark Raymond.
To learn more about us, please visit: Millay House Rockland Board.
Writer-in-Residence Program 2025-2026 is Open for Submissions
We also want to share that applications for the Writer-in-Residence program are now open and will be accepted until Tuesday, April 1, 2025, at 11:59 pm EST. Two residents will be chosen, one for October 2025 and the other for July 2026. Each residency comes with a stipend of $1200 and one month’s accommodation in the house where Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Edna St. Vincent Millay was born.
This year’s final juror is Gretel Ehrlich, essayist and poet and author of The Solace of Open Spaces, as well as several 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. 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.
Apply now through Submittable.
Your Millay: Creative Exploration of an Icon • A 5-Week Poetry Workshop
MHR Board member Jefferson Navicky will be leading this in-person 5-week class beginning April 3.* If you’re in the Rockland area, please check it out!
Grounding ourselves in selections of Millay’s poetry, and drawing from biographical information, letters, and archival materials from the Maine Women Writers Collection, we will immerse ourselves in the world of Millay in an effort to find the ways in which Millay speaks to our own inspirations.
Participants of all avenues and experience levels welcome – poets and nonpoets; fiction and nonfiction writers; Millay enthusiasts, the casually curious, and those interested in the alchemical process of turning literary research into creative output.
The class will include a tour of Millay’s birthplace in Rockland, home of Millay House Rockland, as well as a visit to the Camden Public Library’s Millay collection. Participants will work to write their own multi-discipline responses to Millay. Instructor feedback following each class, and one all-class workshop. Limit 10-12 participants.
Class Dates: 4/3, 4/10, and 5/1 classes @ Rockland Public Library. 4/17@ Camden Public Library & their Millay Collection. 4/24 @ Millay House in Rockland.
