2026 Trail Wood Artist-In-Residence Program
Applications accepted until March 1, 2026
The Edwin Way Teale Artists in Residence Program was started at Trail Wood in 2012. The Connecticut Audubon Society invites writers and visual artists to spend a week of creative solitude in residence in the historic home of Pulitzer-prize-winning naturalist writer and photographer Edwin Way Teale and his wife and collaborator Nellie Donovan Teale.
While in residence, artists are encouraged to practice their craft in a way that is inspired both by the site’s natural beauty and its important role in American natural history writing. Enhancing the experience, visiting artists are provided with access to Edwin’s writing study in the main house which is preserved as it was at the time of his death in 1980 and to his rustic writing cabin.
What kind of creativity does Trail Wood inspire? Check out the work in Trail Wood Reflections, a commemorative publication available in pdf and in paperback at the Center at Pomfret.
Residencies are offered for six weeks in July and August to three writers and three visual artists. Applications are accepted from early January until March 1 for the upcoming summer’s residencies. Finalists are chosen through a juried process. All applicants are notified by the mid-April.
There is a $25.00 application fee. If chosen, accepted applicants are asked to pay a $100.00 donation to defray costs of running the property, the Teale’s historic 1806 farmhouse.
Application form and more information here.
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