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A week-long immersion in the writer’s life, in community and in service to wild invention in Amherst, MA. June 21-27, 2026

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Wild invention summer is officially here! We’re excited to announce our reading series lineup for this June.

Sunday: June 21, 7:30-9:00 / Old Chapel, 2nd Floor
Khadijah Queen, Leila Chatti & Dantiel W. Moniz

Monday: June 22, 7:30-9:00 / Old Chapel, 2nd Floor
Noy Holland & Ocean Vuong

Tuesday: June 23, 7:30-9:00 / Old Chapel, 2nd Floor
Patrycja Humienik, Sarah Aziza & Madeline ffitch

Thursday: June 25, 7:30-9:00 / Old Chapel, 2nd Floor
Desiree C. Bailey, Yasmin Zaher & Dur e Aziz Amna

Friday: June 26, 7:30-9:00 / Orchard Hill Pavilion
Aria Aber, Craig Santos Perez & Eula Biss

Our reading series is free and open to the public. All events take place on the UMass Amherst campus. by @junipersummer

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we’ll be at AWP this week— stop by booth T150 at the bookfair to pick up a Juniper bingo card! winners will receive a tote bag or a dad hat, until supplies last ✨ by @junipersummer

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We’ve extended our deadline for self-pay applications to our weeklong workshops and our independent residency!

Self-pay applications to our weeklong workshops will now close February 15, 2026, while self-pay applications to our independent residency will close March 15, 2026.

Learn more and apply now at the link in bio! by @junipersummer

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scholarship applications for Juniper 2026 are open until January 5! Visit our website (link in bio) to learn more about each scholarship and to apply ✨ by @junipersummer

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We’re excited for our incredible guest writers to join us this summer! Ocean Vuong @ocean_vuong will be a featured guest and will offer a craft talk and a reading on Monday, June 22.

Writer, professor, and photographer, Ocean Vuong is the author of On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, winner of the American Book Award, The Mark Twain Award, and The New England Book Award. The novel debuted for six weeks on The New York Times bestseller list and has since sold more than a million copies in 40 languages. A nominee for the National Book Award and a recipient of a MacArthur “Genius” Grant, he is also the author of the poetry collections, Time is a Mother, a finalist for the Griffin prize, and Night Sky with Exit Wounds, a New York Times Top 10 Book, winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize, the Whiting Award, the Thom Gunn Award. A Ruth Lilly fellow from the Poetry Foundation, his honors include fellowships from the Lannan Foundation, the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, The Elizabeth George Foundation, The Academy of American Poets, and the Pushcart Prize. Selected by Foreign Policy magazine as one of its 100 Leading Global Thinkers, Vuong’s writings have been featured in The Atlantic, Granta, Harpers, The Nation, New Republic, The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Paris Review, The Village Voice, and American Poetry Review, which awarded him the Stanley Kunitz Prize for Younger Poets.

More information about the 2026 institute is on our website– link in bio by @junipersummer

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We’re excited for our incredible guest writers to join us this summer! Yasmin Zaher will offer a craft session and an evening reading and Q&A.

Yasmin Zaher is a Palestinian journalist and writer born in 1991 in Jerusalem. The Coin is her first novel.

More information about the 2026 institute is on our website– link in bio by @junipersummer

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We’re excited for our incredible guest writers to join us this summer! Patrycja Humienik @jej_sen will offer a craft session and an evening reading and Q&A.

Patrycja Humienik, daughter of Polish immigrants, is a writer, editor, and teaching artist. Patrycja is the author of We Contain Landscapes (Tin House, 2025), selected as a New York Public Library Best New Poetry Book. She has developed writing and movement workshops for Arts+Literature Laboratory, The Seventh Wave, Northwest Film Forum, Henry Art Gallery, and in prisons. Her work can be found in The New Yorker, Gulf Coast, West Branch, Poetry Daily, Poetry Society of America, The Slowdown Show, and elsewhere.

