The 2025 lordship house Writer Residency applications are now closed. Applicants will be notified in late March.

Residency dates are flexible, the "time block" is four days and three nights. We will work with you to select a date block that works for your schedule between Apr and Oct of 2025.

  • The residency includes a $500 honorarium

  • Travel to the house is the responsibility of the resident

  • Hosts Michael Todd Cohen and Adrian Dallas Frandle will be present at the house.

  • Time is self-structured but hosts are available for dialogue, conversation, suggestions and questions, including help with the extensive research library

  • Meals will be provided each day for breakfast and dinner

  • Local shopping or delivery options are available as needed

The Fellowship Council (2025) evaluate applications for residency, each is a past fellow of lordship house.

  • Hannah Grieco

    Fellow 2022.

    I am a writer, developmental editor, teacher, and disability advocate in the Washington, DC area. You can read my work in The Washington Post, The Week, Al Jazeera, The Independent, Huffington Post, Craft Literary, Brevity, The Rumpus, Shenandoah, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Poet Lore, Fairy Tale Review, and many more newspapers, magazines, and literary journals. My writing has been included in the Wigleaf Top 50 and has been nominated for Best American Essays, The Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, Best Small Fictions, and Best Microfiction. (more)

  • Benjamin Niespodziany

    Fellow 2024.

    Benjamin Niespodziany is a Chicago-based poet and folklorist. His fairy tales and fables have been published in Fairy Tale Review,Wigleaf, X-R-A-Y, Gone Lawn, The Ekphrastic Review, HAD, Post Road, puerto del Sol, and various others. Along with two published books (one of poems and one of microfictions), he is currently working on a novel that takes place in the forest. (more)

  • Mathew Rodriguez

    Fellow 2024.

    I’m a Brooklyn-based freelance writer and editor who has previously worked as a senior editor at The Atlantic, Them and The Body. My work has been featured in Teen Vogue, Slate, The Village Voice, SELF,Out, The Advocate, INTO, TheBody, POZ, Remezcla and Mic. I have had essays published in two anthologies: Modern Loss and A Great Gay Book. I am represented by Natalie Edwards at Trellis Literary. I am currently writing a young adult graphic novel through Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, as well as a memoir that is being published by Abrams Books. (more)

hosts in-residence

  • Michael Todd Cohen

    Host.

    Michael Todd Cohen is a queer writer, artist and adoptee living in New England. Essays in The Rumpus, Brevity, and Split/Lip, among others. Recipient of the PM Lilac Fellowship for Environmental and Social Justice at Vermont Studio Center (2025). (more)

  • Adrian Dallas Frandle

    Host.

    Adrian Dallas Frandle is a queer fish who writes poems to the world about its future. They are Poetry Acquisitions Editor for Variant Press. “Book of Extraction: Poems with Teeth” out now with Kith Books. (more)

  • The number of accepted fellows varies between one to three per year.

  • lordship house is about 1.5 hours from Manhattan, in the town of Stratford, CT. (More on Stratford).

  • private bedroom with Queen bed 

    en-suite bathroom with shower

    A/C & Heat

    espresso maker

    mini refrigerator

    writer's desk

    private patio

    in season: access to pool/hot-tub

  • A $500 stipend is provided to the selected fellows. We do not charge any fees to stay at the house or to participate in the residency. Incidental costs of travel are the responsibility of the fellow.

  • The house library has over 1,000 books on wide-ranging topics and genres, including: Creative Nonfiction, Poetry, and Queer Theory. If you provide us with information on the project you’re working on, we’ll be happy to pull a selection of helpful books during your stay. In addition, you may take out any books you wish while here. Take a look at the catalogue, here.

  • Code of Conduct and Compassion

    The lordship house residency is designed to provide a safe and encouraging space for writers and artists to accomplish their work and replenish their spirit. 

    By participating in the lordship house residency as a guest (resident/Fellow), you acknowledge that it is a private house with hosts in-residence and agree to share the space for the time agreed, by the following code of conduct: 

    • This is an open environment and safe space. We will not tolerate threats or harassment of any kind, nor tolerate any form of discrimination. 

    • You agree to not use illegal drugs or bring them onto the premises.

    • No visitors are permitted, unless cleared with the Hosts (at least 24 hours prior to the guests planned arrival). Hosts are under no obligation to approve guests.

    Any violations of these terms, as decided by the Hosts, may result in your immediate expulsion from the property. We are honored to have artists join us at our home and we look forward to hosting you.