We are excited to announce the recipients of our 2026 Vineyard Writer Fellowships! Congratulations to these fantastic island writers who will be joining us at this year’s Martha’s Vineyard Summer Writers’ Conference!
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Exciting news! Thanks to a generous extension from the Ionion Center for the Arts & Culture, Special Grant Pricing has been extended to JUNE 1st!
Work alongside award-winning authors and poets this September while enjoying home-cooked Greek meals and exploring the beautiful caves, castles, and beaches of Kefalonia, Greece.
Register at mvicw.com/greece or at the link in our bio by June 1 to receive the grant pricing!
We have officially filled all 3 weeks of our 2026 Martha’s Vineyard Summer Writers’ Conference! This year‘s registration is now officially closed. Thank you all for the overwhelming enthusiasm and support we’ve seen this season, and we are so excited to welcome our 2026 attendees!
For those seeking more creative opportunities with MVICW, there is still room in our Freeing the Muse Retreat in Greece this September. Register by April 10 at mvicw.com/greece to receive special grant pricing!
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Ready to write in Greece this September? Join writer, visual artist, and cartoonist Hasanthika Sirisena at “Freeing the Muse: A Creative Symposium & Workshop” in Kefalonia, Greece for her seminar on “Everyday Ephemera,” a multi-genre workshop where attendees will learn how mixed media (including drawings, photographs, postcards, artifacts, and more) can unlock the stories and essays within.
Hasanthika’s work has been anthologized in “This is the Place,” “Every Day People: The Color of Life,” and twice named a notable story by “Best American Short Stories.”
Register today at mvicw.com/greece or at the link in our bio. Registrations by April 10 will receive special grant pricing!
We’re excited to highlight Irene Theotokatou as an instructor for “Freeing the Muse: A Creative Symposium & Workshop” Irene is an actor-director, writer, poet, and artist whose poetry and short fiction often focuses on the retelling of Ancient Greek myths. Since returning to Greece, she co-founded Sirens, a bilingual theatre company that created and performed work on relevant issues.
Join her for her seminar on “Breathing Life Into Your Reading.”
Register by April 10 to receive special grant pricing at mvicw.com/greece or at the link in our bio!
Write in Greece this September at “Freeing the Muse: A Creative Symposium & Workshop” alongside lead Kristina Marie Darling! She’ll deliver a seminar on “Autofiction: Crafting a Short Story from Life” which will explore how writers can use metaphor, stylistic innovation, and experimentation with narrative structures to convey powerful emotional truths.
Apply before April 10 at mvicw.com/greece to receive special grant pricing!
Join instructor Christopher Citro for “Freeing the Muse: A Creative Symposium & Workshop” in Kefalonia, Greece this September! Christopher is the author of “If We Had a Lemon We’d Throw It and Call That the Sun” and “The Maintenance of the Shimmy-Shammy” and winner of the 2019 Antivenom Poetry Award.
He’ll be delivering a seminar on “The Power of Touch, Deepening Your Use of Tactile Imagery.”
Apply by April 10 for special grant pricing at mvicw.com/greece
We’re thrilled to welcome freelance journalist and nonfiction writer Hannah Bae to Kefalonia, Greece as an instructor for “Freeing the Muse: A Creative Symposium & Workshop!” She’ll be teaching a course on “Writing Deliciously” which is sure to inspire creativity.
Hannah is the 2020 nonfiction winner of the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award, a 2024 New York State Council of the Arts grantee in literature, and was a nonfiction juror for The Kirkus Prize!
Apply by April 10 to receive special grant pricing at mvicw.com/greece
We’re excited to welcome Dr. Bill Releford to Kefalonia, Greece, as a guest speaker at “Freeing the Muse: A Creative Symposium & Workshop” this September! Dr. Releford is a distinguished podiatric surgeon in high-risk populations, both domestically and internationally. He is the founder of the Black Barbershop Health Outreach Program, which has screened over 30,000 men and in Black-owned barbershops nationwide, and the author of “Five Colors a Day to Better Health.”
You won’t want to miss his seminar on “Rewrite & Release: Reclaiming Your Story.”
Register by April 10 to receive special grant pricing at mvicw.com/greece
Ready to write in Greece? Join MVICW Founder & Director Alexander Weinstein at “Freeing the Muse: A Creative Symposium & Workshop” in Kefalonia, Greece, this September as he delivers a seminar on The Inner Critic & The Inner Artist.
Apply by April 10 for grant pricing at mvicw.com/greece
Write in paradise this September! MVICW’s Freeing The Muse Retreat is returning for our second year!
Silence your Inner Critic and let your creativity flow on the beautiful island of Kefalonia. Work with award-winning authors and poets, enjoy home-cooked Greek meals, and go on outings to caves, castles, and beautiful beaches! Join us this fall and dive into your writing and creativity with a deeply nurturing community.
Register by April 10 to receive special grant pricing at mvicw.com/greece or at the link in our bio.
We are excited to announce the recipients of our
2026 Emerging Writer Fellowships!
We were absolutely blown away by the amount of incredible submissions we received this year. Thank you to all who submitted for sharing your work with us. We hope to read more work from you next year!
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