The Xochitl gonzalez Scholarship
Submissions are now closed.
Thanks so much for those who applied! Our Scholarship Team has awarded this scholarship. We hope to be able to offer a new scholarship in August for our Spring 2027 retreats.
About the Scholarship: Thanks to the generosity of our 2025 Author-in-Residence, Xochitl Gonzalez, New York Times bestselling author of Anita de Monte Laughs Last, and the award-winning Olga Dies Dreaming, we are proud to offer The Xochitl Gonzalez Scholarship for Diasporican Voices to one Diasporican fiction writer of any gender to one session of our 2026 retreats.
A message from Xochitl Gonzalez
“It can be difficult, given the economic demands for working people today, to take the time to find both professional guidance on craft and story as well as writing community. Not everyone can commit to an MFA or even a 10-day workshop. I was so impressed with the high-quality opportunity the NorCal Writers’ Retreat offered to writers from many paths and stages of life to clear a long weekend, roll up their sleeves, take out their pens and focus on both their art and the business of publishing, amongst like-minded artists. It seemed both a perfect environment and opportunity to help elevate the voice of an emerging Diasporican writer.”
