Fellowships available!
Check out our fellowhips, under the Residencies tab. We have sponsors for the Eat-Write! Culinary Fellowship, the FiberArts Fellowship and Composing Your Life, for musicians or those who write about music. Don't miss a chance to focus your creative energy in a beautiful, supportive atmosphere designed for your comfort.
Come Home To The Colony...
"I was able to do in a week at the Writers’ Colony what would have normally taken me months to do if I had been at home."
- Susan Burden, 2011 resident
Colony adds Community Writing Program
The Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow is delighted to introduce Eureka Springs resident Alison Taylor-Brown, who is developing a Community Writing Program for area writers. She has an MBA from the University of Mississippi and an MFA in Fiction from the University of Southern New Hampshire. Her other accomplishments include directing the annual Ozark Master Class in Fiction and starting the Center for English Language Education in Clarksville.
Alison’s goal is to help writers make the next move, whether they’re beginners or established writers. To do that, she wants to find out what writers in the region need and then develop programs to meet those needs.
If you’d like to know more about the program or have some ideas you’d like to share with Alison, contact the Writers’ Colony at (479) 253-7444 or send her an email at Alison@writerscolony.org.
Writers' Colony offers a beautiful, inspiring place to create
The Writers' Colony at Dairy Hollow is a unique residency program for writers, artists, composers, architects, and chefs in the historic arts village of Eureka Springs, Arkansas. Nestled on a beautiful bend in the road known as Dairy Hollow, the Colony hosts more than 50 established and emerging writers a year for residencies that vary in length from one week to three months.
The Colony is now open year-round, and winter is a very quiet, serene time to visit. For writers who join us to craft and compose their work, Colony time is magical. Residents apply and are juried into the Colony for either subsidized general residency or a Fellowship-funded stay. In the privacy of separate, individual writing suites fully equipped with bedroom, writing area, wifi, a/c, private bath, private entrance and mini-kitchens, and with all meals provided, our residents write, and write, and write!
While work time at the Colony is fiercely protected, Monday through Friday evenings enjoy Kitchen Magician Jana's wonderful cooking. When other writers are in residency with you, share ideas, inspiration and support over a home-cooked meal.
And the rest of the time? As one writer noted, "With every need met, all we do is write. Need a break? It's gorgeous here - take a hike or walk 5 minutes to town where there's always something fun going on." (Read more alumni testimonials)
This gift of uninterrupted work time in a supportive environment, combined with Eureka Spring's breathtaking natural surroundings and vibrant community of writers, musicians, and artists, has beckoned residents from across the country and around the globe since the Colony opened in 1999. As we enter our second decade, we look forward to welcoming our alumni home and to introducing new writers to the magic of the Writers' Colony at Dairy Hollow.
See you soon!
If you are interested in applying for general residency or for a Fellowship, contact the Writers' Colony at director@writerscolony.org.
