SUmmer 2025 events

Fellowship week speakers

  • "On World Building" with Hannah Lillith Assadi

    23 JUNE 2025 6PM

    CAPE MAY PT ARTS & SCIENCE CENTER

    DONORS ONLY

    Hannah Lillith Assadi is the author of Sonora (Soho 2017), which received the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and was a finalist for the PEN/ Robert W. Bingham Prize. Her second novel The Stars Are Not Yet Bells (Riverhead 2022) was named a New Yorker and NPR best book of 2022. Her third novel Paradiso 17, inspired by the life of her late Palestinian father, is forthcoming from Knopf in 2026. She teaches fiction at the Columbia University School of the Arts and the Pratt Institute. In 2018, she was named a '5 under 35' honoree by the National Book Foundation. 

  • "On translation" with Emma Ramadan

    25 JUNE 2025 6PM

    CAPE MAY PT ARTS & SCIENCE CENTER

    DONORS ONLY

    Emma Ramadan is an educator and a literary translator of 40 books from French. She has been awarded the PEN Translation Prize, the Albertine Prize, two NEA Fellowships, and a Fulbright. Her translations include Anne Garréta's Sphinx, Marguerite Duras's The Easy Life, Abdellah Taïa's Living in Your Light, and Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz's Into the Sun. She is also the co-founder and former owner of Riffraff bookstore and bar in Providence, RI.

  • "On Publishing – a view in three books" with Callie garnett

    27 JUNE 2025 7:30PM

    JAWBONE GALLERY

    ALL WELCOME

    Callie Garnett is the author of the poetry collection Wings in Time (The Song Cave, 2021). She works as Editorial Director of Fiction and Memoir at Bloomsbury Publishing (US) and lives in Esopus, NY. 

FELLOWS

READING

28 JUNE 2025 7PM

THE CHALFONTE

ALL WELCOME

Join us for an evening of stories, voices, and connection. Celebrate the culmination of our writers' residency with a special public reading, showcasing the work created during a week of focused writing, reflection, and community. Hear powerful new pieces, meet the fellows, and witness how a supportive space can spark creative brilliance. All are welcome — come be part of the story.