Category Archives: Residencies

Opportunities to hear the August writers in residence read

Please register to join us on Zoom on Thursday, August 20 at 6pm Alaska Time for August’s Live from Storyknife event. Participants will read from their current work. A recording of the event will be available from this page afterwards. Rhoni’s Blankenhorn’s poems have appeared in The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Slowdown, AsianContinue reading “Opportunities to hear the August writers in residence read”

Storyknife Application and Residency Information Session

Both sessions now full! Please check back on this page or the How to Apply page for recordings of the sessions after they take place. Join us for the second session on Monday, July 27, from 10:00–11:30am AKDT (11:00am PDT, 12:00pm MST, 1:00pm CST, and 2:00pm EST), join us on Zoom for an information sessionContinue reading “Storyknife Application and Residency Information Session”

Live from Storyknife July 2026

Please register to join us on Zoom on Thursday, July 16 at 6pm Alaska Time for July’s Live from Storyknife event. Participants will read from their current work. A recording of the event will be available from this page afterwards. Laura Maria Censabella’s play Carla Cooks The War won the Saroyan/Paul Human Rights Playwriting Prize.Continue reading “Live from Storyknife July 2026”

Playwriting Class with Laura Maria Censabella

July 14, 6:00-8:30pm in person at the Pier One Theatre on the Spit. Register by Friday 7/10. Do you write for the stage, or have you always been curious about trying? Join award-winning playwright and July Storyknife resident Laura Maria Censabella for a playwriting session designed for writers of all experience levels. You’ll be guidedContinue reading “Playwriting Class with Laura Maria Censabella”

Live from Storyknife June 2026

Please register to join us on Zoom on Thursday, June 18 at 6pm Alaska Time for June’s Live from Storyknife event. Participants will read from their current work. A recording of the event will be available from this page afterwards. Kai Coggin is the Inaugural Poet Laureate of the City of Hot Springs, AR, andContinue reading “Live from Storyknife June 2026”

Literary Arts Fund Grant Announcement

Storyknife is proud to announce that we’re a 2026 general operating grant recipient of the Literary Arts Fund. The Literary Arts Fund announced today $7.7 million in inaugural unrestricted general operating grants to 40 literary arts organizations and publishers spanning 19 states, from Alaska to Florida, that help champion writers and reading, and the essentialContinue reading “Literary Arts Fund Grant Announcement”

Live from Storyknife May 2026

Please register to join us on Zoom on Thursday, May 21 at 6pm Alaska Time for May’s Live from Storyknife event. Participants will read from their current work. A recording of the event will be available from this page afterwards. Marianne Manzler is a Filipina-American writer, educator, and editor from Cincinnati. Her memoir explores beginningsContinue reading “Live from Storyknife May 2026”

Live from Storyknife April 2026

Yvette DeChavez was born and raised in San Antonio and earned a PhD in English from the University of Texas at Austin. Her writing can be found in American Short Fiction, Colorado Review, Passages North, and elsewhere. She is this year’s Rona Jaffe Fellow for Storyknife.  Beste Filiz was born in Istanbul, Türkiye. She became a child asylumContinue reading “Live from Storyknife April 2026”

And they’re off! Storyknife Residency Season is Open!

We couldn’t wait for April to shout about our excitement! Sure, it’s a lot warmer at the end of March than the beginning (still below freezing at night though), but what we’re really excited about is that the writers are coming back. Tomorrow starts the residency season and we can’t wait to welcome the writersContinue reading “And they’re off! Storyknife Residency Season is Open!”

Preparing for the 2026 Writers in Residence!

Homer has been in the grip of an unusually long cold snap—longer than I can remember. While I see others sharing photos of blooming daffodils, we’re still navigating ice and frozen gravel. Even so, Maura, Katie, and I are hard at work preparing Storyknife for the first writers arriving on April 1st. Each year, weContinue reading “Preparing for the 2026 Writers in Residence!”