ROCKLAND — Submissions are officially open for the 2025 juried Writer-in-Residence program coordinated by Millay House Rockland, in partnership with the Ellis Beauregard Foundation.

The one-month juried residency competition offers comfortable accommodations in the house where Pulitzer-Prize-winning poet Edna St. Vincent Millay was born, and is open to writers of poetry, fiction, non-fiction, plays, or journalism. This year two winners will be selected—one for October 2025 and the other for July 2026. 

The final juror is Gretel Ehrlich, an essayist and poet. Ehrlich 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. Learn more about the residency program and The Millay House at www.millayhouserockland.org.