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Residency Intensives
Our Residency Intensives provide:
- Input from invited guest speakers
- Support from the libraries team and connection to wider networks
- Time and space to develop new work
- Working and social time with peers for discussion and exchange of ideas and practice
- The opportunity to further develop new work in partnership with libraries
Read more about our past Residency Intensives below.
Pollinate & Create
In March 2026, we held a week-long intensive residency with local artists to explore role of libraries as places at the intersection between environmental action, creativity and wellbeing.
Meet the new Creative Health Associate Artists joining the libraries team.
Wild Pages
In November 2025, we held a week-long artist development residency for emerging nature writers who have a connection to Suffolk.
The residency offered a welcoming space for the selected writers to nurture their creative practice.
BOUND/UNBOUND
In March 2024, we held a week-long artist development residency for emerging poetry and spoken word writers.
The residency offered a nurturing space in Ipswich’s historic County Library for the selected poets to experiment with their voices.