The Irish Writers Centre in partnership with Notre Dame Kylemore will award three writers with a fully catered six-day residency opportunity from Monday 14 April to Saturday 19 April, 2025 in the beautifully restored Notre Dame Kylemore on the grounds of Kylemore Abbey in Connemara, Co. Galway.

Awarded writers will also have access to the Kylemore Estate, Victorian Walled Gardens, Gothic Chapel and museum. One of the residency places will be reserved for a disabled writer who may require wheelchair access and accessible toilets.

This opportunity is for fiction writers and non-fiction writers only; acceptable forms/genres are: 

Fiction: prose, novel, short stories, screenplays; stage plays

Creative nonfiction: memoir; auto-fiction; essays

Details here.