Part I: The Creative Writing Workshops for 2025 (Check back in January)

6 in-person weekly workshops during

Join our mailing list (below) to find out dates for Registration Information for all 6 sessions for 2025.

Sign-up at, info@artsbythepeople.org and write Writing LAB in the subject line.

Part II: Summer Residency - Dates TBD for 2025

Summer residency in New Jersey at Madison Community Arts Center focusing on the art of ekphrastic writing.

Residency participants will have their writing in a full color compilation book alongside movement videos from our 10 Dancers-in-Residence.
- Participants must commit to the residency date.
- In-person Book Launch in October.
- $250 prize awarded to 2 writers for the most creative ekphrastic piece written during the residency.
- The Arts center is a 5 minute walk from NJ Transit Madison Station.

Interested? Send an email to info@artsbythepeople.org with Summer Residency in the subject line. Include your name, bio, 3 sample poems or 2 prose pieces under 2500 words. Also include if you have participated in any ABTP programs currently or in the past. We’d like to know!
Space is limited to 10 writers.

Submissions are closed.

To purchase a copy of our 2024 Residency Book, like waves through flesh, click here.

The Writing LAB is an ARTS By The People project made possible by a generous grant from The Santiago Abut Foundation, in loving memory of Santiago Abut. With the support of The Santiago Abut Foundation all parts of The Writing LAB are free and open to the public.