Calling all writers + parents!
Apply by March 23rd for the McCormack Writing Center (formerly known as Tin House Workshop)'s Parents Summer Residency!
This Residency is open to writers with children aged 18 or younger living at home.
Apply: mccormackwritingcenter.org/residencies/
What can water teach us about craft? In this generative intensive, we will explore approaches that different bodies of water offer for considering image, subtext, and syntax in our writing across genre.
Sigh-up: mccormackwritingcenter.org/product/wate...
It's time to finish that project-in-progress!
The First Book Residency is open to writers who have not yet published a full-length manuscript. Each residency includes a stipend, private housing, Lyft credit, and much more!
Apply today: mccormackwritingcenter.org/residencies/
The MWC is coming to AWP!!!
Come see us at Table #T1152 and say hi + grab a postcard! We will be in Baltimore from March 4th to 7th and are excited for the opportunity to visit with some of our community and make new friends.
Safe travels and we hope to see you soon!
Spend the summer with the MWC in Portland at one of our 2026 Summer Residencies!
Each residency includes a stipend, private accommodation, plenty of unstructured days to tend to your project in progress, and much more!
Learn more and apply here: mccormackwritingcenter.org/residencies/
Applications for our Spring YA Workshop are open until March 16th!
Join us over over a long weekend in Portland, Oregon to experience curated, intimate workshops, craft lectures, and so much more!
Apply here: mccormackwritingcenter.submittable.com/submit/17761...
SPRING into better craft at the 2026 Spring YA Workshop!
This year, our stellar faculty are: Aiden Thomas, Courtney Gould, Lilliam Rivera, Nina LaCour, and Traci Chee!
Applications close March 16th! Apply here: mccormackwritingcenter.submittable.com/submit/17761...
Applications are now open for our 2026 Spring YA Workshop!
Join us in beautiful Portland, Oregon over a long weekend featuring curated, intimate workshops, craft lectures, generative exercises, readings, and much more!
Apply here: mccormackwritingcenter.org/ya-workshop/
We're so excited to announce our last (but certainly not least) 2026 Spring Resident A.D. Lauren-Abunassar!
Congratulations, A.D.! We're so happy to be able to support your work.
Learn more here: mccormackwritingcenter.org/mccormack-wr...
Today, we're so thrilled to be able to celebrate our 2026 Winter Online Workshop Scholars!!!
Please give these writers their flowers and help us to celebrate them! We're so grateful to have been able to support their work!
Learn more about them here: mccormackwritingcenter.org/mccormack-wr...
Anybody from 2015 want to meet up…?
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The McCormack Writing Center (formerly known as Tin House Workshop) is thrilled to invite our Alumni of all programs to an AWP off-site event!
This Alumni Get Together will have no set agenda or readings, and will take place on Friday, March 6, 2026 from 6pm ET to 8pm ET! We hope to see you there!
We're so excited to announce our final two fantastic Spring Residents, Ho-Ming So Denduangrudee and José García Escobar! Please give these wonderful writers their flowers!
Learn more about all our residents here: mccormackwritingcenter.org/mccormack-wr...
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We're so excited to announce two of our amazing 2026 Spring Residents — Cassidy McFadzean and Jason Baum!
We're honored to be able to support these writers and hope you will, too.
Learn more about our residents here: mccormackwritingcenter.org/mccormack-wr...
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Applications for the Oregon Summer Workshop due TODAY!
Today is the last day to apply to the 2026 Oregon Summer Workshop. Here you will find amazing new writing community, improved craft, and much more!
Apply here: mccormackwritingcenter.org/oregon-summe...
Applications for the @mccormackwc.bsky.social’s Oregon Summer Workshop are due February 9th. I’m one of the nonfiction faculty. I’m the author of Excavation: A Memoir; Hollywood Notebook, and Bruja: A Dreamoir, (Northwestern University Press, 2025). mccormackwritingcenter.org/oregon-summe...
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Applications for the Oregon Summer Workshop (formerly known as the Tin House Summer Workshop) are due February 9th (this Monday)!
The BIPOC Scholarship is open to anyone identifying as Black, Indigenous, or a Person of Color.
Apply: mccormackwritingcenter.submittable.com/submit/13081...
We are once again honored to partner with our friends @carolshieldsprize.bsky.social in offering an Oregon Summer Workshop Scholarship for Indigenous Women and Non-Binary writers.
Applications close this Monday (February 9th)!
Apply here: mccormackwritingcenter.org/oregon-summe...
APPLICATIONS FOR THE OREGON SUMMER WORKSHOP OPEN NOW!
Scholarship for Palestine (2 awards): This award is open to any author identifying as Palestinian.
Apply here: mccormackwritingcenter.submittable.com/submit/13081...
Your words belong here! Apply today for the 2026 Oregon Summer Workshop (formerly the Tin House Summer Workshop) and spend time immersed in craft, community building, and, as always, karaoke!
Apply here: mccormackwritingcenter.org/oregon-summe...
Just look at that AMAZING faculty line-up! Applications for the historic 2026 Oregon Summer Workshop (formerly known as the Tin House Summer Workshop) are due February 9th!
Apply here: mccormackwritingcenter.org/oregon-summe...
Open the door to better craft and amazing community at the 2026 Oregon Summer Workshop!
Fee waivers are available! Applications open until February 9th!
Apply here: tinhouseworkshop.submittable.com/submit/13081...
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THIS WEEKEND! Join us in this generative poetry and fiction-focused workshop where we will utilize prompts to start new projects that write towards your own personal liberation and the social liberation of the world at large!
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APPLICATIONS NOW OPEN!
We’re delighted to announce our 2026 Oregon Summer Workshop Nonfiction faculty are Joseph Earl Thomas, Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya, Sarah Aziza, and Wendy C. Ortiz!
Applications close February 2nd!
Apply here: tinhouseworkshop.submittable.com/submit/13081...
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Come for the craft and stay for the community at the 2026 Oregon Summer Workshop (formerly known as Tin House Summer Workshop)!
Applications due February 9th!
Apply: tinhouseworkshop.submittable.com/submit/13081...
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In this intensive suitable for prose writers, we will discuss a range of interdisciplinary work and theory and engage in generative exercises to explore the possibilities afforded by illegibility, opacity, and the refusal to explain!
Sign-up: mccormackwritingcenter.org/product/mwc-...
💫 “Among our scholarships this year, we have awards for writers without MFAs, those over 40, Trans, Indigenous, and Palestinian authors, and for artists born outside the United States. As for all our programs, we offer payment plans and application fee waivers. APPLY TODAY!” 💫
Hope to see you there in July 😎
APPLICATIONS OPEN NOW! Join the MWC for our Oregon Summer Workshop (formerly known as the Tin House Summer Workshop) for a week of enlightening craft lectures, curated workshops, affinity group meetings, and so much more!
Sign-up: tinhouseworkshop.submittable.com/submit/13081...
