Champion emerging voices
Stand behind writers at the moment their work needs belief and momentum.
Blue Mountain Arts presents
A place for the work before the world discovers it.
A worldwide invitation for emerging fiction writers and poets to bring their next novel, novella, or body of poetry into view.
Welcoming writers in the United States and abroad.
“The page is where a writer first learns the size of their own horizon.”
The residency vision
A room of one’s own, with the water just beyond the window.
Blue Mountain Arts is building a future of Lake House residencies that invites writers to create, gather, and be recognized in the United States. Our vision is a generous home for serious work and the conversations that carry it forward.
We invest in the conditions that let a writer stay with the work.
The Blue Mountain Arts Awards
Honors for the work in progress.
For writers shaping a novel, novella, or poetry collection. Award recipients will share a selection of prose from their manuscript or three individual poems.
Fiction, novella, and poetry collection
01$5,000First honor
02$4,000Second honor
03$3,000Third honor
04$2,000Fourth honor
05$1,000Fifth honor
Blue Mountain Arts
An international volume of work in motion.
The international anthology
From a private draft to a shared shelf.
Selected writers may be considered for a grand international anthology—an enduring record of new voices and creative effort. Blue Mountain Arts is pursuing future literary programming and bookstore visibility that can bring this work to readers in the United States and abroad.
Future programming and bookstore relationships will be announced as they are confirmed.
Discover the anthology visionFor cultural partners
Help make room for the next chapter.
Support a platform that recognizes writers while their work is still becoming. Sponsorship can help shape awards, literary events, award banquets, and the visibility that carries emerging authors toward their readers.
Become a founding partnerGather a literary community
Help create thoughtful events and celebrations around the written word.
Build cultural visibility
Connect your support to a lasting international conversation about new literature.
Evolve with us.
Blue Mountain Arts is creating a brighter outlook for writers, readers, and the institutions that believe in their work.