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Artist in Residence Program at Trail Wood

Week-long Summer Residencies for Writers & Visual Artists

Applications for the following Summer are due on March 1st

Since 2012, the Connecticut Audubon Society has welcomed writers and visual artists to spend a week in creative solitude at Trail Wood, the former home of Pulitzer Prize–winning naturalist writer and photographer Edwin Way Teale and his wife, Nellie.

Residents are encouraged to let the property’s natural beauty and its important role in American natural history writing to inspire their work. Participants may use Edwin’s writing study in the main house, which is preserved as it was at the time of his death in 1980, as well as his rustic writing cabin.

Saltmarsh Sparrow