More information about the 2026 institute is on our website– link in bio by @junipersummer

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We’re excited for our incredible guest writers to join us this summer! Madeline ffitch @madeline_ffitch will offer a craft session and an evening reading and Q&A.

Madeline ffitch is the author of the short story collection Valparaiso, Round the Horn and the novel Stay and Fight, which was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award, the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction, the Washington State Book Award, the LA Times Book Award, and was the 2023 Ohio Center for the Book pick for the National Book Festival. Her short fiction has received two O. Henry Awards, and was included in the 2024 Best American Short Stories anthology. ffitch’s writing has appeared in Harper’s Magazine, The Paris Review, Granta, Tin House, and elsewhere. She has received an Ohio Arts Council Grant for Individual Excellence, as well as fellowships from Yaddo, MacDowell and the Blue Mountain Center. Her second novel, Avalon, Rise, as well as a new collection of short fiction, Stump of the World are forthcoming from Farrar, Straus and Giroux. She lives with her two children in the woods of Appalachian Ohio.

More information about the 2026 institute is on our website– link in bio by @junipersummer

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We’re excited for our incredible guest writers to join us this summer! Desiree C. Bailey @desireecbailey will offer a craft session and an evening reading and Q&A.

Desiree C. Bailey is from Trinidad and Tobago, and Queens, NY. She is the author of What Noise Against the Cane which won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry. What Noise Against the Cane was also a finalist for the Kate Tufts Discovery Award and the T.S. Eliot Four Quartets Prize, was longlisted for the International Dylan Thomas Prize and the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, and was selected as one of the Best Books of 2021 by the New York Public Library. Desiree was the inaugural Writer-in-Residence at Clemson University from 2022-2024. She is an Assistant Professor of Poetry in the MFA for Poets and Writers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

More information about the 2026 institute is on our website– link in bio by @junipersummer

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We’re excited for our incredible guest writers to join us this summer! Sarah Aziza @sarahazizawrites will offer a craft session and an evening reading and Q&A.

Sarah Aziza is a Palestinian American writer, translator, and artist with roots in ‘Ibdis and Deir al-Balah, Gaza. She is the author of The Hollow Half, a genre-bending work of memoir, lyricism, theory, and history exploring the intertwined legacies of diaspora, colonialism, and the American dream through and as the Palestinian body. The Hollow Half is a finalist for the Palestine Book Awards.* Aziza’s other work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Best American Essays, The Baffler, Harper’s Magazine, Mizna, and The Nation, among others. She has received fellowships and residencies from Fulbright, Tin House Writers’ Workshop, Asian American Writers’ Workshop, and Millay Arts, and is currently pursuing a PhD in Comparative Literature at New York University.

More information about the 2026 institute is on our website– link in bio by @junipersummer

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We’re excited for our incredible guest writers to join us this summer! Dur e Aziz Amna @dureamna will offer a craft session and an evening reading and Q&A.

Dur e Aziz Amna is the author of American Fever, winner of the 2023 South Asian Book Award and the APALA Award for Literature, as well as the forthcoming novel A Splintering. Her work appears in the New York Times, Financial Times, and Al Jazeera, among others. She was selected as Forbes 30 Under 30 in 2022 and won the 2021 Salam Prize and the 2019 Financial Times / Bodley Head Essay Prize. She is a graduate of Yale College and the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan. Born and raised in Pakistan, she now resides in the US.

More information about the 2026 institute is on our website– link in bio by @junipersummer

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We’re excited for our incredible guest writers to join us this summer! Khadijah Queen @author_kqueen will offer a poetry workshop, a craft session, and an evening reading and Q&A.

Khadijah Queen is the author of eight books of poetry and prose, including Anodyne (Tin House 2020), winner of the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America. In 2025 the Foundation for Contemporary Arts recognized Queen’s work with the Cy Twombly Award for Poetry. Between the Devil & the Deep Blue Sea, a memoir about her time in the U.S. Navy alongside short histories of maritime women, is forthcoming from Legacy Lit/Hachette in August 2025.

More information about the 2026 institute is on our website– link in bio by @junipersummer

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