We are delighted to share the news that our selection committee has chosen three Merrill Family Charitable Foundation Fellows, Xinyue Huang of NYC, for a two week residency in July and August, Rohan Chhetri for a four week residency in July, and Tola Sylvan of Massachusetts, for a two week residency in August. All writers will receive round trip transportation, breakfast and dinner, and a weekly stipend during their residency at Gentle House, on the Olympic Peninsula. We wish to congratulate Xinyue, Rohan, and Tola, as well as the extraordinary writers who submitted to our second annual Merrill Family Charitable Foundation Fellowship. We received 98 fine submissions from superb writers. By your writing, each of you joins the solitary and vital process of making work the world anticipates and depends upon. Please bear in mind: ● We will open our second call early next year. ● Gentle House has multiple residency options ● Our Open Reading Period throughout July for both book-length poetry collections and chapbooks. https://tupelogentlehouse.org/ (fb)

“Laurie Sheck’s Cyborg Fever is a hallucinatory novel of ideas about the nature of humanity… I finished it in one sitting, and started it again the next day.” (fb)