Residency

Aldo & Estella Leopold Residency

Aldo & Estella Leopold at "Mi Casita" in Tres Piedras, New Mexico, 1912. Photo courtesy of the Aldo Leopold Foundation.

LEOPOLD RESIDENCY

An inspiring one-month retreat for professional environmental writers. Based at "Mi Casita", Aldo and Estella's first home in northern New Mexico, the Aldo and Estella Leopold Residency provides a space for writers and respected thinkers committed to reshaping the cultural story about the relationship between humans and Nature.

Stay for up to one month during the months of May to October.
Receive a stipend to help defray travel and living expenses.

Give a public presentation at the Harwood Art Museum in Taos.

The Aldo & Estella Leopold Residency is for college students, graduate students, post-graduate students, and other emerging and mid-career professional writers from around the country and abroad interested in exploring connections in our communities and cultures, and in our lives and landscapes. Two residents per year are selected from a field of candidates who complete the application process.

To Apply for 2022 Residency:

Deadline for the May – October 2022 season is February 25, 2022.

HOW TO APPLY
Interested applicants may submit a maximum two-page resume along with a maximum 500-word statement of interest describing how their work at Mi Casita will extend the legacy of Aldo and Estella Leopold. The deadline for the May – October 2022 season is February 25, with decisions made by March 25.

Please email application materials to Jeff Pappas (LWP Board Member and Residency Coordinator).

Announcement + Instructions

NOTE: A processing fee of $20 is required to qualify for review, to be submitted at the time of application either online (button below, payment processed via PayPal) or by check to:

Leopold Writing Program | P.O. Box 40122
Albuquerque, NM 87196 Attention: G. Muirhead

SUBMIT FEE

Please scroll down for photos and more information about past Residents.

Just as the Aldo Leopold Writing Contest builds a network of students who, because of their writing talent, have the potential to become the next generation’s environmental leaders, the Aldo & Estella Leopold Residency makes that network intergenerational by extending it from mid- to high-schoolers to emerging and mid-career professional writers. The two programs dovetail to deepen their combined cultural impact.

Mi Casita - Photo courtesy of US Forest Service

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The trick, I suppose, is to contradict those who say vigilance is not necessary, while at the same time being careful not to declare any particular person or thing the enemy—that religion, this or that political party, a certain constituency, capitalism, this or that head of state. It would be to dismantle the stage upon which any tyrant, any self-anointed claimant to power, performed. It would be to direct the attention of his audience to a place where that tyrant has no authority, no influence.

Barry Lopez, Resistance