Storyboard Residency 2027

The Storyboard Residency is an immersive week of generative workshops, craft seminars and literary events organized to give writers new ideas, proven research methods and fresh ways of approaching their fact-based creative projects. Whether you’re an experienced writer or someone just conceptualizing their first project, Storyboard provides the time and space necessary to develop, plan, revise  and reflect upon your idea, your craft, and the path to publication.  

The Storyboard Residency is an immersive week of generative workshops, craft seminars and literary events organized to give writers new ideas, proven research methods and fresh ways of approaching their fact-based creative projects. Whether you’re an experienced writer or someone just conceptualizing their first project, Storyboard provides the time and space necessary to develop, plan, revise  and reflect upon your idea, your craft, and the path to publication.  

This residential intensive promises deeper connections with fellow writers working at the intersection of research, reporting and imagination—and editors who help those projects find an audience. Your days and nights at the residency will include: 

• Three, two-hour generative workshops geared toward revision and generating new work
• Daily craft talks and presentations that shed light on new ways of approaching research, reporting, storytelling, ethics and language
• A manuscript consultation (up to 3,000 words) with a faculty member
• Panels with writers and editors to demystify the publication and editorial processes, understand how to plan and fund our research, and build stamina for a long-haul creative endeavor
• Conversations with writers, filmmakers and visual artists on their work, how it was made, and its reverberations in the world
• Ample time for writing, reading, reflecting and connecting with faculty and your fellow participants

This residency is for: 

• Experienced journalists looking to expand their work into an artful, book-length project
• Creative writers (fiction writers, memoirists, poets, etc) looking to infuse their art with reporting or research methods
• Academics looking to broader their writing to a more general audience
• Writers knee-deep in an ambitious, long-form writing project looking for community, guidance and inspiration
• Writers at the early stages of a  project who need support figuring out how to chart a path forward
• Writers who didn’t attend an MFA or journalism program and who are looking for structure and support for their project
• Anyone working in isolation on an ambitious, fact-based writing project who is seeking community and connection

Our 2027 Faculty are:

• Michelle Tea
• Mychal Denzel Smith
• Marcelo Hernandez Castillo
• R.O. Kwon

When and where: Storyboard is a one-week residential experience on the campus of Saint Mary’s College of California in the San Francisco Bay Area from Monday, June 7th through Sunday, June 13th, 2027. 

Accommodations: Participants will stay on campus in ADA accessible dormitories with single bedrooms and shared bathroom and kitchen spaces. Breakfast, lunch and dinner on campus will be included—and the campus café, pub and bookstore will be open for informal gatherings throughout the week.  

Costs: Storyboard tuition is $3,000. The experience includes on-campus accommodations and meals, participation in a three-day workshop, access to all panels, craft seminars and events, a manuscript consultation with one of our faculty, seminar leaders or expert panelists, and social gatherings throughout the week. Apply by January 15th for priority scholarship consideration. 

To apply, please fill out application and answer all applicable questions. We also require a writing sample of no more than 4,000 words from your project or, if your project is not yet in shareable form, please share a brief synopsis of your project and research/reporting goals. Submit writing samples as PDFs. 

Application Fee: $15 (Free for Storyboard alumni)

For priority applications (before January 15th), add coupon code EARLY to receive $10 off the application of $15

• You must be 18 or older to apply