Now in its twelfth year, our Anne LaBastille Memorial Writers Residency will take place this September 21 to October 5 at the Lodge on Twitchell Lake near Big Moose, NY, in the heart of the Adirondack Park. Since 2014 we have welcomed over 60 writers to the lake where Anne LaBastille built her cabin and wrote her beloved “Woodswoman” series. Our residents enjoy two weeks of unfettered writing, reading, researching, and relaxation time. We are thrilled to announce the next six residents who stood out among a poll of hundreds of applications.
Want to apply next year? We open applications every April for the residency which always takes place in late September / early October. Make sure you’re on our email list so that you are notified as soon as applications open!
Loree Griffin Burns writes true stories for curious people of all ages. Her science and nature books for children have garnered starred reviews, American Library Association Notable designations, a Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Book Award, an IRA Children’s Book Award, a Green Earth Book Award, and two Science Books & Films (SB&F) Prizes. Her essays for adults have been published in Yankee, Flyway, and The Maine Review, among others. A lifelong New Englander, Loree now lives in upstate New York, where she teaches creative writing, climbs high peaks (9/46!), and continues to cheer for the Red Sox; she’ll use her residency time to finish a memoir project.
Carrie Hall writes essays about drunk punks in the frozen tundra, about traveling through Central America during the wars, and about the science and philosophy of boredom. She’s currently working on a memoir called MURDERAPOLIS about Minnesota in the early 90’s. Work on this memoir has been supported by grants and residencies from the RF CUNY Foundation, UCross Foundation, Craigardan and Millay Arts. Hall’s essays have been published in New Letters, The Missouri Review, Barren and Pleiades Magazines. Her essay “The Boredom Circuit” was runner-up for the Missouri Review’s 34th Editor’s prize. Another essay, “Jesus and the Gavacha” won December Magazine’s 2024 Curt Johnson Prose Award for Creative Nonfiction.
Hall works as an Associate Professor and Director of First Year Writing at the City University of New York, where she also studies the effects of early childhood trauma on literacy learning.
Karin Lin-Greenberg is the author of the novel You Are Here, which was an Indie Next pick, a People magazine book of the week, and an Amazon best book of 2023. Her story collection Vanished won the Prairie Schooner Raz-Shumaker Prize, and her story collection Faulty Predictions won the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. Her fiction has been published in journals including New England Review, the Southern Review, and Virginia Quarterly Review, and she is a recipient of a Pushcart Prize. She teaches creative writing at Siena College and in the Carlow University low-residency MFA program.
Elizabeth Luciano holds an MFA from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and is a writing professor at Bucks County Community College, where she founded and directs the Bucks County Short Fiction Contest. She has completed her first novel, and is hard at work on a second. Her short fiction and essays have appeared in Seventeen, The Boston Globe Sunday Magazine, The Boston Globe, and Mademoiselle. She lives outside Philadelphia with her husband, and has two grown children.
Molly Stewart is a writer and teacher living in the Adirondack Mountains of New York. A 2017 graduate of the University of Notre Dame and recipient of the 2016 Ernest Sandeen Poetry Prize, she also holds an MAT from the University of Portland. Her poems have been featured in The Juggler, Re:Visions, and Spy Kids Review. Molly is currently writing about the ways in which we are close to and closed to each other. When not exploring the boundaries of the self or the Adirondacks, she writes TTRPG-style escape rooms and plans travel experiences for her students.
Charles Theonia is a poet from Brooklyn. They are the author of Gay Heaven Is a Dance Floor but I Can’t Relax (Archway Editions), If a Piece Falls off the Poem, Keep It (Belladonna*), and other writings on zits, piss, and disco.