What we're supporting

Our purpose is to boost thinking and conversation around care in its many permutations.
By that we mean care as a force in all sorts of human activity—medicine, justice, education,

environmental practice, friendship, and even whether there’s a public park down the street—

the canvas is quite large. 

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What we're looking for

In fiction, nonfiction, journalism, poetry, and other forms, we’re looking for writing that notices
where care is or isn’t in relationships among friends, family, co-workers, or strangers; or between
patients and caregivers, or teachers and parents, or human systems and the humans they serve, or
humans and the planet. What happens when care is there? What happens when it's not--in the classroom, courtroom, the world at large. This means, we want to support work that goes beyond the traditional narrative of a single illness/treatment. While that tradition is valuable and can be operative inyour work, we’re looking for writing that also employs a wider lens. Meet our fellows. 

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Deadline

Applications open September 21, 2025

Deadline: January 15, 2026

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The fellowship

Two weeks at Shannaghe, a solo experience, in Belfast, Maine, plus stipend. Arrange your
residency dates with Shannaghe. In 2026, the Fellow will receive a $500 stipend. You might also consider regular admissions, which is need-blind and has no thematic emphasis.  

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The process

• Complete the application for the Fellowship using the form below.

• Provide samples of your work as part of the application. This may be published or unpublished work. 

• Pay the $25 nonrefundable application fee. We accept payments via Venmo and credit card through this site (scroll WAY down). 

• What kind of samples do we need? For writing: 10 pages of poetry or of prose (for prose,
  12-point font minimum, double-spaced, numbered pages), for drama or other forms, 10
  pages, in Word or PDF.  Published work, if it has been published within the last four years, is fine.  Name any attached files LAST NAME, FIRST INITIAL_ and
  then its GENRE (such as Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry. etc): we'll anonymize it from
  there. Please do not identify work by where it has been published. Do make sure to number your pages!​

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Eligibility

You must be 18. Please don't apply if you're a current student or have been a student of the
judge, Michele Morano, within the last year.

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Judging

First round: Shannaghe’s board and friends of the board. Final round:  Michele Morano, author of  the books Like Love and Grammar Lessons: Translating a Life in Spain, will select the Fellow.

Ready? We look forward to seeing your work.

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