Apply now for our 2026 Artist Residencies!
THE JACK STRAW ARTIST RESIDENCY PROGRAMS offer established and emerging artists in diverse disciplines an opportunity to explore the creative use of sound in a professional atmosphere through residencies in our recording studios and participation in our various presentation programs. Artists may apply to only one program per year.
Writers Program Deadline: Sunday, November 2
Artist Support and New Media Gallery Program deadline: Monday, November 24
All Jack Straw residency applications are online via Submittable. If this format is not accessible to you for any reason, please contact us at arts@jackstraw.org or (206) 634-0919.
The 2026 Writers Program Curator is Claudia Castro Luna. A 2014 Jack Straw writing fellow, Claudia is an Academy of American Poets Poet Laureate fellow (2019), WA State Poet Laureate (2018–2021) and Seattle’s inaugural Civic Poet (2015–2018). She is the author of Cipota Under the Moon (Tia Chucha Press, 2022) and Killing Marías (Two Sylvias Press, 2017), both shortlisted for the WA State Book Award in poetry, 2023 and 2018 respectively. She is also the author of One River, A Thousand Voices (Chin Music Press, 2020) and the chapbook This City (Floating Bridge Press, 2016). Her most recent non-fiction is in There’s a Revolution Outside, My Love: Letters from a Crisis (Vintage) and in Memory’s Vault: The Poetic Heart of Fort Worden (Empty Bowl). Born in El Salvador, Castro Luna lives in English and Spanish.
Questions? Check our FAQs or email us at arts@jackstraw.org.
Categories: Artist Support Program, New Media Gallery, Writers Program
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